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COROPHIIDiE. 
AMPIIIPODA. PODO OERIDES. 
NATATORIA. 
Specific character. Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos with 
the palm deeply notched, and the margin very delicately crennlated. 
Length | inch. 
Noenia rimapalma. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 272, pi. xlvi. 
fig. 3. 
The eyes are round, and black ; and the antennae, 
which are nearly equal, are about two- thirds of the 
length of the animal ; the inferior pair are slightly longer 
than the superior ; the flagellum in each pair is longer 
than the peduncle. The first pair of legs are long and 
slender ; the hand and the wrist being nearly of the 
same length, and scarcely broader than the other joints ; 
the palm is oblique and concave ; and the finger, which 
is longer than the palm, is sharp and distinctly serrated 
upon the inner margin. The second pair of legs have 
the wrist short ; the hand long-quadrate, with the palm 
oblique, having near its middle a deep notch, from 
whence the specific name of the animal is derived ; the 
margin of the palm is furnished with a row of small, 
regular, bead-like protuberances. In all other respects 
this species scarcely differs from the preceding. 
We first received it from the coast of Northumber- 
land, where it was taken by Mr. Joshua Alder. It has 
