STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA ii 



walking legs is styliform. The fourth joint of all the legs 

 has spines. The abdomen has six joints ; the last two 

 segments being coalescent. 



Range. — West Indian Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Canary 

 and Cape Verde Islands, Madeira, Brazil, West Coast 

 of Central and South America. 



I. Leptopodia sagittaria. 



Lcptopodia sagittaria . Leach, H. Milne Edwards. 

 InacJius Sagittarius . Fabricius. 

 Cancer scticornis . . Herbst. 



There is a spine on each side of the carapace at some 

 distance behind the orbits. The rostrum is almost twice 

 as long as the postfrontal portion of the carapace. Ocular 

 peduncles are completely circular. One spine on the 

 inferior face of the basal joint of the external antennae 

 near the insertion of the eyes. Hands finely granular. 

 The spines of the terminal edge of the fourth joint of the 

 walking legs very short. 



Not found along the shore ; it is frequently caught at 

 Barbados in the traps set in deep water. 



Range. — Barbados, Jamaica. 



2. Metoporaphis. 



MctoporapJiis . . Miers. 



MetoporJmphis . . Stimpson. 



Lcptopodia . . . Say, II. Milne Edwards. 



Upper surface of carapace irregular and tuberculated. 

 Rostrum long, projecting. External antenna? long ; the 

 movable part not covered by the rostrum. The third 

 joint of the external maxillipedes is produced at its 

 antcro-internal angle ; the fourth joint is obversely trian- 

 gulate, and truncated distally ; the fifth joint articulates 



