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Thaumops pellucida ; fig. 100. Hyperia ; fig. 101. Ct/stosoma neptuni ; fig. 102. Cerapus 

 ruhricornis ; fig. 103. Unciola irrorata ; fig. 104. Gavimarus ornaius ; fig. 105. Orchestia 

 ar/ilis, heach-^ea, ; fig. 106. AmplLttlioe maculafa. 

 Among the miscellaneous remarks it is observed that " Unciola does not build a tube, but take s 

 any that it may find vacant." According to S. I. Smith's account, in 1880, "the animal 

 apparently does not construct tubes for itself, though often found in the tubes of other 

 Amphipoda, and in the tubes of Annelida. In the Bay of Fundy," he says, "I have found 

 it abundantly in small lioles in sandy mud near low-water mark," 



1884. Martens, Eduard von. 



Crustacea. The Zoological Record for 1883 ; being Volume twentieth of the 

 Record of Zoological Literature. London, m.dccc.lxxxiv. pp. 1-34. 



1884. MiERS, E. J. 



Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the 

 Voyage of H.M.S. ' Alert,' 1881-2. London, 1884. 



A brief review is given of earlier writings dealing with the Crustaceans of Australia. " In regard 

 to the Amphipoda," Mr. Miers says, " the affinity of the Australian with the European 

 fauna is very remarkable ; and among the few species included in the present Report 

 instances {Leucothoe spinicarpa, Caprella eequilihra) occur where I have identified Australian 

 examples with well-known European types, while in several other instances, the distinctions 

 are so slight as to be scarcely of sjiecific importance ; hence I must quaHfy the opinion I 

 formerly expressed as to the improbability of the species of such widely distant regions ever 

 being actually identical." 



In the determination of the Amphipoda, pages 311-321, 567-569, Mr. Miers has used Spence 

 Bate's classification rather than Boeck's, presuming that Boeck's, being concerned with North 

 Temperate and Arctic, would not without much modification suit the southern fauna. 

 Ephippipliora Icrmjeri, White, which Boeck doubtfully referred to his genus Socarnes, is 

 here upheld. " In the specimens from the ' Alert ' collection the terminal segment is 

 elongated, narrowing slightly to the distal extremity, with the sides straight, and is divided 

 by a narrow median fissure." White's type specimens from Tasmania are unfortunately 

 dry and broken, so that his species must apparently remain in some obscurity, but the 

 imperfect terminal segments seem, Mr. Miers says, to show a structure like that of the 

 "Alert" specimens, differing in this particular from Z/ystawassa nitens, Haswell. Lysianassa 

 austral iejisis, Haswell, is said to come very near to Epliippiphora krijyeri, but to be probably 

 distinguished from it by the telson, which Haswell leaves undescribed, as though similar to 

 that of Lysianassa nitens. Mr. G. M. Thomson recorded the species from New Zealand, as 

 "Lysianassa Kroyeri," but without describing the telson, so that Mr. ]\Iiers could not 

 express an opinion on its identity. To judge by a specimen which Mr. Thomson has sent 

 me, the New Zealand form must be quite distinct, since its telson is neither elongate, nor 

 divided. Mr. Haswell in 1886 explains that the telson in his Lysianassa nitens is not, as 

 he at first thought, simple, but deeply cleft, and in Lysianassa australiensis also "the telson 

 is cleft to the base." Leucothoe commensalis, Haswell, is regarded as at most a variety of 

 Leucotlwe spinicarpa, Abildgaard, and in this Mr. Haswell appears to acquiesce. Koss- 

 mann's Leucothoe crassimana from the Red Sea is thought to be another synonym of the 

 same species. A new species, LeucofhuiJ hrevidigitafa, pi. 34. fig. A., is figured and described, 

 which, it is said, may be regarded as in some sense intermediate between Leucothoe Jiovx- 



