MICRODEOTOPtJS GRYLLOTALPA . 



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AM PHI POD A. 



NATATOR1A. 



GAMMARIDES. 



MICRODEUTOPUS GRYLLOTALPA. 



Specific character. First pair of gnathopoda having the carpus furnished 

 infero-distally with a sharp tooth. 

 Length fa inch. 



Microdeutopus gryllotalpa. 



Levibos Damn on iens is. 



Lembos Danmoniensis. 



COSTA, Rend, della Reale Accad. delle Sci. di 

 Napoli, 1853, p. 178. and Mem. pel. 1853, 

 tav. 4, fig. 10. SPENCE BATE, Cat. Ainph. 

 Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 163, pi. xxx. f. 1. 



SPENCE BATE, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1855, p. 58. 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 142, 1857. 



WHITE, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 180. 



THE eyes are round, small, and white, with black spots. 

 The superior antennas are about half the length of the 

 animal. The flagellum is longer than the peduncle, and 

 the secondary appendage consists of but a single articulus. 

 The inferior antennae reach to about half the length of 

 the flagellum of the superior, while the flagellum is not 

 longer than the last joint of the peduncle of the inferior. 

 The first pair of legs have the wrist and hand associated 

 in the formation of the claw. The wrist is large, strong, 

 and furnished at the infero-distal extremity with a strong 



