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In the latter, when it exists, the movable toe of the foot, termi- 

 nated by a forceps, is formed of a single joint. 



Of these last, there are some whose superior antennae are much 

 shorter than the inferior, and even than their peduncle; the stem of 

 the latter is composed of numerous joints. 



Orchestia, Leach. 



The second feet of the male terminated by a large forceps, the 

 movable toe long and somewhat curved; those of the female by two 

 toes. The third joint of the inferior antennae is at most twice the 

 length of that of the preceding ones(l). 



Taliprus, Lat. 



Neither of the feet forming a forceps. The third joint of the in- 

 ferior antennae more than twice the length of that of the preceding 

 ones; the antennae large and spinous(2). 



In the following, the superior antennae are never much shorter 

 than the inferior. 



Some of them, furnished with elongated setaceous antennae ter- 

 minated by a pluri-articulated stem, and without any remarkable 

 forceps, approach the preceding in their superior antennae, which 

 are somewhat shorter than the inferior, and are removed from those 

 that follow by the form of their head which is narrowed before into 

 a kind of snout. Such is 



Atylus, Leach(3). 



All those which succeed have the superior antennae as long as the 

 inferior, or longer; their head is not elongated into a snout. 



Here, as in the five following genera of Leach, the peduncle of 

 the antennae is formed of three joints(4). 



Some, in their superior antennae, present a character which is 



(1) Oniscus gammarellus, Pall., Spic. Zool., Fascia, IX, iv, 8; Cancer gamma- 

 rus littoreus, Montag 1 . ; Desmar., Consid., p. 261, XLV, 3. 



(2) Oniscus locusta, Pall., Spic. Zool., Fascic. IX, iv, 7; Cancer gammarus salta- 

 tor, Montag - .; Desmar., Consid., XLV, 1.1. 



(3) Atylus carinatus, Leach, Zool. Misc., LXIX; Desmar., Consid., p. 262, 

 XLV, 4; Gammarus carinatus, Fab.; G. nugax? ejusd. ; Phipps, Voy. to the 

 North Pole, XII, 2? 



(4) The third joint of the peduncle may be very small and thus become assi- 

 milated to the following, or those of the stem; this peduncle, as in the Dexamines, 

 then appears to consist of but two joints. According- to the system of Leach the 

 stem is understood to form another but compound joint. 



