DULICHIA FALCATA. 33 
AMPHIPODA. DULICHIID. 
ABERRANTIA. 

DULICHIA FALCATA. 
Specific character. Cephalon without a rostrum. Body smooth. Superior 
antenne about two-thirds the length of the animal. Second pair of gnatho- 
poda having the propodos armed beneath with a crooked tooth near the base, 
and a sharp curved tooth near the distal extremity. 
Length, 4 inch. 
Dulichia falcata. Srunce Bare, Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 526. Cat. Amph. 
Brit. Mus. p. 348, pl. liv. fig. 10. Wurrn, Pop. Hist. 
Brit. Crust. p. 209. 
Dyopedos falcata. Sprnce Bare, Ann. Nat, Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 151. 
In general appearance this species closely resembles 
the preceding. The head is not produced into a rostrum. 
The body and tail are smooth, being free from teeth or 
spines. The eyes are round, and rather large. The 
superior antenne are long, quite two-thirds the length of 
the animal. The first joint of the peduncle is shorter 
than the head, but each of the two succeeding (which are 
slender, and nearly of the same length) are three times as 
long as the first. The flagellum is not so long as the last 
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