126 STALK- AND SESSILE-EYED CRUSTACEA 
quite small, a little oblong, sub-rectangular, pubescent below, apex 
transversely truncate, slightly excavate, lower apex acute, and a little 
prolonged. Hand of second pair narrow-ovate, rather small, apex 
narrow, with a few tufts of short sete below; finger short, not half 
as long as hand, nearly longitudinal, whole palm depressed, straight ; 
carpus very short, transverse, produced below. Four posterior feet 
equal, sete minute. Length 5 lines. (D.). 
New Zealand ; Bay of Islands, along shores. (Dana). 
Family Il. GAMMARIDZ., 
Crevettines sauteurs, M. Edw. (part) Hist. Nat. Crust. i, p. 10, 
(1840). 
Gammaride, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiv, Crust. part 1, p. 902, 
(1853); Spence Bate, Cat. Amphip. Crust. Brit. Mus, p. 53, (1862). 
Upper antenne well developed, and often furnished with a secondary 
appendage. Coxe largely developed. Last pair of caudal appendages 
reaching to the extremity of the preceding, and usually double- 
branched. Hairs upon the entire animal slight and flexible. 
The habits of the animals are aquatic, they construct no home to 
rest in, and are incapable of leaping when accidentally removed from 
the water. 
(CEDICERUS. 
(Ediceros, Kroyer, Nat. Tidskr. iv, p. 146, (1842-8). 
(Edicerus, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiv, Crust. part u, p. 993, 
(1853); Spence Bate, Cat. Amphip. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 108, (1862). 
Head produced anteriorly into a rostrum more or less acute than 
obtuse, but always transparent, turgid, yellowish red, oval. yes 
none? Peduncles of the antenne long, equalling or surpassig in 
length the flagellum of the superior. Superior antenne not appendic- 
ulated. First two pairs of legs with the hands subchelate, very large. 
Third and fourth pairs of legs strong, seventh pair very long, shght, 
almost filiform, (except the thigh). Coxe moderately large, broad, 
and deep, armed upon the inferior margins with simple hairs. Poster- 
ior margin of the fourth pair not excavated. 
188. Céidicerus nove-zealandiz. 
Gidiceros novi-zealandie, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped. xiv, Crust. 
part ii, p. 934, pl. Ixiii, fig. 7, (1853). 
