4 SLADEN TRITST EXPEDITIONS TO ABKOLHOS ISLANDS. 
comparison of the figures of some of the appendages given herewith with 
those published by Chevreux and Walker for Waldeckia ^\i\\ show the closest 
agreement in general form, especially in the first and second gnathopods. 
Family PHOXOCEPHALID^. 
Grenns Parhakpinia, Stebbing. 
2. Paehaepinia villosa (Haswell). (PI. 1. figs. 7-14.) 
Phoxus vilhsus, Ha.swell, 1880 (1), p. 258, pi. ix. fig. 2. 
Parliarpinia villosa, Stebbing, 1906, p. 147. 
Localitt/. Sandy Island, Wallaby Group, one female with incubatory 
lamellse, 6 mm. 
Distribution. Coasts oE Australia (Haswell) and New Zealand (Thomson). 
RemarJcs. In comparing this specimen with Stebbing's description, it is- 
found to differ in the following points : — 
The most important of these differences are numbers 3 and 4. The length 
of the outer plate of the maxillipeds is one of the characters used by 
Stebbino- to separate the genera Parliarpinia and Pontliarpinia. In the 
former it is described as elongate and fringed with serrate spines on the 
inner margins. In the latter it is simply described as short. In my 
specimen, the maxillipeds do not appear to differ markedly from those of 
the o-enns Fontharpinia, except that the spines on the inner margin of tlie- 
