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Epistoma margine superiorp frontem panliihim maxime 

 in lateribiis superante. Cljpeiis lobis lateralibus parvis, ro- 

 tundate subsemicirculis. Linea verticalis marginal is utrinque 

 ante ocnlos producta, epistoma tamen non attingens, nnl- 

 1am aream infraocularem formans. 



Trunci segmentum 1. epimeris subtenuibus, revolutis, 

 post injequaliter fissis: lacinia interior ovalis, exteriore multo 

 brevior; margo posterior utrinqne fortius incnrvus; anguli 

 externi late rotundati. tegmentum 2. epimero ante crassiore, 

 dente inferiore parvo, obtuso instructo;^margo posterior ut 

 in segmentis sequentil)us utrinqne levins incurvns; anguli 

 posteriores segmentorum 2.-5. late rotundati. Pronotuni 

 segnienti secnndi quarta vel etiam quinta parte dorsi vix 

 longius. 



Caudse segmenta 3.-4.-5 epimeris mediocribus vel ma- 

 joribus, nullo processu inferiore instructis; epimera seg- 

 menti quinti parallela vel su])ronvergentia. Pleopodes primi 

 paris in femina areis opercularibus magnis in medio inter 

 se fere attingentibus. 



Telsum tertia parte latius quam longius, in medio le- 

 vissime coarctatum, post transverse truncatnm. 



Uropodnm scapus paulo longior quam latior, margine 

 exteriore leviter curvato, margine interiore leviter incurve. 

 Exopoditum parvum, foss?e superiori scapi insertum, procul 

 ab apice et satis a latere interiore distans; endopoditum 

 telso multo brevius. 



Color nigro-rufus, maculis creberrimis flavis conspersis. 



Long. 6 m. m. Lat. 3 m. m. 



Patria: New Zealand. »Very abundant in South Island « 

 (Chilton). I have seen specimens from Milford Sound (Mus. 

 Dundee) and two specimens from Auckland (Mr. Suter in 

 Mus. Kjobenhavn). 



Sec tio VIII. I am not sure, that I dare register in 

 this section more than Sph. bifrons, and the characters are 

 given with the earlier description of this species by me, 

 and illustrated by the here subjointed figures (Tab. VIII). 



