84 CHARLES CHILTON 
pod of O. aucklandiae also differs from DANA’s figure in the more transverse 
and well defined palm. O. aucklandiae is found on the southern coasts of the 
South Island of New Zealand but, so far as I am aware, does not reach the 
North Island at all. 

Fig. 1. Orchestia chiliensts, 
A and B, First and second gnathopeds of adult male; 
C and D, First and second gnathopods of immature male; 
E and F, First and second gnathopods of a very young male. 
Figures I, A and I,B show the first and second gnathopoda of a male from 
tube No. 259. In the first gnathopod there is a very small pellucid lobe on 
the merus (not large enough to show in the figure) similar to those on the 
carpus and propod. 
The specimens in tube No. 259, labelled » Masatierra, under stones throughout 
the island» are quite similar in size and structure to those found i New Zealand 
and, as noted above, the tube contained more males than females. This, how- 
