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longer than the first articulus of the flagellum, and 
consists of five or six articuli, of which the first is 
longer than all the others. The inferior antennae are 
three times as long as the superior, and about one- 
third the length of the animal ; they have the last 
two joints of the peduncle short and subequal in 
length ; the flagellum consists of many short articuli, 
each being rather broader than long, and united to the 
next by a compressed articulation, a circumstance that 
gives to the appendage in this species a moniliform 
appearance. The first pair of legs are short and toler- 
ably robust; the lower margin of the hand is nearly 
parallel with the upper, being rather broader at the base 
than at the distal extremity; the palm is straight, and 
defined by an almost right angle with the inferior mar- 
gin ; the finger that completes the organ is short and 
strong. The second pair of legs are much longer than 
the first, as is, indeed, the case throughout the genus. 
The limb is very slender and membranaceous, and is 
mostly carried folded and compressed beneath the body 
of the animal ; the wrist is much longer than the hand, 
and is inferiorly lobed, the lobes being covered with a 
number of small blunt triple-pointed spines, or rather 
plates ; towards the anterior margin these plates gradu- 
ally lose their complex character, and become simple 
spines; the hand is covered with a thick brush of 
short hair ; those on the upper margin are planted in 
six or seven transverse rows ; towards the extremity they 
become longer ; the finger is short, and scarcely visible 
amidst the hairs among which it is planted. The first 
two pairs of walking legs are tolerably robust. The last 
three are equally so, each having the second joint (which 
is universally developed into a squamose form in this 
genus) produced downwards, so far that, in the last two 
