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Figure 46. — Phtisica viarina, male; a, lateral view; b, abdomen; c, gnathopod 2; 



d, gnathopod 1. 



ages are strikingly small. I have examined the material u[K>n which 

 his descriptit)Ti was based but I cannot agree that these appendages 

 are any smaller than in P. marina, so this species is included in the 

 synonj^my of P. marina. 



Phtisica marina difi'ers from 1\ antillensis in that the carpus of 

 gnathopod 2 is longer than the merus and the propodus of gnathopod 

 2 is expanded at midlongth in the latter species. 



