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hroad, coarsely spinous at the tip, basal lobe small, carrying 3 densely plumose<br />

setse. Posterior maxilla? terminating in 2 narrow setiferous lobes, and having inside<br />

a short densely setous masticatory expansion. Maxillipeds with the basal part<br />

quite short, epignath linguiform, pointing outwards, masticatory<br />

lobe small but<br />

distinct, with 2 curved hooks inside, palp large, 5-articulate, the joints coniplan-<br />

ated and densely setous. Legs with the joints more or less expanded, and edged<br />

with spines and bristles, dactylus comparatively short, not hook-shaped; the 3<br />

anterior pairs of legs much shorter than the posterior, and turned forwards. First<br />

pair of pleopoda not much differing from the others. Uropoda<br />

[tart produced inside, outer plate narrower than the inner.<br />

with the basal<br />

Remarks. This genus was established by Leach as early as in the year<br />

1818, and may accordingly be regarded as the type of the family. Its nearest<br />

ally is undoubtedly the genus Conilera, which, in almost all anatomical details,<br />

agrees very closely, except in the structure of the first pair of pleopoda. The<br />

genus comprises rather a large number of species from different parts of the<br />

Oceans, amounting to nearly 30 in all. To the fauna of Norway belong 2<br />

species only.<br />

1. Cirolana borealis, Lilljeb.<br />

(PI. XXIX.)<br />

Cirolana borealis, Lilljeborg, Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1851, p. 23.<br />

Syn: Cirolana splnipes, Bate & Westw. (not M.-Edw.).<br />

Specific Characters. Body oblong oval, broadest in the middle, and grad-<br />

ually tapering both in front and behind. Coxal plates rather large and perfectly<br />

smooth. Metasome considerably narrower than the mesosome,<br />

with the terminal<br />

segment scarcely longer than the preceding ones combined, and subtriangular in<br />

form, tip bluntly produced and fringed with rather long ciliated bristles, having<br />

also 6 8 small marginal spinules. Eyes of moderate size and oval in form.<br />

Inferior antennse more than 4 times as long as the superior, with the nagellum<br />

very slender and composed of about 30 articulations. Legs with the outer joints<br />

densely spinous, ischial and meral joints considerably expanded, and conically<br />

produced outside. Last pair of legs with the basal joint very broad, laminar, and<br />

densely fringed with delicate setse, meral and carpal joints of moderate size, pro-<br />

podal joint much longer than the carpal one. Uropoda with the basal part pro-<br />

duced inside to a comparatively short acute process, both plates armed with<br />

scattered spinules, the outer one narrow lanceolate, the inner somewhat broader,<br />

oblong oval, with the outer edge straight, the inner evenly curved. Body light

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