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and 2 teeth on inner margin, scale a little longer than 3rd, apex acute, 

 with 3-4 setae, 3rd-5th joints slightly increasing in length and 

 decreasing in width, flagellum at least 10- jointed, with plumose 

 setae. 



Epistome with a long thin spine arising from the middle ; upper lip 

 bilobed. 



Lower lip, lobes broad, apically truncate, with a setose 2nd joint 

 inserted on outer apex, outer margin denticulate. 



Mandible, cutting-edge 4-dentate, secondary cutting-edge tridentate, 

 spine-row with ca. 5 bifid spines arising from a projecting process, 

 molar well developed, palp very large and strong, 3-jointed, 2nd 

 longest, 3rd longer than 1st, all the joints fringed on inner margin 

 with long plumose setae. 



Maxilla 1 normal, inner plate with 3 apical setae, palp with 1 long 

 and 4 shorter apical setae. 



Maxilla 2 normal. 



Maxilliped, 2nd joint broader than long, 4th with plumose setae on 

 both margins, 5th longer than 4th, 6th subequal to 4th, 5th and 6th 

 fringed with plumose setae on inner margins ; no epipod was found. 



Peraeopod 1 (gnathopod) large and stout, similar in both sexes, 

 2nd joint not twice as long as broad, posterior margin fringed with 

 plumose setae, 4th triangular, lower margin with plumose setae and 

 3 spines on apex, 5th triangular, larger than 4th, 6th large, ovoid, a 

 little broader than long, anterior margin evenly curved, palm transverse 

 with 2 strong teeth in middle, lower margin concave, with 4 acute 

 teeth on basal half, finger matching palm, closing on inside of the 

 palmar teeth, with a tooth about in middle of its inner margin ; 

 exopod not very largf. :!nd joint ovate and carrying about 7 plumose 

 setae around its margin. 



Peraeopod 2, 2nd joint with anterior margin densely fringed with 

 plumose setae, 2 spines at base, lower margin with 2-3 plumose setae, 

 4th with plumose setae on both margins, anterior apex with a long 

 spine, 5th with 1 stout dentiform spine on botli upper and lower apex 

 as well as spine-setae and setae, 6th equal to 5th but narrower, lower 

 margin with 3 stout spine-teeth, upper and lower apices with 1 stout 

 spine, 7th shorter than 6th, with stout secondary uuguis and a tooth 

 in middle of lower margin ; exopod very large, 2nd joint ovate, its 

 margin closely and deeply indented, with a plumose seta arising from 

 each intervening denticle. 



Peraeopods 3 and 4, 2nd joint with several plumose setae on both 

 margins, 4th and 5th with 1 stout spine-tooth on lower apex and a 

 plumose seta on upper apex, 6th longer than 5th, lower margin with 6 



