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" ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



PINNOTHERES NOV^ZELANDI*, FilJiol. 

 (Plate xvi., %. 2, and Fig. 2.) 



Pinnotheres novce zelandice, Filhol, Miss. 1'Ile Campbell, 

 Crust., 1885, p. 395, pi. xlvi. in atlas, figs. 1-6. 



Pinnotheres novce -zelandice, Lenz, Zool. Jalirb., Syst.. xiv., 

 1901, p. 467, pi. xxxii., figs. 11-14. 



East coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait; E.5676 ; one 

 female. Approximate length of carapace 8.4, width 8.5, 

 fronto-orbital width 3.8, width of front 1.6 mm. 



Fig. 2. Left outer maxilliped, Pinnotheres novcezelandice. 



Carapace soft and much wrinkled, "nearly circular; front 

 invisible in dorsal view, and covered by the abdomen, which 

 reaches in all directions beyond the carapace. In front 

 view the margin of the front is straight; the eyes are 

 faintly pigmented, the orbits extend laterally beyond the 

 eyes to a distance as long as the eyes, gradually tapering 

 but not to a point; the margin of the orbit is bluntly 

 rounded, not an acute rim. 



Chelipeds rather small, chelae shaped as represented by 

 Lenz in his fig. 11, op. cit. Ambulatory legs slender, similar, 

 dactyli curved; second pair a little the longest; second, 

 third and fourth pairs regularly diminishing, first pair 

 subequal to third. In dorsal view, the upper margin of the 

 merus and the lower margin of the dactylus are con- 

 spicuously haired; there are also some hairs on the distal 

 end of the propodus and on the inner surface above the 

 lower margin. 



