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CIROLANA. 
Cirolana, Leach, Dict. Sci. Nat. xii, p. 347, (1818) ; M. Edw. Hist. 
Nat. Crust. iti, p. 235, (1840); Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiv, 
Crust. part 1, p. 748, (1853). 
Convex, rather narrow, oblong-ovate. Eyes small, granulated, 
Internal antenne very short. External antennz long, inserted beneath 
the others, separated at base by a narrow process of the epistome. 
Abdomen rather short, six-jointed. 
116. Cirolana rossii. PI. III, fig. 3. 
Cirolana Rossii, List. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 106, (1847), sine descr. ; 
Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 4) xvii, p. 228, (1876). 
Convex, smooth. Head quadrangular, broader than long, encased 
in the first segment of the body. Eyes narrow-oblong, black ; 
extending along the sides of the head from the front margin of the 
first segment of the body, nearly to the bases of the antenne. 
Segments of the body smooth, the first the widest. Last segment of 
the tail slightly rounded on the sides, obtuse at the apex, Legs hairy, 
the hairs more dense on the four last pairs, which are not spinous. 
Caudal appendages ciliate, the outer narrower, acute at the extremity. 
Length nearly 1 in. 
New Zealand ; Auckland Islands (Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
This species in every respect bears a very close resemblance to 
C. spinipes, S. Bate and Westwood, of Europe. A comparison of the 
British and New Zealand specimens shows that the stiff hairs or slender 
spines of the legs are similar in the two species; but a more reliable 
character seems to me to exist in the form of the eyes, which are small 
in C. spinipes, long, narrow-oblong, in C. rossi. From C. hirtipes, 
M. Edw. this species seems to differ in the shape of the head, which is 
broader than long, &c., but the figure of Cirelana hirtipes very much 
resembles C. rossit. 
Family Ill. SPHAEROMID. 
Spheromiens, M. Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust. iti, p. 197, (1840). 
Spheromide, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiv, Crust. part iii, p. 746, 
(1853). 
Body usually oblong-oval, convex. Head transverse. Abdomen 
very short, 1-2 jointed, the five first segments more or less coalescent. 
