56 T. V. HODGSON. 



NOTOXENUS SPINIPER. 



(Plate IX., fig. 3.) 



Specific characters : 



Cephalosome rounded, with long ocular peduncles ending in four small knobs surrounding the eye. 

 Mesosome with mid-dorsal spine on each segment and also on first segment of metasome. 

 Lateral extremities of every segment very distinct from each other. 



Urosome very nearly as long as six segments of the inesosome. Top-shaped, with diminutive 

 preterminal uropoda. 



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The body forms a pointed oval and is much vaulted anteriorly or round- 

 shouldered. The interval between the third and fourth segments of the mesosome is a 

 variable feature, but in no case is it specially conspicuous. 



The cephalosome is subcircular when seen from above, but at first sight it does 

 not appear to be so owing to the foreshortening due to the curvature of the body. 

 The eye-stalks arise laterally, they are slender and extremely long, nearly as long as 

 the diameter of the cephalosome, and extend that structure beyond the first segment of 

 the mesosome. They are slightly enlarged at the extremity, and the eye lies in the 

 middle of four small, blunt lobes. 



The mesosome comprises seven distinct segments, in the first of which the 

 cephalosome is to some extent embedded. The next three segments are straight, the 

 third of the entire series being the widest. The three posterior segments are curved 

 backwards, their curvature increasing as their diameter decreases. All the segments 

 are provided with a backwardly curved spine in the mid-dorsal line, their size is 

 proportionate to the size of the segment, but their position varies, those of the last three 

 being on the posterior- border of their respective segments. The epimera are inseparable 

 from their respective segments ; they are large and irregular in shape. Those of the 

 first three segments are more or less directed forwards and to some extent rounded 

 at the extremity, the fourth is more truncated, those of the last three are rounded. 



The metasome consists of a single segment, wedged in the curvature of the last 

 segment of the mesosome, and the urosome ; the former carries a mid-dorsal spine. 

 The urosome is pointed, pegtop-shaped, more than one-third the length of the entire 

 animal, with small preterminal uropoda. Its entire margin is fringed with small, 

 rather coarse setae, and its surface is also well covered. 



The uropoda are very small, single-jointed, with terminal setae. The entire body 

 is rather sparsely covered with small setae ; these are more abundant and conspicuous 

 on the epimera. 



The first antenna has a peduncle of two joints, the basal one being quite twice 

 as long as the other, both are setose distally ; the flagellum is about twice as long 

 as the peduncle and has only four joints, the first being rather long. 



The second antenna has a peduncle of six joints ; of these the first two are very 

 short, especially the second ; the third is as long as the two together ; the fourth is 



