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when closed. Second gnathopod having merus produced distally into 

 a sharp tooth with a small tuft of setae near the apex ; carpus short, 

 triangular, cup-like, its posterior margin bearing many transverse rows of 

 long setae ; propod very large, longer than the whole of rest of limb, 

 oblong, margins parallel, posterior margin with about 10 small tufts of 

 long setae, similar tufts or short transverse rows sometimes present on 

 anterior margin and iimer surface ; palm nearly transverse, well defined, 

 and usually with 2 irregular teeth, the larger flat-topped ; finger arising 

 from near the centre of distal end of propod, very short and stout, not 

 longer than palm, its end roundly truncate. 



In other respects showing the characters usual in Melita. 



Female. — First gnathopod similar to that of male. Second gnathopod 

 much smaller than in the male, the carpus longer than in male and fully 

 half as long as the propod, propod oblong but with palm oblique and not 

 very clearly defined, irregularly toothed ; finger of normal shape, long and 

 acute. 



Colour. — Pale brown, with tints of green. 



Locality. — Sydney Harbour, New South Wales ; and Auckland Harbour, 

 New Zealand. 



Remarhs. — In 1884 I (1884, p. 1037) described under the name Moera 

 festiva an Amphipod of which I had collected a few specimens in Sydney 



Fig. 1. — Melita festiva. gn^ d , first gnathopod of male ; gn'^ i , second 

 gnathopod of male ; gn^ ^ , second gnathopod of female. 



Harbour. The species was distinguished especially by the very short and 

 peculiar truncate finger of the second gnathopods of the male. The antenna 

 and gnathopoda of both male and female were described in some detail, 

 and I stated that in all my specimens the " terminal pleopoda " — i.e., the 



third uropods— had been lost, and they were therefore probably of large 

 size, but that in their absence it was impossible to decide whether the 

 species should be placed under Maera or Melita. In the next year Pro- 

 fessor Haswell (1885, p. 105), in revising the Australian Amphipoda, united 

 Moera spinosa Haswell and M. ramsayi Haswell with Moera rubromaculata 



