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Figure 71. — Amphiascus minutus (Claus), loc. 591, ad. 9: «, whole animal, dorsal view; 

 h, same animal, lateral view from right side; loc. 594, ad. ?: c, whole animal, dorsal view. 

 (X 275.) 



(fig. 716). Rostrum long and slender, as long as antennular segments 



1 and 2, bluntly pointed, pointing forward and downward, separated 

 from cephalic somite by distinct groove (fig. 12d). Thoracic somites 



2 and 3 of equal length, epimeral plates cut off squarely. 4th tho- 

 racic somite short, nearly as long as 5th thoracic somite. 



Fusion between abdominal somites 1 and 2 very incomplete, with 

 distinct dorsal line of fusion, somites of equal length, with dorso- 



