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MACROPODIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER.” 
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Shell somewhat triangular, with a few spines, anteriorly 
furnished with a long fissured rostrum ; eyes remote, some- 
what kidney-shaped, much thicker than their pedun- 
cles ; exterior antenne more than half the length of the 
body, the second joint three times as long as the first; in- 
terior antenne received in longitudinal fossula under the 
clypeus ; external double feet-palpes slender, with their in- 
ternal foot-stalk composed of two nearly equal joints ; 
palpes three-jointed, very hairy, with the middle joint short- 
est, the third longer than the first; legs ten, anterior pair 
didactyle (of the Mate longer than the body, with elon- 
gate-suboval compressed hands, wrists angulated, half the 
length of the hands, arms length of the hands, and angu- 
lated) ; four hinder pairs very long, very slender ; four ante- 
rior claws bent at their points, four hinder ones abruptly 
bent at their base ; abdomen six-jointed, with a slightly tu- 
berculated carina, the last segment longest. 
The generic character of Macropodia is introduced, to 
enable the reader to compare it with that of Leptopodia, to 
which it is nearly allied. As an example of the genus, the 
following species is given, which with another species, will 
be figured in Plate 23, of Malacostraca podophthalma Bri- 
1annié. 
MACROPODIA PHALANGIUM. 
Cancer phalangium. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 
Macropus longirostris. Latr. Gen. Crust. et Ins. 1, 39. 
Macropodia longirostris. Leach, Edinb. Encycl. 7, 395. 
