MALACOSTRACAN FAUNA OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. 297 
Fam. Munnipz. 
PLEUROCOPE, 0. gen. 
(Greek pleuron, side, kopé, handle, from the form 
of the lateral processes.) 
General form of the body like Pleurogonium: sides of the 
segments and head produced and terminated (except the 4th and 
7th) by a conspicuous process. 
Head large, deeply sunk in the Ist segment, with a lobe at 
the base of the upper antenne and a process behind the lower 
antenne. 
Upper antenne shorter and slighter than the lower. 
Mandibles not seen. 
Maxille as in Plewrogonium. 
Maxillipedes with the mner plate very broad; palp slender ; 
epignath oval, rounded. 
Legs scarcely increasing in length posteriorly. 
Caudal segment long and tapering. 
Uropoda conspicuous, with two subequal rami; they are 
placed near the base of the caudal segment. 
This genus differs from Pleurogonium, its nearest ally, in the 
large size and peculiar appendages of the head, the different 
relative proportion and structure of the antenne, in the form of 
the caudal segment, and in the position and size of the uropods, 
which are unusually large for this family. 
PLEUROCOPE DASYURA, n. sp. (PI. 27. figs. 12-18.) 
St. 1. One female. 
Body minutely granulate; lateral processes of the body and 
head linear and terminated by a long spine-like seta directed 
backwards and two smaller sete. The 4th segment has a single 
curved seta directed forwards in place of the process. The 
caudal segment is as long as the five preceding, tapering rapidly 
to the middle and thence gradually to a point. The distal half 
is clethed with sete# directed backwards and increasing in length 
distally ; on each side of the apex there is a curved seta directed 
outwards and slightly forwards. The operculum in the female 
is pyriform, with two long sete at the apex. 
Antenne: upper shorter than the width of the bead, and 
barely reaching to the end of the peduncle of the upper; the 
3-jointed peduncle rises from the base of a narrow lobe directed 
