CIROLANA SPINIPES. 



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1SOPODA. 



NORMAL1A. 



CIROLANA SPINIPES. 



Specific character. Cephalon wider than long, with a curved incised line 

 on each side parallel with the lateral margin. Pereion very convex, smooth. 

 Pereiopoda strong and broad, armed with numerous spines ; inner ramus 

 of the posterior pair of pleopoda (uropoda) larger than the outer, elongate - 

 ovate, acute at the tip, basal joint produced into a short subconical point. 



Length, nearly one inch. 



Cirolana hirtipes ? MILNE EDWARDS, Crust, iii. p. 236, t. 31, f. 25. 

 CUVIER, R&gne Animal (Edit. Crochard), Crust, 

 t. 67, f. 6 ? W. THOMPSON, in Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 xx. p. 246. WHITE, B. M. Cat. Brit. Crust, 

 p. 79. Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 850. 



THIS species is at once distinguished from the typical 

 C. Cranchii-the only one hitherto described as a native 

 of Northern climates by its robust form, convex glossy 

 body, thick spinose legs, and by the shortness of the 



