REPORT ON THE AMPHIPODA. 169 



minute, and I believe the smaller palpi arise from them or a verj- closely adjoining part, 

 but vision is so indistinct in so small an object as to make me hesitate in affirming this. 

 The circulation of the blood was distinctly visible in the antennas, and the globules, unlike 

 those I had hitherto examined, were rotund, and of comparatively large dimensions. From 

 the upper part of the head a spine, with a very dilated base, extends forwards to between 

 the roots of the superior antenna. The eyes were black, with a pale encircling ring. Th(! 

 head brown, dotted with white, especially behind ; and the antennae pale, annulated imper- 

 fectly with reddish brown." 



Tenipleton further describes " Capeella (Lam.) scaura. Plate XX. fig. 6." and " Capbella 

 (Lam.) NODOSA. Plate XXI. fig. 7." 



Caprella scaura, from Mauritius, in Mayer's opinion perhaps includes Cajn-ella aftenuata, Dana, 

 and undoubtedly includes CapreUa nodosa, also from Mauritius, Caprella attenuata being 

 the male, Caprella nodosa the form of the female and young. Spence Bate, Brit. Mus. 

 Catal., pp. 355, 357, gives the length of both forms as half an inch, whereas the original 

 from which he is c^uoting gives for the lengtli of Cuprella scaura, " from the tips of the 

 antennae to the claw of the hind leg," about one inch, and states that Caprella nodosa " is 

 about ^th of an inch long." 



1837. Bennett, Frederick Debell. 



Ou the Natural History of the Spermaceti Whale. Proceedings of the Zookv 

 gical Society of London. Part V. 1837. 



The account of this paper says, p. 42, " it appears that the sperm Mliah is not like the Ba/teiui 

 mi/sticefus, constantly found with Barnacles and other parasites adhering to its skin, a 

 circumstance accounted for by Mr Bennett from the former species inhabiting deep water, 

 while the latter frequents soundings, and is also much more sluggish in its movements. 

 One species of Barnacle, the OHon Cuvieri, is sometimes found attached in a single cluster 

 to the lips or lower jaw of the Cachahit, and a few small Onisci occasionally adhere to the 

 skin ; in its blubber also numerous cysts of a species of Ci/sticercus are met with." Liitkcn 

 considers that the Onisci here mentioned are probably Cijami. 



1837. BURMEISTER, HERMANN. 



Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungeu entworfcu 

 von Hermann Burmeister. Zvveite Abtheilung. Zoologie. Berlin, 1837. 



Burmeister's first principal group in the Animal Kingdom contains the Gastrozoa with four 

 Classes. The second group consists of the Arthrozoa, beginning with Class five. Vermes. 

 Class six, the Crustacea, is divided into the following orders, Pseudocephala, Aspidostraca, 

 Thoracostraca, Arthrostraca. The Arthrostraca, comprising the Amphipoda and Isopoda, are 

 thus defined, p. 567 : — 



" Vierte Ordnung. Arthrostraca. Malacostraca edriophthalma. Leach. Der Kopf ist frci 

 abgesondert, tragt 2 Paar Fuhler, die ausseren ohne Schuppe am Grunde, 1 Paar ungcstielter 

 zusammengesetzter Augen mit fazettirter Hornhaut, seltener 2-4 einfache Augen, 1 Paar 

 Kiefer und 3 Paare accessorischer Mundtheile. Brustkasten gegliedert, 4-7 ringelig, jedcr 

 Ring mit 1 Paar einfacher, selten scheerenformiger Fiisse. Hinterleib 1-, 3-6 gliedrig, odcr 

 fehlt ganz, im letzteren Fallo ohne, gewohnlich mit Flossen am Ende und Flossenfussen an 

 seiner TJnterflache. Die Jungen haben die Form der Alien, doch offers fehlt ihnen das 



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