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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



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Fig. 44. Amphithoe rubricata. 



First anteniiffi usually more than half as long as body ; first 

 and second peduncular joints subequal and each one twice as 

 long as the last one ; flagellum slender and longer than peduncle. 

 Second antennas decidedly stout, shorter than the first in female, 

 relatively longer in the male ; last joint of peduncle as long as pre- 

 ceding; flagellum short and thick, composed of few joints, and 

 often less than half as long as peduncle. 



Coxal plate of first gnathopod produced bluntly forward; 

 first five deeper than their respective segments ; fourth pair not 

 excavate behind ; fifth pair with broad front lobe as deep as 

 preceding. 



First gnathopods in the male stout, with basal joint short 

 and produced into a prominent lobe at antero-distal angle; pro- 

 podus oblong with palm oblique and convex and with posterior 

 angle rounded and armed with a spine. Second gnathopods with 

 •broad basal joint with distal lobe smaller than in first pair; pro- 

 podus stout and provided with a tuft of setae at the apex, palm 

 oblique, convex toward apex, concave toward prehensile angle 

 which is produced. In the female, first gnathopods with carpus 



