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COROPllIIDvE. 
A MPHIP OB A . P OB OCERIBES. 
NAT ATOM A. 
DRYOPE IRRORATA. 
Specific character. First pair of gnathopoda Raving the palm defined 
by a large tooth, and with two large obtuse lobes in its middle ; the margin 
smooth. Dactylos imperfectly coarsely serrated. Second pair of gnathopoda 
having the palm concave ; margin ciliated with a few fine hairs. 
Length, \ inch. 
Bryoye irrorata. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 276, pi. xlvii. 
fig. 1. 
Unciola irrorata. GIosse, Mar. Zool. i. p. 141, fig. 256 (not Say). 
The body is more than half the length of the animal. 
The third segment of the tail has the posterior margin 
waved and deeply excavated above the inferior angle. 
The eyes are small and round. The superior antennae 
are scarcely half the length of the animal, and the 
flagellum is not longer than the last joint of the 
peduncle. The inferior antennae are scarcely shorter 
than the superior ; the flagellum is about the same 
length as that of the superior pair. The first pair of 
legs have the wrist and hand continuous ; the postero- 
inferior angle of the wrist is produced to a tooth. The 
hand is as long as the head, triangular, with the palm 
occupying the entire length of the inferior margin, and 
being defined at its posterior limit by a strong tooth, 
