MICRODEUTOPUS VERSICULATUS. 295 



AMPHIPODA . GAMMARIDES. 



NATATORIA. 



MICRODEUTOPUS VERSICULATUS. 



Specific character. Grnathopoda not completely chelate, and furnished 

 with a copious brush of hairs. 

 Length ^ inch. 



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



Synopsis, &c., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. 



p. 142. Feb. 1857. WHITE, Pop. Hist. 



Brit. Crust, p. 180. 

 Microdentopus versiculatus. SPENCE BATE, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 165, 



pi. xx. fig. 5. 



THE eyes are small. The superior antennae are about 

 half the length of the animal ; the flagellum being a little 

 longer than the peduncle ; and the secondary appendage is 

 uni-articulate, and furnished with two long terminal hairs. 

 The first pair of legs have the wrist rather longer and as 

 broad as the hand, both margins of the joints being 

 continuous and thickly fringed with hairs ; the palm is 

 not defined, neither is the finger serrated upon the 

 inner margin. The second pair of legs have the wrist 

 and hand of about equal length and diameter. The 

 wrist is furnished upon the anterior margin with a thick 



