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PAL^MONID^. 



DECAPOD A. 

 MACROVRA. 



PALJEMONID/E. 



PRIDEAUX^S HIPPOLYTE. 



Hippolyte Prideauxiana. Leach. 



specific Character. — Rostrum quite straight, acuminate, above unarmed, beneath 

 with one or two teeth on the anterior portion. 



Hippohite Piideaumana, Leach, Mai. Brit. t. xxviii. f. 1. 3, 4, 5. 



,, „ var., Edw. Hist. des. Crust. II. p. 372. 



„ Moorii, Leach, 1. c. f. 2 — Edw. 1. c. 



This little species very much resembles H. varians ; it 

 differs from that species, however, in the form of the ros- 

 trum^ which is of more equal breadth throughout the prin- 

 cipal part of its length, in the absence of any tooth on 

 its upper side and of the deep carina on the lower. 



I have thought it right to include the animals defined 

 by Dr. Leach under the above specific names, as one spe- 

 cies, being unable to find any distinctive characters of 

 sufficient importance to warrant their separation. I have, 

 therefore, tahen Prideauxiana as the normal form, and as 

 having the priority in nomenclature ; and have given 



