APSEUDES TALPA. 149 
Tue figure of this species, published originally by 
Montagu, and which has been copied by all subsequent 
authors (except Prof. Milne Edwards), was so ill drawn, 
that the true relations of the animal could not possibly 
be determined. The head and first segment of the body 
were confounded together into a triangular mass, desti- 
tute of any trace of articulation, and the tail was repre- 
sented as elongate-conic in form, and composed of 
twelve very short joints, all being very setose. The 
figure given by Prof. Milne Edwards, quoted above, was 
made by him from the original specimen of Montagu, 
preserved in the British Museum, and represents the 
animal more faithfully ; the lower antennz are, however, 
drawn too small and short, a sketch made by us from the 
same individual many years ago, representing the an- 
tenne as nearly equal in length—possibly from the 
flagellum of the upper pair being broken off; neither 
does Prof. Milne Edwards’s figure give a correct idea of 
the dilated structure of the second pair of hands. 
The segments of the body are transverse, serrated 
along the hinder margins, the sides being rounded; the 
five basal segments of the tail are very short, the sixth 
being as long as all the rest together, and terminated in 
an obtuse point, at the sides of which are affixed the 
terminal pair of tail-legs, which are transformed into 
a very long setaceous filament, having a shorter one at 
its base. ‘The segments of the tail are very pilose at the 
sides. The upper antenne have a strong basal joint, 
crenulated along its inner edge, in the middle of which 
is a small, setose swelling; the following joint is strong, 
but very much shorter than the preceding, followed by 
a smaller joint, and the terminal filament, or flagellum, is 
very slender and multiarticulate, the secondary filament 
at its base being half the length of the primary one, and 
