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AMPHIPODA. CAPRELLIDA. 
ABERRANTIA. 

PROTO GOODSIRII. 
Goodsir’s Spectre Shrimp. 
Specific character. Superior antennz about one-third the length of the 
animal. Inferior antennze about one-half the length of the superior. 
Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos large, arcuate above, palm 
excavated, and armed beneath, near the base and distal extremity, with a 
small tooth. 
Length 3 inch. 
Proto Goodsirii. Sprunce Batre, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 151. Cat. 
Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 350, pl. lv. fig. 2. Ware, Pop. 
Hist. Brit. Crust. p. 218. 
Tuts species is a larger and more powerful-looking 
animal than P. pedata, from which it differs chiefly in the 
form of the second pair of hands. 
The superior antennz are about one-third the length 
of the animal, and the flagellum is about as long as the 
peduncle. The inferior antennz are about half the length 
of the superior—that is, scarcely reaching to the extremity 
of the peduncle of the latter. The first pair of legs have 
the hands elongate-ovate, broadest at the base, and nar- 
rowed at the extremity ; palm very oblique, slightly con- 
vex, minutely serrated, defined near the posterior extre- 
mity by an obtuse tooth. The second pair of legs have 
the hands very large, rounded above, and having the palm 
