MICRODEUTOPUS GRYLLOTALPA. 
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AMPHIPODA. 
NAT ATOM A. 
GA MM A RIDES. 
MICRODEUTOPUS GRYLLOTALPA. 
Specific character. First pair of gnathopoda having the carpus furnished 
infero-distally with a sharp tooth. 
Length ^ inch. 
Microdeutopus gryllotalpa. Costa, Rend, della Reale Accad. delle Sci. di 
Napoli, 1853, p. 178. and Mem. pel. 1853, 
tav. 4, fig. 10. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. 
Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 163, pi. xxx. f. 1. 
Lembos Damnoniensis. Spence Bate, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1855, p. 58. 
Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 142, 1857. 
Lembos Danmoniensis. White, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 180. 
The eyes are round, small, and white, with black spots. 
The superior antennae are about half the length of the 
animal. The flagellum is longer than the peduncle, and 
the secondary appendage consists of but a single articulus. 
The inferior antennae reach to about half the length of 
the flagellum of the superior, while the flagellum is not 
longer than the last joint of the peduncle of the inferior. 
The first pair of legs have the wrist and hand associated 
in the formation of the claw. The wrist is large, strong, 
and furnished at the infero-distal extremity with a strong 
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