ISOPODR OF WORTH AMERICA. 



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"Mandibles stout, with a iive-dentate cutting edge and a three-jointed 

 palp. First maxillse tipped with a number of brown spines. Maxilli- 

 peds with a stout four-jointed palp, of which the second joint is very 



Fig. 34.— Apseudes espinosus (After Moore), a, Uropod. b, First leg. c, Gener.\i, figure. 

 d, Seventh leg. e, Second leg. /, Chela. (All enlarged.) 



large and stout. Details in relation to the oral parts are not known, 



as there was but one specimen mounted in balsam and not dissected. 



"The chelipeds in the females are long and slender, the fifth joint 



being the longest and the second almost as long, Init stouter. The 



