CRYPTOTHIRIA B.^LANI. 



imp OB A. 



NORM A LI A. 



267 



BOPYRlDuE. 



CllYPTOTHIRIA BALANI. 



Specific character. — Immature (?) Male. — Elongate-ovate, cephalon fur- 

 nished beneatb with two flat lobes, serrated on their posterior margins, mouth 

 forming a conical process ; upper antennte very short, lower antennas nearly 

 half the length of the animal, reflexed ; pereion with seven pairs of pereio- 

 poda, first and second pairs with strong palms and hooked fingers, five pos- 

 terior pairs slender and simple. Pleon with five pairs of branchial appen- 

 dages, each composed of two lobes. 



Adult Female. — Forming a large inert seven-lobed mass, destitute of ex- 

 serted antennae, jaws, legs, or branchial appendages. 



Length of the supposed male, about one line ; female, about one-quarter of 

 an inch. 



Spenck Bate, Brit. Assoc. Report, 1860, p. 225. 

 BuCHHOLZ, in Siebold and KoUiker, Zeitschr. f. 



Wissensch. Zool. xvi. 3 h. p. 303 (September, 



1866). 

 GooDSiR, H. S., on the Sexes of the Cirri- 



peds, &c., Edin. New Phil. Journal, p. 88, v. 35 



(1843). Ann. d. Sci. Nat. 3 ser. Zool. t. 1. 



pi. 15 c. 



The first notice we possess of this animal is that given 



Llrlopc halani. 

 Hemioniscus halani. 



Tialanus halanoides, male. 



