132 Rev. A. M. Norman's Notes on British Amphipoda. 



Minch ; Sound of Skye ; Loch Fyne ; Firth of Clyde, many 

 places ; off Holy Island, Northumberland; Salcombe, Devon ; 

 Guernsey; Roundstone, Ireland [A. M. N.) ; Banff {T. Ed- 

 ward) : Mus. Norfn. Kirkwall Bay, Orkney (Z>. Robertson). 

 Distribution. Floro, Norway {A. M. N.) : Mus. Norm. 

 Offwest coast of Schleswig-Holstein [Metzger)] Kiel [Blanc) ; 

 Holland [Iloeh) ; Denmark [Meinert) ; Bohuslan [Bruze- 

 lius) ; Norway, many places [Rathke dec.) ; St. Lunaire, 

 France, il/. Dolfuss {Chevreaux) ; Bay of Biscay {Chev- 

 reaux). 



Genus VIII. Melita, Leach, 1813. 



1. Melita palmata (Montagu). 



180P. Cancer (Gammai-us) palmaitts, Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc, 



vol. vii. p. GO, pi. vi. fig. 4. 

 1818. Melita palmata, Leach, Ediub. Encycl. vol. vii, p. 403. 

 1840. Gammarns Dugesii, M. -Ed wards, Hist, des Crust, vol. iii. p. 54. 

 186.3. Melita palmata, Costa, llec. sui Crost. Amfip. del Regno di 



Napoli, p. 102, pi. ii. fig. 4. 

 1857. Ga7nviarn,9 incequimanm, Bate, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 



vol. xix. p. 14."), 

 1862. Melita palmata, Bate & Westw. Brit, Sessile-ej^ed Crust, vol. i. 



p. 337. 

 1876. Melita palmata. Boeck, De Skand. og Arkt. Amphip. p. 388, 



pi. xxiv. fig. 4. 

 1878. Melita palmata, G. Zaddach, Die Meeres-Fauna an der preuss- 



ischen Kiiste, p. 25, woodcuts. 



Ilab. Firth of Clyde; Guernsey; Starcross, Devon {A. 



M. N.) ; Polperro, Cornwall {Lmighh'n) : Mus. Norm. 



Banf^ [T. Edivard) ; Rhos and Colwy'n Bays, North Wales 



{A. 0. Walke7-); Ilfracombe and Seaton, Devonshire {Par- 



fitt). 



Distribution. Adriatic [Heller) : Mus. Norm. Naples 

 [Costa) \ Baltic [ZaddacJt) ; Sweden [Lilljeborg) ; Norway 

 {Boeck); Denmark [Meinert); Northern France [Guerne) ] 

 Western France [Mihie-Edrvards, Bouchard- Chantereaux^ 

 &c.) ; Portugal and Azores [Chevreaux). 



The Ibrm of the hand in the first gnathopods of the male 

 is very remarkable, the finger being peculiar as springing 

 from a deep hollow in the middle of the wide extremity of 

 the hand. It is well figured by Zaddach [I. c). 



2. Melita obtusata (Montagu). 



1815. Cancer ( Gammarus) obtusatus, Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol, ix. 

 p. 5, pi. ii. fig. 7. 



