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AMPHIPODA. 



KJTATOBIA. 



GAMMARIPiE. 



PHOXIDES. 



PHOXUS PLT3M0SUS. 



Specific clMvacter. Superior antennte longer than the cephalon. Inferior 

 antennfe scarcely as long as the superior. Guathopoda having the propodoa 

 long-ovate ; palm very oblique. Hairs on the margin of the coxte, as well as 

 on the legs, plumose. 



Length, ^'g inch. 

 Phoxus 2'lu'mosus. Kroyer, Tidskr. vol. iv. p. 150. Spence Bate, Rep. 



Brit. Assoc. 1855, p. 58. Ana. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. 



XX. p. 525, Feb. 1857. Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. 



p. 99, pi. xvi. fig. 3. White, Hist. Brit. Crust. 



p. 173. 

 Phoxus fusiformls. Stimpson, Mar. Invert. Grand Manan, p. 67. 



This animal in its general aspect much resembles the 

 other species of this genus, but the projecting surface of 

 the head is less acute. We have not been able to make 

 out the eyes ; but Mr. Stimpson says, that in the Ameri- 

 can specimen (which we consider, from his description, 

 to be synonymous with the British) they are white. The 



