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margins at a point deeply notched by the abrupt narrowing of the 

 front thence to the sharp rostrum; hepatic sulcus acutely angular; 

 branchial furrow forming a nearly straight, delicate impressed line 

 from near the lower ends of the cervical suture to middle of each side 

 of posterior margin, never meeting on midline of back. Abdomen 

 semicylindrical, large, ends of second segment dilated, rotund, of 

 the others subtrigonal; outer branch of tail fan with a transverse 

 suture. Legs slender. 

 Cretaceous. 



MEYERIA (?) HARVEYI Woodward 



Meijeria (?) harreiji Woodward, Geol. Mag., n. s., dec. 4, vol. 7, 1900, 

 p. 434. 

 Type-localU}/.— British Columbia : Hornby Island. Upper Creta- 

 ceous. 



Genus HOPLOPARIA M'Coy 



Hoploparia M'Coy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 2, vol. 4, 1849, p. 175 ; type, 

 H. longimmia (Sowerby). 



Carapace subcompressed, sides broad; cervical suture deep, dis- 

 appearing on the sides; hepatic sulcus bifurcate, A-form; rostrum 

 awl-shaped; supra-antennal process semi-cylindrical, covering the 

 base of the scale of the outer antenna. First pair of feet, or cheli- 

 peds, large, unequal; the major stout, digits strongly tuberculate; 

 the minor more slender, digits armed with numerous subequal denti- 

 cles; remaining feet slender. Abdomen subcylindrical, epimera 

 falcate, acuminate. 



Cretaceous; Eocene. 



HOPLOPARIA BENNETTI Woodward 



Hoploparia hennetti Woodward. Geol. Mag., n. s., dec. 4, vol. 7, 1900, p. 



433. 

 Hoploparia bennetUi Whiteaves, Mesozoic fossils, vol. 1, pt. 5, Geol. Sur. 



Canada, Ottawa, 1903, p. 320. 

 Type-locality.— British Columbia: Comox River. Upper Creta- 

 ceous. 



HOPLOPARIA (?), species (Gabb) 



" Gen ? Sp. indet." " Three fragments of claws, remarkable for their long, 

 slender form " Gabb, Geol. Sur. California, Talaeont., vol. 2, 1869. pp. 

 127 and 209, pi. 19, figs. 2 a-f. 

 Occurrence.— Caliiornisi: Cottonwood Creek, Shasta County. 

 Lower Cretaceous: Shasta group. 

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