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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt:... the second gnathopods, but Miiller lays stress on the fact that these characters are combined with incrassated fourth and fifth joints of the fifth peiaeopods in his species, the younger males with slender peraeopods having also a smooth palm to the gnathopods and the second antennae slender. Hab. The specimen, which belongs to the Copenhagen Museum, was labelled "Madeira? Sulenson." The specific name is given in compliment to the traveller who procured the specimen. Orchestia Grillus (bosc). 1802. Talitrua grillus Bosc, Histoire Naturelle des Crustacees, vol. ii. p. 152, pi. 15. figs. 1, 2 (called on the plate ' Thalitre terrestre'). It is not necessary here to discuss the synonymy of this species, which nearly resembles Orchestia gammarellus (Pallas). It is only mentioned for the sake of recording an abnormality in a male specimen belonging to the Copenhagen Museum. The second peraeopod on the right side has been cicatrized near the base of the fourth joint, but attached to the same side-plate that carries the damaged limb is a limb with the full number of joints, though these are less strongly developed than those of the limb on the left side or than the remaining joints of the broken limb. Hab. The specimen is labelled "New York Omegn, L. Lund," meaning that it was obtained by L. Lund in the neighbourhood of New York. Parorchestia, n. g. Like Orchestia, except that the maxillipeds have a fourth joint to the palp, distinct, though small, conical, and carrying a spine on the truncate apex. The name is derived from-z-aoa, near, and Orchestia. The genus is formed to receive the species (1) Orchestia tenuis Dana, with which the Allorchestes recens of G. M. Thomson seems to be identical; (2) Orchestia haioaiensis Dana; and (3) Orchestia s...