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ones scarcely different in the two sexes. .
Buccal mass projecting in front as a
sharply-pointed cone. Mandibles terminating in a lancet-like point, and having
inside, a flexuous lamella, by which a channel-like groove is formed, leading from
the tip to the base of the mandible, palp well developed,
3-articulate. Anterior
lip narrow, terminating in an obtusely conical point; posterior lip tapering dis-
tally, and slightly bifid at the tip. Anterior maxillae simple, spear-like, terminal
part armed with recurved teeth. Posterior maxilla) wanting. Maxilliped;j with
the basal part narrow oblong, projecting at the end, inside, to a triangular, pointed
masticatory lobe, palp distinctly 3-articulate, with the terminal joint rather large,
lamelliform, epignath very small, rounded. 1st pair of legs powerfully developed,
meral joint transversely expanded, propodos large and tumefied, with the palmar
edge concaved, and defined behind by a small, thumb-like projection;
the 2 suc-
ceeding pairs with the propodos much smaller, and not having the palmar edge
defined. 1st pair of pleopoda very large, completely covering the other pairs
below. Uropoda with the inner ramus rather broad, lamellar, Inarticulate, outer
ramus much smaller, uni-articulate, cordiform, edged with strong, ciliated setae.
Remarks. This genus has been recently established by Messrs. Norman
and Stebbing, to include the arctic form, Anthura brachiata of Stimpson. It is
very nearly allied to the genus Paranthura Bate & Westwood, chiefly differing
in the facts that the flagclla of both pairs of antenna? are multiarticulate, and
that the superior ones are of the same structure in the two sexes; moreover, the uro-
poda exhibit a somewhat different shape. It may be noted, that in examining
the oral parts, I have failed to detect any traces of the posterior maxillae, either
in this or the following genus, whereas in other genera belonging to this family
(for instance Anthura), these maxilla? are stated to exist in a rudimentary condi-
tion. _ The present genus contains as yet only 2 species, -to be described below. !
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1. Calathura norvegica,
(PI. XIX, fig. 1.)
G-. 0. Sars.
Paranihura norvegica, G. O. Sars, Bidrag til Kundskaben oni Dyrelivet paa vore Havbanker,
Chv. Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1872, p. 88.
Specific Characters. Body slender, moniliform, somewhat contracted in front
of the middle, with the 1st segment of mesosome rather firmly connected to the cephalon,
the 2nd, however, defined from the preceding and succeeding segments by MTV
deep constrictions. Cephalon rather small, and seen from above, rounded oval, with
the side-edges evenly convex, frontal edge slightly produced in the middle. The
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) A 3rd species has recently been described by M. Jules Bonnier as C. affinis.