ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN PYCNOGONIDA—HEDGPETH 197 
1 specimen (incomplete) ; surface tow; April 21, 1906; Leon J. Cole, coll. 
1 male; surface tow; April 22, 1906; Leon J. Cole, coll. 
1 female; White Shoal; July 19, 1924; W. L. Schmitt, coll. 
Description.—Trunk: Lateral processes separated by slightly more 
than half their own width. Neck variable in length, from as long 
as the third and fourth trunk segments to half that length. Ovigers 
based in front of first pair of legs. Eye tubercle bluntly conical, 
eyes large. 
Proboscis roughly cylindrical, constricted near the tip. 
Abdomen about as long as last lateral process, directed upward at 
an angle of about 60°. 
Ficure 17.—Nymphon floridanum, new species: a, Dorsal view of holotype; J, lateral view 
of paratype; c, chela; d, palpus; ¢, oviger of male; f, leg; g, tarsus and propodus. 
Palpus slender, the second joint longest, third and fourth joints 
subequal and slightly shorter than second. Fourth joint not much 
longer than wide. There are a few setae on the ventral distal end of 
the third joint, the ventral margin of the fourth, and on most of the 
fifth. 
Chelifore: Scape slender, about as long as the proboscis, Chela 
large, fingers about as long as palm, crossed at tip, each with about 
15 spinules, 
