CiiiKHi A. M. N'oiiiiaii <'/J British Amphipudi. 137 



Fa 111. \'l. Vibiliidae. 

 Genus ViniLlA, II. Milne-Edwards, 

 n. lihilid horcah'nj Hato & Westwood. 



\^^(VX Vihilia hurrnli.t, Rite & Westwood, (1) vol. ii. p. 524. 



lt*87. Vibilia Kroi/vri, Bovnllin", " SNV^tt'm. Li-it of Amphipoda My- 



pi'riidfn," Kill. t. K. Sv. Vet.-.Vknd. Hand. vol. xi. no. 16, p. 8. 

 1887, Vibilui Krhi/en'i, I{«ivnlliiis, "Arctic and .Vntnrctic IIypirid«,'' 



' \'t'^-a ' Exped. Vetenak. lakttAir. vol. iv. j). o')5. 

 1887. Vihilin hurealif. He vallius, " Contrib. Monog'. .Vmphip. Ily- 



jH>riidca," K. Sv. Vet.-.Vkad. Hand. vol. xxi. no. .5, p. 57. 

 1887. Vibilia Knii/eri, id. ibid. p. o8, pi. viii. Hjrs. 18-2r>. 



IJah. Two specimens from Thomas Edward, taken at 

 Banff, Scotland : Mus. Nur. 



J>i.slril>. West (/oast of Greenland (liovaUius). 



On referring to Edwards's own notos it is ck-ar that Bate 

 and ^^'e^'twood have erroneously applied the [trofusion which 

 Edwards saw in Parathemlsto oblivia to Vihilia. 



In drawing u|i the specific cliaracters of C. hurealis to distin- 

 guish it from other species, Bovallius writes : — " As the specific 

 character given by Bate and Westwood is applicable to several 

 of the known ]'il>ili(P, the diagnosis here is taken from the 

 generic characters of the authors compared with the drawing." 

 The brief diagnosis of the two species is as follows : — 



The head is not rostrate. 



a. The pereionnl sognieuts are dorsally smooth. 

 (ta. Ihe fifth and si.\th pairs of peieipoda 

 are scarcely longer tliau the third and 

 fourth pairs. 

 aaa. The femora of the first and second 

 pairs of pereiopoda («'. e. the gnatho- 

 pods) are narrow. 



1 . The peduncles of the uropoda aro 



shorter than the rami J', lorealis, B. & W. 



2. The peduncles of the uropoda are 



longer than the rami F. Kioyerii, Bov. 



Kespccting the uropoda, Bovallius has taken the character 

 of V. borealis from B. & W.'s woodcut, and while he has 

 adopted the generic cliaracters, in certain respects he has 

 taken no notice of the statement " Three posterior pairs of 

 jtlropoda irith the piJuJich loug and the rami short and 

 compressed.^^ This description of the uropods agrees with 

 Tiiy specimens received from Edward, and thus does away 

 with the assumed difference of W Krdi/eri and V. borealis. 



Tribe II. G A M M .v u r D i: a, 



Fam. I. Orchestiidae. 



Genus 1. Talitrls, Lalreille. 



10. Talitrus locusta (Pallas). 



1801. Talihiig locusta, Bate Si, Westwood, (1) vol. i. p. IG. 

 1891). TnUfruf locufta, G. 0. Sars, (142) p. 2.3, pi. i.x. 



