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Remarks. — Dr. Sheard made a very complete analysis of this type 

 specimen and from his copious notes I have been able to distinguish the 

 specimen which Stebbing 1897 had, as well as other similar species. 



I have reorganized Dr. Sheard's notes to fit the present context but 

 include all information supplied by him, for I believe these to be notes 

 of utmost value, considering the importance of the species as the type of 

 the genus Pontharpinia, as established by Stebbing. It should be re- 

 marked, that as far as this writer is concerned one need not be troubled 

 by the fact that when Stebbing described the genus Pontharpinia using 

 Urotho'e pinguis as the type species he had another species of Ponthar- 

 pinia at hand which was labeled pinguis, sent to him by Dr. Haswell. 

 That species obviously was different from P. pinguis and I have renamed 





PLATE 44 



Paraphoxus pinguis (Haswell), type, male?, 10 mm, Australian Museum, 

 sketches copied from Dr. Keith Sheard's notes. 

 Figs. A, pleon segment 3 ; B,C, uropods 1, 2. 



it P. stebbingi. Stebbing designated U. pinguis as the type of the genus 

 Pontharpinia so that the genus must be based on the characters of 

 U. pinguis regardless of what species Stebbing had at hand. 



Notes on the type specimen. — Mandibles and maxillipeds missing, 

 one first maxilla missing, the other with 2-jointed palp. Gnathopods 1 

 and 2 with segment 6 missing and fifth segments closely resembling 

 Haswell's drawing (fig. 2f in Haswell 1879 shows gnathopod 1 with 

 article 5 somewhat shorter than 6, the latter elongate-oval and rather 

 broad ) . 



Dr. Sheard notes that Haswell's figure of the peraeopods is "reason- 

 ably good." In Table 7 are given the relative lengths and widths of these 

 articles as measured with an ocular micrometer by Dr. Sheard. He 

 notes that on the type specimen the second article of peraeopod 5 is 

 finely crenulate behind, with small, sparse setae from the crenulations. 

 Summarizing from Sheard's notes and Table 7 we see the following 

 important points of the last 3 peraeopods: 



