120 STALK- AND SESSILE-EYED CRUSTACEA 
This animal Dana thinks may possibly prove to be the female of 
Talorchestia quoyana. 
Mr. Spence Bate, while referring it with doubt to the genus 
Orchestoidea, sees ‘no insurmountable barrier to its being a variety 
only of Zalitrus brevicornis, from which the description hardly differs 
in a specific degree.” 
TALORCHESTIA. 
Talorchestia, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiv, Crust part i, p. 851, 
(1853); Spence Bate, Cat. Amphip. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 14, (1862). 
First pair of legs small, subcheliform in the male, simply unguiculate 
in the female. Second pair of legs chelate, with the hands greatly 
developed in the male, weak in the female. 
128. Talorchestia quoyana. 
Orchestia Quoyana, M. Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust. i, p. 19, (1840); 
Regne Animal Cuvier, pl. lix, fig. 4; White, Dieffenb. New Zeal. u, 
p. 268, (1843). 
Talorchestia? Quoyana, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiv. Crust. 
part ii, p. 846, (1853) ; Spence Bate, Cat. Amphip. Crust. Brit. Mus, 
p. 16, pl. 1, fig. 7, (1862). 
Superior antennz reaching considerably beyond the extremity of the 
of the penultimate joint of the inferior antenne, which is extremely 
short, while the following joint is very long. Second pair of legs with 
the hands very large, nearly oval, and armed with two large broad 
acute teeth, placed one at the pomt of union of the inferior (or 
proximal) and anterior margins, the other towards the front of the 
anterior margin. Finger strong and regularly arcuate. Last pair of 
lees narrow, their first joint greatly dilated behind. Last segment 
of the abdomen short, rounded, with a spinous margin.  Stylets of 
the last pair of false legs, (caudal appendages), slender and elongate. 
Length about 1 in. (M. E.). 
New Zealand (Mus. Brit. Paris.) ; Bay of Islands (Dana). 
ORCHESTIA. 
Orchestia, Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. xi, p. 856, (1815); Spence 
Bate, Cat. Amphip. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 17, (1862). 
Like Talitrus, but having the two anterior pairs of legs furnished 
with subcheliform hands, the first pair small in both sexes, the second 
