. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION 143 The color is not intense except at the overlapping joints and where one appendage lies above another. Living specimens have a whitish color, the third segment being deeply mottled and standing out plainly in contrast with the rest of the body. The dorsal half of this segment is light green and yellow, the former in irregular spots, the latter in uneven blotches, denser in some places than in others. The lower half of the segment has blue in place of green, similarly distributed over yellow. The posterior
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION 143 The color is not intense except at the overlapping joints and where one appendage lies above another. Living specimens have a whitish color, the third segment being deeply mottled and standing out plainly in contrast with the rest of the body. The dorsal half of this segment is light green and yellow, the former in irregular spots, the latter in uneven blotches, denser in some places than in others. The lower half of the segment has blue in place of green, similarly distributed over yellow. The posterior margin of the segment has an. Figure 97.—Anomalocera patersonii: a, Female, dorsal; b, male, dorsal; c, male, right first antenna ; d, male, fifth legs ; e, female, fifth legs (usually with a 2-segmented exopod). (From W. M. Wheeler) irregular border of dense indigo, and there was a similar border on the second segment. The two colors, blue and green, are almost always present in varying proportions and silver and black mark the back to a greater or less extent. Sometimes two, sometimes three or more, of the segments are pure silvery on the dorsal surface, With a good-sized black spot in the center of the silver. Or the silver may be marked with irregular black lines or divided by a streak of green. Sometimes there are two rows of numerous black spots extending along either side of the dorsal surface, with or without the silver. The eye spots are a deep black. (Kathbun.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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