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has a well-marked proximal process and bears on its margin a 
single trilobed tooth, from the base of which a single seta arises. 
The distal segment is somewhat sharply curved about the middle 
of its length, and bears on its proximal half two setae but no 
tooth-like process. In the left leg the terminal segment is short 
and bears on its external border a short spine; terminally it is 
provided with a long curved spine and two shorter and more 
delicate processes, one of which is ribbed; the inner surface is 
clothed with hair. The penultimate segment carries a short spine 
at its distal external angle. 
The remaining appendages resembled those of the other mem- 
bers of the genus. 
4. Pontella princeps, Dana. 
A single specimen, a male, was obtained in locality A. 
5. Pontella securifer, G. Brady. 
Pontella securifer, Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Copepoda, 
vol. viii, p. 96, pl. 45, 1883. 
Pontella securifer, Claus, Ueber die entwicklung und das 
system der Pontelliden. Avb. Zool. Inst. Wien, vol. x, p. 
233, pl. v, fig. 6, 1892-93. 
Pontella securifer, Giesbrecht, F. u. Fl. Neap., vol. xix. 
Pontella spinipes ~ , Wolfenden, The Fauna and Geography 
of the Maldive and lTaccadive Archipelagoes, vol. ii, 
p. 1020, 1903-4. 
Occurrence: Localities A, B, E. 
This species was comparatively rare in this region. Several 
typical examples of the female were obtained and associated with 
them were a few males. 
From previous descriptions it would appear that the male of 
this species is somewhat variable as regards the grasping antenna. 
Brady’s original description is of the briefest character and his 
figure of this antenna is very poor. Claus figures it as having on 
the proximal end of the 19th segment a rounded elevation bearing 
three pointed teeth. Giesbrecht, however, represents this portion 
as consisting of a plate bearing a number of lamellar teeth. 
In the males obtained by me the right antenna agrees 
exactly with Claus’s figure, and differs from that given by Gies- 
brecht. 
The 5th legs of my specimens agree with Giesbrecht. Wol- 
fenden has described a male Pontella, which he takes to be the 
male of P. spinipes; in this, the right grasping antenna has on 
the 19th segment a ‘‘ rounded projection with three arrow-shaped 
teeth.” Other points of difference are that in his specimens the 
teeth on the 19th segment are smaller and the toothed plate on 
