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MEMOIRS, OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
PYCNOGONIDA FROM THE QUEENSLAND 
COAST. 
By Professor T. Thomson Flynn, D.Sc., University o f Tasmania. 
(Nine Text-figures.) 
Including those from Torres Strait, the number of species of Pycnogonicia 
known from the coast of Queensland comprises only about eight, as follows: — 
Nymphopsis arm at us Haswell, 1884, Port Mode; Bhopalorhynchus kroyeri Wood- 
Mason, 1878 ( R . ten mssimus Haswell, 1884), Port Denison; PaUenopsis hoekii 
(Miers), 1884. Torres Strait; Endeis (= Phoxichilus) charybdceus . ( ?) (Dohrn), 
1880, Port Molle; Parapallene australiensis (Hoek), 1881, Torres Strait; 
Parapallene liaddonii Carpenter, 1892, Torres Strait; Ascorhynehus tenuirostris 
Carpenter, 1892, Torres Strait,* 
Of the above it is certain that the species believed by Professor Haswell to 
be identical with Phoxichilus charybdceus is different, as might be expected from 
the greatness of the distance between the two localities at which they were 
collected. The Queensland specimen is preserved in the Australian Museum as 
a microscope slide (05206), and proves to be an immature male with three joints 
developed in the ovigers. The proboscis is longer than in Dohrn s species, being 
somewhat more than two-thirds of the trunk length. It is impossible to make 
out the number of cement tubes present. Until such time as fully grown 
specimens are available 1 have deemed it advisable not to give the Queensland 
specimen any specific designation. 
The collection whose examination forms the basis of the present paper was 
obtained from two localities in Queensland by Mr. Melbourne Ward. Though 
only four species are represented, two of these are apparently new to science. 
These are Ascorhynehus niclwardi from 9-12 fathoms in Albany Passage near 
Cape York, and Parapallene famelica from 9 fathoms in Whitsunday Passage. 
The other two species are also interesting, one of them being Nymphopsis annatns 
Haswell, the other PaUenopsis hoekii (Miers). 
I have to thank the authorities of the Australian Museum, and particularly 
the Director, Dr. C. Anderson, for accommodation and the use of literature while 
examining this collection. 
DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES. 
Genus ASCORIIYNCHUS Sars, 1877. 
Ascorhynehus melwardi spec. nov. 
Specimens . — ITolotype male, allotype female, registered in the Australian 
Museum Collection as P 984=5 and P9344 respectively. 
* The opportunity might here be taken to point out that the generic name Pallene 
instituted by Johnston (Mag. Zool. Bot., i, (4), Dec. 1836, p, 380) is preoccupied by Pallene 
Megerle in Dahl, Col. u. Lep., 1823, p. 56, representing a genus of Coleoptera (fide C. D. 
Sherborn). For this reason I propose that the generic name Pallene .Johnston be replaced 
by CallipaUene, the genotype being Pallene brevirOstris Johnston. 
