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longer than the first articulus of the flagellum, and 

 consists of five or six articuli, of which the first is 

 longer than all the others. The inferior antennas are 

 three times as long as the superior, and about one- 

 third the length of the animal ; they have the last 

 two joints of the peduncle short and subequal in 

 length ; the flagellum consists of many short articuli, 

 each being rather broader than long, and united to the 

 next by a compressed articulation, a circumstance that 

 gives to the appendage in this species a moniliform 

 appearance. The first pair of legs are short and toler- 

 ably robust; the lower margin of the hand is nearly 

 parallel with the upper, being rather broader at the base 

 than at the distal extremity; the palm is straight, and 

 defined by an almost right angle with the inferior mar- 

 gin ; the finger that completes the organ is short and 

 strong. The second pair of legs are much longer than 

 the first, as is, indeed, the case throughout the genus. 

 The limb is verv slender and membranaceous, and is 



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mostly carried folded and compressed beneath the body 

 of the animal ; the wrist is much longer than the hand, 

 and is inferiorly lobed, the lobes being covered with a 

 number of small blunt triple-pointed spines, or rather 

 plates ; towards the anterior margin these plates gradu- 

 ally lose their complex character, and become simple 

 spines; the hand is covered with a thick brush of 

 short hair ; those on the upper margin are planted in 

 six or seven transverse rows ; towards the extremity they 

 become longer ; the finger is short, and scarcely visible 

 amidst the hairs among which it is planted. The first 

 two pairs of walking legs are tolerably robust. The last 

 three are equally so, each having the second joint (which 

 is universally developed into a squamose form in this 

 genus) produced downwards, so far that, in the last two 



