The Irish Nahtralist, April, 



Crustacka. — As a contribution to the Crustacean Fauna, Mr. 

 Farran publishes his second report ^^ on the Copepoda of the 

 Irish Atlantic slope. Constituting one of the principal, if not 

 the most important, part of the food of fishes, these minute 

 marine organisms, and their distribution and migration, are 

 of supreme economic importance. Mr. Farran deals now 

 chiefly with the Copepods taken in 600 or 1,000 fathoms off 

 the west coast of Ireland, and records 164 species- He thinks 

 that nine of these may be regarded as of southern origin. 

 Altogether no less than thirty species, three of which have 

 been made types of new genera, are described as new, the 

 types, we presume, having been deposited in the British 

 Museum. It seems rather strange that Mr. Farran should 

 have described^-' about the same time when the Fisheries 

 report was published a couple of new species of Copepods, 

 viz. : Oithona atlaiitica and O. pelagica, neither of which is 

 alluded to in his report, nor is the report referred to in the 

 paper in which the description appears. Finally, Miss 

 vStephens gives a valuable account of the corals occurring in 

 the Irish Seas. Professor Hickson ^'"' had already in 1905 

 drawn attention to the remarkable discovery off the west coast 

 of Ireland of the precious coral, CoraUiiivi Johnsoni. Most of 

 the corals described by Miss Stephens ^" are new to the Irish 

 marine area, among them Funiculina quadranoulaiis^ Calli- 

 sttphaniis Koraii and Caligoroia flabclhun, which were 

 previousl}' known only from the Indian and Pacific Ocean. 

 This paper also contains the description of anew Alcyonarian 

 by Professor Hickson, viz. : Stacleyodes Wrsluysi. A portion 

 of the type specimen has been deposited in the Irish National 

 ^luseum. 



National Museum, Dublin. 



'^ Farran, G. 1'.— vSecond report on the Copepoda of the Irish Atlantic 

 slope. Fisheries, In-iand, Sri. luvest., 1906, ii. [[908]. 



'•'•Farran, G. P.- Note on the Copepod Genus Oithona. Ann. ami 

 Mag. Nat, Hist., vol. ii. (S), 1909, pp. 498-503. 



'"Hickson, vS. J.— Remarkable Coelenterata from the west coast of 

 Ireland. Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1905, v. [1906J. 



'•Stephens, Jane.— Alcyonarian and Madreporarian corals of the 

 Irish coasts, with description of a new species of Stachyodes by Prof. vS. 

 J. Hickson, Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1907, v. [1909] 



