AMPHIPODA. 

 ABERRANT!^. 



C YAM US CETI, 



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CYAMIDJ1. 



CYAMUS CETI. 

 The Whale Louse. 



Specific character. Body depressed, elliptical, segments gaping at the 

 sides (male narrower?). Third and fourth segments of the body with one 

 long brauchia on each side ; armed at the base with two short appendages ; 

 second pair of hands armed beneath with two obtuse teeth, between which 

 is a lunate incision. 



Length nearly half an inch. 



Pediculus Ceti. MARTENS, Voy. Spitzbergen, viii. tab. ix. fD(167l). 



LINN.EUS, Fauna Suecica, p. 499, No. 2056 (0ms- 

 cus C.). Syst. Nat. ii. p. 1060. SEBA, Thesaurus, 

 t. i. pi. xc. fig. 5. PALLAS, Spicilegia Zool. fasc. 9, 

 pi. iv. fig. 14, A B c. DE GEER, Mem. t. vii. 

 pi. xlii. figs. 6, 7 (Squille de la Baleine). FABRICIUS, 

 Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 570 (Pycnogonum C.}. 

 LAMARCK, Syst. Ann. s. Vertebr. p. 166 (Cyamus C.). 

 MULLER, Zool. Dan. iii. pi. cxix. figs. 13-17 



