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STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA 



I. Remipes scutellatus. 



Reniipes scutellatus Fabricius, White, 



Miers, Studer, 

 Henderson. 



Saussure. 



Stimpson. 



Fabricius, 



Petiver. 



Barbados. 



ry broad. Anterior 



Remipes cubensis .... 

 Remipes barbadensis . . 

 Hipp a scut ell at a .... 

 Squilla barbadensis ovalis 

 Sea cockroach (local name) 



Body depressed, broad. Front vei 

 margin sinuated on either side of the very slightly pro- 

 minent median frontal lobe. Eye-peduncles short. 



First pair of legs of moderate length ; terminal 

 joint slightly compressed, with two strong, oblique,' *' 

 setose ridges on the inferior surface. Terminal joint 

 of the second and third pair of legs falcate, with the 

 distal as long as and more slender than the proximal 

 half. 



Length about an inch ; colour white, with light purple 

 marks. 



Range. — Barbados, Bermuda, St. Kitts, St. Vincent, 

 Cuba, Florida, Ascension Island, West Africa, Cape Verde 

 Islands. 



2. Hippa. 



Hippa . . Fabricius, H. Milne Edwards, Stimpson, 

 Miers. 



Internal antennae of moderate length ; external an- 

 tennae with a very long, robust, niultiarticulate and 

 strongly ciliated flagellum. External maxillipedes with 

 the last joint narrow, laminate, and compressed. First 

 pair of legs with the terminal joint lamellate, oval. 



