PODOCERUS VARTEGATI S. 



439 



AMPJIIPODA. 



y.lTATORIA. 



PO DOC EM DES. 



PODOCERUS VARIEGATUS. 



Specific character. Eyes small, oblong. Second pair of gnathopoda 

 having the propodos large, ovate ; palm oblique, fringed with a few plumose 

 cilia. Dactylos serrated. 



Length 2 7 inch. 



Podocerus raricgatus. Leach, Edin. Encyc. vii. p. 433. Linn. Trans, xi. 



p. 361. Suppl. Enc. Brit. i. 426. Samouelle, 

 Ent. Comp. p. 104. Desmarest, Consid. sur 

 Crust, p. 269. Milne Edwards, Ann. des Sci. 

 Nat. t. xx. p. 384. Regne Animal, pi. Ixi. fig. 4. 

 (Edit. Crochard, from Leach's type.) Hist, des 

 Crust, t. iii. p. 63. Spence Bate, Rep. Brit. 

 Assoc. 1855. Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 148. 

 Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 254, pi. xliii. fig. 10. 

 White, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 197. Gosse, 

 Mar. Zool. i. p. 141. 



The back is perfectly smooth.* The eyes are small, 



* Prof. Milne Edwards in his Crochard Edition of the "Regne Animal," has 

 represented the first two segments of the tail postero-dorsally produced into 



