REPORT ON THE AMPHIPODA. 577 



1886. FORSSTRAND, CaEL. 



Det arktiska liafsomrS,dets djurgeografiska begransning med ledning af skal- 

 kraftornas (crustacea malacostraca) utbrcdniiig. Upsala, 1886. 55 pages and 

 map. 



It is mentioned in a note, p. 4, that L. K. Schmarda, in Die geograpliische Verbreitung der 

 Thiere, Wien, 1853, calls the Arctic maritime region "Reich der Meersiiugethiere und 

 Amphipoden." The circumpolar realm is thus divided, starting eastward from Behring 

 Strait; 1. Amerikas ishaf, from Behring Strait to Smith Sound and Baffin's Bay; 2. 

 Vestgronlandslia liafvet, the tract of sea between the American Archipelago and mainland 

 and Greenland ; 3. Europeislia Nordliafvet, between East Greenland, West Finmarken and 

 Spitzbergen ; 4. BarentvJ haf, between East Spitzbergen, Franz Joseph Land, Nova Zembla, 

 Northern Russia and East Finmarken ; 5. Kariska liafvet, from the east coast of Nova 

 Zembla to Cape Chelyuskin ; 6. Siliiriens iahaf, from Cape Chelyuskin to Behring Strait ; 

 7. Beaufort's haf, the sea immediately north of Behring Strait and south of it to the 

 Aleutian Islands and Sea of Ochotsk. 



Referring to the Royal Society Manual of the Natural History, etc. of Greenland, London, 

 1875, containing the '^Cnistacea of Greenland by CJir. Liitken," he says that the West 

 Greenland Sea has eighty species of Amphipoda, of which the following are not yet 

 known from other seas, " ^gina longicornis Kr., Cercops HolhoelU Kr., Cleippides 

 tricuspis (Kr.), Cijamus monodontis Ltk., wysticeti Ltk. och nodosus Ltk., Cypliocaris 

 anonyx Ltk., Monocidodes affinis (Bruz.) och Parathemisto compi-essa (Goes)." At page 

 36 he remarks that many species, especially pelagic and surface-living animals, such as 

 Tliemkto, Hijperta, and many Copepoda, may be subject to a 2^<^ssive distribution, due to 

 marine currents. He finishes by giving a list of 304 Crustacea, of which those numbered 

 135 to 304 are Amphipoda, showing their distribution in the regions above-mentioned, of 

 which he subdivides the third into "0. Grbnland, Ishafsdjupet, Spetsbergen." He adds for 

 comparison two other regions, Great Britain and the Baltic. To the list of species an 

 addendum gives " Lanceola Clausii BovaU.," from West Greenland. Hoek's new species, 

 1882, are not included in the list. 



1886. Fowler, George Herbert, born September 4, 1861 (G. H. F.). 



List of the Amphipoda of the L. M. B. C. District : in the first Eeport upon 

 the Fauna of Liverpool Bay and the neighbouring seas, wi-itten by the members of 

 the Liverpool marine biology Committee, and edited by W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, 

 F.L.S., &c. London, 1886. pp. 212-218. PI. IV. fig. 1. [Proc. Lit. Phil. Soc. 

 Liverpool. Vol. XL. Appendix.] 



Forty-five species of Amphipoda are enumerated, with here and there a synonym and occasional 

 notes by Mr. Fowler and Mr. A. 0. Walker. " Bathypim'eia pelagica, var. robei-tsoni, Sp. 

 Bate," is separated from Bat/iypm-eia pilosa, LindstriJm, by an accidental misapprehension. 

 On Dexamine spinosa, Leach, the remark is made that " two very small specimens lack the 

 characteristic tooth on the first anteunie, = Dex. temdcornis?" ; on Gamrnarus locusta, 

 Linn., " a black form is common ; the red spots on the abdominal segments are not always 

 present ; " on Gamrnarus marinus. Leach, " some specimens dredged from Welshman's Gut 

 are apparently a variety between G. lornsta and G. ritariniirS, having the first two abdominal 

 segments rounded oil", but stUl not agreeing with G. campijlops in the form of the last pair 



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