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Remarks. — This minute species lives in the sand and among algae 

 and swims about freely only when disturbed. It can be recognized 

 most easily by the structure of the first and fifth legs. It has not 

 before been reported outside of the two localities mentioned above, 

 but is likely to be found in the beach sands anywhere within the 

 present area. 



AMEIRA TENUICORNIS T. Scott 

 FiGUKB 164 



Ameira tenuicorms T. Scott, 20th Ann. Rep. Fishery Board Scotland, pt. 3, 

 p. 459, pi. 24, 1902. — Sabs, Crustacea of Norway, vol. 5, p. 397, suppl. pi. 27, 

 1911. 



Occurrence. — A dozen specimens, including both sexes, were 

 washed out of the sand on the shore of Katama Bay, Marthas Vine- 

 yard, August, 1927. 



Figure 164. — Ameira tenuioomis: a, Male, dorsal; h, male, first antenna; c, 

 male, second antenna ; d, male, first leg ; e, male, second leg ; /, male, fifth 

 leg ; g, female, first antenna ; h, female, fifth leg 



Distribution. — Scottish coast (T. Scott) ; Norwegian coast (Sars). 



Color. — Body transparent and whitish, without pigment mark- 

 ings; eye reddish. 



Female. — Body slender, six times as long as wide, the metasome 

 scarcely wider than the urosome, the two of equal length; rostrum 

 minute and blunt; anal segment shorter than the penultimate seg- 

 ment; caudal rami one-half longer than wide, inner apical seta 

 longer than the entire body, the two curved like parentheses. First 

 antennae reaching the fourth thoracic segment, aesthetask nearly as 



