PODOCERES PELAGICUS. 
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A MPIIIP OP A . GA MM A RIDES. 
NATATOBTA. 
Specific character. Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos with 
the palm lunately excavate, lobed near the base, and defined by two or three 
stiff, short, blunt spines. 
Length \ inch. 
Jassa pelagica. Leach, Linn. Trans, xi. p. 361. Edin. Ency. 
vii. p. 433. Desmarest, Consid. sur Crust, 
p. 270. White, Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 54. 
Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 198. 
Podocerus pelagicus. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 255, 
pi. xliv. fig. 2. 
Cerapus pelagicus (pars). Milne Edwards, Hist. Crust, iii. p. 61. Cuvier, 
Regne An. (Ed. Croch.) pi. 61, fig. 2 (from 
Leach’s type in British Museum). 
The eyes are round ; and the superior antennae are 
not so long as the inferior which are not quite half the 
length of the animal. The second pair of hands are 
