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STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA. 



Family CYMOPOLIID.^. 



CYMOPOLIA Koux. 



Crustaces de la Mediterrauee, S^"" Livr., 1S30. 



Cymopolia tuberculata Fax. 

 Plate VI., Fig. 3, 3\ 



■ Bull. Mus.Comp.Zo6l., XXIV. 101,1893. 



Carapace very broad, subpentagonal, branchial regions swollen Front 

 fo^^ro^d, the teeth blunt, separated from each other by narrow sun.es 



e ra r^^^^^^^ at the botton. ; the two middle teeth are longer t an^ 

 M al ones, and the median sinus is deeper than the two lateral. The 

 ^:^ margin of the carapace is ^-toothed, countm^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 nent tooth at the external angle of the orb.t ; the posterior ooth of tl^ 

 1 ^nllP.t The upper margin of the orbit has three deep hssures 



t To/n. a broad tn„,cate tooth or lobe ; there is aUo a broad and p.om. 



„e„t" be just below the Inner orbital angle; above tins lohe .s a s,ng 



ooth at thi inner angle. The snrfaee of the ear»pace ,s on— • ' 

 granulated tubercles ;, he parts between the tubercles are mo, fineb^u-mu 



Led, and .ben viewed under a lens are found to be t"™*'^ " ^^ 

 hairs The ehief tubercles ,.re disposed as follows : one pa,r on the f.onta 

 : ion behind the margin; four in transverse row on the a"'«w ,>a o 

 the gastric area, and five on the posterior part of Ibe same area ar.anged 

 r •• (of tb se the posterior pair is the smallest) ; four ,n a transve,.e 

 'on the cardiac region and one n.edian behind the transvc,,e ser.es; 

 out six on each branchial area; six just anterior to the --."■.- 

 nrargin of the carapace (three on each side). There are tbree small tube.cles 

 on tach eye-stalR near the margin of the cornea. The c ehpeds ar<. sma 

 .lender, equal; the carpus tt.berculate, the fingers as long - - '™^ 

 proper, curved downward and inw.ard, crossing at the t.ps, then pubens le 

 edges finely denticulate in small specimens, nearly entire n, larger ""-• ^'^ 

 Jond and third audndatory limbs are very long, the second shghtly l.a.g r 

 than the third; their mcrus joint, are granulated and costate above, ad 

 arn.ed with a prominent spine at the anterior distal .angle and a smaller one 

 each Bide at the point of articulation «iU, the carpus; th,s holds good of 



