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BULLETIN 129^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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in the same line there is a sub- 

 orbital spine. The angle of 

 the buccal cavity is armed 

 with a spine, and the ptery- 

 gostomian area bears ' several 

 small spines. 



Chelipeds short, stout in the 

 male and feeble in the female; 

 merus somewhat trigonal, its 

 margins and the outer surface 

 of the carpus armed with long 

 spines ; upper margin of manus 

 spinous; fingers about the 

 same length as the palm in 



Fig. i02.— Holoplites armata 



(2«66), MAXILLIFED, X 9.37 



female, shorter in male. Am- 

 bulatory legs hairy; the merus 

 armed with a terminal spine 

 and tw^o other spines on the 

 upper surface; carpus slightly 

 roughened and propodus un- 

 armed; dactylus spinulous on 

 the inner margin. 



The first, second, and third 

 segments of the abdomen of 

 the male have three spines. 

 The first three segments of the 

 abdomen of the female are 

 shorter and have each a me- 

 dian spine, diminishing in 

 length from the first to the 



