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Abdomen shorter and broader than in the female, and 
divided into two articulations, the last of which gives off 
two caudal appendages, considerably larger than those of 
the female, and armed at their extremity with the same 
number of, but longer, plumose setae. 
Antennae, foot-jaws, and feet as in female. 
Hab . — Belfast Bay; W. Thompson, Esq. Taken off 
the Raia batis , or skate, September 1838. 
Family PANDARIDiE. 
Pandahiens (pars), M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., iii, 461. 
CALiGiDiE, race iii (pars), Leach, Diet. Sc. Nat., xiv. 
Pandaeinje, Dana, Proc. Amer. Acad. 
Character . — Head in form of a small buckler, provided 
with frontal plates. A series of one or more pairs of 
lamellar appendages, like the elytra of many insects, ex- 
tend along the dorsal surface of the thorax. Oviferous 
tubes straight, external. 
This family contains only two British genera. 
1. Dinemoura. — Elytraform appendages, one pair. 
Three first pairs of feet setiferous ; the posterior foliaceous 
and membranous. 
2. Pandarus. — Elytraform appendages, several pairs. 
All the feet fitted to a certain extent for walking, and 
armed near their extremities with short, thick hooks. 
