DRYOPE, 
487 
AMPHIPODA. P OD OCERI DES. 
NATATORIA. 
Genus— DRYOPE. 
Dryope. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 276. 
Unciola. Gosse, Marine Zool. i. p. 141 (not of Say). 
Generic character. Body not laterally compressed. Antennae 
subequal, terminating in a multi-articulate flagellum ; the su- 
perior not having a secondary appendage. Gnathopoda sub- 
chelate, first pair being larger than the second. Posterior pair 
of pleopoda the shortest, double-branched. Telson squami- 
form. 
In this genus the body of the animal is long and 
not compressed. The eyes are small. The antennae are 
nearly of equal length, and terminate in multi-articulate 
flagella, but there is no secondary appendage to the 
superior pair. The hands of the first two pairs of legs 
are subchelate ; the second, which is the smaller, might, 
indeed, perhaps be described as being imperfectly 
chelate. The coxae of all the legs are small ; and the 
caudal appendages have the branches spinous ; the 
posterior pair are the shortest. The middle tail-piece is 
single and squamiform. 
This genus is founded upon an animal discovered by 
Mr. Gosse, and supposed by him to belong to Unciola 
of Say ; but this genus differs from that of Unciola in 
the absence of the secondary appendage to the superior 
antennae, in the subchelate condition of the second pair 
of hands, and probably also in the form of the telson. 
