
CAPRELLA AQUILIBRA. o 
AMPHIPODA. CAPRELLIDA. 
ABERRANTIA. 


CAPRELLA AQUILIBRA. 
Specific character. Male.—Body smooth. First and second segments of 
pereion very long, equal to half the length of the animal. Second pair of 
gnathopoda articularly at the posterior extremity of the second segment ; 
propodos long-ovate; palm subparallel with the upper margin, armed 
anteriorly with a large triangular tooth or process, and a small denticle 
immediately posterior to the process. 
Length 2 inch. 
Caprella equilibra, Spence Bare, Cat. Amph. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 362, 
pl. Ivii. fig. 5. 
Caprella equilibra. Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. i. p. 391. 
Caprella Januarii. Kroyer, Nat. Tidssk. iv. p. 499, pl, vi. fig. 14-20. 
Voy. en Scand. pl. vi. fig. 15. Dana, U.S. Explor. 
Exped. p. 819, pl. lv. fig. 2. 
