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AMPHIPODA., CAPRELLIDA. 
ABERRANTIA. 

CAPRELLA TYPICA. 
Specific character. Body entirely smooth, and destitute of spines in both 
sexes. Second segment of the body short and deep. Second pair of 
gnathopoda with the hand large and curved, armed at the base of the palm 
(defined by a strong obtuse tooth) with a robust recurved spine. Antenne 
moderately long and slender; hind legs slender, with the hand simple. 
Length 3 inch. 
Podalirius typicus. Kréyrr, Nat. Tidssk. 2nd Ser. i. p. 283. Voy. en 
Scand. pl. xxv. fig. 1 a—l. Spence Barz, Cat. 
Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 354, pl. lvi. fig. 2. 
Tuis species has been formed by Kroyer into a sepa- 
rate genus, named Podalirius, in consequence of the very 
rudimental condition of the abdominal portion, of which 
none of the appendages are developed (Fig. P). It 
resembles C. linearis, but is more robust, the head and 
second segment of the body being deeper and shorter 
than in that species. The antenne are slender: the 
superior in the male are nearly twice as long as the 
inferior, the peduncle of which scarcely reaches to the 
extremity of the second joint of the superior; the flagel- 
lum of the latter being composed of very few articuli. 
In the female the peduncle of the lower antenne appa- 
rently extends as far as the extremity of the peduncle of 
the superior, which is, however, mutilated in our unique 
