MELITA OBTUSATA. 



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AMPHIPODA. 



NAT ATOM A. 



GAMMARIDE8. 



MELITA OBTUSATA. 



Specific character. Second, third, fourth, and fifth segments of the pleon 

 having small teeth upon the postero -dorsal margin. Dactylos of the second 

 pair of gnathopoda scimitar-shaped. 



Length 5 5 inch. 



Cancer {Gammarus) obtusaius. Montagu, Linn. Trans, vol. xi. p. 5, t. ii. 



fig. 7. 

 Liljeborg, Ofvers. af kongl. Vet. Akad. 



Forhandl. 1854, p. 452. Bruzelius, 



Skand. Amph. Gam. p. 55. 

 Milne Edwards, Ann. des Sc. Nat. t. xx. 



p. 377. Hist, des Crust, t. iii. p. 83. 



"White, Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 51. Pop. 



Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 201. Gosse, Mar. 



Zool. i. p. 141. 

 Liljeborg, Ofvers. af kongl. Yet. Akad. 



Forhandl. 1852, p. 10, 1853, p. 138. 



(Not of Johnston). 

 Leach, MSS. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. 



Brit. Mus. p. 183, pi. xxxiii. fig. 3. 



Gammarus obtusatus. 



A mphithoe obtusata. 



Gammarus macujatv.s. 



Melita obtusata. 



The second, third, fourth, and fifth segments of the 

 tail are furnished at the posterior margin, on the back, 

 with a central and two small lateral denticles or tooth- 



