M3B-BCTIfl MNinEPATOPCKOM AKAAEMIM HAVKIj. 1894. Ns 4 (AEKABPb). 



(Bulletin de I'Academie Imi3eriale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg. 



1894. Decembre. M 4.) 



Crustacea caspia. 



Contributions to the knowledge of the Carcinological Fauna 



of the Caspian Sea. 



By G. O. Sa,i-s, 



Professor of Zoology at the University of Christiania, Norway. 



Part III. 



J^lSySlFJ^XF (DID J^. 



Second Article: 



Ganimaridje (continued); 

 with 8 autographic plates. 



(Lu le 28 septembrc 1894). 



8. Gamtnarus Warpachowskyi, G. 0. Sars, d. sp. 



(PI. IX). 



Specific Characters, — Body comparatively sleuder aud compressed, 

 with the back perfectly smooth. Lateral lobes of cephalon forming in front 

 a distinct angle, aud being defined behind by a very slight emarginatiou. 

 Anterior pairs of coxal plates of moderate size, and edged distally with 

 short, scattered bristles; 1st pair scarcely expanded in their outer part; 

 4th pair not as broad as they are deep. The last 2 pairs of epimeral plates 

 of metasome sliglitly produced at the lateral corners. Urosorae without any 

 dorsal projections, but having on each of the segments dorsally a fascicle of 

 delicate hairs, from among which, in the 2nd segment, rise 2 small spinules, the 

 last 2 segments being moreover armed on each side of the dorsal face with 

 2 or 3 juxtaposed spines. Eyes of moderate size, and oblong oval in form. 

 Superior antenna3 scarcely exceeding in length '/g of the body, joints of the 

 peduncle successively diminishing in size, flagellum somewhat longer than 

 the peduncle, accessory appendage small, biarticulate. Inferior antennae 

 shorter than the superior, and in male provided with a very conspicuous 

 clothing of extremely delicate and slender sensory hairs. Gnathopoda in fe- 



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