38 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGEE. 



1774. GiNNANI, Co. FkANCESCO. 



Storia civile e naturale della Pinetta Eactenati, 1774. 



G. D. Nardo says that this author mentions, on p. 437, " il Puloe d'acqua dolce, Gammarus." I 

 have not been able to meet with his work. 



1775. Hammer, Christopher. 



Fors0g til en Norsk Natur-Historie, 1. Deel. Kidbeuhavu, 1775. 



In the Fauna Norvegica, with which the work begins, under " Krabbe, Cancer," there are given : — 



" 735 Marflue. Cancer Pulex 2041. Findes under Strand-stenene. 



"736 Krebsformige Loppe, Krebsloppe, Marflue. Pulex Cancriformis. Hos Hr Str0m i. 



S0ndm0rs Beskrivelse er den aftegnet. Tab. I. fig. 12 og 13. Olafsen, p. 609 d. 

 " 738 Kipldannet Marflue. Cancer macrourus articidaris. Har saugUgnende Ryg, er brun- og 



hvidplettet ; findes i S0en ved Strandbredden, Str0m i Act, Hafn. ] Tom. pag. 5, Tab. 2. 

 " 739 Hummerlignende Insekt. Cancer macrourus articularis. Str0m i 9de Deel af 



Ki0benhavnske Selskab-Skr. p. 588. Derom kan og eftersees Linneei Cancer Stagnalis, 



2043. S. N. 1 T. 12 Ed. p. 1056. K 87." 

 On page 17, to his mention of " Sletbag, Gr0nlandsk HyaL Balxna mysticetus ;" he appends 



a note : "Den naeerer sig af smaa Orme, som af Hr Egede kaldes Hvalfiskaas." 

 The above Amphipoda are sufficiently explained by the references to Str0m and Egede. 



1775. FoRSKAL, Peer, born 1736, died 1763 (Encycl. Brit, 9tli Ed.). 



Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; 

 quae in itinera oriental! observavit Petrus Forskal. Prof. Haun. Post mortem 

 auctoris ed. Carsten Neibubr. Adjuncta est materia medica Kahirina atque tabula 

 maris rubri geographica. Haunife, 1775. 



Among the Insecta, in the genus Cancer, division B. Macrouri, he describes, pages 95-96, what 

 is now known as Phronima sedentaria, as follows : — " 59. CA>fCER sedentarius ; macrourus ; 

 articidaris ; manibus adactylis. 



" Descr. Color vitreus, flavescens. Caput fere conicum, perpendioulare, ante paulidum planatum, 

 juxta verticem emarginatum. Ori utrinque sphaerula ocuHformis adjacet ; supra quamque 

 harum, cylinder perpendicularis erigitur, oculum referens ; sint-ne ergo huic animali duo 

 ooulorum paria, affirmare non sustineo. Antennx setacete longitudine cyUndrorum, lateri 

 eorum anteriori affixae. Thorax ovato-lanceolatus, septem-articulatus. Cauda lineari- 

 attenuata, compressa, antice articulis 3. rotundatis, pone truncatis, utrinque unispinosis. 

 Articuli duo angustiores apicem cauds constituimt, cui insistunt spinse sex, vel setce lineares, 

 apice bifidte, acutae. Pedes utrinque decern : paria enim septem, thoracis septem articulis 

 adhaerent; omnia adactyla, prseter quinti ordinis par, cseteris multo crassius, longius, 

 femorihus compressis, apice uni-spinosis, carpis clavatis, cheHs obovatis, ventricosis ; digitis 

 adeo curvatis, forficatis, introrsum dente instructis. Priora 4. paria plantis gaudeut setaceis, 

 curvatis & longitudine superantibus plantas posteriorum pedum thoracicorum, quorum paria 

 retrorsum majora majoraque : & memhrana subtus acuta utrinque triplici, ovata, natatoria. 

 Articulis Caudss tribus, totidem pedum paria, versus aj)icem caudje gradatim minora 

 affiguntur, brevia, femoribus obovatis, membranaceis ; tibiis recurvatis, concavis. 



