AMPIIIPODA 



NATATORU. 



MICRODEUTOPUS VERSICULATUS. JiJ95 



GAMMARIDES. 



MICRODEUTOPUS VERSICULATUS. 



Sjwcijic character. Gnatliopoda not comi:)letely chelate, and furnished 

 witli a copious brush of hairs. 

 Length ^^fj inch. 



Lembos versiculatus. Spence Bate, Rej). Brit. Assoc. 1855, p. 58. 



Synopsis, &c., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. 



p. 142. Feb. 1857. White, Pop. Hist. 



Brit. Crust, p. 180. 

 Microdentopus versiculatus. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 165, 



j)l. XX. fig. 5. 



The eyes are small. The superior antennse are about 

 half the length of the animal ; the flagellum being a little 

 longer than the peduncle ; and the secondary appendage is 

 uni-articulate, and furnished with two long terminal hairs. 

 The first pair of legs have the wrist rather longer and as 

 broad as the hand, both margins of the joints being 

 continuous and thickly fringed with hairs ; the palm is 

 not defined, neither is the finger serrated ujjon the 

 inner margin. The second pair of legs have the wrist 

 and hand of about equal length and diameter. The 

 wrist is furnished upon the anterior margin with a thick 



