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AMPHIPODA. 



ABERRANTIA. 



CAPRELLID^E. 



CAPRELLID^E. 



CAPRELLA TUBERCULATA. 



Specific character. Male. Cephalon not lobed. First two segments of the 

 pereion long and smooth ; the five last shorter and dorsally tuberculated. 

 Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos long, pubescent; palm defined 

 by a strong tooth. 



Length 4 inch. 



Female. Cephalon surmounted by a tooth, and the pereion dorsally tuber- 

 culated. Second pair of gnathopoda defined by a small tooth. 



Length inch. 



Caprella tuberculata. GUERIN, Icon. R. An. Crust, pi. xxviii. fig. 1. 



GOODSIR, Edin. New Phil. Journ. xxxiii. p. 



188, pi. iii. fig. 6. W. THOMPSON, Ann. 



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



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



Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 60. Pop. Hist. Brit. 



Crust, p. 215, pi. xi. fig. 5. 

 Fern. Caprella acuminifera. JOHNSTON, Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 40. fig. 7a 



(not of Latreille and Desmarest). 

 Fern. Caprella acanthifera. JOHNSTON, Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 671, fig. 70. 



R. Q. COUCH, Rep. Penzance, Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1852, p. 96 (not of Leach). SPENCE BATE, 



Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 360. pi. Ivii. 



fig. 2. 



