REPORT ON THE AMPHIPODA. 547 



1883. Stebbing, T. E. E. 



The Challenger Amphipoda. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 

 March 1883. Ser. 5, vol. xi. pjj. 203-207. London, 1883. 



A few of the more striking forms among the new Amphipods brought home by the Challenger, 

 which had been entrusted to me in the summer of 1882, are here briefly described : — in 

 Boeck's subfamily Oedicerinse, Acanthosfepheia ornata, n. sp., since transferred to a new 

 genus as CEdiceroides ornata, and CEdic.eropsis rostrafa, n. sp., now called (Ediceroides 

 conspicua, the specific name rostrafa having become inappropriate in the change of genus ; 

 in the subfamily Epimerinre, Epimeria conspicua, n. sp., with the remark that it may 

 prove to be only a variety of Epimeria loricata, G. 0. Sars, of which I now consider it a 

 synonym, and Acantliozone tricarinata, n. sp., since transferred to a new genus as 

 Acmdhechinus tricarinatus ; in the subfamily Gammarinse, Amathillopsis australis, n. sp., 

 nearly allied to Amathillojisis spinigera. Heller, and Amathillopsis affinis, Miera ; in the 

 subfamily Stegocephalin£e, Andania cjigantea, n. sp.; in the subfamily Iphimedin;e, 

 Iphimedia pulchridentata, n. sp., and Iphimedia pacifica, n. sp., and lastly, in the family 

 Caprellidae, Dodecas elongata, n. g. et sp. 



The new genus Dodecas is thus defined :— " The mandibles having an elongate triarticidate palp. 

 Six pairs of feet attached to the pereion, the fourth segment having none. Branchial 

 vesicles at the base of the second gnathopods, tlie first pereiopods, and attached to the 

 footless fourth pereion-segment, the rudimentary pleon having two pairs of biarticulate 

 appendages." 



Heller placed his new genus Aviathillopsis between Amathilla and Gammaracanihus, two genera 

 of the GammariniB. In accordance with this arrangement I placed the new species, 

 Amathillopsis aiistralis, in that subfamily, but in view of the elongated palps of the 

 maxillipeds I am now doubtful as to the propriety of this classification. 



1883. Woodward, Henry. 



Crustacea. Cassell's Natural History. Vol. VI. London, Paris and New- 

 York, 1883. 



The Class Crustacea, page 196, has for its first division the Thoracipoda, with two legions, 1. 

 Podophthalmia, containing two orders, 2. Edriophthalmia, also containing two orders, the 

 Isopoda and Amphipoda. The latter, pages 212-213, include the La;modipoda as an 

 aberrant group. No mention is made of the Hyperina. The statement that the body-rings 

 " of the Amphipoda are compressed laterally requires some limitation in regard to such 

 genera as Lafystivs, Icilius and Corophium. The illustrations given are " Orchestia 

 Darioinii," male, and " the spectre, or skeleton shrimp {Capretta) " S and ? . The 

 Orchestia is evidently taken from Fritz Miiller's Facts for Darwin, the Caprella from Bate 

 and Westwood's Capjrella tuherculata. 



1884. Beltremieux, £1douard. 



Faune vivante de la Charente-Inferieure. Extr. des Ann. de la Soc. des 



Scienc. nat. de la Eochelle. 1884. pag. 29 et 30. 



"Cite les cinq especes suivantes : Phei-usa fucicola Leach, Talitrus gammarellus Lam. (Orch. 

 littorea Leach), Talitrus saltator Edw., Corophium longicurne Latr., Hgperia LatrdlUi 

 Edw." (M. Chevreux in litt.) 



