AMPRIPODA. 



NAT ATOM A. 



DERCOTHOE (CERAPUS ? ) PUNCTATUS. 461 



Q A MM ABIDES. 



DERCOTHOE (CERAPUS $) PUNCTATUS. 



Specific character. Eyes round. Antennre subequal. Second pair of 

 gnathopoda with the carpus and propodos continuous, long-ovate ; carpus 

 but slightly produced upon the inferior margin of the propodos. Telson 

 double-lobed. 



Length 2 7 g inch. 



Dercotkoe {Ccrapus $) punctatus. 



Podocerus punclatus $. 



Milne Edwards, MS. in Erit. Mus. 

 Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 260, pi. xliv. fig. 10. 

 Spence Bate, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. 

 xix. p. 148. 



The eyes are round and black. Antennae about one- 

 third the length of the animal. The first pair of legs 

 have the hand and wrist forming a continuous oval, of 

 which the upper margin is the more rounded. The 

 second pair of hands are larger and longer than the first ; 

 the wrist is continuous with the hand, but only about 



