ISOPODS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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while in A. intermedium the outer branch has only four joints, and the 

 inner branch is only twice the length of the terminal abdominal seg- 

 ment and is composed of only fifteen joints. 



9. Genus PARAPSEUDES Sars. 



Exopods present on both pairs of gnathopods. Only four pairs of 

 pleopoda present, with one of the branches two-jointed. Second pair 

 of antennae with a scale articulated to the end of the second article. 



PARAPSEUDES GOODEI Richardson. 



Parapseudex goodei RICHARDSON, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sciences, XI, 1902, pp. 

 283-284, pi. xxxvn, figs. 10-14. 



Locality. Castle Harbor, Bermudas.^ 



FIG. 38. PARAPSEUDES GOODEI. a, GENERAL FIGURE. 6, HEAD AND FIRST THORACIC SEGMENT. 



C, FIRST GNATHOPOD OF MALE, d, ABDOMEN WITH UROPODS AND LAST THORACIC SEGMENT. , FIRST 

 GNATHOPOD OF FEMALE 



Surface of body smooth; color light yellow. 



Head but slightly narrowed anteriorly. Eyes with large, brown 

 ocelli and placed on ocular processes, articulated to the head. 

 Frontal margin with a rostrum projecting between the basal joints 

 of the first pair of antennae. The base of the rostrum is constricted, 

 the anterior margin broadly rounded. 



The first pair of antennas have the peduncle short, the first joint 

 twice as long as the second; the third half as long as the second; all 

 three with margins smooth, unarmed, but fringed with long hairs. 

 The flagellum consists of seven joints; the secondary appendage of 

 four joints. The second pair of antennae extend only to the end of 

 the peduncle of the first pair; the flagellum consists of five joints; a 

 scale is articulated to the peduncle. 



