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Gammarus pulex (De Geer). 



In lakes and streams everywhere, N.D. 



NiPHARGUS SUBTERRANEUS (Leach). 



1863. Niphargus aquilex, Bate and Westvvood, Brit. 



Amphip., vol. i., p. 315. 

 1900. Niphargus subterraneus, Chilton, The Subterranean 

 Amphipoda of Great Britain. Jour. Linn. Soc, Zool., 

 vol. xxviii., p. 147, pis. xvi., xvii., fig. i. 

 It is also Gaj7wiarus puteanus Koch and Niphargus stygius 

 Westvvood. 



The late Mr. R. Howse gave me a specimen of this species 

 in 1893, which had come from a well in West Hartlepool 

 (A. M. N.) D. 



Melita obtusata (Montagu) = Melita proxinia Bate = 



Megamcera Alderi Bate $. 



Near the Dogger Bank, 1862 ; fishing boats, Cullercoats, 



1864 (A. M. N.); 25 miles off Alnmouth, 59 fathoms, and 30 



miles off the Fames, 42 fathoms (A. Mk.) N. 



Melita dentata (Kroyer). 



1889. Metita dentata, Norman, Notes on British Amphipoda. 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. iv., p. 135, pi. xii., 

 figs. 8-10. 

 Three specimens taken from fishing boat at Cullercoats 

 (A. M. N.); 25 miles E. of Alnmouth, 50 fathoms (A. Mk.) 



Bate and Westwood write respecting Mcera grossimatia, 

 " Dr. Johnston records it as not rare in Berwick Bay (Zool. 

 Journ., iii., 180)." That southern species is not at all likely 

 to be found on the north-east coast, and there can be little 

 doubt that in this as in some other cases Melita dentata was 

 mistaken for that species. N. 



Melita palmata (Montagu). 



Eighty-two miles E. by N. from Tynemouth in 40-45 

 fathoms, October, 1901 (A. Mk.); in a small salt-water pond 

 at Amble (G. S. B.). The first locality given is a very un- 

 usual one for this species. N. 



