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Genus Gammarella, Spence Bate. 

 gammarella noemani, Spence Bate and Westwood. 



Gammarella Normani, Spence Bate and Westwood, 

 Brit. Sessile-eyed Crust. (1863), vol. i., p. 333. 



Habitat. — Brought up in the dredge, with a great 

 deal of Laminaria saccharina, off Hunterston, 

 opposite Millport. It was first taken by the Rev. 

 A. M. Norman in Moulin Huet Bay, Guernsey, in 

 about 10 fathoms, on sand and zostera. 



Genus Melita, Leach. 

 melita obtusata, Montagu. 



Cancer (Gammarus) obtusatus, Montagu, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc, xi. (1815), p. 5, t. 2, fig. 7. 



Amphithoe obtusata, Milne Edwards, Ann. d. Sci. 

 Nat. (1830), xx., p. 377. 



Gammarus maculatus, Lilljeborg, Of v. af Kgl. Vet.- 

 Akad. Forhandl. (1852), p. 10 (1853), p. 138. 



Gammarus obtusatus, Lilljeborg, Ofv. af Kgl. Vet.- 

 Akad. Forhandl. (1854), p. 452. 



Melita obtusata, Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Crust. 

 Brit. Mus. (1862), p. 183. 



Habitat. — Found between the dead valves of Cyprina 

 islandica, brought up on a fisherman's line, in 14 

 fathoms, Cumbrae ; the shells were covered inside 

 and out with small Balani. Another, in ova, was 

 found in the same shell ; but the two first pairs of 

 legs of this were slightly different, the other parts, 

 however, agreeing with M. obtusata, of which I 

 suspect it may have been a sexual form. Taken also 

 in Plymouth Sound by Mr. S. Bate and Professor 

 Kinahan ; and in Salcombe Bay, by Col. Montagu. 



melita proxima, Spence Bate. 



Melita proxima, Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. 

 Mus., p. 184, pi. xxxiii., fig. 4. 



Habitat. — Taken plentifully all round our coast 

 among the suckers of the larger sizes of the star- 

 fish Uraster rubens, sometimes on Solaster papposa, 



