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character. Peraeopoda rather elongated, three posterior pairs 

 successively increasing in length, and have basal joint laminarly 

 expanded. Branchial lamellae simple, and incubatory lamellse 

 narrow. Two anterior pairs of uropoda normal, last pair pro- 

 jecting considerably beyond others and with very unequal rami, 

 as outer rather large and spinous with terminal joint obsolete 

 and inner very minute and scale-like. Telson small, bipartite. 



Several species in the northern and southern hemispheres. 

 Allied to Ganinianis, but differ in the small eyes and structure 

 of the gnathopoda. 



Melita nitida S. I. Smith. 

 Plate 54- 



Melita nitida (S. I. Smith) Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 



314 (near low-water mark). 

 — S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 560. New Jersey 



to Cape Cod. 

 Holmes, Amer. Nat., XXXVII, 1903, p. 280. Cape Cod to Cape Hat- 



teras. 



Holmes, Bull. Bur. Fisher., XXIV, 1904 (1905), p. 505, figs., PI. 11, 



fig. 3. New Jersey to Cape Cod. 



M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. N. Hist., VII, No. 5, 1905, 



p. 69. Cape Cod southward. 



• Paulmier, 58th An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1904 (1906), p. 162, 



fig. 31. Bartow and South Beach, Staten Island. 



Description. — -Body slender, compressed. Eyes small, round. 

 First antennae two-thirds or more of body length. Second joint 

 of peduncle longer than first, nearly twice length of third. 

 Flagellum longer than peduncle. Secondary flagellum three- 

 jointed in adults, not longer than third joint of peduncle. 

 Second antennae shorter than first, last joint of peduncle nearly 

 long as preceding joint. Flagellum shorter than peduncle, 

 joints with whorls of long setse like those of last joint of 

 peduncle. First four coxal plates deeper than segments, first 

 three oblong, somewhat curved backward. Palm about one- 

 third length of nearly transverse distal edge of hand. Finger 

 short, much curved, very thick at base, articulated in middle 

 of distal edge of hand. Hand of second gnathopods in male 

 large, oval, palm evenly convex, a1x)ut long as hind edge above 



