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 (7. Hd- 
ward): Mus. Norm. (Wirkwall Bay, Orkney (D. Robertson). 
Distribution. Floré, Norway (A. M. N.): Mus. Norm. 
Off west coast of Schleswig-Holstein (Metzger) ; Kiel (Blanc) ; 
Holland (Hoek); Denmark (Meznert) ; Bohusliin (Bruze- 
lius); Norway, many places (Rathke dc.) ; St. Lunaire, 
France, M. Dolfuss (Chevreaux); Bay of Biseay (Chev- 
redux). 
Genus VIII. Metira, Leach, 1813. 
1. Melita palmata (Montagu). 
180€. Cancer (Gammarus) palmatus, Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
vol, vii. p. 69, pl. vi. fig. 4. 
1813. Mehta palmata, Leach, Edinb. Encycl. vol. vii. p. 405. 
1840. Gammarus Dugesit, M.-Edwards, Hist. des Crust. vol. iii. p. 54. 
1853. Melita palmata, Costa, Rec. sui Crost. Amfip. del Regno di 
Napoli, p. 192, pl. i1. fig. 4. 
1857. Gammarus inequimanus, Bate, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 
vol. xix. p. 145. 
1862. Melita palmata, Bate & Westw. Brit. Sessile-eyed Crust. vol. 1. 
387 
Pp: . 
1876. Melita palmata, Boeck, De Skand. og Arkt. Amphip. p. 388, 
l. xxiv. fig. 4. 
1878. Melita palmata, G. Zaddach, Die Meeres-Fauna an der preuss- 
ischen Kiiste, p. 25, woodcuts. 
Hab. Firth of Clyde; Guernsey; Starcross, Devon (A. 
M. N.); Polperro, Cornwall (Laughlin): Mus. Norm. 
Banff (7. Edward); Rhos and Colwyn Bays, North Wales 
(A. O. Walker); Ilfracombe and Seaton, Devonshire (Par- 
tt). 
a one Adriatic (Heller): Mus. Norm. Naples 
(Costa); Baltic (Zaddach); Sweden (Lilleborg) ; Norway 
(Boeck) ; Denmark (Meztnert); Northern France (Guerne) ; 
Western France (Milne-Edwards, Bouchard-Chantereauz, 
cc.) ; Portugal and Azores (Chevreaux). 
The form 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 (7. ¢.). 
2. Melita obtusata (Montagu). 
1815. Cancer (Gammarus) obtusatus, Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. ix. 
pO; pl diag, 7. 
