PODOCERUS PULCHELLUS. 437 



The eyes are small in most of this genus, but appear 

 to be particularly so in this species. The superior 

 antennae do not reach quite to the extremity of the 

 peduncle of the inferior. The inferior antennae are very 

 nearly half the length of the animal ; the flagellum is 

 shorter than the last joint of the peduncle, it consists of 

 four articuli, and is furnished at the apex with double- 

 pointed curved spines. The coxae of the first two pairs 

 of legs are short, but those of the two succeeding are 

 more than twice the depth of their respective segments 

 of the body. The first pair of hands are small and sub- 

 triangular ; the palm oblique and totally straight, fringed 

 along the margin with long and short hairs, all double- 

 headed, the shorter being stronger and spine-like ; the 

 finger is deeply serrated along the distal moiety of the 

 inner margin. The second pair of hands are large, 

 equalling in length the head and the first two segments 

 of the body ; the palm is slightly concave, following a 

 line parallel with that of the upper margin, and is 

 defined by a long process or tooth, the apex of which 

 antagonizes with the extremity of the finger this thumb- 

 like process is sometimes nearly as long as the palm and 

 terminates abruptly. The next two pairs of legs are 

 short and robust; the last three gradually exceed each 

 other in length. 



Dr. Leach (Linn. Trans, xi. p. 361) describes two 

 varieties of this species, a, those with the hands of 

 the second pair armed with an elongated obtuse tooth ; 

 and, b, those with the same hands having the internal 

 edge tridentate. It is possible that these varieties may 

 be the sexes of the species. 



We have a branch of Eudendrium, given to us by our 

 late lamented friend Mr. Howard Stewart, Sub-curator 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons, in which a colony 



