Plate XXXIII. Young Male Lobster 



The length of this young adult lobster was 65 mm., and the age approximately 

 fourteen months. The lashes, or endopodites, oi the second antennre are longer 

 than in the fourth stage — usually longer than the body. The chelipeds are dif- 

 ferentiated, after the fifth stage, into the "nipping" and "crushing" claws, re- 

 spectively. The atrophied stumps of the exopodites disappear from the thoracic 

 appendages (except in the second and third maxillipeds) after the fifth stage. 



