894 CRUSTACEA. 



setae very short, dense verticillate. Hand of first pair of feet quite 

 small, a little oblong, subrectangular, pubescent below, apex trans- 

 versely truncate, slightly excavate, lower apex acute and a little 

 prolonged. Hand of second pair narrow ovate, rather small, apex 

 narrow, with a few tufts of short setae below, finger short, not half 

 as long as hand, nearly longitudinal, whole palm depressed, straight, 

 carpus very short transverse, produced below. Four posterior feet 

 equal, setae minute. 



Plate 60, fig. 8 a, animal, enlarged; b, mandible; c, d, maxillae; e, 

 maxillipeds ; /, part of inferior pair of antennae ; g, hand of first pair 

 of feet ; h, ditto of second pair. 



Along shores of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



Length, five lines. Flagellum of superior antennae a little longer 

 than base ; of inferior about once and a third the base. Setae of supe- 

 rior antennae like those of inferior, scarcely longer than breadth of 

 joints. 



Hand of second pair about twice as long as that of first pair, gra- 

 dually narrows towards apex, and the palm is so much depressed that 

 when the finger is closed, the outline of the hand below it and that of 

 the outer margin of the finger is a continuous line ; the closed finger 

 points towards the base of the hand, and is applied close to the palm, 

 leaving no space between; the back of the hand is flattened. 



The anterior margin of the first joint of the six posterior legs bears 

 a few minute setae. The claw has the usual seta on the under side. 

 The maxillipeds have the penult joint narrow, and the last is a stout 

 spine, nearly as long as the penult joint. The epimerals are of mode- 

 rate width ; the posterior three of each side very narrow. 



A, brevicornis, Dana, Proc. Amer. Acad. Sci, ii. 206. 



Allorchestes novi-zealandle. 



Maris : — JEpimerce permagnoe. Antennae Imos 2dis quarto, parte bre- 

 viores, flagello lQ-articidato, plus duplo longwise quam basis; 2dce vix 

 dimidii corporis longitudine, articulis basis duobus idtimis subwquis, 



