MICRODEUTOPUS VERSICULATUS. 
£95 
AMPIIIPODA. 
NAT ATOM A. 
GA MM A RIDES. 
MICRODEUTOPUS VERSICULATUS. 
Specific character. Gfnathopoda not completely chelate, and furnished 
with a copious brush of hairs. 
Length ^ inch. 
Lernbos versiculatus. Spence Bate, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1855, p. 58. 
Synopsis, &c., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. 
p. 142. Feb. 1857. White, Pop. Hist. 
Brit. Crust, p. 180. 
Microdentopus versiculatus. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 165, 
pi. xx. fig. 5. 
The eyes are small. The superior antennse are about 
half the length of the animal ; the flagellum being a little 
longer than the peduncle ; and the secondary appendage is 
uni-articulate, and furnished with two long terminal hairs. 
The first pair of legs have the wrist rather longer and as 
broad as the hand, both margins of the joints being 
continuous and thickly fringed with hairs ; the palm is 
not defined, neither is the finger serrated upon the 
inner margin. The second pair of legs have the wrist 
and hand of about equal length and diameter. The 
wrist is furnished upon the anterior margin with a thick 
