CALLIOPE OSSIANI. 
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AMPHIPODA. GAMMA RIDES. 
NAT ATOM A. 
Specific description. Propodos of the second pair of gnathopoda much 
larger than the first. Palm straight, not oblique, furnished with a few short 
spines near the inferior angle ; three posterior legs with the middle joints 
very broad and acutely angulated. 
Length \ inch. 
Calliope Ossiani. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 149, pi. xxviii. 
fig. 3. 
The head is produced anteriorly to a very minute 
point; the three anterior segments of the tail are dorsally 
elevated posteriorly, and very slightly carinated, The 
eyes are white, — a circumstance that was kindly pointed 
out to us by the Rev. A. M. Norman, who states it to be 
so constant a feature that by it he could at once dis- 
tinguish this species. The superior antennas are longer 
than the inferior. The first pair of legs are small ; the 
