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ments are slender. The free portions of the rami composing the 

 outer antennular flagellum are very short. The fused portion 

 comprises some 8 to n segments and the total length of the 

 stouter ramus, in males, is a little longer than the peduncle. The 

 antennal scale is from 5 to 5*5 times as long as wide and is very 



Text-fig. 56.- 



a. First peraeopod. 



b. Second peraeopod of male 



Peyiclimenes andamanensis, sp. nov. 



c. Second peraeopod of female. 



d. Third peraeopod. 



narrow at the apex. The outer margin is concave with the termi- 

 nal spine far outreaching the end of the lamella. 



The third maxilliped resembles that of the preceding species. 



The mero-carpal articulation of the first peraeopods (text-fig. 

 56a) reaches nearly to the end of the basal antennular segment. 

 The merus is 8 to 9 times as long as broad. The carpus is about 



