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Eurythenes gryllus . I am by no means prepared to accept this identification, as from our 

 present knowledge of the Arctic and Antarctic faunas it seems far more likely that 

 magellanica will prove to be a valid species (see infra, p. 58). 



Meanwhile the U.S. Exploring Expedition had traversed our area, and the following 

 Amphipoda, with their equivalent modern names, were described in Dana's classic 

 work (1852, 1853 and 1855): 



Stcnia magellanica 

 Anonyx fuegiensis 

 Uristes gigas 

 Iphimedia nodosa 

 Atyhts simplex 

 Gammarus fuegiensis 

 Orchestia scutigerula 



„ nitida 

 Amphithoe brevipes 

 Cyllopus magellanicus 

 T/iemisto antarctica 

 Hyperia trigona 



Tierra del Fuego ^ 



J 



Antarctic, stomach of fish 



Hermite Island 



>> 

 "Feejee Islands" 

 Tierra del Fuego 



>> 

 Hermite Island 

 Tierra del Fuego 



" Lagulhas Bank near Cape Horn " 



United, and considered species 



dnbiae (Stebbing, 1906) 

 Uristes g. 

 Iphimediella n. 

 Pontogeneia s. 



Lembos f. (see Stebbing, 19 14) 

 Talorchestia s. 

 Orchestia n. 

 Ampithoe b. 

 Cyllopus m. 



Parathemisto gaudichaudii 

 Probably a young P. gaudichaudii 



We may thus reckon that eight definite and recognized species were added to the fauna 

 list. No further additions were made until Bate visited the Paris Museum and described 

 in his British Museum Catalogue of Amphipoda (1862) some specimens derived from 

 the collections made during the voyage of 'La Zelee' (1837-40). These were: 



Orchestia fuegensis 

 Cyllopus danae 

 Cyllopus lucasii 

 Vibilia edwardsii 



Port Famine 



Near Powel Island (South Orkneys) 



= O. nitida, Dana 



= C. magellanicus, Dana 



= C. lucasii 



= V. edwardsii (see p. 264) 



He also recorded from the same expedition Themisto antarcticus, Dana, from 62 25' S, 

 58°W. 



In the same work Bate described two species collected at Hermite Island by the 

 British Expedition of the 'Erebus' and 'Terror' under Sir James Clarke Ross (1839- 

 43) (referred to by Bate as the "Antarctic Expedition"), viz.: 



Atylus huxleyanus = Halirages h. 

 „ villosus = Nototropis v. 



The latter has remained obscure until rediscovered by the ' Discovery. 



Although not collected within our area, mention may here be made of Anonyx 

 (= Orchomenella) chilensis described by Heller in 1868 from the collections of the 

 'Novara'. This is a polymorphic species which is considered (Schellenberg, 1926) to 

 include several forms which do occur in our area. 



In 1 87 1 Cunningham gave an account of some Amphipods collected by him during 



1 Stebbing (1910 a, p. 476) included this in the South African fauna, suggesting that Dana meant to 

 write "Cape of Good Hope". Bate records it from the "Antarctic Expedition". 



