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within. Oral plates small and so nearly parallel with adorals that 

 the jaw is somewhat rounded and projects very little. Oral papillae 

 four on a side and usually an infradental one at apex of jaw; the 

 papillae are thick and blunt, and the outermost is clearly the largest. 

 First under arm plate very large, somewhat rounded, hexagonal, wider 

 than long; second plate somewhat larger, pentagonal, widest distajlyj 

 succeeding plates more rounded, soon becoming elliptical and then 

 onger than broad, and ultimately long pentagonal with distal end 

 rounded; all the under arm plates are more or less separated from 



FIG. 115. OPHIOLEBES BRACHYGNATHA. X 5. a, FROM ABOVE; &,FROM BELOW; C,SIDE VIEW OF THREE 



ARM JOINTS NEAR DISK. 



each other except the first two. Side arm plates moderate, not meet- 

 ing above and only slightly so below; each plate carries seven or eight 

 stout, blunt arm spines; upper two longest, exceeding joint, smooth; 

 next two similar, but distinctly smaller; lowest three or four very 

 much smaller, somewhat flattened, and with rough tips; they lie more 

 or less appressed to lower surface of arm, pointing distally and in- 

 ward. Tentacle pores small, first pair with a more or less prominent 

 spiniform tentacle scale; a few other pores may have minute tentacle 

 scales, but as a rule the scales are completely replaced functionally by 

 the lowest arm spines. Color (dried from alcohol), light yellowish. 

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