AMPHIPODA. 



NATATORIA. 



PODOCERUS PELAGICUS. 447 



GAMMARIDES. 



PODOCERUS PELAGICUS. 



Specific character. Second pair of gnatliopoda having tlie propodos with 

 the pahii Innately excavate, lobed near the base, and defined by two or three 

 stiff', short, blunt spines. 



Length \ inch. 



Jassa pelagica. 



Podocerus pclar/icus. 

 Cerapus pela<jicus (pars). 



Leach, Linn. Trans, xi. p. 361. Edin. Ency. 



vii. p. 433. Desmarest, Consid. sur Ci-ust. 



p. 270. White, Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 54. 



Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 198. 

 Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 255, 



pi. xliv. fig. 2. 

 Milne Edwaeds, Hist. Crust, iii. p. 61. Cpvier, 



Regno An. (Ed. Croch.) pi. 61, fig. 2 (from 



Leach's type in British Museum). 



The eyes are round ; and the superior antennse are 

 not so long as the inferior which are not quite half the 

 length of the animal. The second pair of hands are 



