. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . the females of all the species have no chelate feet. G. locusta ranges fromNew Jersey to Greenland. The color is generally reddish- or annufatus is found in the same places, but usually a little higher upon the beach ; it is lighter in color, and has dark bands with red spotson the sides of the abdomen. G. mucronatus occurs from Cape Codto Florida. Melita nitida is a smaller slate-colored amphipod found in some places ; another is Mcera levfe,which is whitish, w
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . the females of all the species have no chelate feet. G. locusta ranges fromNew Jersey to Greenland. The color is generally reddish- or annufatus is found in the same places, but usually a little higher upon the beach ; it is lighter in color, and has dark bands with red spotson the sides of the abdomen. G. mucronatus occurs from Cape Codto Florida. Melita nitida is a smaller slate-colored amphipod found in some places ; another is Mcera levfe,which is whitish, with black eyes. GENUS Chelura C. terebrans, the boring little crustacean is associated inits work on submerged timber withthe isopod Limnoria Ugnorum. Theexcavations of the latter are narrowand cylindrical, running down intothe wood, while Chelura makes largerburrows in oblique lines near the sur-face, which give the wood the appearance of having been plowed. Itis very active and destructive. It feeds upon the wood into which itburrows. Its color is semi-transhicent, thickly mottled above with Chelura terebrans, the boring amphipod. ISOPODS 291 GENUS
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