
CAPRELLA LOBATA. 5g 
AMPHIPODA. CAPRELLIDA,. 
ABERRANTIA. 
CAPRELLA LOBATA. 
Specific character. Body unarmed except by a few minute tubercles 
occasionally present, especially upon the dorsal surface of the three posterior 
segments of the pereion. First segment of the pereion long; second scarcely 
longer than the first. Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos long- 
ovate; palm defined by one, and armed with two teeth, the anterior being 
less distinct than the posterior. 
Length ? inch. 
Squilla lobata. MiiEr, Zool. Dan. Prod. 197, No. 2359. 0. Far. 
Fauna Gronl. p. 248. Samoverin, Ent. Comp. 
p. 106. 
Caprella lobata. GuERIN, Iconogr. R. An. Crust. pl. xxviii. fig. 2. 
Kroyer, Voyage en Scand. pl. xxv. fig. 3a. Srrmpson, 
Nat. Hist. Invert. Grand Manan, p. 44. Tompson, 
Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 244. Spence Bats, Cat. 
Amph. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 354, pl. Iv. fig. 8. Ann. 
Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 151. 
Squilla quadrilobata, Mitimr, Zool. Dan. t. 114, fig. 11, 12. 
Aigina longicornis. Kroyer, Voy. en Scand. pl. xxvi. fig. 3. 
Caprella levis. Goopstr, Edin. New Phil. Journ. xxxiii. p. 189, pl. iii. 
fig. 4. Warts, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust. p. 215. 
Hist. Brit. Crust. p. 60, 
Caprella linearis. Lracn, Edin, Ene. vii. p. 404 ? 
In this species the animal is generally smooth, but 
we have occasionally seen specimens which have a few 
minute tubercles on the back, those most important and 
