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not styliform. The first pair of maxillipedes is non-stylet-shaped and is moderately well developed. 
The first joint is furnished with a digitiform process carrying spines. The second joint terminates 
in a broad serrated tooth. The exopodites and endopodites of the four pairs of swimming feet 
are three-jointed. The abdomen of both sexes is composed of five segments. 
The non-stylet-shape of the mandible and of the first pair of maxillipedes, along with 
the large lamelliform fifth pair of feet, are the principal characters that separate the members 
of the family from the Lichomolgidae. 
One species belonging to Canu’s genus fferszliodes was represented in the material 
collected by the ‘Siboga’ during the investigations carried out in the Malay Archipelago. 
1. HHersiliodes leggit Thompson & Scott. 
Hersiliodes leggii Thompson & Scott, 1903, p. 283, pl. XVII, figs. 12—21. 
One male identical with the above species was found in the washings from dredged 
invertebrata collected at Station 273, off Pulu Jedan, East Coast of Aru Islands, from a depth 
Ol 13 Mewes, 
This species is readily recognised by the short broad fifth pair of feet being armed 
along the margins with a dense fringe of short spinules. 
Hersiliodes leggi has hitherto only been known from the Gulf of Manaar, Ceylon. 
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