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distal surface bearing 2 saber-shaped processes, inner longer than 

 outer, both with fine membranes along margins. 



Female maxilliped (fig. 23/0 2-segmented, situated posterior and 

 slightly medial to maxilla base. First segment strongly developed, 

 lobate proximally, widest medially, tapered to slightly narrower 

 distal end, without distinct irregularities. Second segment short, 

 distinct from clawlike terminal process, with single, setule-like ac- 

 cessory process on inner surface, at junction of segment and terminal 

 process. Male maxilliped similar in outline to that of female; fu'st 

 segment with 2 minute, lappet-like projections on inner surface, 

 second segment with second setule-like accessory process proximally. 



Sternal furca of female and male (fig. 24a) situated between and 

 slightly posterior to maxilhped bases. Process basically bifurcate, 

 arising from oval platelike area of heavy sclerotization, with spine- 

 like projection on either side, just proximal to apex of bifurcation. 

 Tines of bifurcation angled outward, bifurcate dis tally, each ramus 

 of distal bifurcation bluntly rounded. Cuticular flap present on 

 either side of sternal furca, with pointed projection laterally in both 

 female and male, with rounded projection medially in female. 



For nature of armature and legs, see figures 246-(/ and table 9. 



Table 9. — Armature of thoracic legs I-IV of the female and male of 

 Gloiopotes huttoni {Thomson, 1889) 



*Denticulations in clump in female, in row in male, 

 t Spine denticulated In male, not in female. 



X Numerous spinules on protopodite and first segment of exopodite not tabulated. Spinule arrangement 

 slightly different in two sexes. 

 § Elements between rami. 

 II Elements in middle of segment, not on edge. 



Discussion. — Gloiopotes huttoni (Thomson, 1889) exhibits a wide 

 variation in many characteristics. This variation may be a natural 

 variation or the result of breakage and regrowth of some of the heav- 

 ily sclerotized parts. The most striking example of this, in the 

 Hawaiian specimens, is the variation in the spines associated mth 

 the postantennal process. In the figured female specimen (fig. 2Zd), 



