Family Phoxocephalidae

• Stebbing, 1906: 133.

• Pirlot, 1932.

“Body fusiform. Hooded rostrum covering base of antenna, lateral corners of head obsolete, postero-antennal angles distinct. Sideplates rather large, 1st to 4th obtusely truncate, hinder lobe of sideplate 5 the deeper. Pleon segments 4–6 in male narrower than in female. Eyes dorsal, lateral or wanting. Antennae more or less modified in male, short in female, accessory flagella well developed. Epistome not projecting. Upper lip rounded. Inner lobes of lower lip usually small. Mandible short, cutting edges distinctly developed, molar variable, seldom large, palp rather large. Maxilla 1, inner plate small, palp 1- or 2-jointed. Maxilla 2, plates short, rounded at apex. Maxillipeds, plates small, palp large. Gnathopods 1 and 2 generally similar in form, hands subchelate, large, with

palmar tooth fortified by a spine. Peraeopod 4 the longest. Peraeopod 5 short, second joint greatly expanded. Branchial vesicles simple. Pleopods stronger in male than in female. Uropod 3 often varying sexually, outer ramus the longer, 2-jointed. Telson cleft to or nearly to the base.” (Stebbing, 1906.)

The species and genera from New Zealand which I have not described and figured below are those recorded and described by Barnard (1930). These have only been taken by the Terra Nova Expedition, and I have no material available. However, Barnard's paper covers them adequately.