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DISCOVERY REPORTS 



Kuphocheira setirnanus, Brnrd. (Fig. 149). 

 Barnard, 193 1, p. 429. 



Occurrence: St. 164. South Orkneys. 15 $$ 375-4 mm., 9 $<j> 4 mm. 



Description. Body rather depressed, the back broadly rounded. Rostral point 

 minute, ocular angle rounded, almost truncate. Eyes well developed, small, oval, dark. 

 Side-plate 1 small, shallow, produced forwards, with three setae on rounded apex; 

 2 much larger, also produced forwards, with setae on lower margin; 3 and 4 a trifle 

 deeper than long, setose on lower margin; anterior lobe of 5 as deep as side-plate 4. 



Fig. 149. Kuphocheira setirnanus, Brnrd. a. Lower lip. h. Mandible with molar further enlarged, c. Maxilla 

 1. d. Maxilla 2. e. Maxilliped. /. 3rd~5th peduncular joints and flagellum of antenna 2 <J. g. Pleon segment 

 3. /;. Gnathopod 1. i. Gnathopod 2rJ. /■ Gnathopod 2? (/;, i,j all viewed from inside), k. Peraeopod 1. 

 /, m. Peraeopods 3 and 5. n. Pleon segments 4-6 and telson, with uropods 1-3. 



Postero-inferior angle of segment 1 rounded, of 2 quadrate, the actual corner rounded, 

 of 3 produced backwards in an acute point. Telson a little broader than long, evenly 

 rounded, without hooks. 



Antenna 1 , flagellum 6-jointed in $ , 5 in ? . Antenna 2 shorter but stouter than antenna 

 1, especially in $, flagellum 3-jointed in both sexes; in <J stout spines on lower margin 

 of 5th peduncular joint and first two flagellar joints ; these spines absent in $. 



Secondary cutting plate and spine row in both mandibles, molar tubercle long, 

 apically with a few setules and one long seta, 2nd joint of palp considerably longer than 

 3rd. Maxilliped, palp setose, a long seta at apex of terminal joint. 



