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CARL BOVALLIUS, AMPHIPODA HYPERIIDEA. I. 2. 



HY1'EKIID^. 



The eighth family, HYPERIIDJ], DANA, 1852. 



Diagn, Caput magnum, tumidum, plus minusve globosuni. Oculi grandes. Antemue primi paris 

 rectffi, parti anteriori capitis affixfe, articulus primus flagelli crassus, elongatus, ceteri in 

 mare multi, filiformes, in femina perpauci vel nuUi. Antenna; seciindi paris antennis primi 

 paris subsimiles, parti anteriori capitis affixs. Instrumenta oris masticatoria; mandibulas 

 palpo instruct». Pedes jterwi parium quinque ultimoriim ambulatorii, vel plus minusve 

 prehensiles, pedes septimi paris non transformati. Pedes uri ramis instructi. 



The head is large, tumid, more or less globular. The eyes are large. The first pair of an- 

 tenna; are straight, fixed at the anterior side of the head, the first joint of the flagellum is 

 thick, elongated, tiie following ones ai-e many, filiforni in the male, in the female they are 

 very few or wanting. The second pair of antennas are rather similar to the first pair, fixed 

 at the anterior side of the head. The mouth-organs are adapted for mastication, the man- 

 dibles are provided with a palp. The last five pairs of perceopoda are walking lags, or 

 some of them are more or less prehensile, the seventh pair are not transformed. The uro- 

 2)oda are provided with rami. 



Syn. 1852. Hyperidce, J. D. DANA. 



— )>0n the Classitication of the Crusta- 



cea Choristopoda or Tetradeca- 

 poda». The American Journal of 

 Science and Arts. Second Series. 

 Vol. 14, p. 314. 

 » 1852. United States Exploring- Expedition. 



Crustaoea. Vol. 2, p. 980 and 

 1442. 



Spence Bate. 1856. »On the British Edriophthalma. Part. 



1. The Amphipoda». Report of 

 the 25th meeting of the Brit. 

 Association, - - at Glasgow 1855, 

 p. 59. 



A. BoECK. ') 1860. »Bemrerkninger angaaende de ved de 



Norske Kyster forekommende Am- 

 phipoder». Porhandl. ved de Skan- 

 dinaviske Naturforskeres 8:de 

 M0de, i KJ0benhavn, 1860, p. 6.35. 



Spence Bate. 1862. Catal. Amph. Crust. Brit. Museum, 



p. 287. 



A. GoÉs. 1865. »Crnstacea araphipoda inaris Spets- 



bergiam alluentis, cum speciebus 

 aliis arcticis». Ofversigt af K. Sv. 

 Vet. Ak. Förhand]. 1865, N:o 8, 

 p. 17. 



Spence Bate and Westwood. 1868. A History of the British Sessile- 



eyed Crnstacea. Vol. 2, p. 2. 



') BoECK calls the Hyperidae here »Piarste Tribus') and places »Hyperincen as its second subfamily. 



