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row basal joints of the perseopods, and the form of the maxilla? and 

 maxillipeds are more like those of the Paramphithoidse of Sars and 

 the Pleustidse of Stebbing. 



Fig. 3S. — Acaxthopleustes annectens. 

 ACANTHOPLEUSTES ANNECTENS, new species. 



Eyes absent. Lateral lobes of head truncated in front. First and 

 second antenna 1 subequal and over half the length of the body; 



mxp 



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Fig. 30. 



ACANTHOPLEUSTES ANNECTENS. <//(], PIBST GNATHOPOD J !IHj. SECOND G.VATIIO- 



pod; i. i., lowee lip; mxp, maxilliped. 



peduncles elongated and about equalling the flagelia, those of the 

 first pair almost as long as those of the second and having - the first 



