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Gen. 50. Eunicicola, Kurz, 1877. 



Syn: Euiynotus, Scott. 



Generic Characters. Body short and stout, with the integuments well 

 chitinised, and the 2 chief divisions sharply marked off from each other, the 

 anterior one clypeiform, and without any distinct segmentation dorsally. Tail 

 composed in female of 4, in male of 5 segments. Anterior antenna slender 

 and attenuated. Posterior antennae stout, 3-articulate, last joint armed at the 

 end with 2 claw-like appendages, each terminating in a peculiar cup-shaped 

 dilatation. A large circular sucking disk present in female, just in front of the 

 oral aperture; but wholly wanting in male. Maxilla with the masticatory part 

 greatly produced, and not, as usual, incurved, but abruptly bent backwards and 

 terminating in a slender, freely projecting knife-shaped extremity; palp of 

 rather compact structure, and provided at the outer projecting corner with 2 

 strong and densely ciliated recurved setae. Anterior maxillipeds rather small, 

 with the terminal part conical in form and tipped with 2 setae. Posterior 

 maxillipeds in female forming 2 transversely oval gibbous prominences, coarsely 

 scabrous from numerous scale-like spikes clothing their surface, each pro- 

 minence exserted inside to a small setiferous lobe; those in male transformed 

 to very strong, clawed prehensile organs. Only 3 pairs of legs present, the 2 

 anterior ones biramous, the 3rd pair with only a single (outer) ramus. 



Remarks. This genus was established by Kurz as early as the year 

 1877, to include a peculiar Copepod found by him parasitic on the skin of a 

 species of Eunice. The genus Euiynotus of Scott it unquestionably identical 

 with Kurz's genus, being indeed founded upon the very same form as that 

 observed by the latter author. Of course only a single species of the present 

 genus is as yet known. 



108. Eunicicola Clausi, Kurz. 



(PI. CXIII). 



Eunicicola Clausii, Kurz, Sitzb. d. K. Akad. der Wissensch. Berlin, I Jahrg. 1877, p. 1, PI. I & II. 



Syn : Enrynotus insolens, Scott. 



Specific Characters. Female. Anterior division of body rounded oval 

 or almost square in outline, being only slightly longer than broad; dorsal face 

 evenly vaulted, and exhibiting, somewhat in front of the middle, a slight trans- 

 verse furrow apparently indicating the limit between cephalon and trunk; ventral 

 face flattened; front a little bulging, but without any true rostrum. Trunkal part 



