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GEN. AMPITHOE Leach. 



1813/14. Ampithoe Leach, Ediiib. Encycl. vol. 7, pp. 403, 432. 

 1910. Stebbing, I.e. p. 462. 



1910. Amphithoe Kunkel, Tr. Coim. Ac. Sci. vol. 16, p. 87. 



1911. Bruggen, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. vol. 12, p. 481. 



AMPITHOE VAILLANTJI (Lucas). 



1846. Amphithoe vaillantii Lucas, Expl. Algerie An. Artie, vol. 1, p. 54, 



Crust, pi. 5, fig. 3. 

 1880. ,, erythraea Kossmann, Reise Roth. Meer. vol 2, pt. 1, 



p. 134, pi. 14, figs. 12, 13. 

 1893. ,, rubricata Delia Valle, F. u. PI. Neapel. vol. 20, p. 456, 



pi. 2, fig. 2, pi. 13, figs. 1-17, pi. 57, 



figs. 25,26 (non Montagu). 

 1900. ,, vaillanti Chevreux, Res. Camp. Monaco, vol. 16, 



p. 100. 

 1901 id. Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 14, p. 418. 



1904. Walker in Herdman's Ceylon Pearl Fish. 



Suppl. Rep. 17, p. 291, 

 1904 intermedia id. ibid. p. 290, pi. 7, figs. 46. 



1905. ,, id. in Gardiner's Fauna Maid, and Laccad. 



Archip. p. 391. 



1906. vaillantii Stebbing, Das Tierreich, 21, p. 639. (Re- 



ferences and synonyms.) 



1907. intermedia Chevreux, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 20, 



p. 515, fig. 29. 



1909. Walker, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. 12, pt. 4, 



p. 341. 

 1910 Stebbing, Gen. Cat. S.A. Crust, p, 462. 



1910. vaillanti Chevreux, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 23, 



p. 260, pi. 20, figs. 1-4. 



The differences between Lucas' and Walker's species appear to be 

 so slight that there seems to be no necessity for keeping them separate. 

 Much importance cannot be attached to the absence in Walker's 

 description and figures (except 2nd gnathopod of $ ) of the distal 

 lobe on the 2nd joint of the 1st and 2nd gnathopods ; it is easily 

 overlooked unless the limb be examined exactly in profile. Chevreux 

 figures it in both gnathopods of both sexes of his specimens, which he 

 assigns to intermedia, from the Gainbier Ai-chipelago. Nor can the 

 length of the flagellum of the 2nd antenna of $ be counted as a 



