APPENDIX. 521 



AMPHIPODA. HYPERIID^E. 



HYPERINA. ( Vol. II. p. 18.***) 



HYPERIA CYANEJ3. 



Specific character. Superior antennae very short ; flagellum scarcely longer 

 than the peduncle. Gnathopoda subequal and nearly alike ; first pair short, 

 with the propodos subovate ; superior margin arcuate, inferior straight. Dac- 

 tyla of three posterior pairs of pereiopoda long, sharp, and furnished with a 

 bunch of cilia in the middle. 



Length, rather more than three -twentieths of an inch. 



Talitrus cyanece. SABINE, Appendix to Parry's Voyage, pi. i. figs. 1218. 

 Metoechus cyanece. EDWARDS, Hist, des Crust, iii. p. 78. WHITE, Cat. 



Brit. Crust. (Brit. Mus.) 1847. 

 Hyperia cyanece. SPENCE BATE, Cat. Amph. p. 294, pi. 48, fig. 10. 



A specimen of Hyperia has been sent to us by Mr. Edward, 

 of Banff, that we take to be a variety of this species: it differs 

 in having the antennre much less developed than those in 

 the typical specimens. It looks like a young H. Galba, with 

 rudimentary antennse, but one of the specimens sent to us 

 has the incubatory pouch of the adult female fully developed, 

 so that we cannot mistake it for a young animal. Mr. 

 Edward says that he has never taken this species in a Medusa, 

 and that he has frequently found it on the shores of the 

 Moray Frith in December, January, and February, that is, 

 at a time when the Medusae are not on the coast. 



