MELITA OBTUSATA. 



AMPHIPODA. 



NATATOUIA. 



841 



GAMMARIDES. 



MELITA OBTUSATA. 



Specific character. Second, third, fourth, and fifth segments of the pleon 

 having small teeth upon the postero-dorsal margin. Dactylos of the second 

 pair of gnathopoda scimitar -shaped. 



Length s^n inch. 



Cancer (Oammarus) ohtiisalus. 



Oammarus obtusatus. 



A mphifhoe obtiisata. 



Gammarus maculafus. 



Melita obtwsata. 



Montagu, Linn. Trans, vol. xi. p. 5, t. ii. 



fig. 7. 

 LiLJEBORO, Ofvers. af kongl. Vet. Akad. 



Forhandl. 1854, p. 452. Bruzelius, 



Skand. Amph. Gam. p. 55. 

 Milne Edwards, Ann. des So. Nat. t. xx. 



p. 377. Hist, des Crust, t. iii. p. 83. 



White, Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 51. Pop. 



Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 201. Gosse, Mar. 



Zool. i. p. 141. 

 LiLJEBORG, Ofvers. af kongl. Vet. Akad. 



Forhandl. 1852, p. 10, 1853, p. 138. 



(Not of Johnston). 

 Leach, MSS. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. 



Brit. Mus. p. 183, pi. xxxiii. fig. 3. 



The second, third, fourth, and fifth segments of the 

 tail are furnished at tlie posterior margin, on the back, 

 with a central and two small lateral denticles or tooth- 



