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long falcate spine, the concave margin of which is distinctly pectinated ; the basal 
joint of the fourth (?) pair of feet bears also a very long falcate spine (fig. 24). Male 
unknown. 
This description is extremely imperfect, being based upon only two battered 
specimens which were taken—one off Napier in the net at a depth of 8 fathoms, the 
other at the surface in Otago Harbour. 
The characters seem clearly to distinguish this from any described species. 
Subfamily PoNTELLIN &. 
Genus Laspipocera Lubbock. 
1. Laprpocera cervi Kramer. (Plate X. figs. 8-14.) 
Labidocera cervi Kraimer (1), p. 218, pl. xvi. figs. 6, 7. 
Female.—Cephalothorax subtrnncate posteriorly, the ventral angles produced and 
mucronate (fig. 9). Abdomen four-jointed, the first, second, and third segments about 
equal, fourth about half as long as the preceding; caudal lamine rather longer than 
broad, obliquely quadrate (figs. 9, 13); terminal sete scarcely as long as the abdomen. 
Antennules reaching to the posterior extremity of the cephalothorax. Fifth pair of 
feet (fig. 10) alike on both sides, two-branched, the internal branch composed of one 
small joint, the outer of one much larger joint which bears three moderately large 
lateral teeth and two smaller and much more slender ones at the apex. In the immature 
condition, however (fig. 11), the outer branch consists first of three and afterwards of 
two joints. Length 2:3 millim. 
Male——tThe infero-posteal angles of the cephalothorax (fig. 13) are not quite so 
strongly spined as in the female ; the abdomen five-jointed (fig. 13). ‘The armature of 
the right antennule consists of a fine pectination of the seventeenth and eighteenth 
and of the coalescent nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first joints: the twenty-second 
joint is prolonged internally, forming a sharp process which extends beyond the 
apex of the penultimate joint. he right foot of the fifth pair (fig. 14) is strongly 
prehensile, the basal joint simple, second joint attached near the middle by a hinge- 
articulation, its outer portion forming a slender flexuous process, its inner portion 
forming a broad lamina and giving attachment at its apex to a long and slender falcate 
joint which opposes the outer process of the second joint; the foot of the left side is 
simple, slender, three-jointed, nearly as long as that of the right side, its terminal joint 
having a few short apical teeth and near the distal extremity a diffuse pubescent patch. 
Length 2°8 millim. 
Hab. In the surface-net, from Otago and Akaroa. 
Though my observations differ in some respects from those of Dr. Kramer, I have 
