A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . CLIFFS AT WHITENORE, WEYMOTITH BAY. 230 HIPPOLYTES. Male.—Sides subparallel; antennse, advanced beyond the front of the head;segments of the pleon fused into an elongated ovate mass, obtuse at theextremity. Female.—Broadly ovate, depressed, anterior portion slightly curved towardsthe left (when viewed dorsally) ; segments of the pereion and pleon distinct,sub-continuous; terminal segment apparently notched at the tip, owing tothe projection of the posterior pair of pleopoda. Length :—Female, seven-twenti
A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . CLIFFS AT WHITENORE, WEYMOTITH BAY. 230 HIPPOLYTES. Male.—Sides subparallel; antennse, advanced beyond the front of the head;segments of the pleon fused into an elongated ovate mass, obtuse at theextremity. Female.—Broadly ovate, depressed, anterior portion slightly curved towardsthe left (when viewed dorsally) ; segments of the pereion and pleon distinct,sub-continuous; terminal segment apparently notched at the tip, owing tothe projection of the posterior pair of pleopoda. Length :—Female, seven-twentieths of an Eiiypolytcs. Kroter, Gronlands Amfipoder Besck, p. 78, pi. 4,fig. 22. Milne Edwards, Crust. 3, 283. White,Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 256. The male of this species is narrow, with the sides ofthe body ahnost parallel; the head transversely ovate, withminute eyes and with the four antennae short, conical,subequal, and advanced beyond the front margin of thehead ; the segments of the body are rather wide apart atthe sides, and those of the tail are confluent, forming an GYGE IlIPPOLYTES. 231 appare
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