. Fig. 58. Ammothea, s^.} St. WS 216: «. Oviger: X15. 6. Right palp: X15. f. Terminal segments of third leg: xii. no prominent rounded lobes on the anterior margin of the cephalon and the anterior spine on the propodus is much shorter than in A. longispina (Fig. 58 c, cf. Fig. 50 b). The oviger is represented in Fig. 58 a. The specimen appears to be mature, for the genital apertures are large and con- spicuous. If the palp is normally nine-jointed this species would not be the same as A. stylirostris. According to Bouvier's key it is nearest to A. glacialis (Hodgson), but the proboscis is stri
. Fig. 58. Ammothea, s^.} St. WS 216: «. Oviger: X15. 6. Right palp: X15. f. Terminal segments of third leg: xii. no prominent rounded lobes on the anterior margin of the cephalon and the anterior spine on the propodus is much shorter than in A. longispina (Fig. 58 c, cf. Fig. 50 b). The oviger is represented in Fig. 58 a. The specimen appears to be mature, for the genital apertures are large and con- spicuous. If the palp is normally nine-jointed this species would not be the same as A. stylirostris. According to Bouvier's key it is nearest to A. glacialis (Hodgson), but the proboscis is strikingly different in the two forms. 1 The terminal segments of this palp also may have been regenerated (see Fig. 58 b).
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