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AMPHIPODA. 



NATATORIA . 



(^OROPHIID.E. 



PODOCERIDES. 



AMPHITHOE ALBOMACULATA. 



Specific characlcr. Bo'dy robust. Anteunre not longer tlian half the 

 animal. Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos long- ovate, with 

 the palm concave. 



Length ^ inch. 



Amphithoe alhomaculaia. Kroyer, Nat. Tidsk. ny Roekke, andet B. 

 p. 67. Voyage en Scan. pi. xi. B. fig. 1. 



This species closely assimilates to A. rubricata, but is 

 readily distinguishecl, by the robust form of the animal, 

 the shortness of the superior antennae, and the concave 

 palm of the second pair of hands. 



In the Catalogue of Amphipoda of the British 

 Museum, Mr. Spence Bate, not then having seen a 

 specimen has (p. 251), with hesitation, followed Bruze- 

 lius in uniting this species with A. podoceroides of 

 Rathke. But the specimen from which our figure is 

 taken so closely corresponds with that of Kroyer in his 

 magnificent work on the Crustacea, &c., of Scandinavia, 

 that we do not hesitate to consider our British species 

 as being identical with it. As connected with our Fauna 

 it was dredged for the first time in the summer of 1861, 

 in from seventy to ninety fathoms sixty miles east of 

 Shetlands, by the Rev. A. M. Norman and Mr. J. G. 

 Jeffreys. 



