ORCHESTIA LITTOREA. 



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AMPHIPODA. 



SALTATORIA. 



ORCHESTIIBjE. 



ORCHESTIA LITTOREA. 

 (Shore-Hopper.) 



Specific cliaracier. — Propodos of tlie second pair of gnnthopoda Laving 

 the palm convex, slightly oblique, with a small tooth at the inferior angle. 

 Posterior pair of pereiopoda, having the cariJus and meros in the older 

 males largely developed. Length l^ of an inch. 



Cancer {(/ammarns) littoreus, Montagu, Linn. Trans, ix. p. 96, t. 4, f. 4. 



Orchcstia littvrea, 



Leach, Edinb. Encycl. vii. p. 402, pi. 21, 

 f. 6 ; Linn. Trans, xi. p. 356 ; Encycl. 

 Brit. Suppl. i. 424. Desjiakest, Cons, 

 p. 261, t. 45, f. 3. Samouelle, Ent. 

 Comp. p. 102. Latkeille, Encycl. Meth. 

 pi. 336, f. 1. White, Cat. Brit. Crust, 

 p. 48 ; Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 162, 

 pi. s. f. 1. Spenoe Bate, in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. 2nd ser. vol. xix. p. 136 ; Cat. Brit. 

 Mas. p. 27. GossE, Marine Zool. p. 142. 



