Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 121 1967 



]N umber 3571 



SUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTIONS 



OF TWO MYODOCOPID OSTRACODS 



FROM THE RED SEA 



By Louis S. Kornicker 



Associate Curator, Division of Crustacea 



This Study is based on ostracods collected on the Pola Expedition 

 to the Red Sea in 1896 and described by Dr. Herbert Graf (1931). In 

 the original description of Philomedes polae {^Euphilomedes polae), 

 Graf (1931) did not designate a holotype and omitted some details of 

 carapace and appendage morphology. Graf's description may have 

 been based on more than one species. The species, therefore, is 

 redescribed herein and a lectotype selected from the available type- 

 series. Specimens designated as Philomedes species by Graf (1931) 

 have been identified as females of E. polae and are described as such. 

 A single spechnen included by Graf in the type-series of Philomedes 

 polae has ^ been identified as Euphilomedes arostrata Kornicker 

 (1967); this identification is documented with a description and 

 illustrations of the Red Sea specimen. 



The following material was obtained through the courtesy of Dr. 

 Gerhard Pretzmann from the Natm-historisches Museum, Vienna, 

 Austria: (1) One bottle, containing one vial with 3 males, with red 

 label marked: ' 'Philomedes polae, n. sp. cf ; Rotes Meer: Gulf von Suez; 



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