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 segments form a slightly expanded oar plate, the seventh being slightly longer than the eighth and bearing a large distal lobe on the inner side. The eighth segment is oval in form, its distal end distinctly acute with a small terminal subcircular ninth segment [pl. 65, fig. 8].

The coxa of the last pair of legs is probably represented by figure 1, plate 66, for these bodies show the outline of the corresponding organ in the genotype and possess a system of fine anastomosing lines characteristic of the sculpturing of. Sarle compares the shape of this coxa in  to that of an upright retort and records the presence of 18–20 sharp, slightly curved teeth on the manducatory edge. The coxa here figured exhibits a stronger neck and longer manducatory edge, but exactly the same number of teeth. Another coxa, reproduced in the preliminary paper [op. cit. pl. 8, fig. 10] also possesses a system of fine lines as shown in our figure [pl. 66, fig. 2] but is of more compact form and with shorter neck and smaller number of teeth, the first of which is longer than the rest. This is possibly the coxal joint of an endognathite.

The metastoma has not been seen well preserved in position, but we refer several metastomas to this species [pl. 66, figs. 3, 4] because they possess, on one hand, the form of that in  and on the other exhibit a peculiar striated ornamentation apparently characteristic of. These metastomas are elongate cordate, broadest anteriorly to the middle, with cordate or deeply notched anterior and an evenly rounded posterior extremity in some and a truncated one in other specimens.

The genital appendages have not been seen.

The ornamentation is most characteristic. It consists on all segments of a series of fine striae, running parallel to the anterior margin, most crowded near this margin, farther apart and fainter posteriorly, disappearing at about the middle of the segment, save on the postabdominal segments where they can be traced to near the posterior edge. Near the lateral edges of the tergites they bend sharply backward, finally coalescing with the border and gradually disappearing. On the sternites