PODOCERUS VARIEGATUS. 
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AMPHIPODA. PODOCERIDES. 
NAT ATOM A. 
PODOCERUS VARIEGATUS. 
Specific character. Eyes small, oblong. Second pair of gnatbopoda 
having the propodos large, ovate ; palm oblique, fringed with a few plumose 
cilia. Dactylos serrated. 
Length ^ inch. 
Podocerus variegatus. Leach, Edin. Encyc. vii. p. 433. Linn. Trans, xi. 
p. 361. Suppl. Enc. Brit. i. 426. Samouelle, 
Ent. Comp. p. 104. Desmarest, Consid. sur 
Crust, p. 269. Milne Edwards, Ann. des Sci. 
Nat. t. xx. p. 384. Regne Animal, pi. Ixi. fig. 4. 
(Edit. Crochard, from Leach’s type.) Hist, des 
Crust, t. iii. p. 63. Spence Bate, Rep. Brit. 
Assoc. 1855. Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. xix. p. 148. 
Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 254, pi. xliii. fig. 10. 
White, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 197. Gosse, 
Mar. Zool. i. p. 141. 
The back is perfectly smooth. # The eyes are small, 
* Prof. Milne Edwards in his Crochard Edition of the “Regne Animal,” has 
represented the first two segments of the tail postero-dorsally produced into 
