268 CARL BOVALLIUS, AMPHIPODA HYPERIIDEA. I. 2. HYPERIID^. 



6. PARATHEMISTO GRACILIPE8, A. MERLE NORMAN, 1869. 



Parathemisto graeilipes, Noeman. 

 Facsimile frora Spence Bate and Westwood, Brit. Seasile-cyed Crust., II, p. 16. 



Diagn. Corpus non carinatum. Cajput segmenta tria prima periei longitudine tequans. Carpus pednm 

 percn primi paris metacarpo longior; margo posterior metacarpi serratus; dactylus dimidio 

 metacarpi brevior. Metacarpus pedum secundi paris carpum longitudine Eequans; carpus 

 non productus, spinis nonullis, margini posteriori afSxis, instructus; dactylus dimidium 

 metacarpi longitudine asquans. Metacarpus pedum tertii ac quarti parium carpo longior. 

 Metacarpus pedum parium trium ultimorum articulis duobus prascedentibus longior. 



The body is not carinated. The Jiead is as long as the first three perasonal segments to- 

 gether. The carpus of the first pair of perceopoda is longer than the metacarpus; the hind 

 margin of the metacarpus is serrated; the dactylus is not half as long as the metacarpus. 

 The metacarpus of the second pair is as long as the stem of the carpus; the carpus is 

 not produced, provided with a few long bristles on the hind margin ; the dactylus is half 

 as long as the metacarpus. The metacarpus of the third and fourth pairs is longer than 

 the carpus; that of the last three pairs is longer than the two preceding joints together. 



Colour. »Light straw, having the back starred with a few spöts of black pigment (Sp. Bate and 

 Westwood). 



Length. 5 mm., ('Vgo'''^ °^ ^^^ inch, Spence Bate). 

 Hab. Moray Frith (Spence Bate). 



