36 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



1772. Olafsen, Eggekt, bom 1726, died 1768 (Biograpliie Universelle). 



Olafsen, Eggert, og Povelsen, Bjarne. Reise gjennem Island. Tom. i og ii. 

 Sor0, 1772. 



Olafsens und Povelsens Reise durcli Island, veranstaltet von der koniglichen 

 Societiit der Wissenschaften in Kopenhagen und beschrieben von bemeldtem Eggert 

 Olafsen. Aus dem Danischen libersetzt. Kopenhagen und Leipzig, 1774. 



§687, Von den Insecten, under VI., tlie Aptera, E. Cancri, &c., gives "d) Marflo ist Cancer 

 pulex Linnaei Fn. Sv. 1253. Sie verdirbt das Netz, welches nach den Forellen und 

 Eodmagen nahe an dem Ufer gcstellt wild, und frisst die darinnen gefangene Fische. 

 Macht man die untersten MascLen aus Pferdehaaren, soil sie selbige nicht zernagen." This 

 relates to the West-fiord. In § 746, Marfloen are also recorded from North Iceland. The 

 destruction of nets by some species designated as Cancer pulex is confirmed by Odmann's 

 observations at this period, but that it attacks live fish he denies ; the fish, on the contrary, 

 he says, as any cook can teU you, devour the Cancer pulex. 



1773. Yeats, Thomas Pattinson (born?), died 1782 (Maunders). 



Institutions of Entomology being a translation of Linnteus's Ordines et Genera 

 Insectorum ; or Systematic Arrangement of Insects. Collated with the different 

 systems of Geoffroy, SchaefFer, and Scopoli ; together with observations of the 

 translator. London, mdcclxxiii. 



He says that Schaeffer in his Elementa Entomologise, Eatisbon, 1766, has followed Geoflfroy. His 

 own work opens with a glossary of the terms used in entomology. In his account of 

 Cancer, Genus X. in Order VII., the Aptera of Linnceus, Syst. Nat., p. 1038, he gives as the 

 second family the Macrouri or long-tailed crabs, with five subdivisions, of which the fifth 

 may possibly refer to the Amphipoda. It is obscurely defined as " Those in which the shell 

 of the thorax is shorter than that part, which it does not cover entirely." 



1774. Phipps, Constaj^tine John (afterwards Lord Mulgrave, born 1734, died 1794 



(Biographie Universelle). 



A Voyage towards the North Pole, undertaken by his Majesty's Command, 1773. 

 London, mdcclxxiv. 



In the Appendix, under the heading Insecta, pp. 189-193, pi. xii., Phipps gives two species which 

 are not Amphipods; "Cancer Squilla, Linn. Syst. Nat., 1051, 66. The Prawn ;" "Cancer 

 horeas," with a description and figure ; and three Amphipods thus described : — 



"Cancer Ampulla, macrourus, articularis, corpore ovali, pedibus quatuordecim simplicibus, 

 laminis femorum postici paris ovato-subrotundis. Tab. xii. Fig. 3. This singular animal was 

 also taken out of the stomach of the same seal in which the two former were found. Its 

 jjlace in the Si/stema Naturx is next to Cancer Pulex. Description. Insectum ex ovali- 

 oblongum, glabrum, punctulatum, articulis quatuordecim compositum, quorum primus capitis 

 est, septem thoracem mentiuntur, et sex caudam tegunt. Capitis clypeus antics inter 

 antennas in processum conicimi, acutum desoendit. Antennx quatuor, subulata, articulatas, 

 simplices, corpore decuplo breviores. Pedes quatuordecim, simplices, unguiculati; femora 



