EUDACTYLINA SIMILIS. 133 



Islands in May and off Aberdeen in November 1901 

 (T. Scott). 



This species lias a general likeness to Eudactylina. 

 acuta van Beneden, but differs from it in several 

 respects. 



4. Eudactylina minuta T. Scott. 

 (Plate XXXVII, figs. 6, 7 ; Plate XL, figs. 1-9.) 



1904. Eudactylina minuta T. Scott. (115) p. 275, pi. xvii, figs. 1-11. 



Female. Body slender ; the cephalothorax about 

 four times as long as the abdomen ; the first cephalo- 

 thoracic segment scarcely equal in length to the next 

 two segments combined ; the last two segments of the 

 thorax rather more dilated than the others; all the 

 segments rough with minute scattered hairs, especi- 

 ally along the dorsal aspect. 



Antennules short, stout, and apparently consist- 

 ing of five joints ; the first three joints large and 

 subequal, the fourth narrow and only about a third of 

 the length of the preceding joint, end joint very small ; 

 the second joint furnished with a stout and strongly- 

 curved spine on the upper distal angle, two smaller 

 spines springing from the distal half of the upper 

 margin of the third joint ; no terminal claw, but only 

 a few apical setae. Antennae moderately elongate, 

 three- jointed, and having a general resemblance to 

 those of Endactijlina acuta ; the second joint, which is 

 about equal to the third one, having the lower distal 

 angle produced downwards in the form of a short 

 stout spine, while the end joint terminates in a strong 

 curved claw. Mandibles and maxillae somewhat 

 similar to those of Eudactylina acuta. First max- 

 illipeds moderately stout and armed with a stout 

 and nearly straight terminal claw, while the end 

 joint has a row of minute coarse denticles along its 

 inner edge. Second maxillipeds large and strong and 

 somewhat similar in structure to those of Euddctylina 

 similis, but the extremity of the claw which impinges 



