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DISCOVERY REPORTS 



Stage VI ? (Figs. 17, 20). Length 9-12 mm. 



Fore-body narrow, pear-shaped, narrower than 

 hind-body : hind-body shghtly concave behind. 



Antennular peduncle of three distinct segments. 

 Antenna unsegmented, reaching nearly to end of 

 eye-stalk. 



Maxilla with exopod very large, fringed with 

 setae. Maxillipede 2 without exopod. Maxillipede 

 3 and leg i with coxal spine. Leg 5 a small 

 papilla. 



Abdomen small, narrow, unsegmented, without 

 trace of pleopods, and with a small fold at end 

 representing uropods. 



Stage VII ?. Length 12-18 mm. 



Peduncle of antenna not distinct, but showing 

 trace of segmentation under skin. 



Maxillipede i a small papilla. Maxillipede 2 

 with small bud representing exopod, without setae. 

 Leg 5 rather large, unsegmented. 



Abdomen unsegmented ventrally, but showing 

 segmentation dorsally. Pleopods present as small 

 rounded lobes; uropods bilobed, variable in 

 size. 



Stage VIII ? (Fig. 20). Length 14-20 mm. 



Peduncle of antenna distinctly segmented. 



Maxillipede i a simple papilla. Maxillipede 2 

 with exopod distinct, with or without setae. Setae 

 when present six in number. Leg 5 with basal 

 segment marked off. 



Small spines present on body at base of legs 

 2, 3, 4. Abdomen segmented ventrally. Pleopods 

 bilobed. Uropods large, the exopod and sometimes 

 also the endopod jointed to basis. 



Fig. 18 shows a specimen in some respects 

 intermediate between this and the preceding 

 stage. 



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Fig. 19. Panulirus A, 36 mm. 



o°o5'N, iz-'sS'W. 



