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carina is a distinct, though blunt and rounded, beadh'ke tubercle. More 

 or less paralleling each of the foregoing carinae along their respective 

 outer sides and turning in toward their posterior ends is a row of indi- 

 vidual or separate rounded beadlike tubercles which decrease in size and 

 prominence from the most anterior to the posterior one. In this row there 

 may be from 2 to 5 or more little tubercles. They may be considered as 

 representing a carina, which, however, is not otherwise in evidence ; some 

 of these tubercles are paired or twinned laterally. More or less in line 

 with and above and before the lobule, which is itself more or less swollen 

 or tuberculiform, at the inner side of the base of the lateral tooth is a 

 short, low, blunt carina about half as long as the free portion of the 

 lateral tooth of the telson. This carina has a tuberculiform posterior 

 extremity about the size of, or a little larger than, the lobule behind it 

 on the margin of the telson. Beneath, the telson is smooth. 



The basal prolongation or process of the uropods is composed of 3 

 more or less slender, sharp spines, of which the middle one is much the 

 strongest and longest, being 2 or more times as long as the outermost 

 spine, which, in turn, is stouter than, but not as long as, the innermost 

 of the 3. This last-mentioned spine is placed high up on the inner margin 

 of the basal process. 



Color: There is a light, more or less symmetrical pattern of chro- 

 matophores over the carapace and abdomen. Near the posterolateral 

 angles of the carapace in some specimens (usually males) there is a 

 darker patch. In all specimens there is a distinctive and characteristic 

 black, subcircular eyespot with a light-colored longitudinal band through 

 the middle ornamenting the dorsum of each posterolateral angle of the 

 6th abdominal somite. In only one specimen, a male of average size, is 

 there a second pair of black spots, more or less triangular in this instance, 

 on the abdomen, placed one to each side of the first abdominal somite at 

 its posterior margin and just above its epimeral portion. In this specimen, 

 too, the posterior pair of black eyespots are more nearly elongate rec- 

 tangular, with rounded corners, than roughly subcircular as in the other 

 specimens. The inner, longitudinal % of the distal joint of the exopod of 

 the uropods is dark colored, as is also the distal, transverse 4th or 5th 

 of the preceding joint; the distal % of the terminal joint or blade of the 

 endopod is also dark colored, while on the telson proper there is a small 

 patch of dark color laterally near the base of each lateral spine, and also 

 a similarly colored area before the base of each of the pairs of movable 

 submedian spines either side of the median carina and fading out ante- 

 riorly just past the middle of the length of the telson. 



