A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . 326 ISOPODA. NORMALIA. ASELLID^. MUNNA KROYERI. Specific character. Male with the eyes very prominent, extending con-siderably beyond the pereion. Pereion setose. Pleon scarcely longer than?wide. Carpus of first pair of gnathopods thick, with strong spines on theunder edge, and two strong spurs at the tip beneath. Upper antennae ter-minated by two long articulated setse, and a very minute flageUum. Length, one line. Munna Kroi/eri. Goodsir, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xxxiii. p. 365, t. 6,f. 6 (1842). W. Thompson in Ann. Nat. Hist. xx.
A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . 326 ISOPODA. NORMALIA. ASELLID^. MUNNA KROYERI. Specific character. Male with the eyes very prominent, extending con-siderably beyond the pereion. Pereion setose. Pleon scarcely longer than?wide. Carpus of first pair of gnathopods thick, with strong spines on theunder edge, and two strong spurs at the tip beneath. Upper antennae ter-minated by two long articulated setse, and a very minute flageUum. Length, one line. Munna Kroi/eri. Goodsir, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xxxiii. p. 365, t. 6,f. 6 (1842). W. Thompson in Ann. Nat. Hist. 247. White, B. M. Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 70. Brit. Crust, p. 231, pi. xiii. f. 3. The male of this species has only liitherto been ob-served. It has the whole body very setose, and is ofan ochrey-brown colour, except the reticulated portionof the eyes, which are black. The head is large, roundedanteriorly, and slightly pointed in the middle. The ter- MUNNA KROYERI. 327 minal joints of the foot-jaws are seen projecting in frontof the anterior edge, and they are always in motion.
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