CAPRELLA LOB AT A. 



AMPHIPODA. 

 ABERRANTIA. 



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CAPRELLID^E. 



CAPRELLA LOBATA. 



Specific character. Body unarmed except by a few minute tubercles 

 occasionally present, especially upon the dorsal surface of the three posterior 

 segments of the pereion. First segment of the pereion long ; second scarcely 

 longer than the first. Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos long- 

 ovate ; palm defined by one, and armed with two teeth, the anterior being 

 less distinct than the posterior. 



Length f inch. 



Squilla lobata. MULLER, Zool. Dan. Prod. 197, No. 2359. 0. FABR. 



Fauna Grb'nl. p. 248. SAMOUELLE, Ent. Comp. 



p. 106. 

 Caprella lobata. GUERIN, Iconogr. R. An. Crust, pi. xxviii. fig. 2. 



KROYER, Voyage en Scand. pi. xxv. fig. 3a. STIMPSON, 



Nat. Hist. Invert. Grand Manan, p. 44. THOMPSON, 



Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 244. SPENCE BATE, Cat. 



Amph. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 354, pi. Iv. fig. 8. Ann. 



Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 151. 



Squitta quadrttobata. MULLER, Zool. Dan. t. 114, fig. 11, 12. 

 j/Bgina lonyicornis. KROYER, Voy. en Scand. pi. xxvi. fig. 3. 

 Caprella Icevis. G-OODSIR, Edin. New Phil. Journ. xxxiii. p. 189, pi. iii. 



fig. 4. WHITE, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 215. 



Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 60. 

 Caprella lincaris. LEACH, Edin. Enc. vii. p. 404 ? 



IN this species the animal is generally smooth, but 

 we have occasionally seen specimens which have a few 

 minute tubercles on the back, those most important and 



