APSEUDES TALPA. 149 



THE figure of this species, published originally by 

 Montagu, and which has been copied by all subsequent 

 authors (except Prof. Milne Edwards), was so ill drawn, 

 that the true relations of the animal could not possibly 

 be determined. The head and first segment of the body 

 were confounded together into a triangular mass, desti- 

 tute of any trace of articulation, and the tail was repre- 

 sented as elongate-conic in form, and composed of 

 twelve very .short joints, all being very setose. The 

 figure given by Prof. Milne Edwards, quoted above, was 

 made by him from the original specimen of Montagu, 

 preserved in the British Museum, and represents the 

 animal more faithfully ; the lower antennae are, however, 

 drawn too small and short, a sketch made by us from the 

 same individual many years ago, representing the an- 

 tennae as nearly equal in length possibly from the 

 flagellum of the upper pair being broken off; neither 

 does Prof. Milne Edwards's figure give a correct idea of 

 the dilated structure of the second pair of hands. 



The segments of the body are transverse, serrated 

 along the hinder margins, the sides being rounded ; the 

 five basal segments of the tail are very short, the sixth 

 being as long as all the rest together, and terminated in 

 an obtuse point, at the sides of which are affixed the 

 terminal pair of tail-legs, which are transformed into 

 a very long setaceous filament, having a shorter one at 

 its base. The segments of the tail are very pilose at the 

 sides. The upper antennae have a strong basal joint, 

 crenulated along its inner edge, in the middle of which 

 is a small, setose swelling ; the following joint is strong, 

 but very much shorter than the preceding, followed by 

 a smaller joint, and the terminal filament, or flagellum, is 

 very slender and multiarticulate, the secondary filament 

 at its base being half the length of the primary one, and 



