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8. The most anterior ambulatory leg : resembling 

 y. closely and, like it, bearing a gill. 



b. The great chela: much larger and more powerful 

 than the last appendage: but resembling it in 

 structure, except that its ischio-podite and basi- 

 podite are ankylosed together; it carries a gill. 



c. The three maxillipedes. 



a. The most posterior: its short thick basal two- 

 jointed (protopodite] : the three prolongations 

 articulated to it; the external (epipodite} a 

 curved elongated lamina lying in the branchial 

 chamber and bearing a gill ; the middle one 

 (exopodite) long, slender and many-jointed; 

 the internal one (endopodite] several-jointed 

 and much resembling one of the ambulatory 

 limbs. 



ft, The middle maxillipede : much like a. but 

 with the two joints of the protopodite fused 

 together and with a less stout endopodite. 



y. The anterior maxillipede; protopodite, exopo- 

 dite and epipodite all present, but smaller 

 than those of (3. and the epipodite bearing no 

 gill ; the endopodite flattened and foliaceous. 

 The ambulatory limbs, great chelae, and 

 maxillipedes together constitute the append- 

 ages of the thorax ; we now come to those of 

 the head proper. 



d. The two maxilla. 



a. The posterior: its protopodite and endopodite 

 essentially like those of the anterior maxilli- 

 pede ; the epipodite and exopodite united and 



