3820 ASELLIDA. 
TSOPODA. ASELLID&, 
NORMALIA. 




JHRA NORDMANNI. 
Specific character. Broadly ovate ; sides of the segments strongly ciliated, 
with hairs set on at right angles ; upper antenne four-jointed, terminal joint 
not multiarticulate ; lower antenne not more than one-third of the length of 
the animal, with the third joint not half the length of the following ; pleon 
with a deep semicircular notch, within which the two small caudal appendages 
are visible, extending very slightly beyond the margin. 
Length, about one-sixth of an inch. 
Janira Nordmann. RatukKe, in Mém. des Say. Etrang. de St. Petersb. 
(Fauna der Krym.), t. ili. pl. 6, figs. 1—5, p. 388. 
Jeridina Nordmanni. Mitne Epwarns, H. N. Crust. iii. 150. 
Tis small animal was arranged by its first describer, 
Rathke, as a species of Janira; but that genus possesses 
elongate appendages at the extremity of the body, as in 
the common Asellus. Professor Milne Edwards accord- 
