574 : GEOFFREY SMITH. 
owing to the difficulty of making out the exopodites in even 
the best preserved fossil Syncarida. The abdominalappendages 
TExtT-FIG. 60. 
Gasocaris krejcii. Compound eye and second antenna. After 
Fritsch. 
appear to have consisted ofa stout outer ramus, segmented in the 
annular way characteristic of such a form as Anaspides. I 
cannot observe in Fritsch’s figures of actual specimens any 
TExtT-FIG. 61. 
Gasocaris krejcii. Telson and uropod. After Fritsch. 
trace of endopodites, though Fritsch in his reconstruction 
figures the appendages as consisting of endopodite and 
exopodite of equal length. It appears more probable that 
the endopodite was the reduced flabellate structure which we 
know in the living Anaspides. 
