282 DB. J. G. DE MAN ON THE PODOPHTHALMOTJS 



a little longer than tlie peduncles of tlie external antennse, pro- 

 jecting with their terminal joint beyond them. In the largest 

 specimen the anterior legs project much beyond the antennal 

 scales, exceeding them by the anterior fourth part of their 

 carpopodites ; in the youngest individuals, howerer, they are 

 still longer than the antennal scales, but only project by the 

 greater half o£ the hand beyond, them. The carpopodites are 

 nearly twice as long as the hands (the palm and the fingers taken 

 together). la the largest specimen the legs of the second pair, 

 wliich are much stronger than those of the first pair, are a little 

 unequal, the right being the larger. The larger leg, measuring 

 about 75 millim., is still a little shorter than the body; the arm 

 does not reach to the anterior end of the antennal scales, 

 but to about the middle of the carpopodite of the anterior 

 legs, and the latter project as much forwards as the carpoj)odite 

 of the larger leg. The carpopodite, measuring 13 millim., is a 

 little shorter than the arm and. a little shorter than half the 

 length of the hand (the palm and the fingers taken together) ; it 

 measures about two thirds of the length of the palm. Like the 

 arm and the wrist, the palm also is nearly cylindrical, and longer 

 than the fingers, the latter being as long as the wrist and 

 measuring two thirds of the length of the palm. 



The slender fingers (13 millim. long) are quite close together, 

 except at their basal thirds, where they are a little gaping ; and 

 here they are each armed, with two or three small teeth, but they 

 are provided with a thin acute edge along the two distal thirds 

 of their inner margins. The other leg resembles the larger one, 

 diflfering only by its smaller size. Both legs are very scabrous 

 and. rough, being covered with numerous small acute spinules, 

 which are much larger along the under surface of the joints than 

 on their upperside. The joints also are covered, though very 

 sparsely, with minute hairs. 



In the smaller sj)ecimens, as in one that measures about 

 55 millim., the legs of the second pair are also already unequal, 

 the right being the larger. The arm of the larger leg, how- 

 ever, now only projects its smaller anterior half beyond the 

 peduncle of the outer antennae and the carpopodite half its 

 length beyond the antennal scales. In these specimens the joints 

 of the legs of the second pair present almost the same proper- 



