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



Thaumalea depilts, which Spence Bate considers to be a Vihilia. But while Thaumalea 

 appears to have the characteristic antennEe of a Vibilia, this Erytliroeeplialus is certainly 

 without them, so that Templeton's guess must be wide of the mark. In the figure here 

 copied from TUesiiis we may probably recognise the first two pairs of perseopods, one limb 

 of the third pair, and one of the fourth. If this be correct, it may be inferred that the 

 gnathopods and fifth perseopods were either wanting in the specimen examined or, from 

 their position and insignificant size, escaped the attention of the draughtsman. In addition 

 to the appendages above mentioned, I interpret the figure as showing a vertical head 

 produced below the perseon, a person of six segments, without side-plates, and a pleon of 

 six segments and a telson, with pleopods attached to the first three segments and uropods 

 confusedly in attachment with the fifth and sixth segments and the telson. It wUl be 

 observed that the third perreopods, as in Pronoe capita, Guerin, and many other Hyperina, 

 greatly exceed in size the other pairs. In saying that Pallas referred such animals to the 

 genus Scolopend ra, Tilesius has fallen into error, and should have said Oniscus. 



Fig. 6 evidently belongs to the Hyperina and probably to the Hyperidae. The front perfeopods 

 not unfrequently lie across the sides of the head and protruding beyond it. They have 

 apparently here been mistaken for antennae. The species intended remains for the present 

 uncertain. It can scarcely belong to the same genus as the preceding species, and the want 

 of well-developed eyes, to which the specific name refers, must itself be regarded as very 

 doubtful. 



Figs. 7 and 8 appear remote from the Amphipoda. Figs. 9 and 10, with the large stalked eyes, 

 to which Tilesius himself refers, can have no connection with the CapreUina, though they 

 show a general resemblance. Amhlyrrhyncohi^ and Phasmatocarcinus, occasionally referred 

 to as if among the Amphipoda, have evidently no right to be so placed. 



1820. Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C. S. 



Anuals of Nature or Annual Synopsis of New Genera and Species of Animals, 

 Plants, &c., discovered in North America by C. S. Eafinesque, Professor of Botany 

 and Natural History in Transylvania University, at Lexington in Kentucky, and 

 member of several Learned Societies in the United States and in Europe, &c. 

 Edcertion unfolds and increases hnowledge. First Annual Number, for 1820. 

 Dedicated to Dr. W. E. Leacli, of tbe British Museum, London. Printed by 

 Thomas Smith, Lexington, Ky. (16 pp. 8o. Li the Library of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences.) 



For the title page and other extracts from this rare little book I am indebted to my friend and 

 former pupil, William Bradford, Esq., Counsellor at Law, Xew York. In the course of his 

 plaintive preface Eafinesque remarks, " I shall not be prevented from publishing my new 

 species because it may happen that one out of fifty may be previously noticed in some costly 

 and inaccessible work." 



On p. 2 he gives " Animals. I Class. Mastosia — the Suoklers ; " on p. 4 " II Class. Ornithia — 

 the Birds," " III Class. Erpetia— the EeptUes ; " on p. 6 " IV Class. Ichthyosia— the 

 Fishes ;" V Class. Plaxomia — the Crustacea." In this Class he enters : — 



" iii. N. G. Sperchius : Antenna double than the head, four nearly equal, with two long 

 truncate articles, the upper pair rather broader and longer. Body compressed, with seven 

 segments, each with a large lateral appendage or scale. The fourth larger and with an 

 additional posterior appendage, the corresponding feet larger and with a large rounded and 



