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CARL BOVALLIUS, AMPHIPODA HYPERIIDEA. I. 2. 



HYPERIID^E. 



The eighth family, HYPEBIIDiE, DANA, 1852. 



Diagn. Caput magnum, tumidum, plus minusve globosum. Oculi grandes. Antenna' primi paws 

 recta?, parti anterior! capitis affixag, articulus primus flagelli crassus, elongatus, ceteri in 

 mare multi, filiformes, in femina perpauci vel nulli. Antenna? secundi paris antennis primi 

 paris subsimiles, parti anteriori capitis affixse. Instruments oris masticatoria; mandibular 

 palpo instructae. Pedes peroei parium quinque ultimorum ambulatorii, vel plus minusve 

 prehensiles, pedes septimi paris non transformati. Pedes uri ramis instruct!. 



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, the following ones are many, filiform in the male, in the female they are 

 very few or wanting. The second pair of antennae 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 legs, or 

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

 poda are provided with rami. 



Syn. 1852. Hyperidw, J. D. DANA. 



Spence Bate. 



»On the Classification 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. 

 Crustacea. Vol. 2, p. 980 and 

 1442. 



1856. »On the British Edriophthalma. Part. 

 1. The Amphipodao. Report of 

 the 25th meeting of the Brit. 

 Association, - - at Glasgow 1855, 

 p. 59. 



1860. »Beimerkninger angaaende de ved de 

 Norske Kyster forekommende Am- 

 phipoder». Forhandl. ved de Skan- 

 dinaviske Naturforskeres 8:de 

 M0de, i Kjabenhavu, 1860, p. 635. 



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

 p. 287. 



1865. "Crustacea amphipoda maris Spets- 

 bergiam alluentis, cum speciebus 

 aliis arcticis». Ofversigt af K. Sv. 

 Vet. Ak. Forhandl. 1865, N:o 8, 

 p. 17. 

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

 eyed Crustacea. Vol. 2, p. 2. 



A. Boeck. l ) 



Spence Bate. 



A. Goes. 



l ) Boeck calls the Hyperidae here »F0rste Tribus» and places »Hyperince» as its second subfamily. 



