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GAMMARIDiE. 
AMP HIP OB A . 
NATATORIAL 
PHOXIBES. 
PHOXUS PLTJMOSUS. 
Specific character. Superior antennae longer than the cephalon. Inferior 
antennae scarcely as long as the superior. Gnathopoda having the propodos 
long-ovate ; palm very oblique. Hairs on the margin of the coxae, as well as 
on the legs, plumose. 
Length, inch. 
Phoxus plumosus. Kroyer, Tidskr. vol. iv. p. 150. Spence Bate, Rep. 
Brit. Assoc. 1855, p. 58. Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. 
xx. p. 525, Feb. 1857. Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. 
p. 99, pi. xvi. fig, 3. White, Hist. Brit. Crust, 
p. 173. 
Phoxus fusiformis. Stimpson, Mar. Invert. Grand Maaan, p, 57. 
This animal in its general aspect ranch resembles the 
other species of this genus, but the projecting surface of 
the head is less acute. We have not been able to make 
out the eyes ; but Mr. Stimpson says, that in the Ameri- 
can specimen (which we consider, from his description, 
to be synonymous with the British) they are white. The 
