PROTELLA PHASMA. 45 
AMPHIPODA. "A PRELLID &. 
ABERRANTIA. 

PROTELLA PHASMA. 
Montayu’s Skeleton Shrimp. 
Specific character. Cephalon, without a rostrum, dorsally armed with a 
strong spine, originating in the posterior margin and directed upwards and 
forwards. First segment of the pereion dorsally and posteriorly armed with 
a strong tooth ; second segment similarly armed with a pair near the middle, 
and one near the posterior margin. 
Length rather more than half an inch, 
Cancer phasma. Montacu, Trans. Linn. Soe. vii. p. 66, pl. vi. 
fig. 3. 
Caprella phasma. Lamarck, Syst. des An. sans Vert. v. p. 174. 
Caprella phasma. LatReInuE, Encyc. Met. p. 336, fig. 37. 
Lracu, Edin. Encye. vii. p. 404. Enc. Brit. 
Suppl. 1, p. 426. Samovrtte, Ent. Comp. 
p. 105. Duesmarrst, Consid. sur Crust. 
p- 278. Mitne Epwarps, Hist. des Crust. 
iii. p. 108. Wurrn, Cat. Crust. Brit. Mus. 
1847. Cat. Brit. Mus. 1850, p. 60. Pop. 
Hist. Brit. Crust. p. 216. Fuiemine in Edin. 
Phil. Journ. viii. p. 297. Jounston in Lou- 
don’s Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 669. Ratu, 
Noy. Act. xx. p. 95. Gossn, Mar, Zool. p. 228. 
R. Q. Coucn, Rep. Penzance, N. H. Soe. 
1852, p. 96. 
Agina longispina. Kroyer, Nat. Tidsk. 2 ser. i. p. 476, 1844-6. 
Protella longispina. Spence Bartz, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. 
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