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area in front. Caudal part of body continuous with the preceding part, and
forming below a slight hollow, in which the male is found attached. Marsupial
rooms approximate along the middle of the ventral face, though not contiguous.
Antennae quite rudimentary, forming 4 extremely small and closely set
tubercles just within the frontal margin. Oral cone short, simple. Maxillipeds,
as in Nbtophryxtts, folded backwards over the comparatively small cordiform
sternal plate. Only a single pair of distinctly developed incubatory plates present,
issuing, as in Notophryxits from the bases of the anterior pair of legs. A nar-
row longitudinal fold also extends on each side behind the oral area, terminating
behind in a projecting lappet, which serves for closing the posterior openings of
the marsupial cavities. Legs small, somewhat more slender than in Notophryxus,
and densely crowded around the oral area. Pleopoda and uropoda wholly absent.
Male with the nietasome rather produced and indistinctly segmented, last segment
carrying 2 small appendages (uropoda). Parasitic on Mysidoe, being, as a rule,
attached to the dorsal side of the carapace.
Remarks. In some respects this genus agrees with that of Notopliryxus,
especially as regards the structure of the oral parts and the reduction of the
incubatory plates; but in other points it differs rather markedly,
for instance in
the pronouncedly clypeiform shape of the body in the female, the peculiar form of
the cephalic part and the rudimentary condition of the antennas. The male also
is easily distinguishable by the different structure of the metasome.
We know as yet of only a single species belonging to this genus. For
the form described by MM. Giard and Bonnier as A. Sarsi cannot in my
opinion be maintained as such. In describing this form,
the above authors have
fallen into some serious errors as regards the structure of the antennae, oral
parts and incubatory plates, and this may easily be accounted for by the fact,
that they had for examination only a single specimen, which could not be dis-
sected, as it belonged to a foreign collection.
Aspidophryxus peltatus,
(PI. XGVI).
G. 0. Sars.
Aspidophryxus jH'Uattt*, G. O. Sars, Oversigt af Norges Crustaceev, I, p. 72, PI. II, fig.s 12 15.
Syn.: A.^iidophryxus Sarsi. Giard and Bonnier.
( 'lin, ;t c 1t>rx. Body of fully grown female oval triangular
in out-
lying broadest in front and somewhat attenuated behind, terminating in an
obtuse point. Dorsal face
slightly vaulted, and exhibiting 5 or 6 indistinct