PROTO PEDATA, 39 
Proto pedatum. DesMAREST, Consid. sur Crust. p. 276. 
Leptomera pedata. GossE, Mar. Zool. p. 131. fig. 224. 
Leptomera pedata. LATREILLE, Régne An. iii. p. 51. Guertin, 
Tconogr. Crust. pl. xxvili. fig. 3. MInnr 
Epwarps, Hist. des Crust. t. iii. p. 109. 
Kroyrr, Nat.- Tidsk., iv. p. 607, pl. vii. 
figs. 13-23. Dxsmarzst, Consid. sur Crust. 
p. 276, pl. xlvi. fig. 3. 
Squilla ecaudata (Female). Gronovius, Act. Helv. p. 439, pl. iv. figs. 8, 
9, 10. 
Squilla ventricosa. MuttErR, Zool. Dan. pt. ii. p. 20, pl. lvi. figs. 
1, 2, 3. 
THE animal is long, linear, cylindrical, and smooth, the 
head being intimately soldered with the first segment of 
the body. The eyes are small and round. The superior 
antennze are about half the length of the animal; the 
flagellum being as long as the last two joints of the 
peduncle. The inferior antennze are about half the 
length of the superior, the flagellum being about half the 
length of the peduncle. The first pair of legs are small, 
having the hand acutely triangular, tapering to the finger. 
The palm is as long as the posterior margin, and armed 
with two or three rows of minute spines, its limit being 
defined by a sharp process, carrying one or two spines. 
The second pair of legs are at a considerable distance 
from the first, and situated near the middle of the second 
segment of the body. They are as long again as the 
first, and the hand is about twice as long and broad as 
that of the preceding pair. It is of a narrow oval form, 
having the palm more than half the length of the hand, 
defined by a sharp process, furnished with a small, stout 
spine; it is excavated near the posterior limit, is wavy 
throughout its length, and armed with small processes 
tipped with spinules.* The third pair of legs are feeble 
* Dr. Johnston describes two varieties of this species—the first having the 
hands oval, with a single denticle at the base, the head rounded in front, 
and the branchial lamelle large and elliptical (to which the figures of Miller 
