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Epistoma mar^rine siippriore frnntem per])aulvim maxime 

 in latoriltus superante. ('lypous l)revis, loltis lateralibus 

 paulum oblonge triangulis. Linea marginalis verticalis ca- 

 pitis utrinque ad niarginem superiorem e})ist(imatis pro- 

 ducta, aream infraocularem angustissimam formaiis. 



Trunci segmentum 1. epimeris tenuibus, ante levissime 

 revolutis, post integris, segmentum 2, epimeris integris; 

 margo posterior utrinque fortiter incurvus, angulis externis 

 retroductis, obtusis; margo posterior segmentorum sequen- 

 tium etiani utrinque fortius incurvus. Segmenta 6. et 7. 

 prsecedentibus segmentis multo majora. Pronotum seg- 

 menti 2. mediocre, vix longius quam quarta pars dorsi. 



Caudse segmenta 1. et 2. brevia, subocculta; segmenta 

 3.-4.-5, epimeris mediocribus, processu inferiore minimo; 

 epimera segmenti 5. divergentia. Pleopodes primi paris in 

 femina areis opercularibus magnis, in medio inter se pau- 

 lum distantibus. 



Telsum tertia parte latius quam longius, in medio vix 

 coarctatum margine postico subreclo. 



Uropodum scapus paululo longior quam latior, apice 

 oblique rotundato vix angustato. Exopoditum mediocre, 

 fossse superior! scapi insertum, multis partibus longius quam 

 latius, apicem scapi tamen non attingens. Endopoditum 

 mediocre, telso nonnihil brevius. 



Color e nigro brunneus, maculis et punctis raris albi- 

 dis conspersis. 



Long. 7 m. m. Lat. 3,5. 



Patria: New Zealand, at Taranga (Dr. Thilenius in 

 Mus. Berlin), at Lyttelton (Mr. Suter in Mus. Hamburg), 



I should think that the following species described by 

 Dana was allied to Sph. tarangensis. 



22. Spherillo monolinus. 

 Spherillo monolinus Dana, Expl. Exp. Crust. 719. Tb. 47. f. 3a— d. 

 Patria: New Zealand, »at Wykare River near Bay of 

 Islands« (Expl. Exp.). 



