Chilton. — On N.Z. Amphipoda and Isopoda. 261 



from Western Australia, and mine from Lyttelton, so that the 

 species, though so small, evidently has a wide range. 



Elasmopus subcarinatus, G. M. Thomson. 



Mmra subcarinata, Thomson and Chilton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 

 vol. xviii., p. 146. 



Elasmopus su^car hiatus, Stebbing, " Eeport on the ' Chal- 

 lenger ' Amphipoda," p. 1019, pi. xcviii. 



This species is very fully described by Mr. Stebbing, and is 

 by him placed in the genus Elasmopus, Costa, which comes 

 close to Moera. By the " Challenger" Expedition the species 

 was taken at the following stations : — 



"Station 161, off Melbourne, 1st April, 1874; depth, 33 



fathoms ; bottom, sand. Two specimens. 

 " A specimen of this species was labelled as having been 

 taken, ' 3rd June, 1874, off Port Jackson, 30 to 35 

 fathoms.' 

 " Station 168, off New Zealand, 8th July, 1874 ; lat. 

 40° 28' S., long. 177° 43' E. ; depth, 1,100 fathoms ; 

 bottom, blue mud; bottom temperature, 37'2°. One 

 specimen." 

 In New Zealand this species is pretty common among sea- 

 weed, &c., at about low- water mark. I have taken it at 

 Lyttelton and at Port Chalmers, and also on seaweed washed 

 up on the Timaru beach. Mr. Thomson has taken it at 

 Stewart Island; and Mr. Haswell records it from " Port Jack- 

 son (very common at low w^ater among Alg^, kc), Botany 

 Bay ; Port Stephens." 



Vibilia propinqua (?), Stebbing. 



(?) Vibilia propinqua, Stebbing, "Eeport on the 'Challenger' 



Amphipoda," p. 1279, pi. cxlvii. 



I have a few.specimens of a Vibilia taken in Port Chalmers 

 that I refer to this species with some doubt. The genus has not 

 been previously recorded from New Zealand, though it is very 

 widely distributed. It contains a large number of species, 

 many of them very much alike, and I have found considerable 

 difficulty in endeavouring to identify my specimens. On the 

 whole I prefer to put it down to V. p)ropinqua, the species 

 which Mr. Stebbing describes in the greatest detail in his 

 " Challenger " report. The only point in which it differs 

 materially from this species is in the telson, which is not 

 "pear-shaped," but almost circular, being just about as broad 

 as long ; the broadest part, however, is a little nearer the base 

 than the end, so that the telson is slightly oval. In the telson 

 my specimens more nearly resemble V. milnei, Stebbing ; but 

 the details of that species, as drawn by Stebbing, differ con- 



