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CYMOTHOIDEA. 757 



of the body; three basal joints observed, the second longest; flagel- 

 lum ten-jointed, joints near the middle longest. Legs increase in 

 length from the first to the seventh pair; anterior have the inner 

 apex of antepenult joint prominent and armed with a short spine, 

 which is opposed to the claw in clinging. Claws of eight posterior 

 legs little curved. 



Mga novi-zealandle. 



Corpus nudum, sat angustum. Caput perbreve. Segmentum thoracis 

 anticum longius, segmentis reliquis longitudine subo3quis. Abdomen 

 thorace subito non angustius, sensim latitudine decrescens, Q-articu- 

 latum, segmento \mo partim celato, ultimo vix transverso, non trian- 

 gulato, extremitate laid rotundato, breviter ciliato. Appendices cau- 

 dales abdomine non longiores, breviter ciliato3. 



Body naked, rather narrow. Head very short. First thoracic seg- 

 ment longest, others subequal; abdomen not abruptly narrower 

 than thorax, gradually narrowing, six-jointed, posterior segment 

 broad but not transverse, not triangular, broadly rounded at extre- 

 mity and ciliate. Caudal appendages not longer than abdomen. 



Plate 51, fig. 2 a, animal, enlarged ; b, anterior antenna ; c, poste- 

 rior antenna. 



New Zealand, at Bay of Islands. Came up on bait while fishing. 



Length, three lines. Colour, dirty brown. Length of posterior 

 antennae, about twice the breadth of the head; flagellum over 

 twenty-jointed, joints short. Anterior antennse more than half the 

 length of posterior. The breadth of last abdominal segment at apex 

 about half its breadth at base. Third and fourth segments of abdo- 

 men laterally much recurved and acute. 



My notes fail to give the character of the feet, so that there is a 

 little uncertainty whether the species is an iEga or a Cirolana; 

 although its relation to iEga is most probable, since the bases of the 

 antennse are concealed by the head, as in our specimens of the efferata, 

 and they are not so in our Cirolanae. 









