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dactylus narrow, subcylindrical, distally with several special setae and a strong, 
irregularly serrate claw (top left in fig, 50), 
Second peraeopod with basis serrate on outer margin, not as long as remain- 
ing joints together; ischium obsolete; carpus slender, two and one-half times as 
long as merus, and nearly half as long again as propodus and dactylus together ; 
propodus fully three-fourths as long as dactylus, which bears a series of slender 
setae but no spine. 
Third and fourth peraeopods robust, each with small two-jointed exopod; 

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Fig, 50. Dicoides fletti, type and (A) paratype ovigerous females; ant,, antemna, (>< 58); 
mxp. and prp., third maxilliped and first to third peraeopods (% 30; dactylar claw of firat leg, 
% 94); ex. prp. 4, exopod of fourth perasopod (> 94); urop,, uropod with fifth and sixth pleon 
somites and telaon (> 30); tels., distal end of telson (x 94), 
basis not much shorter than rest of limb; merus as long as the three terminal joints 
without dactylar claw; fifth peraeopod the same size excepting that basis is a 
little shorter. 
Pedunele of uropod nearly two and one-half times as long as telson, and 
fully as long as fifth pleon somite; endopod five-sixths as long as peduncle, one, 
fourth as long again as exopod, with unequal inner setae (see figure) and with 
a long terminal seta, half the length of ramus; it is three-jointed, the proximal 
segment almost as long as the other two (which are subequal in length) together; 
exopod with longitudinal rows of stout spines, the terminal ones reaching to level 
of distal end of endopod. 
Colour white. Length 5+3 mm. 
Subadult males. The carapace is not dilated actoss the branchial regions 
and the upper edge of the elongate dorso-lateral tumidity is more ridge-like; also 
more distinctly marked is a ridge-like fold on each pseudorostral lobe in front 
of eye lobe; the ocular lobe is distinctly delineated. 
