134 CARL BOVALLIUS, AMPHIPODA HYPERIIDEA. I. 2. HYPERIID.E. 



Hyp eria. 



Fanning Islands and Lower 

 California". Bulletin of the 

 United States Natural Museum. 

 1877. N:o 7, p. 125 and 127. 

 Lestrigonus, H. MILNE EDWAKLS. G. M. Giles. 1887. »On six new Amphipods from 



the Bay of Bengal". Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society of Ben- 

 gal. Vol.56. Part 2. Natural 

 History, p. 224. 



The typical species of the genus Hyperia, is, as mentioned above, the first deter- 

 minable Hyperiidean animal recorded in literature. It is the »Marflue under Gopler» or y>Pulex 

 cancriformis antennis brevissimis, corpore latiore» of H. Str0m, described and delineated 

 in his »Physisk og Oeconomisk Beskrivelse over Fogderiet Sondm0r», printed in 1762. 

 The drawing was reproduced in 1818 by Latreille 1 ), and cited by H. Milne Edwards 2 ) 

 as the type for Latreille's generic name Hyperia. 



The original generic diagnosis of Latreille, as cited by Desmarest in 1823, runs: 



»Quatre antennes setacees. Les dix pieds, proprement dits, mediocrement longs, et tous 

 termines par un article simple et pointu. Tete assez petite, ronde, plane en devant, point pro- 

 longed en rostre. Corps conique, termine par deux lames triangulares, alongees, horizontales.» 



In 1825 Desmarest reprinted the same diagnosis. The same year Audouin, quoting 

 Latreille and Desmarest, reproduced it with a few insignificant verbal alterations. 



In 1829 Latreille gave a new generic description remarkable for his observation 

 that the antenna? Avere multi-articulate. It is thus probable, or at least possible that 

 he included both the male and the female form in his genus Hyperia, the descrip- 

 tion of which runs: 



»Les Hyperies, Hyperia, Latr., dont le corps est plus epais en devant; dont la tete est 

 oecupee, en majeure partie, par des yeux oblongs et un peu echanchres au bord interne; dont 

 deux des antennes sont aussi longues au moins que la moitie du corps, et terminees par une 

 tige setacee, longue et composee de plusieurs petits articles.» 



This diagnosis in 1836 was translated into German by F. S. Voigt. 3 ) 

 In 1829 Straus-Durckheim gave a good diagnosis of his new genus Hiella, which 

 in the following year was recognized by H. Milne Edwards as a synonym for Hyperia, 

 Latreille. The description seems however to regard only the female: 



»Tete hemispherique, quatre antennes courtes en alene de quatre articles; bouche saillante, 

 composee d'un labre, d'une paire de mandibules, de deux paires de machoires et d'une levre 

 inferieure terminee par deux lobules; le tronc et l'abdomen chacun de sept segmens mobiles; 

 sept paires de pates ambulatoires, dont quatre dirigees en avant et trois en arriere; une pair de 

 f'ausses pates a chaque segment abdominal. » 



1 ) Crustaces, Arachnides et Insectes». Tableau encyclopedique et methodique de trois regnes de la nature 

 24 me partie, pi. 328, fig. 17—19. 



2 ) Le regne animal, distribue d'apres son organisation — — — , par Georges Cuvier. Edition accom- 

 pagnee des planches gravees. Paris (1849), p. 172, footnote 1. 



3 ) Das Thierreich . . . vom Baron von Cuvier . . . iibers. Von F. S. Voigt. 4:ter Band, p. 201. 

 Leipzic, 1836. 



