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the longest of which are about half the length of the ramus. 

 Telson squamiform, cleft, : rounded posteriorly. Length 4^ linejs. 

 Port Jackson. 



Sub-Family Phoocides. 



Body laterally compressed. Cephalon produced in advance 

 more like a hood than a rostrum. Superior antennae situated 

 considerably in advance of the inferior, which are not pediform 

 nor armed with hooked spines. Integumentary structure 

 generally thin and transparent. Three posterior pairs of 

 pleopoda double-branched, the last pair without hook-like spines. 



G-enus Phoxits, Kroyer. 



Eyes very small. Superior antennae with a complementary 

 appendage ; inferior antennae as long as the superior. Mandible 

 appendieulate. Maxillipedes subpediform. Both pairs of 

 gnathopoda subchelate. Coxae deeper than the respective 

 segments. Posterior pair of pereiopoda shorter than the 

 preceding. Telson double. [S. -B.] 



424. Phoxus villosus. 



PJioxus villosus, Haswell, 1. c, p. 258. 



Rostrum as long as the remainder. of the cephalon, blunt. 

 Eyes small, oval. Superior antennse equalling in length the 

 cephalon and rostrum ; first segment of the peduncle twice as 

 long as broad, second scarcely two- thirds of the length of the first 

 and much narrower, provided below with a fasciculus of short 

 hairs ; third joint half the length of the second, scarcely dis- 

 tinguished from the articuli of the flagellum ; flagellum nearly 

 as long as the peduncle ; appendage nearly as long as the 

 flagellum, of about fifteen articuli. Inferior antennas rather 

 longer than the superior pair ; fourth joint of peduncle broad, 

 its upper surface straight, its lower convex and provided with 

 two ridges armed with longish hairs ; fifth joint as long as the 

 fourth and of similar shape, but narrower, armed with hair 

 below ; flagellum as long as the last two segments of peduncle. 

 Coxae fringed with slender hairs. G-nathopoda hairy. Anterior 

 pair with the propodo.s ovoid, twice as long as bxoad. ; the palm 



