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Phryxus paguri, Rathke.^" This sj)ecies was first 

 found by Rathke on the Norwegian shore " ; * and 

 White remarks that "it is most iDrobably also a 

 native of our seas." f Mr. White, when writing this, 

 does not seem to have been aware that the species 

 had been noticed in August, 1848 (nearly nine years- 

 before), by Mr. Robert Templeton, " on a Pagurus^ 

 dredged ofP Bird Island, Strangf ord Lough. " X It 

 has been obtained at Polperro by Mr. Couch, and 

 at St. Andrews by Professor M'Intosh. I have 

 obtained one male and two female specimens ; one 

 of the latter was got in East Loch Tarbert, the 

 other near Battle Island, Lochfyne (a little south of 

 Tarbert) — in both cases attached to Pagurus Bern- 

 hardus. I got the male along with the female on 

 the same specimen of Pagurus. 



Cryptothiria balani, Spence Bate. — This curious 

 parasite, a specimen of which I found on Balaiius 

 halanoides on the 27th of last month, Avas first 

 noticed by Mr. Henry Goodsir, and described by 

 him, in the Ediiihurgli New Philosophical Journal 

 for 1843, as the male Balanus; but its true character 

 as a parasite was not discovered till 1851, when Mr. 

 Spence Bate was led to investigate its history. I 

 cannot find any localities mentioned for this siDecies; 

 but in the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea it is stated 

 that the female has been frequently taken by the 

 authors of that work, and always on the species 

 of Balanus mentioned above. The female (which I 

 found my specimen to be) is well described as " a 

 large, inert, seven-lobed mass, destitute of exserted 

 antennae, jaws, legs, or branchial appendages." § 



Janira (Oniscoda) maculosa, Leach.— I have seen 

 a few specimens of this isopod in East Loch Tarbert,, 

 when turning over stones at lo^v water during the 



* Bate and Westwood, British Sessile-eyed Crustacea, ii. 242. 

 t White, Popular History of British Crustacea, p. 257. 

 X Bate and Westwood, I.e., ii. 240. 

 § Id., ii. 207. 



