MELITA OBTUSATA. 
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AMP HIP OD A. 
NAT ATOM A, 
GA MM A RIDES. 
Specific character. Second, third, fourth, and fifth segments of the pleon 
having small teeth upon the postero -dorsal margin. Dactyl os of the second 
pair of gnathopoda scimitar-shaped. 
Length A inch. 
Cancer ( Gammarus ) obtusatus. Montagu, Linn. Trans, vol. xi. p. 5, t. ii. 
fig. 7. 
Liljeborg, Ofvers. af kongl. Yet. Akad. 
Forhandl. 1854, p. 452. Bruzelius, 
Skand. Amph. Gam. p. 55. 
Milne Edwards, Ann. des Sc. Nat. t. xx. 
p. 377. Hist, des Crust, t. iii. p. 83. 
White, Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 51. Pop. 
Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 201. Gosse, Mar. 
Zool. i. p. 141. 
Liljeborg, Ofvers. af kongl. Vet. Akad. 
Forhandl. 1852, p. 10, 1853, p. 138. 
(Not of Johnston). 
Leach, MSS. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. 
Brit. Mus. p. 183, pi. xxxiii. fig. 3. 
The second, third, fourth, and fifth segments of the 
tail are furnished at the posterior margin, on the back, 
with a central and two small lateral denticles or tooth- 
Gammarus obtusatus. 
Amphithoe obtusata. 
Gammarus maculatus. 
Melita obtusata. 
