CEHAPUS ABDITUS. 



AMPIIIPODA. 



NATATORIA. 



455 



PODOCERIDES. 



CERAPUS ABDITUS. 



Specific characier. Eyes transversely ovate. Autennai sul)equal. Epi- 

 stoma produced to a point. Second pair of gnatli02)0tla having the subapical 

 process of the carpus double -jjoiuted. 



Length about \ inch. 



C'crapus uhditus. Tkmpleton, Trans. Ent. Soc. i. p. 188, pi. xx. fig. 5. 



Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 263, 



pi. xlv. fig. 2. 

 Cerapodina uhditus. Milne Edwards, Hist, des Crust, t. iii. p. 62. 

 Ericthonius dijhrmis. Spence Bate, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 149. 



"White, Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 196 (not Edwards). 



Tpie eyes are oval, placed longitudinally in the head, 

 and red in colour.* The superior antennae (broken off 

 in the specimen drawn above) are about the same length 

 as the inferior. The epistoma projects anteriorly in the 



* Templeton gives the colour of the eyes of his specimen as black, with a 

 pale encircling ring. 



