INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 525 



latioii at the base, and three seta' at the tii). The antenna- luive hirge 

 well developed scales, furnished along the inner margin with long- 

 plumose hairs, but the flagelluui is shorter than the scale, not divided 

 into segments, and has three plumose setai at tip. The mandibles are 

 nnlike on the two sides; the inferior edges are armed with acute teeth, 

 except at the posterior angle, where there is a small molar area ; the palpi 

 are very small, with the three segments just indicated. The exognathns 

 in both pairs of maxillic is composed of only one article, and is furnished 

 with several setiB at tip. In the first maxillipeds the exognathns is an 

 unarticulated process, furnished with short plumose hairs on the outer 

 side. The second maxillipeds have the principal branch cylindrical, 

 not flattened and appressed to the inner mouth organs as in the adult; 

 the exognathns is short, and as yet scarcely flabelliform ; and the epig. 

 nathus is a simple process, with not even the rudiment of a branchia. 

 The external maxillipeds are pediform, the endognathus as long as and 

 much resembling the endopodi of the posterior legs, while the exog- 

 nathns is like the exopodi of all the legs, being half as long as the en- 

 dognathus, and the terminal portion furnished along the edges with long- 

 plumose hairs. The epignathns and the branchiic are very rudimentary, 

 represented by minute sack-like processes. The anterior cephalothoracic 

 legs, (Fig. D,) which in the adult develop into the big claws, are exactly 

 alike, and no longer than the external maxillii^eds. The pediform branch 

 is, however, somewhat stouter than in the other legs, and subcheliform. 

 The legs of the second and third pairs are similar to the first, but not 

 as stout. The legs of the fourth and fifth pairs are still more slender, 

 and styliform at the extremity, as in the adult. 



The exopodal branches of all the legs and of the external maxillipeds 

 arc quite similar, and differ very little in size. In life, while the animal is 

 poised at rest in the water, they are carried horizontally, as represented in 

 Figure B, or are curved up over the carapax, sometimes so as almost to 

 cover it. The blood circulates rapidly in these appendages, and they 

 undoubtedly serve, to a certain extent, as respirator}^ organs, as well as 

 for locomotion. By careful examination, small jirocesses were found 

 representing the normal number of branchiic to each leg.* These rudi- 

 mentary branchite, however, differ somewhat in different specimens, 

 being very small, and scarcely distinguishable, in what appear to be 

 younger individuals, from the rudimentary ei)ipodi, while in others, ap- 

 liarently older, they are further developed, being larger, more cellular in 

 structure than the epipodi, and even showing an approach to creuulation 

 in the margins, as shown in Figure D. 



The abdomen is slender, the second to the fifth segments each armed 

 with a large dorsal spine, curved backward, and with the lateral angles 



* The number of brauchiae, or branchial pyramids, in the American lobster is twenty 

 on each side ; a single small one upon the second maxilliped, three well developed ones 

 npou the external maxilliped, three upon the first cephalothoracic leg, four each upon 

 the second, third, and fourth, and one upon the fifth. 



