AMPHIPODA. 



ABERUANTIA. 



CAPRELLA LOB ATA. 57 



CAPRELLIBM. 



CAPRELLA LOB AT A. 



Specific character. Body unaimed except by a few minute tubercles 

 occasionally present, especially upon the dorsal surface of the three posterior 

 segments of the pereion. First segment of the pereion long ; second scarcely 

 longer than the first. Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos long- 

 ovate ; palm defined by one, and armed with two teeth, the f.uterior being 

 less distinct than the posterior. 



Length | inch. 



MiiLLER, Zool. Dan. Prod. 197, No. 2359. 0. Fabr. 



Fauna Gronl. p. 248. Samouelle, Ent. Comp. 



p. 106. 

 GuEKiN, Iconogr. R. An. Crust, pi. xxviii. fig. 2. 



Kroyer, Voyage en Scand. pi. xxv. fig. 3a. Stimpson, 



Nat. Hist. Invert. Grand Manan, p. 44. Thompson, 



Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 244. Spence Bate, Cat. 



Amph. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 354, pi. Iv. fig. 8. Ann. 



Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 151, 

 MiJLLER, Zool. Dan. t. 114, fig. 11, 12. 

 Kroyer, Yoy. en Scand. pi. xxvi. fig. 3. 

 GooDsiR, Edin. New Phil. Journ. xxxiii. p. 189, pi. iii. 



fig. 4. White, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 215. 



Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 60. 

 Leach, Edin. Enc. vii. p. 404 ? 



Sqidlla lohata. 



Caprella lohata. 



Sqailla quadrilobata. 

 .iEyina lowjicornis. 

 Caprella Icevis. 



Caprella linearis. 



In this species the animal is generally smooth, hut 



we have occasionally seen specimens which have a few 



minute tubercles on the back, those most important and 



