rODOCERUS VARTEGATUS. 



431) 



AMPIIIPODA. 



NATATORIA. 



PODOCERIDES. 



PODOCERUS VARIEGATUS. 



Upccijlc charade): Eyes small, oblong. Secoml pair of gnathopoda 

 baviiig the propodos large, ovate ; palm oblique, fringed with a few plumose 

 cilia. Dactylos serrated. 



Length r]^ inch. 



Podocerm variegaUis. Leach, Edin. Encyc. vii. p. 433. Linn. Trans, xi. 

 p. 361. Suppl. Enc, Brit. i. 426. Samouelle, 

 Ent. Comp. p. 104. Desmarest, Consid. sur 

 Crust, p. 269. Milne Edwards, Ann. des Sci. 

 Nat. t. XX. p. 384. Regne Animal, pi. Ixi. fig. 4. 

 (Edit. Crochard, from Leach's type.) Hist, des 

 Crust, t. iii. p. 63. Spence Bate, Rep. Brit. 

 Assoc. 1855, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 148. 

 Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 254, pi. xliii. fig. 10. 

 White, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 197. Gosse, 

 Mar. Zool. i. p. 141. 



The back is perfectly smooth.* The eyes are small, 



* Prof. Milne Edwards in his Crochard Edition of the "Regne Animal," has 

 represented the fii-st two segments of the tail postero-dorsally produced into 



