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noticed but not clescribted by A. White, in the ' List of Crustacea 

 in the British Museum,' p. 107, 1847, under the name of ^ga 

 Mrta, and subsequently described as j^. mioltidigita by Dana, in 

 his account of the Crustacea collected in the U.S. Exploring Ex- 

 pedition under Commodore "Wilkes. 



CiEOLANAMULTiDiGiTATA. — MgdiWviskJVhite, List Crust. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 107 (1847), sine descr. — M. multidigita, Z)an«, V.S. Expl. 

 Exp. ^n\.,Crust. i. p. 768, pi. li. fig. 3 (1853). PI. XXIV. figs. 6-11, 



Body oblong-elliptical, moderately convex; all the segments 

 hispid, witb short hairs, which are longest on the posterior margins 

 of the segments, and denser on the postabdominal segments. The 

 head is transverse, with a small, acute, median frontal lobe. The 

 first segment of the body is rather the longest, and its anterior 

 margin is closely applied to the base of the head ; the postero- 

 lateral margins of all the segments are broadly rounded. Five 

 segments of the postabdomen are exposed ; the first four are very 

 short ; the lateral angles of the second segment are acute, of the 

 third obtuse and round ; the terminal segment is triangular, usu- 

 ally about as long as broad (but in the specimen bearing "White's 

 MS. name rather broader than long), subacute at the apical ex- 

 tremity. The eyes, viewed from above, are suboblong, and extend 

 along half the lateral margins of the head. The upper antennas 

 are short, reaching little beyond the posterior margin of the head ; 

 peduncle two-jointed, the basal joint but little enlarged, the second 

 joint scarcely thicker than the flagellum. Lower antennae more 

 than half as long as the body, and separated at base by a very 

 narrow process of the epistome ; peduncle five-jointed, the first 

 three joints very short, the fourth and fifth long, slender, and sub- 

 equal; flagellum naked. The coxae of all the legs are obliquely 

 carinated ; those of the first to third pairs rounded at the postero- 

 lateral angles ; of the fourth to seventh pairs with the postero- 

 lateral angles acute, and of the sixth and seventh pairs greatly 

 produced backward; the basal joints of all the legs are but 

 slightly dilated, those of the last four pairs slightly keeled on their 

 posterior margins ; the third to sixth joints of all the legs armed 

 with short spines on their under surface ; the daetyli of all the legs 

 are short, arcuate, and acute. The rami of the appendages of the 

 penultimate postabdominal segment are very unequal ; the outer 

 very narrow and shorter than the inner, which is triangular, broad- 

 est and truncate at its distal extremity ; the margins are not 

 serrated ; they do not reach to the apex of the terminal segment. 

 Length nearly 1 inch. 



