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Family I. PHRONIMIDA, 
_ Hypérines ordinaires, M. Edw. (part) Hist. Nat. Crust. ii, p. 74, 
(1840). 
Phronimide, Dana, (part) U.S. Explor. Exped. xiv, Crust. part 11, 
p- 999, (1853); Spence Bate, Cat. Amphip. Crust, Brit. Mus. p. 316, 
(1862). 
Inferior antenne obsolete, at least in one sex. Fifth pair of legs 
developed into a more or less perfectly chelate organ. 
PHRONIMA. 
Phronima, Latr. Hist. Nat. Crust. vi, p. 289, ((1803) ; M. Edw. 
Hist. Nat. Crust. i, p. 91, (1840); Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiv, 
Crust. part ui, p. 1000, (1853); Spence Bate, Cat. Amphip. Crust. Brit. 
Mus. p. 316, (1862). 
Head very large. Body broad and flat, tapering posteriorly. 
Abdomen narrow. LHyes on the dorsal surface of the head. Superior 
antenne very short ; inferior antenne obsolete. Legs all long and 
slender, the first and second pairs with the ante-penultimate joint 
somewhat dilated, third and fourth pairs very long and slender, fifth 
pair terminating in a perfectly formed hand, sixth and seventh pairs 
slender. Three last pairs of abdominal appendages slender, biramous. 
Terminal segment minute, simple. 
140. Phronima novx-zealandie. 
Phronima nove-zealandiv, Powell, Trans. N.Z. Inst. vu, p. 294, 
pl. xxi, fig. 1, (1874). 
Head very large, tumid above, tapering to the oral apparatus, 
finely striated, the strie being resolvable by a low magnifying power 
into rows of pellucid dots. Antenne as long as the breadth of the 
head at their insertion, the first joint being very short. First pair 
of legs having the meros slightly produced posterodistally, the wrist 
produced to nearly half the length of the hand posterodistally, the 
anterior edge serrated, terminating in a sharp point. Second pair of 
legs with the meros produced posterodistally into a long narrow process 
nearly half the length of the wrist, the wrist has a similarly situated 
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