CRUSTACEA — NVIirrp:LRGGE. 209 



PAGURAPSEUDES, gen. nov. 



Body slender, tapering and dor,so-ventra]]y compressed, with 

 the free peraeon segments sliarply defined, and the small coxal 

 joints visible at the sides. 



Second (first free) segment short, somewhat firmly connected 

 with the first. 



Pleon narrow, subcylindric, with five equal hoop like somites 

 and a short terminal segment. 



Ocular lobes distinct, e^'es present, pigmented but ill defined. 



First antennae widely separated, stout, with three joints and a 

 pair of multiarticulate flagellse. 



Second antennee inserted, at the inner inferior base of the first, 

 small and foui'-jointed, with a rudimentary flagellum, but without 

 an antennal appendage. 



Mandibles robust, with a stout three-jointed palp, a well 

 developed molar tubercle and a pair of dentate blades; the lower 

 is subtended inferiorly b}' a tuft of spines. 



First maxillse bilobed ; the outer is spinose and the inner 

 setose at the apex ; the external base carries a two-jointed, 

 backward-directed palp. 



Second maxillse three-lobed and strongly setose at the apices. 



First pair of legs chelate, the chelae rather small, subequal, 

 and similar in shape in the two sexes ; inner edges of fingers of 

 larger hand of male with small tubercles. 



Second pair of legs elongate, slender, with a two-jointed 

 exopod (in the male); the fifth and sixth joints are subcylindrical 

 and narrower than the fourth; the seventh joint is long, curved 

 and tapering. 



Third to seventh pairs of legs short; each leg has the fourth, 

 fifth and sixth joints armed inferiorly with a broadish band of 

 rasp-like teeth. The dactyli of all the legs — except the first — ■ 

 exhibit an imperfect joint near the extremity. 



Pleopods rudimentary, each with a pair of equal, sparsely 

 setiferous rami. 



Uropods of moderate length, the rami short and composed of 

 few articulations. 



