MACROPODIA. 
INACHUS, Fabricii, 
CANCER. Herbst , Pennant , Fillers . 
MAJA. Bose. 
MACROPUS. Lalreille. 
MACROPODIA. 
Antenna externa distantes, corporis dimidii longitudine setaceie, ante oculos ad rostri latera 
insert® ; articulo secundo prime triplo longiore. 
PecUpalpi gemini externi tenues caule interno biarticulato, articulis longitudine subsqualibus • 
palpi tnarticulati hirsutissimi. 
Pedum par anticum majus, didactylum, jequale (maris corpore duplo longius; manibus elon«- a to- 
subovatis, compressis ; car pis manibus duplo brevioribus, angulatis; brachiis manuum 
longitudine angulatis: remind corporis longitudine, manu subfiliformi) : paria 4 nostica 
longissima, tenuissima: ««*,4 antici ad apicem arcuati; 4 postici ad basin abrupte curvath 
Tesla subtnangulans parce spinosa, antice rostrata, rostro longo, fisso. 
Ondi distantes subreniformes, pedunculo multo crassiores, in orbitas baud retractiles. 
Abdomen 6-articulatum, tuberculato-subcarinatum : 
Maris articulo primo longiore, secundo angustiore, tertio postice latiore, quarto angustiore 
quinto et sexto abrupte angustioribus, lific ad apicem abruptissime angustiore, rotundato' 
Femin,e articulis primo angustiore, alns caudam ovatam efformantibus, ultimo ad apicem 
abrupte producto, rotundato. 
External antenna: distant, half the length of the body, setaceous, inserted at the sides of the 
ros rum before the eyes; the second joint three times the length of the first. External double 
palp, slender, the internal footstalk two-jointed, the joints of nearly an equal length: palpi tliree- 
jointed, and -eery hairy. Anterior pair of legs largest, didaetyle, equal (of the male twice the 
eng i o rc m y, he hands elongate-suboval, compressed; wrists half the length of the hards 
angulated; arms of the length of the hands and angulated : of the./We as long as the bod.;, 'the' 
hand subflllform): four hinder pairs very long, very slender: four anterior claws bent at their 
tops; hinder claws abruptly bent at their ha*. SMI subtriangular, subspinose, rostrated in 
front, the rostrum long, cloven. Eyes distant, subreniform, much thicker than their peduncles, 
no re tactile within their orbits. Abdomen six-jointed, tuberculate-subcarinated (of the male 
with the flrs joint largest, the second narrower, the third broader behind, the fourth narrower 
the fifth and sixth abruptly narrower, the latter at its apex abruptly narrower and rounded • 
of, '" "" ll llle flrst j“ ,nt narrowest, the other joints forming an ovate tail, the last joint 
wiiii its apex abruptly produced and rounded). 
There are but two species of this genus known, and with their habits I am unacquainted. 
