BY E. P. RAMSAY, F.L.8., ETC. 181 



LoRIUS CARDINALIS, 



Specimens have been obtained by Baron N. de M.-Maclay at 

 the Eongador Eeef, 100 East of the Solomon Islands. The 

 specimens were caught on the rigging of the schooner " Saidie 

 F. Caller." 



Count Salvadori, has intimated that my Rhipidura Cocker elli, 

 is not a good species (see Ibis 1880, p. 129.) hinting that it 

 might be an accidental variety of Saaloprocta tricolor. I do hope 

 that after handling some hundreds of specimens of S. tricolor in 

 all its varieties, I am not likely to mistake a bird so very distinct ; 

 has Count Salvadori compared my description with S. tricolor and 

 S. motctcilloides ? 



The same remarks are applicable to his note on my Astur 

 solocnsis, as being identical with A. etorques, of which latter I have 

 seen over fifty skins from New Ireland and the Duke of York 

 Group, &c. Living in a country where few works of reference 

 are to be had, I am always glad to be set right as to matters of 

 nomenclature, but I think my learned friends at the antipodes 

 should wait until they have seen the specimens in question, or 

 at least carefully compare the descriptions before expressing an 

 opinion contrary to that of the author who has had the specimens 

 before him. 



On some new Australian Marine Isopoda — Part II. 



By William A. Haswell, M.A., B.Sc. 



[Plates III. and IV.] 



Family IDOTEIM]. 



Genus Idotea. 



Idotea caudacuta, sp. nov., Plate IV., fig. 4. 



Length of body about three and two-thirds the greatest breadth. 

 Head nearly twice as broad as long, front deeply concave. 



