138 AtJSTBALIAIT MALACOSTEACA. 



263. Cymopolia Jukesii. A.M. 



Oymopolia Jukesii, "White, App. Jukes' Voy. " Fly," p. 338, 

 pi. ii., fig. 1 (1847) ; List Crust. Brit. Mus., p. 54 (1847) ; 

 Miers, Zool. '" Erebus and Terror," Crust., p. 4, pi. iii., fig. 4. 



Carapace wider than long, covered with minute granules, the 

 front with two rounded teeth in the middle ; behind each eye 

 there are two fissures, the outer one smaller than the other ; the 

 side of the carapace with three teeth, inclusive of the outer 

 orbital angle, followed by two or three small tubercles. Hands 

 filiform, grooved, fingers crossing at the tips ; second pair of 

 legs much smaller than the third and fourth pairs ; third and 

 fourth pairs of legs with the third joint of a longish oval shape, 

 slightly toothed on the edge ; upper surface with a few tubercles, 

 fifth joint with the outer edge fringed with hairs. [ White.] 



Port Denison ; Torres Straits ; Sir Charles Hardy's Island. 



Tribe ANOMOTTRA. 



Abdomen sometimes extended backward, sometimes deflexed 

 beneath the body, and nearly always bearing more or less well- 

 developed appendages upon its penultimate segment. Sternum 

 usually linear between the last three pairs of legs. 



Section ANOMOURA SUPERIOBA. 

 Eyes not anterior to the first pair of antennae. Second pair 

 of antennae sometimes posterior, but not exterior to the eyes. 

 Abdomen narrow, often adpressed to the sternum, without caudal 

 appendages. 



Sub-Tribe Deomidea. 



Carapace sub-globose, sub-triangular, or sub-quadrate. Eyes 

 placed near to one another. Buccal cavity quadrilateral. 

 Anterior legs with a well-developed hand. Posterior pair of 

 ambulatory legs smaller than the preceding, raised above the 

 rest, and placed sub-dorsally upon the carapace, terminating in 

 a curved, and more or less prehensile claw. 



Genus Cetptodeomia, Stimpson. . 



Carapace convex, pubescent, scarcely pilose. Palate with a 

 ridge on each side. The sternal sulci in the female remote from 



