PODOCERUS FALCATUS. 
445 
A MP II IP OB A . OA MM A RIDES, 
NATATORIA. 
PODOCERUS EALCATUS. 
Specific character. Inferior antennae longer than the superior. Second 
pair of gnathopoda having the propodos ovate, palm very oblique, imperfectly 
defined, and armed with two obtuse teeth. 
Length inch. 
Cancer Gammarus falcatus. 
Cerapus pelagicus (pars). 
Podocerus falcatus. 
Jassa falcata. 
Cerapus falcatus. 
Montagu, Linn. Trans, ix. p. 100, pi. v. fig. 2. 
Milne Edwards, Hist, des Crust, t. iii. p. 61. 
Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 255, 
pi. xliv. fig. 1. 
White, Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 198. Leach, 
Linn. Trans, xi. p. 361. Edin. Encyc. vii. 
p. 433. 
Thompson, Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 244. 
This species may readily be distinguished from the 
preceding by the greater length of the inferior pair of 
antennae, which are nearly as long as the body of the 
animal. The second pair of hands are large and ovate, 
having the palm scarcely defined, but armed with two 
powerful but rather blunt teeth, the one situated near 
