DRYOPE. 487 



A MPIJIPODA . P ODOCERIDES. 



NATATORIA. 



Genus DRYOPE. 



Dry ope,. SPENCE BATE, Cat. Araph. Brit. Mus. p. 276. 

 Unciola. G-OSSE, Marine Zool. i. p. 141 (not of Say). 



Generic character. Body not laterally compressed. Antennae 

 subequal, terminating in a multi-articulate flagellum ; the su- 

 perior not having a secondary appendage. Gnathopoda sub- 

 chelate, first pair being larger than the second. Posterior pair 

 of pleopoda the shortest, double-branched. Telson squami- 

 form. 



IN this genus the body of the animal is long and 

 not compressed. The eyes are small. The antennae are 

 nearly of equal length, and terminate in multi-articulate 

 flagella, but there is no secondary appendage to the 

 superior pair. The hands of the first two pairs of legs 

 are subchelate ; the second, which is the smaller, might, 

 indeed, perhaps be described as being imperfectly 

 chelate. The coxse of all the legs are small ; and the 

 caudal appendages have the branches spinous ; the 

 posterior pair are the shortest. The middle tail-piece is 

 single and squamiform. 



This genus is founded upon an animal discovered by 

 Mr. Gosse, and supposed by him to belong to Unciola 

 of Say ; but this genus differs from that of Unciola in 

 the absence of the secondary appendage to the superior 

 antennae, in the subchelate condition of the second pair 

 of hands, and probably also in the form of the telson. 



