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process consisting of bifurcate claw bearing lappet-shaped, membrane- 

 covered process at level of proximalmost fiircal ramus. Male with 

 pair of rugose adhesion pads just posterior to mouth cone. Postoral 

 process of female consists of bifurcate protrusion and process-bearing 

 node, of male sunilar except protrusion constricted at apex of bifurca- 

 tion and giving rise to short, dactylifomi process on inner surface. 

 Sternal furca with chisel-shaped tines. Exopodite of third thoracic 

 leg 3-segmented. Protopodite of fourth thoracic leg with spikelike 

 protrusion of cuticle on inner distal corner. 



Dentigryps bifurcatus Lewis, 1964 



Figures 5; 126,/j; 13& 



Dentigryps bifurcatus Lewis, 1964, p. 203, figs. 17, 18. 



Locality. — Hawaii. 



Hosts.— Acanihurus olivaceous Bloch and Schneider, Acanthurus 

 triostegus sandvicensis Streets, Naso hexacanthus (Bleeker). 



Material. — Two nonovigerous adult females and two adult males 

 taken by the author from the external surface of a specunen of Myri- 

 pristis sp. captured by spear in Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, by 

 Bruce Walsh. Two adult males taken by the author from the external 

 surface of specunen of Fistularia petimba Lacepede taken by trap 

 between Diamond Head and Koko Head, Oahu, Hawaii, by Samuel 

 Kaolulo. One nonovigerous adult female taken by the author from 



• Number of hairlike processes not established with certainty. 



