40 



orchestiidj:. 



AMPHIPODA. 



SALTATORIA. 



ORGHE&THD.E. 



ALLORCHESTES NILSSONII, Rathke, 



Specific character.- — Male. Superior antennas as long as the peduncle of 

 the inferior. Inferior antennce one-third the length of the animal. Second 

 pair of gnathopoda larger than the first. Propodos ovate, large, with convex 

 palm and an obtuse point at the inferior angle. 



Length ^ of an inch. 



Amphithoe Nilssonii Rathke, Beit, zur Faun. Norv. in Nov. act. xx, j). 



264 c. 

 ,, Prevodii ,, ,, 1. c. p. 81, pi. 4, fig. 5 (not of 



Milne Edwards). Liljeborg, in Of vers, af 



Kongl. Vetensk. akad. Forhandl. 1851, p. 22. 

 AUorchestes Nilssonii, Bruzelius, Bidrag. till Kam. om Skand. Amph, 



Gam. p. 35. Spence Bate, Cat. Amp. Brit. Mus. 



p. 38, pi. vi. fig. 4. 

 ,, Danai, Spence Bate, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1855, p. 57. Ann. 



Nat. Hist. Feb. 1857. White, Hist. Brit. Crust. 



1858, p. 163. 



