ORCHESTIA LITTOREA. 
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AMP HIP OB A. ORCHESTITDJE. 
SALTATORTA, 
( Shore-Hopp er . ) 
Specific character . — Propodos of the second pair of gnathopoda having 
the palm convex, slightly oblique, with a small tooth at the inferior angle. 
Posterior pair of pereiopoda, having the carpus and meros in the older 
males largely developed. Length of an inch. 
Cancer ( Gammarus ) littoreus, Montagu, Linn. Trans, ix. p. 96, t. 4, f. 4. 
Orchestia littorea, Leach, Edinb. Encycl. vii. p. 402, pi. 21, 
f. 6 ; Linn. Trans, xi. p, 356 ; Encycl. 
Brit. Suppl. i. 424. Desmarest, Cons, 
p. 261, t. 45, f. 3. Samouelle, Ent. 
Comp. p. 102. Latreille, Encycl. Meth. 
pi. 336, f. 1. White, Cat. Brit. Crust, 
p. 48 ; Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 162, 
pi. x. f. 1. Spence Bate, in Ann. Nat. 
Hist. 2nd ser. vol. xix. p. 136 ; Cat. Brit. 
Mas. p. 27. GrOSSE, Marine Zool. p. 142. 
