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AMPHIPODA. 



ABERRANTIA. 



CAPRELLID.E. 



CAPRELLID^E. 



CAPRELLA LINEARIS. 

 Pennant's Skeleton Shrimp. 



Specific character. Cephalon and pereion smooth and unarmed. Second 

 pair of gnathopoda in the male having the propodos with the palm armed 

 with a single tooth, in the female with two small tubercles, and in both defined 

 by a short process armed with a spine. 



Length \ inch. 



Cancer linearis. LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 1056 ? Herbst. 



Krabben, ii. pi. xxxvi. fig. 9, 10. 



Caprella linearis. MILNE EDWARDS, Hist, des Crust, iii. p. 106. 



DESMAREST, Consid. sur Crust, p. 278. LA- 

 TREILLE, Hist. n. Crust, et Ins. vi. p. 324, 

 pi. Ivii. fig. 2-5. JOHNSTON, Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 viii. p. 672, fig. 71. Risso, Crust de Nice, 

 p. 130. GTOODSIR, Edin. New Phil. Journ. 

 xxxiii. p. 190, pi. iii. fig. 8. R. Q. COUCH, 

 in Rep. Penzance, Nat. Hist. Soc. 1852, p. 98. 

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

 151. Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 353, pi. Iv. 

 fig. 7. WHITE, Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 59. Pop. 

 Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 214. 



