AMPHIPODA. 



NATATORIA. 



CERAPUS ABD1TUS. 455 



PODOCERTDES. 



CERAPUS ABDITUS. 



Specific character. Eyes transversely ovate. Antennae subequal. Epi- 

 stoma produced to a point. Second pair of gnathopoda having the subapical 

 process of the carpus double -pointed. 



Length about \ inch. 



Cerapus abditus. 



Cerapodina abditus. 

 Erictkonius dijffbrmis. 



TEMPLETON, Trans. Ent. Soc. i. p. 188, pi. xx. fig. 5. 



SPENCE BATE, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 263, 



pi. xlv. fig. 2. 



MILNE EDWARDS, Hist, des Crust, t. iii. p. 62. 

 SPENCE BATE, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 149. 



WHITE, Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 196 (not Edwards). 



THE eyes are oval, placed longitudinally in the head, 

 and red in colour.* The superior antennae (broken off 

 in the specimen drawn above) are about the same length 

 as the inferior. The epistoina projects anteriorly in the 



* Templeton gives the colour of the eyes of his specimen as black, with a 

 pale encircling ring. 



