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Cumacea: 25. Procampylaspididae, 1. Procampylaspis 



rowed, telsonic segment not longer than broad. Antenna 1, 1«*^ joint longer 

 than 2""^, 2"'^ than 3^, principal flagellum 3-jointed, accessory 1-jointed. 

 Antenna 2, !»* joint of the long flagellum knobbed at the base. Branchial 

 leaflets numerous. Maxilliped 2, 2^'^ joint not twice as long as broad, 

 the much curved 7^^ produced into a sharp point, the concave margin forming 

 :-; strong teeth, of which the middle one is the longest. Maxilliped 3, 2"'^ 

 joint stout, much longer than rest of limb, 3^ very small, 4*'! widened dis- 

 tally. Peraeopod 1, 2"^ joint stout, not longer than rest of limb, 3^1 unu- 



Fig. 124. 



p. tridentata 

 Stebbing, mandible. 



Fig. 125. 



P. tridentata ((J) 



Stebbing, maxiUi- 



ped 1. 



Fig. 126. 

 P. tridentata 



Stebbing, maxiUi- 

 ped 2. 



Fig. 127. 



P. tridentata Stebbing, 



maxiUiped 3. 



sually long, more than twice as long as broad, 6*^1 longer than any except 

 the 2"*. Peraeopod 2, 3^ joint short but outdrawn to a conspicuous apical 

 spine. 7^'i as long as 4*^^ and 5^'^ combined, 4 times as long as the Q^^. 

 In the 3^^ and 4*^^ pairs the stout 2^^ joint is much narrowed distally. Pe- 

 duncle of uropods with finely serrate margins; endopod about two-thirds as 

 long with 10 spines on the medial margin, and a much larger apical spine; 

 the exopod much more slender and rather over two-thirds as long. L. d 

 4-5 mm. Q unknown. 



S. Africa, Cape Natal distant N. by E. 24 miles; depth 805 m. 



4. P. armata Bonnier 1896 P. a. -j- P. echinata, J. Bonnier in: Ann. Univ. Lyon, 

 V. 26 p. 541 t. 29 f. la— r; p. 544 t. 29 f. 2a— t | 1905 P. «„ Caiman in: Sci. Invest. Fish. 

 Ireland, 1904 app. 1 p. 33 | 1906 P. a., Caiman in: Mt. Stat. Neapel. v.lliv p. 419 

 t. 27 f. 13—20 I 1912 P. armatus, T. Stebbing in: Ann. S. Afr. Mus., v. lOv p. 167. 



9 . Pseudorostral lobes upturned, meeting with blunt apices for a short 

 distance in front of the long narrow eyeless eyelobe, descending nearly verti- 

 cally to a small sinus defined by a small blunt antero -lateral tooth. Cara- 

 pace oval, dorsal line moderately arched, not carinate, but just behind the 

 centre bearing a strong median tooth, the eyelobe on its slightly raised apex 

 having a pair of small tubercles. First pedigerous segment raised to a 

 transverse, procurved lamina with median bifid tooth overlapping hind margin 

 of carapace; a similar less prominent tooth on second segment is not pro- 



