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though not so broad as in Pontonia. First leg outreaching antennal scale by the hand ; 

 its fingers longer than the palm and bearing on their median sides each a row of long 

 curled hairs. Second legs unequal ; the smaller of normal shape with slender, toothless 

 fingers as long as the palm ; the larger with hand a little longer than carapace including 

 rostrum, broadest at distal end, its fingers bent towards the middle line of the body, 

 the movable one slender and toothless, outreaching the fixed finger, which is stout and 

 strongly hooked, and bears at its base on the upper side a crest composed of two stout 



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Fig. 4. — PericUmenes (Hamiger) novae-zealandiae, n. sp. Male. («) Side view, x 4 ; (&) dorsal 

 view of head, x 4 ; (c) end of first leg, x 12 ; {d) third maxilliped, x 12J. 



teeth. Last three legs slender, rather short, biunguiculate, with a row of small teeth 

 under the short, stout end-joint, and six movable spines under the propodite. 

 Uropods with exopodite and endopodite broad, rounded, subequal. Telson shorter than 

 uropods ; its spines long and slender. 



Two specimens, male and female, taken together. The female has lost the larger 

 cheliped. Length of female, 27 mm. 



Station 96. 



