EURYSTHEUS BISPINIMANUS. 357 



A MPH1PODA . QAMMAR1DES. 



NATATORIA. 



EURYSTHEUS BISPINIMANUS. 



Specific character. Palm of the second pair of gnathopoda armed with 

 two short stout spines. 

 Length =| inch. 



Eurystheus Uspinimanus. SPENCE BATE, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 197, 

 pi. xxxv. fig. 8. 



THE animal is a little more robust than the preceding 

 species. The eyes are reniform. Both pairs of antennae 

 are wanting in our unique specimen ; it is therefore not 

 impossible that it may belong to the genus Nosnia. We, 

 however, retain it in the position originally assigned 

 to it until future observation may enable us to de- 

 termine its proper genus. The mandibles are furnished 

 with an obtusely-pointed triarticulate appendage. The 

 first pair of legs are long and slender, rather resembling 

 the same appendage in Noenia than they do those of the 

 typical species of this genus ; they have the wrist as 

 long as the hand, and quite as wide ; the hand is not 

 dilated, but tapers gradually from the wrist to the 

 extremity ; the palm is not defined, and is so oblique 

 as to be subparallel with the upper margin. The finger 



