344 LECTURE XVI. 



Order Amphipoda. 



Abdomen terminated by saltatory or natatory appendages : thoracic 

 limbs unequal, with basal vesicular branchial appendages. 



Genera Amphithoe, Talitrus, Gammarus, Hyperia, Phronima, 

 Vibilia. 



Division PODOPHTHALMA (with eye-stalks, and a cephalo- 



thoracic carapace). 



Order Stomapoda. 



BranchicB exposed, usually tufted, attached to the abdominal and 

 (in some) to a few of the thoracic limbs : rarely abortive. 



Genera Phyllosoma, Amphion, Mysis, Lucifer, Cynthia, Alinia, 

 Sqicilla. 



Order Decapoda. 



BranchicB in cavities at the sides of the thorax : first two thoracic 

 limbs serving as jaws: the other five chelate, uncinate, with the last 

 pair sometimes lamellate. Crust commonly calcified. 



Tribe Macroura. (Abdomen long, with lamelliforra limbs, and 



terminated by a natatory appendage. An- 

 tennee long.) 

 Genera Penceus, Alpheus, Caridina, Hippolite, Palcemon, Gebia, 

 Callianassa, Crangon, NepJirops, Astacus, Homarus, Palinurus, 

 Scyllarus, Galathea. 



Tribe Anotnoura. (Abdomen moderately long, not a natatory organ. 



Antennae long.) 

 Genera Pagurus, Birgus, Porcellana, Remipes, Ranina, Homola, 

 Lithodes, Dromia, Dorippe. 



Tribe Brachyura. (Abdomen short, bent beneath the thorax. 



Antennae short.) 

 Genera K. Matuta, Caloppa, Leucosia ; 'B. Pinnotheres, Grapsus, 

 Gelasimus, Ocypoda, Gecarcimis, TheJphxisa ; C. Portunus, Cancer; 

 D. Maia, Inachus. 



LECTURE XVI. 



INSECTA. 



Although spontaneous locomotion is the peculiar attribute of the 

 Animal Kingdom, we have seen that the lowest members, the Zoophy- 

 tes as they were termed, were, for the most part, fixed and rooted 

 like plants : we have seen that tlie first manifestations of locomotion 



