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the distal pair, and about the same number of clusters of hairs on 

 the outer margin. The carpus is stouter, about half as long, and 

 has a distal outer spine. 



The legs of the fifth pair (pi. 35, figs. 2d, 2d') are quite different 

 and have a complex comb of hairs and spines on the propodus and 

 dactyl. The dactyl is slender, elongated, incurved at the base, and 

 has numerous spinules (12 or more) on the inner edge; the termi- 

 nal hooks are slender and not much curved. The propodus is 

 flattened, widest in the middle, convex on the inner edge, and con- 

 cave on the outer edge. It has on the convex distal half of the 

 inner edge, a long comb of about 24 rows of small acute spinules. 

 The carpus is not quite half as long as the propodus. The merits 

 is about two and a half times longer than the carpus. 



The sixth abdominal somite ends in a small dorsal median spine 

 and dentiform angles at the bases of the uropods. The outer 

 margin of the outer lamella of the uropods has a row of small 

 hairs along its entire length, proximal to the suture. A tooth and 

 an articulated spine occupy the sutural notch. The outer lamella 

 is the larger and longer. 



The telson is long and narrow, regularly tapered to a small tip, 

 which is entirely occupied by six terminal unequal spines, except 

 for a minute median papilla (pi. 35, fig. 2e, t). There are four 

 or five pairs of small spines on its dorsal surface, with rudiments 

 of one or two more ; near the base there is an incurved ridge, with 

 a spiniform tooth toward the margins ; the lateral margins are 

 turned down. 



Females dredged by us in "The Reach," in 2 to 3 fathoms, May 

 5, 1901, carried large eggs, rather few in number. Key West 

 (type locality) ; Harbor Key and Sarasota Bay, Fla. (Kingsley). 

 Gulf of Mexico, 25 fathoms, Station 2370; off Cape Catoche, 

 Yucatan, 24 fathoms, Station 2365 ; St. Thomas and Porto Rico 

 (Rathbun). I have examined cotypes from Key West, Florida. 

 It occurs most frequently among algae, sponges, etc. in shallow 

 water. 



Our Bermuda specimens differ somewhat from those described 

 by Prof. Kingsley and M. J. Rathbun from Florida and the West 

 Indies, especially as to the rostrum, and should perhaps constitute 

 a distinct species or subspecies. But details of the typical form 

 have not been figured, except the rostrum by Kingsley (see our 

 plate 1 6, fig. 7), which he described as having five teeth on the 



