No. 26.] 



ARTHROSTRACA OF CONNECTICUT. 



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uropods ; gills with a tinge of rose color. . . . . This species 

 swims in an irregular, jerky manner and after swimming but a 

 short distance suddenly stops, flexes the body, and drops to the 

 bottom. Its motions in the water resemble those of the ostracod, 

 Cypris." 



Length 2 mm. 



Distribution: Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Long Island 

 Sound. 



Holmes obtained this species in material secured from piles 

 at Woods Hole in September and also among masses of Pennaria. 



Stenothoe minuta Holmes. 



FIG: 15. Stenothoe minuta. 



1903. Stenothoe minuta, Holmes, Amer. Naturalist, vol. 37, 

 p. 278. 



1905. Stenothoe minuta, Holmes, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 24, 



P- 485. 



Eyes round. 



Antennae subequal in length and a little over one-half as long 

 as body; first joint of first pair very much thicker than second 

 and nearly as long as second and third; flagellum slender, about 

 twelve- jointed. Second antennae with last two joints of peduncle 

 of nearly equal length; flagellum with somewhat fewer joints 

 than first pair. 

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