PODOCERUS PELAGICUS. 



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AMPHIPODA, 



NATATOTJA. 



GAMMARIDES. 



PODOCERUS PELAGICUS. 



Specific character. Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos with 

 the palm lunately excavate, lobed near the base, and defined by two or three 

 stiff, short, blunt spines. 



Length \ inch. 



Jassa pelagica. Leach, Linn. Trans, xi. p. 361. Edin. Ency. 



vii. p. 433. Desmarest, Consid. snr Crust. 



p. 270. White, Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 54. 



Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 198. 

 Podocerus pelagicus. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 255, 



pi. xliv. fig. 2. 

 Cerapus pelagicw (pars). Milxe Edwards, Hist. Crust, iii. p. 61. Ctjvier, 



Regne An. (Ed. Croch.) pi. 61, fig. 2 (from 



Leach's type in British Museum). 



The eyes are round ; and the superior antennae are 

 not so long as the inferior which are not quite half the 

 length of the animal. The second pair of hands are 



