A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . CAPRELLA. HYSTRIX. AMPIIIPODA. es CA CAPRELLA HYSTRIX. Specific character. Tuberculated along the dorsal surface, the tuberclesincreasing posteriorly. Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos ovate ;palm convex, defined by a blunt process surmounted by a spine. Length | inch. Caprella acuminifera. Kroyeu Nat. Hist. Tidssk. iv. 603. pi. viii. fig. 20-26. Voy. en Scand. pi. xxiv. fig. 1 ?Milne Edwards, Hist, des Crust, t. iii. p. 107, pi. xxxiii. fig. 21. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 359, p
A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . CAPRELLA. HYSTRIX. AMPIIIPODA. es CA CAPRELLA HYSTRIX. Specific character. Tuberculated along the dorsal surface, the tuberclesincreasing posteriorly. Second pair of gnathopoda having the propodos ovate ;palm convex, defined by a blunt process surmounted by a spine. Length | inch. Caprella acuminifera. Kroyeu Nat. Hist. Tidssk. iv. 603. pi. viii. fig. 20-26. Voy. en Scand. pi. xxiv. fig. 1 ?Milne Edwards, Hist, des Crust, t. iii. p. 107, pi. xxxiii. fig. 21. Spence Bate, Cat. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 359, pi. ivi. fig. 11 (not of Latreille and Desmarest). This species is tuberculated throughout the entirelength of the animal, the tubercles increasing in sizetowards the posterior extremity of the body. The headis slightly angulated on the crown. The first segmentof the body is short ; the second is longer, and ofthe same length as the third, fourth, and fifth. Thesixth and seventh are shorter. The superior antennae areless than half the length of the animal; the inferior arenot longer than the peduncle of the
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