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P. marmoreus, P. piisillus, Hyas araneus, H. coarct- 

 atus, Pandalus annuUcornis, and Eupagurus piihes- 

 cens. Anapaguj'us laevis, and A. Hyndmanni, are 

 also not uncommon, though the specimens are much 

 smaller than those from the Clyde. The rarer 

 species are Eurynome aspera, Hippolyte pusiola, H. 

 spinus, Pandalus brevirostris, Munida migosa, and 

 Inachus dorseftensis. Macropsis Slabber i (Van 

 Bened.), taken by us last year chiefly in the higher 

 reaches of the Forth, has apparently not yet been 

 met with elsewhere in Britain. 



Prof. Bell's History of the British Stalk-eyed Crus- 

 tacea still remains the standard w^ork on the subject ; 

 but it is now manifestly out of date, the descrip- 

 tions are frequently inadequate, and sufficient 

 attention is not i^aid to the law of priority in the 

 naming of species. Since the appearance of that 

 work in 1853, many additions have been made to 

 the British list, and various papers on the subject 

 will be found by W. Thompson, Gosse, Kinahah, 

 Norman, Spence Bate, and others ; one of the more 

 recent contributions being a series of articles on 

 the British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, by Messrs. Carring- 

 ton and Lovett, which appeared in tlie Zoologist for 

 1881. Our own list affords a good example of the 

 progress made in this department of marine zoology 

 within the last thirty years ; twenty-one species, or 

 nearly a fourth of the total number recorded from 

 the Firth of Clyde, have been added to the British 

 faiuia since the publication of Bell's work. A large 

 number of these will be found among the Schizo- 

 poda, a group which has not been thoroughly worked 

 up in Britain, and one in which we may yet reason- 

 ably expect further additions to our fauna. 



In order to illustrate more fully the subject of 

 geographical distribution, we have drawn up in 

 tabular form a list of the species of higher 

 Crustacea recorded from the west coast of Scotland, 

 those not yet taken in the Clyde district being 

 marked by an asterisk. The remainder of the 



