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filaments. Mandibles of a similar structure to that in Calathura,
lint having the palp smaller, with the terminal joint rudimentary. Maxillipeds
narrow, with the basal part imperfectly defined from the palp, which is only
composed of 2 joints, the distal one very small and narrow, masticatory lobes
obsolete. 1st pair of legs very strong, propodos produced at the end of the palm
to a very conspicuous, thumb-like process, giving these legs
an almost chelate
character; the 2 succeeding pairs with the propodos of different shape in the two
sexes. 1st pair of pleopoda less fully developed than in Calathura, so as not to
obtect the others below. Uropoda with the inner ramus rather slender,
very broad and but sparingly setous. Telson lanceolate, terminating
acute point.
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Remarks. The present new genus is founded upon the form at first recorded
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>y the present author as Paranthura tenuis, and subsequently referred by him to
the genus Ptilnuthura of Harger. On a closer examination, I have, however,
found it necessary to separate this form also from the above-named genus, on
account of some apparently very essential differences. Messrs. Norman & k.tebbing
retain it in the genus Paranthtna : but this seems to me inadmissible, as it ex-
hibits several very marked differences from that genus, both in the structure of
the oral parts and in that of the other appendages. The structure of the 1st
p:iir of legs in this genus
is rather remarkable from the circumstance that it ex-
hibits a very pronounced approach to a chelate character, like that found in
the Tanaidse.
Leptanthura tenuis, G. 0. Sars.
(PI. XX.)
I'nrrnilhnra tennis. 1
) G. 0. Sars, Bidrag til Kundskaben om Dyrelivet pa a vove Havbanker.
Ohr. Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1872, p. 89.
Specific Characters. Body, especially in male, exceedingly slender, almost
filiform, with all the segments very sharply defined. Cephalon about half the size
of the 1st segment of mesosome and scarcely narrower, almost quadrate in out-
line, frontal margin slightly bi-sinuate. The first 2 segments of mesosome and
Ilie last of about equal size, the 4 others somewhat longer, being more than
twice as long as they are broad; dorsal face of all segments perfectly smooth.
.Met;isome. including the telson. in female about the length of the last 2 segments
ot mesosome combined, in male considerably longer, somewhat fusiform in shape,
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) J'. Icnin* of Harger, established some years afterwards, is a very different species, not
belonging to the same genus.