82 Naturalist at Large 



that these shrimps were unique, the only members of the 

 family Hippolytidae that had taken to cave life. The mem- 

 bers of this family inhabit the deep sea and a vast number 

 of deep-sea Crustacea are red. All other cave shrimps which 

 I know of, like most other cavicolous animals, are pure 

 white. She named this shrimp Barbouria poeyi, which 

 pleased me very much. 



I am going to digress for a moment at this point and say 

 something about zoological names. There is always a 

 generic name written with a capital, and a specific name, 

 and sometimes also a subspecific, always written in lower 

 case. The manufacturing or thinking up of generic names 

 is not always easy, since you have to think of names which 

 have not been used before, and the number of names that 

 have been used mounts into many thousands. Therefore a 

 person with a name which works up reasonably eupho- 

 niously is a good deal of a godsend to describers; so we 

 have Barbourella, Barbourina, Barbouricthys, Barbouro- 

 phis, Barbourula, and I think several other such combina- 

 tions, all shpping off the tongue with reasonable comfort. 



But consider the way Dybowski, for instance, has trans- 

 gressed, and some of the names which he has proposed for 

 free-swimming Crustacea in Lake Baikal: Leiicophtahiw- 

 echinogainmarus leucophthahms, Stenophthahnoechijio- 

 gannnanis stenopbthalmus, Corimtoky todermogavmmrus 

 cornutuSj and, best of all, Brachyuropushkydermatogam- 

 rnarus greivinglii vmemonotus. I call this dirty ball. Thank 

 God these have all been outlawed by unanimous consent 

 of one of the International Zoological Congresses. 



Not long ago I had occasion to make some rather nasty 



