452 BULLETIN 54, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



"Anterior margin of the cephalon nearly straight; pereion having 

 the sides subparallel, the greatest width being at the sixth segment; 

 pleon having a double excavation on the posterior margin, the central 

 point not extending beyond the extremity of the sides. Superior 

 antennae reaching to the extremity of the fourth segment of the infe- 

 rior; inferior antennae nearly two-thirds of the length of the animal. 

 Posterior pair of pleopoda as long as the posterior margin of the 

 pleon, terminating in two styliform rami, each of which is tipped with 

 a few short hairs. 



"This species was taken from a sponge dredged in about eight 

 fathoms of water in Esquimault Harbor. 



"The specific name is derived from the circumstance of the animal 

 having been found on the territory of the tribe of Wakish Indians. "- 

 SPENCE BATE.** 



72. Genus CARPIAS Richardson. 



Head without rostrum; frontal margin straight. Both pairs of 

 antennae multi-articulate; the second pair much longer than the bod}", 

 and with a scale-like appendage articulated to the peduncle. Uropoda 

 long, much longer than abdomen. 



The first pair of legs in the male are prehensile and remarkably 

 long, being one and two-thirds times the length of the body; they are 

 greatly enlarged distally, forming a broad club-like hand armed with 

 triangular processes, to which is articulated a movable finger, the 

 propodus, likewise armed with triangular processes. 



The ambulatory legs are simple, bi-unguiculate, and are of normal 

 structure. 



CARPIAS BERMUDENSIS Richardson. 



Carpias bermudensis RICHARDSON, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sciences, XI, 1902, pp. 

 294-295, pi. XL, fig. 41; pi. xxxix, figs. 42-15. 



Locality. Bermudas. 



Surface of body smooth. Color yellow, with arborescent markings 

 of black. 



Head narrower than first thoracic segment, with lateral margins 

 rounded, entire. Frontal margin straight, antero-lateral angles not 

 produced, rounded. Eyes large, with many ocelli, and situated on 

 the lateral margins of the head. 



The first pair of antennas have the basal segment of the peduncle 

 enlarged, the next two segments successively narrower, all about equal 

 in length; the flagellum is multi-articulate, composed of about four- 

 teen joints. The second pair of antennae have a scale-like appendage 

 outside of the third joint; the fifth and sixth joints are long, the sixth 



Lord's Naturalist in British Columbia, II, 1886, p. 282. 



