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parasites are found within the body-cavity of the host (crabs, Paguridae}, but 

 must be described as ectoparasites, as they are enclosed in a chitinous sac 

 derived from an invagination of the outer surface of the body (wall of the 

 branchial cavity) of the host. The body of the female (Fig. 148 B} is very 

 peculiar in shape and dorsally curved ; it has a rounded cephalic region (eg} 

 with piercing mouth-parts and vestigies of antennae (ae, ai), an unsegmented 

 thorax (th) which carries the ventral brood-cavity formed by the lamellae of 

 the limbs (Fig. 148 A), and a segmented abdomen (aft) with sabre-shaped or 

 lamellate pleopoda (en 3 ). The small males (Fig. 147 A) become attached to the 





FJG. 148. Adult female of an Bntoniscid (Portunion maenadis), after GIARD and BONNIER, 

 from LANG'S Text-book). A, with the brood-cavity partly opened in the ventral median line 

 and the brood-lamellae separated. The abdomen (ab) is so placed that the ventral side is 

 seen. B, brood-cavity not opened, showing the dorsal surface of the abdomen (ab) Ir, the 

 anterior, middle, and posterior lobes of the first brood-lamella on the right side ; II, the 

 same of the first brood-lamella on the left ; Ilr, III, second brood lamellae (right and left) ; 

 Illr, IIIl, third brood-lamellae (right and left) ; IV, fourth brood-lamella ; Vr, VI, fifth 

 brood-lamellae (right and left) ; ab, abdomen ; ae, outer, ai, inner antennae ; ex 2 , exopodite 

 of the second pleopod ; en a , endopodite of the third pleopod ; eg, cephalic region (so-called 

 cephalogaster) ; h, cardial prominence; mf, maxillipede; pi, pleural lamella of the first 

 abdominal segment ; ov, ovary ; th, thorax. 



females and resemble in appearance the Bopyrid males, being, however, distin- 

 guished from these by the absence of the last pair of thoracic limbs (which 

 have degenerated) and of the second antennae. The young larvae (Fig. 147 B) 

 very closely resemble those of the Bopyridae, and always possess paired eyes 

 (au), and sometimes also a Nauplius eye (Grapsion). They are distinguished 

 from the Bopyrid larvae chiefly by the shape of the penultimate thoracic limbs 

 (t 7 ), which varies in different genera, and also differs from that of the other 



