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poda, but inisunderstood the characteristic regarding thc sevciith paiv, saying that this 

 pair are miich shorter than the sixtli pair, just as in Cyllopus. Axel Boi<;cic was probably 

 niisled by the British authors when be in 1875 took up the name Tauria as a synonym 

 to Metoecus, Kroeyer, rejecting the latter narae as being preoccupied. In 1885 I restituted 

 the genus Tauria, Dana, within its old limits, as mentioned above, and claimed it as 

 a genus of its own, belonging to the family Hyperiids'. 



Tauria is probably closest allied to the genus Hyperia; as we know it from 

 Dana's description and drawing it is, however, readily distinguished from all the other 

 genera of the family by the narrow, not produced carpus of the second pair of perajopoda. 



The generic diagnosis, given by Dana 1. c. p. 988, runs: 



»Antennas four, short, approximate at base, superior rather stout. Feet not sub- 

 cheliform, nor subprehensile, seventh pair hardly abbreviated». 



1. TAURIA MACROCEPHALA, DANA, 1852. 



Tcmria macrocephala, Dana. 

 Facsimile from Dana, U. S. Expl. Exp. Crust., II, pl. 68, flg. 2. 



Fig. 1. The atiimal from the side. 2. The antemise. 3. The first pair of peroeopoda. 4. The secoud pair of 

 percecpoda. 



Diagn. Capnf, permagnum. Perceon breve, crassuni. Epimera quarti paris margiiie producta et acuta. 

 Pedes p«'a;i primi et secundi parium beue pubescentes; carpus pedum prinii paris latus, 

 non productus, metacarpum lougitudine valde superans. Pedes parium quinque ultimorum 

 nudi, subajquales. Pedes uri longi; pedes primi paris apicem pedum ultimi paris fere 

 attingentes, pedes secundi paris breviores, apicem pedunculi jjedum ultimi paris attingentes. 



The head is very large. The perceon is short and stout. The epimeral of the fourtli pair is 

 produced below, and acute. The first two pairs of perceopoda are quite pubescent; the car- 

 pus of the first pair is broad, not produced, much longer than the metacarpus. The last 

 five pairs are naked, subequal in length. The uropoda are long; the first pair reach 

 very nearly to the apex of the last pair, the second pair reach only to the apex of the 

 peduncle of the last pair. 



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