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Cumacea: 1. Vauuthoiupsouiidae, 1. Vauuthompsonia 



lateral lobes. Telsonic segmejit short, with setules on the little produced 

 apical margin. Eye brownish. Three -jointed flagellum of first antenna as 

 long as second joint of peduncle. Second antenna 3-jointed (Zinimer), 2-jointed 

 fG. 0. Sars). Apical points of lower lip minute. Fore part of mandible 

 short, spine-row of 9 spines. First maxilliped with 4 branchial leaflets in 

 a row^ Third maxilliped with lateral apex of long second joint somewhat 

 produced. First peraeopod reaching apex of pseudorostrum with end of its 

 5**^ joint. Second peraeopod with 3^ joint very short but distinct, 4*'^ shorter 

 than 5*'' or 7*^ which are subequal. Uropods stout, peduncle as long as 

 telsonic segment, about ^j^^^^ as long as the subequal rami, with about 

 13 spines on the medial margin; 1^* joint of endopod two and a half times 

 as long as 2'^*, its medial margin fringed with unequal spines; 2"*^ joint of 

 exopod fringed with short spines on lateral margin and feathered setae on 

 the medial. C'olour white with brown markings, stellate on the carapace. 

 L. Q reaching 12 mm. Adult d not known, young d 6"5 mm. 



Kerguelen Island, off Cumberland Bay, depth 232 m, Gazelle Harbour, depth 

 5 — 10 m; South Georgia, Cumberland Bay, depth 250 — 310 m. 



3. V. cristata Bate 1856 Scorpionnra vulgaris, J. V. Thompson MS. in: W. 

 Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ireland, v. 4 p. 394 | 1858 Vaunthompsonia cristata, Bate in: 

 Kinahan in: Nat. Hist. Rev., v. 5 F. p. 203 | 1858 Vauntomjysonia c, Bate in: J. R. 



.:^ 

 Fig. 5. 

 V. cristata (2) Bate, 

 antenna i (after Sars). 



Fig. 6. 

 V. cristata (9) Bate, an- 

 tenna 1 (after Sars), FlageUa 

 (more magnified). 



Fig. 7. 



V. cristata (9) Bate, front 



(after Sars). 



Dublin Soc, v. 2 p. 102 tf. | 1859 Vaunthompsonia c, Kinahan in: Rep. Brit. Ass., 1858 

 u28 p. 266 I 1863 F. c, A.M. Norman in: Tr. Tyneside Club, «.5iv p. 271 | 1879 V. c, with 

 syn. Bodotria longipes, Norman MS., G. 0. Sars in: Arch. Naturv. Kristian., vA p. 12 

 t. 23— 26 I 1893 7. c, T. Stebbing in: Int. sci. Ser., ?;. 74 p. 304 | 1905 Vauntompsonia 

 c, Caiman in: Sci. Invest. Eish. Ireland, 1904 app. 1 p. 17 t. 1 f. 1 | 1907 V. c, Caiman 

 in: Tr. zool. Soc. London, v. 18i p. 29 | 1909 VauntJiompsonia c, A. M, Norman & G. S. 

 Brady in: Nat. Hist. Tr. Northumb., ser. 2 v. 3ii p. 27. 



Pseudorostral lobes meeting underneath the eyelobe, not extended 

 beyond it; antero -lateral corners not produced in the 6, in the $ acute, the 



