KONGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND. 22. N-.o 7. 



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the fifth pair is not longer than tiie tibia, and is not serrated. The lateral parts of the pleonal 

 segments are angulated beliind. The peduncle oF the last pair of nvojooda is inore than 

 twice as long as broad. The telsoii. is longer than broad, and shorter than the last ural 

 segment; it is broader than the peduncle of the last pair of uropoda, but not half as long 

 as the same peduncle. 



Colour. Yellowish green speckled with dark red. 



Length. 9—15 mm. 



Hab, The Northern temperate region of the Atlantic: the North Sea, and off the South coast 

 of England. The tropical region of the Atlantic: the West-Indies. (D. M.; F. M.; 

 S. M.) 



Syn. 1813. Cancer Gammarus galba, MONTAGU 



Hyperia galba, 



— Descriptions of several new or 



rare Aniinals, prinoipally raa- 

 rine, disoovered on the South 

 Coast of Devonshire.» Träns, 

 of the Linnean Society of 

 London. Vol. 11, Part 1, 

 p. 4, pl. 2, fig. 2. 



F. E. GuÉRiN. 1825. »Uroptére.u Encyolopédie Mé- 



thodique. Histoire naturelle. 

 Torne 10"S p. 771. 



A. White. 1847. List of the Specimens of Cru- 



stacea in the Collection of the 

 British Museum, p. 90. 



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



Keport on the 25'-^ Meeting 

 of the British Association for 

 the Advanceraent of Scince, at 

 Glasgow, 1855, p. 59. 



W. Thompson. 1856. The Natuial History of L-eland. 



Vol. 4, p. 397. 



Kinahan. 1859. »Notes on dredging in Belfast 



Bay». The Natural History 

 Eeview. Vol. 6, p. 83. 



SPENCEBATEandWESTWOOu. 1868. A History of the British Sessile- 



eyed Crustacea. Vol. 2, p. 

 12, fig. 



Th. Edward. 1868. »Stray Notes on soine of the 



smaller Crustaceans. 1. On 

 the habits etc. of the Hy- 

 periidse». The Journal of the 

 Linnean Society. Zoology. 

 Vol. 9, p. 143. 



A. Merle Norman. 1869. »Shetland Einal Dredging Re- 



port». Part. 2. On the Crus- 

 tacea» etc. Report of the 38"^ 

 Meeting of the British Asso- 



