IMJOTKLLV PIT ASM \. 



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AMPHIPODA. 

 ABERRANT1A. 



CAPRELLID&. 



PROTELLA PHASMA. 

 Montagu's Skeleton Shrimp. 



Specific character. Ceplialon, without a rostrum, dorsally armed with a 

 strong spine, originating in the posterior margin and directed upwards and 

 forwards. First segment of the pereion dorsally and posteriorly armed with 

 a strong tooth ; second segment similarly armed with a pair near the middle, 

 ami one near the posterior margin. 



Length rather more than half an inch. 



Cancer phasma. 



Caprella pliasma. 

 Caprella pliasma. 



JEyina longispina. 



Prof el l 1miti'i*i>hi<:. 



MONTAGU, Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 66, pi. vi. 



fig. 3. 



LAMARCK, Syst. des An. sans Vert. v. p. 174. 

 LATREILLE, Encyc. Met. p. 336, fig. 37. 



LEACH, Edin. Encyc. vii. p. 404. Enc. Brit. 



Suppl. 1, p. 426. SAMOUELLE, Ent. Comp. 



p. 105. DESMAREST, Consid. sur Crust. 



p. 278. MILNE EDWARDS, Hist, des Crust. 



iii. p. 108. WHITE, Cat. Crust. Brit. Mus. 



1847. Cat. Brit. Mus. 1850, p. 60. Pop. 



Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 216. FLEMING in Edin. 



Phil. Journ. viii. p. 297. JOHNSTON in Lou- 

 don's Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 6G9. RATIIKE, 



Nov. Act. xx. p. 95. GOSSE, Mar. Zool. p. 223. 



R. Q. COUCH, Rep. Penzance, N. H. Soc. 



1852, P . 96. 



KROYER, Nat. Tidsk. 2 ser. 5. p. 476, 1844-6. 

 SPENCE BATE, Ann. Nat. Hisi. '_! ser. xix. 



p. ir.l. 



