ORCHESTIA MEDITERRANEA.. 



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AMPHIPODA. 



SALTATORIA. 



ORCHESTIIDJS. 



ORCHESTIA MEDITERRANEA. 



Specific Character. Male. Second pair of gnathopoda having the pro- 

 podos broad posteriorly, and gradually tapering to a point anteriorly ; palm 

 very oblique, smooth, occupying nearly the whole of the inferior margin ; pos- 

 terior pair of pereiopoda having the meros and carpus broad in mature adults. 



Female. First pair of gnathopoda having the propodos long and cylin- 

 drical : the palm short ; the inferior angle but slightly tuberculated. 



Length of full-grown males about of an inch. 



0. mediterranea, COSTA, Rend. dell. Accad. Sci. Napoli, p. 171, 1853. 



SPENCE BATE, Cat. Amph. Brit. Museum, p. 24, pi. 



iv. fig. 5. 

 0. littorea, MILNE-EDWARDS, Ann. Sc. Nat. t. 20, Hist, des Crust. 



iii. p. 16, Regne An., Edit. CROCHARD, Crust, pi. 59, 



f. 3 (males), fig. 2 b-2 j (details). RATH KB, Fauna 



der Krym, t. 5, fig. 1-6. LUCAS, Exped. dans 



1'Algerie. 



0. littorea, var., WHITE, Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 163. 

 0. Icevis, SPENCE BATE, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. 1857, xix. 



p. 136. WHITE, Cat. Brit. Mus. Crust, p. 48. 



