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



"Cos petits crustaces consiruisent des cellules oh la vasj entre poui- une grande part." He 

 combats the view expressed in the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea, i. 438, that in rough 

 weather they withdraw to the depths, by the following arguments ; neither the Podoceri 

 nor their nests are ever dredged in the neighbourhood of the buoys, although other 

 Amphipods of similar size and agility are so procured ; the whole Podocerus family is 

 found on the buoy, showing that multiplication takes place there, and implying a 

 permanent residence ; other creatures less well endowed than the Podoceri, as to means of 

 adhesion and locomotion, pass their lives on the buoys and lay their eggs there. 



1885. HaSWELL, W. a. 



Revision of the Australian Lsemodipoda. Extracted from Vol. IX., Part 4, 

 of the Proceediugs of the Linueau Society of New South Wales. 8 pp. 

 Pis. XLVIII. XLIX. 1885. 



This paper is a commencement of the revision to which Mr. Haswell proposes to subject his 

 earlier work, now that attention has been so much drawn to the Amphipod fauna of the 

 south, as well by Mr. Haswell's own writings, as by those of the zealous naturalists of 

 New Zealand, Mr. G. M. Thomson, Mr. Charles Chilton, and Mr. T. AY. Kirk. The paper 

 describes and figures parts of two new sjsecies, Proto condi/Iafa and Proto spinosa. It 

 gives additional figures and particulars relating to Protella australis, Haswell, and states 

 that " it is a very well-marked species and quite distinct from Protella (jracilis of Dana, to 

 which ]\Iayer is inclined to unite it, both in the form of the head and of the gnathopoda." 

 The description is quoted which Mayer gives of " Protella Hasicelliana," a species which has 

 the two last segments of the peraeon coalesced. Caprella cornigera, Haswell, = ? Proto 

 cornujera, Mayer, is transferred to a new genus, Hircella, somewhat prematurely, on the 

 supposition that the three anterior pairs of peraeopods are rudimentary. IMayer projiosed 

 the new genus if it should prove that the' appendages mentioned arc in the supjaosed 

 condition, but Mr. Haswell does not say whether he has or has not had an opportunity of 

 determining this point. 



1885. Haswell, W. A. 



Notes on the Australian Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of 

 New South Wales. Vol. X. Part. 1. 1885. 20 pp. PI. 10-18. 



To Talitrus syhaficus, Haswell, pi. x. fig. 1., Talurus affinU, Haswell, is assigned as a synonym, 

 affinis being evidently a mistake for assimilis. 



Remarks are made on some of the Australian species of Allorchestes instituted by Dana and 

 by Mr. Haswell respectively. Under Neohule algicola, pi. xi., figs. 4-6, it is suggested that 

 the genus Neohule, Haswell, may be the same as Hyale, Rathke. Of Aspidoplioreia, 

 Haswell, it is said: — "This genus stands between Allorchestes and Nicea, dilfering from 

 both in the large size of the anterior coxaj, from Allorchestes also in the character of the 

 telson, and from Nicea in the large size of both upper and lower antennfe, and in having 

 the lower pair much larger than the upper. 



Additional details are given as to Stegocephalus latus, Haswell, pi. xi., figs. 7-12, and Anqiellsca 

 anstralis, Haswell, pi. xii., figs. 7-16, and pi. xiii., figs. 1-4. 



Mr. Haswell here refers Lydanassa nitens, pi. xii., figs. 1, 2, to the genus Anonyx. He would 

 keep Lijsianassa austraUcnsia and Lysianassa affitiis as distinct species, but I still think that 

 the distinctions he mentions are insufficient to keep them separate from Anonyx nitens. He 

 mentions that the telson is deeply cleft in all, a character inconsistent with the received 



