AM PHI POD A. 



ABERRANTfJ. 



CAPRBLLA ACANTHIFERA. 65 



CAPRELLIDM. 



CAPllELLA ACANTHIFERA. 

 [Skull-headed Skeleton Shrimp.) 



Specific character. Cephalon posteriorly and dorsally vaulted. First seg- 

 ment of the pereion short ; second, third, and fourth subequally long, sur- 

 mounted by three large dorsal tubercles ; fifth, sixth, and seventh segments 

 short, each surmounted by two sublateral parallel tubercles. Second pair of 

 gnathopoda having the propodos large in the male, rounded above and very 

 concave below, the palm defined by a prominent tooth ; in the female the 

 palm is slightly convex and the dorsal tubercles are less i^rominent. 



Length 5"^ of an inch in the male, and 55 in the female. 



Puce de mer arpcntense. 

 CaprcUa acanthifera. 



Cuprella calra. 

 VOL. 11. 



Db Queronio, Mem. Math, et Physiq. Acad. Sci. 



Paris, t. ix. p. 329, fig. a b. 

 Leach, Edin. Ency. vii. p. 404 (not of Johnston 



and Couch). W. Thompson, Ann. Nat. Hist. 



XX. p. 245. "White, Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 60. 



Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 215. 

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



359, pi. Ivi. fig. 11. 



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