PODOCERUS FALCATUS. 



AMPH1PODA. 



NATATORIA. 



445 



GAMMARIDES. 



PODOCERUS FALCATUS. 



Specific character. Inferior antennae longer than the superior. Second 

 pair of gnathopoda having the propodos ovate, palm very oblique, imperfectly 

 defined, and armed with two obtuse teeth. 



Length 5 7 g inch. 



Cancer Gammarus falcatus. MONTAGU, Linn. Trans, ix. p. 100, pi. v. fig. 2. 



Cerapus pelagicus (pars). 

 Podocerus falcatus. 



Jassa falcata. 



Cerapits falcatus. 



MILNE EDWARDS, Hist, des Crust, t. iii. p. 61. 

 SPENCE BATE, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 255, 



pi. xliv. fig. 1. 

 WHITE, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 198. LEACH, 



Linn. Trans, xi. p. 361. Edin. Encyc. vii. 



p. 433. 

 THOMPSON, Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 244. 



THIS species may readily be distinguished from the 

 preceding by the greater length of the inferior pair of 

 antennae, which are nearly as long as the body of the 

 animal. The second pair of hands are large and ovate, 

 having the palm scarcely defined, but armed with two 

 powerful but rather blunt teeth, the one situated near 



