EEPOET ON THE AxMPHIPODA. 5 



Crustata fit Cartilaginea priores denies habent." Nothing certain about Amphipods can be 

 derived from Aldrovandus, though some of his allusions to the small kinds of Crustacea may 

 have them in view. The remark attributed to Pliny is not that which he actually makes. 

 On the contrary, as to these denies he seems to express a doubt by the words, " At in 

 marinis crustata et cartilaginea primores [sc. dentes] habere, item echinis quinos esse, 

 mule intelligi 2wfuerit, miror." Aldrovandi's misquotation reappears in Facciolati's great 

 Latin Dictionary, except that "primores" is there correctly given instead of "priores." 



1634. MoUFET, Thomas, bom about 1550, died 1604 (thirty years before his work was 

 published). 



Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum : Olhn ah Edoardo Wottono, 

 Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum : Tandem Tho. Moufeti Loudinatis- 

 opera sumptibusq'; maximis concinnatum, auctura, perfectum : Et ad vivum 

 expressis Iconibus supra quingentis illustratum. Londini, 1634. 



On page 321 he says, "Pediculus marinus Insectum est Balneis [Balsenis?] cetorumque generi 

 infestum, quos mordendo titillandoque ita in furorem agit, ut se in arenas projicerearidumque 

 petere cogantur." The figure at the side is not a Cyamus but one of the Cymothoidae., 

 On page 322 he says, Pulex sive Asellus marinus squOlam moUiorem refert, nisi quod 

 quatuor tantum pedibus (pace Gesneri dixerim) donatur, et frequentibus longisque saltibus 

 se liberat, k numero pedum. Asellus dicitur a saltu, Aristotelis pulex : k dorso gibboso, 

 Scrofula nuncupatur ; color illi lividus cum nigredine. Longitudo fluviatilium, digitum 

 transversum ; latitudo, semidigitum non superat ; marinorum major dimensio, qui littore 

 refluente, et in aquis dulcibus sspe conspicitur. Venatoribus item spectatoribusque mirum 

 agihtatis prsbet exemplum." There is a figure given, without name or reference, on the 

 last plate but one, which is probably a generalised representation of this description. It is 

 rather a satire on the expression " ad vivum expressis Iconibus " in the title. The animals 

 referred to may include the sand-hoppers and shore-hoppers, Talitrus, Orchestia, Hyale, as 

 well as the fresh-water Gammarus pulex and the salt-water Gammarus locusta, Gammarus 

 marinus, et hoc genus omne. 



1665. Sachs, Philipp Jacob, born 1627, died 1672 (Hageu). 



FafiixapoXoyva sive Gammarorum, vulgo Cancrorum consideratio physico- 



philologico-liistorico-medico-chymica, in qua, Prseter Gammarorum singularem 



Naturam, Indolem et multivarium usum non minus rehquorum Crustatorum 



instituitur tractatio Ad Normam CoUegii Naturae Curiosorum, Plurimis Inventis 



Secretioribus Naturse Artisque Locupletata d Philij^po Jacobo Sachs a Lewenheimb, 



Siles. Ph. & Med. D. et Colleg. Nat. Curios. CoUega. Francofurti & Lipsise, 



Sumptibus Esaise Feligebelii Bibliop. Wratislav. m.dclxv. 



The title of this curious and amusing book very fairly indicates its contents, only unfortunately 

 at that time the Crustacea now known as Gammarids had excited little or no attention. 

 On page 92 he mentions that the Squilla3 are divided into marinm and fluviatiles. He 

 then continues: " Marinx rursus secundum ylr/s^. IV. H. 2, in Latas, x/myyovre, crangones, 

 in Gibbas Kv<lia<; et in parvas quse nunquam majores fiunt " dividuntur. The Squillx 

 gibbx, he says, are divided by Schoenfeld into two species. With the smaller, which does 

 not turn red when cooked, at the mouth of the Elbe and the Oder they feed pigs and ducks, 



