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Nenia rimapalma, Bate. 
La. 
Amphithoe podoceroides, Rathke. 
I.a. Stebbing+ considers this to be the same as A. 
rubricata, Mont., though the former is green and the 
latter red. Here again, as in Dynamene rubra, Mont., and 
D. viridis, Leach, the colouring probably depends on that 
of the weed in which the animals are found. Montagu’s 
name being the older should have the precedence, as 
Stebbing points out. 
*Podocerus capillatus, Rathke (Pl. XI., figs. 14 and 15). 
Janassa variegata, Boeck. 
I.c. One small specimen, 2mm. long, taken in the tow- 
net by Mr. I. C. Thompson. There is much confusion 
about this species, which appears to me to have arisen 
chiefly from the figure in Bate and Westwood,! and from 
their statement that it 1s possibly only a variety of P. 
variegatus, Leach. The figure of the entire animal as 
shown by these authors may or may not be the last 
named species, but the separate drawings of the lower 
antenne and second gnathopod unquestionably indicate 
P. capillatus of Rathke. Leach’s characters are so un- 
satisfactory that it seems hopeless to determine whether 
his P. variegatus, Jassa pulchella, and J. pelagica, are one 
and the same species (P. falcatus, Mont.) or not. But 
the upper antenne without a secondary appendage, the 
thickness and dense hairiness of the lower antennex, with 
the flagellum consisting of one long and two minute joints 
unprovided with the hooks which occur in the same 
member in P. falcatus (and P. variegatus, as figured by 
Bate and Westwood), together with the form of the second 
enathopod, all mark P. capillatus as very distinct from 
+ ‘‘Challenger”’ Report, pp. 204 and 594. 
+ Brit. Sess. Crust., p. 442. 
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