COROPHIUM. 
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smoothly lined. In our little Crustacean, I do not know 
of what it is made, or how, but it seems to be homogeneous, 
and is certainly of home manufacture, and not the tube of a 
zoophyte surreptitiously obtained, as has been supposed to 
be the case with the Cerapus tulularis of North America. 
Perhaps, however, closer examination might refute the 
charge of piracy brought against that species.” 
Gen. 90. COROPHIUM. 
Lower antennae much longer than the upper and without 
flagellum, only the first pair of legs furnished with a flagel- 
lum. Hand of second pair of legs not dilated. Body nearly 
cylindrical, elongated, slightly compressed. 
Corophium longicorne. (Plate XI. fig. 1.) — Male 
much larger than the female; third joint of lower antennae 
much thicker than the fourth, and having in front a thick 
pointed apophysis. Legs wdth long hairs, most abundant on 
the second and seventh pairs. 
Coast of England. Berwick. Common in the autumn, in 
pools of brackish water left at the sides of the river on the 
recess of the Aide (Dr. Johnston); Moray Firth (Rev. G, 
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