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Genus PSEUDOCYTHERE, G. 0. Sars. 



PSEUDOCYTHERE CAUDATA, G. 0. SttTS. 



Pseudocythere caudata, G. O. Sars, Oversigt Norges marine 

 Ostracoder, 1865, p. 88. G. S. Brady, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. Lond., xxxi., pt. ii., 1868, p. 453, pi. xxxiv., 

 figs. 49-52, pi. xli., fig. 6. Egger, Abhandl. d. k. 

 Bayer. Akad. Wiss., xxi., Abth. ii., 1901. p. 463, pi. 

 viii., figs. 33, 34. Chapman, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 

 Zool., xxx., 1910, p. 438. 



This is a cosmopolitan species, being recorded by Dr. Brady 

 both as a Pleistocene fossil and a recent species from Great 

 Britain, as well as from Kerguelen Island and Prince Edward 

 Island in the Southern Ocean, and off the east coast of 

 South America. The writer obtained it from dredgings 

 round Funafuti at 1050 and 1215 fathoms. The '" Gazelle ' 

 specimens recorded by Egger were found off the West 

 Australian coast. 



Station 36, east of Tasmania, 777 fathoms. Common. 



Forty miles south of Cape Wiles, 100 fathoms. One valve. 



Genus SCLEROCHILUS, G. 0. Sars. 

 SCLEROCHILUS CONTORTUS, Norman, sp. 



Cylhese conoorta, Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), ix., 

 1862, p. 48, pi. ss., fig. 15. Id., Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Lond., xxvii., 1868, p. 435, pi. xxxiv., figs. 5-10 ; 

 pi. xli., fig. 7. Sclerochilus contortus (Norman, sp.), 

 G. S. Brady, Rep. Chall, Zool., i., pt. iii., 1880, p. 

 147, pi. xxxv., figs. 8a-6. 



This is a well-distributed genus and species, it being found 

 along the shores of the North Atlantic, while the " Challen- 

 ger " obtained it from Kerguelen Island, off Heard Island, 

 and from Wellington Harbour. 



Station 36, east of Tasmania, 777 fathoms. Two separate 

 valves and a complete carapace. 



