On some South-African Phyllopoda. 11 



As to the several appendages of the body, they are 

 built much as in other species of the genus, and I do not 

 therefore consider it necessary to give a detailed description 

 of them. 



The endites of the 1st pair of legs, as in the other 

 species of the genus, are very slender and elongated, filiform, 

 and project laterally from the sides of the carapace, pointing 

 in different directions. The outermost, or 4th endite, which 

 is more or less recurved, is almost as long as the whole 

 carapace. 



The 2 or 3 next succeeding pairs of legs are much 

 larger in the male than in the female, though on the whole 

 built upon the same type (comp. figs. 3 and 4). The terminal 

 joint, or 5th endite, is well developed in both sexes, having 

 the character of a strong claw, the outer edge of which 

 exhibits a dense ciliation, whereas the inner, straight edge 

 is minutely denticulated throughout. The 4th endite is 

 much larger and thicker in the male (see fig. 3) than in the 

 female, reaching considerably beyond the terminal joint, and 

 its inner edge is coarsely serrate. 



The 11th pair of legs, as usual, look very different in 

 the two sexes. Whereas in the male, this pair does not 

 differ essentially from those preceding and succeeding them, 

 in the adult female they are peculiarly modified, to form, 

 by the aid of the exopodite and epipodite, a box-like capsule, 

 in which the eggs apparently become surrounded by their 

 firm envelope. Not more than 2 or 3 eggs were found 

 simultaneously in each of these capsules, the eggs being 

 deposited at short intervals, to give place to others. 



As to the total number of legs, it is a matter of great 

 difficulty to state it with exactness, as the hindmost pairs 

 are so extremely small, and so densely crowded together as 





