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partly pubescent, fingers slender, half as long as hand, not meeting 

 along their inner margins when closed, acutely dentate, of which one 

 tooth is stouter than the others, the left or right may either of them 

 be the larger hand ; smaller hand having the fingers somewhat gaping, 

 long, densely hirsute within. Following legs very slender, unarmed, 

 a few thin hairs, which are rather short but most numerous on the 

 fifth jont. 



Length, two and a half to three inches ; length of larger hand, one 

 and three-fourths inches. 



In a younger specimen, about two inches long, the fingers of the 

 smaller hand (the right) are nearly in contact, though very hairy 

 within, the beak is very slightly renexed and there are fourteen teeth 

 to upper margin of beak and four below. 



Flagella of inner antennae all slender and disunited nearly to base. 



P. grandimanus, Randall, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., viii. 142. 



Pal^emon lanceifrons. 



Rostrum lanceolatum, supra multum arcuatum et 12-dentatum, apice vix 

 recurvatum, infra 2>-dentatum, squamam antennalem longitudine non 

 superans. Pedes antici gracillimi, carpo plus duplo longiore quam 

 manus. Pedes 2di longissimi {corpore longiores), fere cylindrici, 

 manu graciliore et non breviore quam carpus, scabriculd, digitis brevi- 

 bus, superiore hirsuto. Pedes postici si prorsum porrecti apicem rostri 

 superantes. 



Beak lanceolate, much arcuate above, and twelve-dentate, with the 

 tips only slightly reflexed, three-dentate below, not longer than the 

 basal scale of outer antennas. Anterior feet very slender, carpus 

 more than twice as long as hand. Second pair very long (longer 

 than body) nearly cylindrical, hand more slender and not shorter 

 than carpus, somewhat scabrous, fingers short, the superior hirsute. 

 Posterior feet, when thrown forward, reaching beyond apex of beak. 



Plate 38, fig. 13 a, cephalothorax, natural size ; b, beak, enlarged. 



Manilla, Island of Luzon, one of the Philippine Islands. 



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