MOUTH PARTS OF THE PAL.EMOXIL) PRAWNS. 



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ends in a semicircular surface, whicli bears a comma-shapefl patch 

 of serrated ridges, SoUaud, who called attention to the difference 

 between the molar surfaces of Desmocaris and those of other 

 Palaemonidfe *, pointed out that these ridges also occur in the 

 Acanthephyrid;B, and regarded them as a primitive feature. In 

 this he is probably right, since, as I have shown, a similar 

 arrangement is found in Nehalia and certain Branchiopoda. In 

 Anvphibeheus and some Hippolytidpe (text-fig. 43) part of the 

 surface is covered with such ridges and part with bristles, and 

 lobes of various shapes are appearing. We have here probably a 

 transition from the indged condition to that which is found, for 

 instance, in Pontoniinse. 



Text-figure 44. 



Text-fio'ure 45. 



Text-fig. 44. — Ventral view of mouth-parts of Leander serratus after removal 



of inaxillipeds, maxillte, and left maxillule. 

 Text-tig. 45. — The same after removal of maxillules and paragnatha. 

 For lettering see p. 71. 



2. The mandibles lie (text-figs. 44, 45) in a chamber enclosed 

 between the lips, the hood-like labrum standing in front of them, 

 and the large bilobed metastoma behind, while the swollen bases 

 of the mandibles themselves close in the chamber at the sides. 



* C.R. Ac. Sci. clii. p. 913(.1911). 



