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Pseudophilomedes Joveolatus M tiller (called Philomedes joveolata by- 

 Brady and Norman) were borrowed from the collection of the British 

 Museum. It is concluded that they are not congeneric with Pseudo- 

 philomedes but instead are members of the genus Euphilomedes Poul- 

 sen, 1962. They are identified as Euphilomedes asper (Miiller, 1894) 

 and Euphilomedes sp. and are described and illustrated in this paper. 

 A supplemental description is given of a syntype of Euphilomedes 

 asper (Miiller) borrowed from the Zoological Museiun, Berlin. 



As a result of this study, the subfamily Philomedinae Miiller, 1912, 

 has been raised to familial rank. 



I wish to thank Dr. John H. Day of the Beaufort Marine Laboratory, 

 Duke Univrersity, and personnel of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries for specimens of Pseudophilomedes ferulanus from the 

 Atlantic Shelf, and Dr. J. P. Harding for permission to study speci- 

 mens in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History), 

 identified as Philomedes foveolatus (Muller) by Brady and Norman 

 (1896), and Dr. H. E. Gruner for permission to study syntypes of 

 Pseudophilomedes Joveolatus Miiller and Philomedes asper Miiller in the 

 collection of the Zoological Museum, Berhn, I wish also to thank 

 Miss Carohne Bartlett Gast for preparing plates for publication from 

 my penciled camera lucida drawings and especially for the carefully 

 stippled drawing of the ventral view of P. ferulanus (fig. 1). Criti- 

 cisms of the manuscript by Mr. I. Gregory Sohn and Doctors Raymond 

 B. Manning, Thomas E. Bowman, and Meredith L. Jones are greatly 

 appreciated. 



Discussion of Classification 



Classification of myodocopid Ostracoda was reviewed by Skogsberg 

 (1920) and more recently by Poulsen (1962). Of particular concern 

 in the present paper are the taxonomic relationships of Pseudophilo- 

 medes. Therefore, discussion of classification will be restricted to the 

 superfamily, Cypridinacea Baird, 1850. When Miiller (1894) de- 

 scribed Pseudophilomedes, he referred it to the family Cypridinidae 

 Baird, 1850. Two years later, Brady and Norman (1896) described 

 the genus Paramekodon {= Pseudophilomedes) referring it also to the 

 Cypridinidae. Later, Miiller (1912) established the subfamily 

 Philomedinae in the Cypridinidae. He referred to the Philomedinae 

 the genera Philomedes Liljeborg, 1853, Pseudophilomedes, and Ruti- 

 </ermaBrady and Norman 1896. Skogsberg (1920) recognized the Philo- 

 medinae for Pseudophilomedes and Philomedes but followed Brady and 

 Norman (1896) in placing Rutiderma in the Rutidermatidae Brady 

 and Norman, 1896. The Philomedinae sensu Skogsberg has been 

 recognized by Sylvester-Bradley (1961), Poulsen (1962, 1965), and 



