PODOCERUS PULCHELLUS. 
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The eyes are small in most of this genus, but appear 
to be particularly so in this species. The superior 
antennae do not reach quite to the extremity of the 
peduncle of the inferior. The inferior antennae are very 
nearly half the length of the animal ; the flagellum is 
shorter than the last joint of the peduncle, it consists of 
four articuli, and is furnished at the apex with double- 
pointed curved spines. The coxae of the first two pairs 
of legs are short, but those of the two succeeding are 
more than twice the depth of their respective segments 
of the body. The first pair of hands are small and sub- 
triangular ; the palm oblique and totally straight, fringed 
along the margin with long and short hairs, all double- 
headed, the shorter being stronger and spine-like ; the 
finger is deeply serrated along the distal moiety of the 
inner margin. The second pair of hands are large, 
equalling in length the head and the first two segments 
of the body ; the palm is slightly concave, following a 
line parallel with that of the upper margin, and is 
defined by a long process or tooth, the apex of which 
antagonizes with the extremity of the finger — this thumb- 
like process is sometimes nearly as long as the palm and 
terminates abruptly. The next two pairs of legs are 
short and robust; the last three gradually exceed each 
other in length. 
Dr. Leach (Linn. Trans, xi. p. 361) describes two 
varieties of this species, — a , those with the hands of 
the second pair armed with an elongated obtuse tooth ; 
and, b, those with the same hands having the internal 
edge tridentate. It is possible that these varieties may 
be the sexes of the species. 
We have a branch of Eudendrium , given to us by our 
late lamented friend Mr. Howard Stewart, Sub-curator 
of the Royal College of Surgeons, in which a colony 
