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that P. hoekii is closely related to these species, but is easily distinguished by 
the differences in the proportions of the joints of the legs. In P. alcocbi and 
P. crosslandi the second tibia is distinctly longer than the femur, while in 
P. hoekii the two joints are subequal. 
There does not seem to be any reasonable doubt that P alien apsis ( Rigona ) 
ripens Loman is identical with this species. As Loman (1908, p. 71) points out, 
he had not been able to see the description of P. hoekii. Apparently the only 
difference is that the leg's in Loman J s specimen are slightly longer in proportion 
to the trunk length than is the case with those which have been put with 
certainty into Miers’s species. As, however, agreement in other respects seems 
to be quite close, T feel that there is no question as to the validity of the synonymy 
suggested. 
Measurements, in MM. 
Proboscis, length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 
Trunk — 
Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-0 
Width across first crurigers . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-0 
Width between first and second crurigers . . . . . . . . 1-0 
Cephalon, length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1*5 
Posterior right leg — 
First coxa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 
Seeond coxa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2*2 
Third, coxa . . . . . . . • • • . . . . • • . . 1*2 
Femur . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . 4-9 
First tibia . . . . . . . . • • • • • . . • • • 5*4 
Second tibia . . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . 4*2 
Tarsus and propodus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 
Genus PARAPALLENE Carpenter, 1892. 
Parapallene famelica spec. nov. 
Specimen . — Holotype male, Australian Museum, Reg. No. P9342. 
Locality . — Dredged in 9 fathoms near Lindeman Island, Whitsunday 
Passage, coll. Mr. Mel. Ward, December 1928. 
Description . — The body is quite smooth; the trunk is slender, elongated, 
and distinctly segmented. Anteriorly the cephalon is slightly expanded with a 
slight median longitudinal groove. The cephalon is equal in length to half the 
remainder of the trunk. All trunk segments are long and thin, but the most 
posterior is shorter and more slender than the others. The crurigers are very 
short and are separated by very wide interspaces equal to about four times 
their own diameter. The ocular tubercle is a low rounded cone with a terminal 
point. The visual elements are well developed. The proboscis is short and 
cylindrical, and is contracted in the midregion. At the anterior end it has 
the shape of a very shallow cone. A peculiarity is the presence, on the ventral 
side of the proboscis, of two distinct tubercles, one at each antero-lateral angle. 
The tubercles are separated by a median groove. The abdomen is very short, 
