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AMPHIPODA. 



NATATORIA. 



GAMMARID^I. 



PHOXIDES. 



PHOXUS PLTJMOSUS. 



tc character. Superior antennae longer than the cephalon. Inferior 

 antennae scarcely as long as the superior. Gnathopoda having the propodos 

 long- ovate ; palm very oblique. Hairs on the margin of the coxse, as well as 

 on the legs, plumose. 

 Length, ^ inch. 



Phoxus plumosus. KROYER, Tidskr. vol. iv. p. 150. SPENCB BATE, Rep. 



Brit. Assoc. 1855, p. 58. Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. 



xx. p. 525, Feb. 1857. Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. 



p. 99, pi. xvi. fig. 3. WHITE, Hist. Brit. Crust. 



p. 173. 

 Phoxus fusiformis. STIMPSOX, Mar. Invert. Grand Manan, p. 57. 



THIS animal in its general aspect much resembles the 

 other species of this genus, but the projecting surface of 

 the head is less acute. We have not been able to make 

 out the eyes ; but Mr. Stimpson says, that in the Ameri- 

 can specimen (which we consider, from his description, 

 to be synonymous with the British) they are white. The 



