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douces cles ruisseaux et des fontaines ; " or where 

 GeofFroy says of liis species that it is *' trouve commuiie- 

 ment dans I'eau courante des petits ruisseaux," we are 

 convinced that each alludes to the species of De Geer, 

 found only in running rivulets, although both have 

 copied Rosel's figure of the tooth-backed species found 

 only in still and stagnant water. 



The earliest notice we meet with of a species named 

 G. fiuviatilis occurs in Ray's work on Insects, p. 44, 

 where he loosely describes an insect under the name of 

 Pulex fiuviatilis, found " in aquis calidis in specu 

 Custozse prope Vincentiam, in Italia, ubi nulla anima- 

 lia vivunt." This animal was probably a species of 

 Niphargus, but Ray added a few words to his description, 

 which might thence also be supposed to include our fresh- 

 water species, " quas in nostris rivulis sunt non saltant ut 

 marinae sed incurvant se et natant podicem exerendo 

 satis celeriter." We next find LinnaDus in his Iter 

 (Eland., pp. 42, 96, speaking of " Cancer Pulex fiuviatilis 

 dictus, Suecis Marta, Scanis Sandhare. Habitat ad littora 

 maris vulgatissimus, frequens rodens retia, conficiens 

 sceleta piscium, natat in dorso,^' characters and names 

 which evidently apply only to our Gammarus locusta. 

 We next find Rosel employing the term Astacus fiuvia- 

 tilis in a generic sense * for several distinct kinds of 

 long-tailed Crustacea, of which he gives excellent 

 figures, namely, the cray-fish, the shrimp, and a fresh- 

 water species of Gammarus, for which the specific name 

 has been subsequently retained, and which is dis- 

 tinguished at once by having the middle of the hind 

 margin of each of the segments of the tail armed with 

 a strong tooth. This has been named G. Roselii by 



* Just as lie employs the terra "Cimex aquaticus " for the general heading 

 of the jjlates of all the species of Water Hemiptera which he figures, iucluiling 

 at least six modern genera. 



