MARINE AlVIPHIPODA IN MICRONESIA — BARNARD 527 



Couplet 20: "transverse" indicates an imaginary line from the 

 hinge perpendicular to the long axis of article 6, measured from the 

 middle of the proximal joint to the middle of the palm. 



Lembos aequimanus Schellenberg 



Figure 26 

 Lembos (Bemlos) aequimanus Schellenberg, 1938a, pp. 76-77, fig. 39. 



Material: Reish stations E-40 (1), E-49 (1), BE-104 (1). 



Remarks: Specimens from the last two stations seem to fit this 

 species although they are in poor condition. The female from station 

 E-40 was found associated with the male of the new species L. bryopsis 

 (p. 528) and it is debatable whether it is the female of that species or 

 belongs with L. aequimanus. If indeed it is the female of L. bryopsis, 

 then the females of both L. bryojisis and L. aequimanus seem identical; 

 on the other hand, this female lacks any of the distinctive characters 

 of L. bryopsis. It is scarcely conceivable that ScheUenberg's male of 

 L. aequimanus was mdeed the juvenile of L. bryopsis since so many 

 differences are apparent. 



Figure 26.— Lembos aequimanus Schellenberg, female, 3.8 mm., Reish sta. E-40: a,b, 

 gnathopods 1, 2. 



Separation of young animals of L. intermedius and L. aequimanus 

 should be difficult, for L. aequiraanus probably represents a stage in 

 the development of L. intermedius. In the females at hand the dif- 

 ferences between L. intermedius and L. aequimanus are as evident as 

 they are between L. processijer and L. aequimanus, if one recalls that 



