178 FAUNISTIC NOTES. 



6. Brady, G. S. — "Monograph of the British Copepoda." Ray Society, vol. i. 



1S78, pp. 49, 50. 



7. Browne, E. T. — " On the changes in the Pelagic Fauna of Plymouth during 



September 1893 and 1895." Jour. Mar. Biol. Assoc, vol. iv. pp. 168-173. 



8. Cunningham, J. T. — "On a species of Siphonophore observed at Plymouth." 



Jour. Mar. Biol. Assoc. New Series, vol. ii. pp. 212-215. 



9. Garstang, W. — "Faunistic Notes at Plymouth during 1893-4." Jour. Mar. Biol. 



Assoc, vol. iii. pp. 212 235. 

 10. Mcintosh, W. C. — " On the Pelagic Fauna of the Bay of St. Andrews during the 

 months of 1888." Seventh An7i. Rep. Fish. Bd. Scot, part iii. 1889, pp. 259-301. 



T. V. Hodgson. 



Nautilograpsus minutus, Milne Edwards.— On September 26th a 

 large three-masted sailing-ship, the Ballachulish, of Ardrossan, entered 

 the Sound from a distant port, and enquiry from the Agents showed 

 that she had come direct from Iquique, in Peru, and that for nearly two 

 years previously she had been trading in the Central Pacific. 



As the Laboratory boat was passing on the 28th, it was stopped to 

 make a rough examination of the ship's bottom for specimens, and a fine 

 male specimen of Nautilograpsus minutus, M. Edw., was taken. This 

 species is a native of the Sargasso Sea, and only a very rare straggler to 

 the British coasts. It is described by Bell * under the name of Planes 

 linnceana (Leach), and he states that there are several species of this 

 genus. Stebbing, however, in his Crustacea,] reduces the reputed species 

 to one, and substitutes Milne-Edwards' name for that of Bell. The 

 bottom of the ship was covered, in patches, with a number of fine 

 specimens of Lepas anatifera, and a single specimen of Conchoderma 

 aurita (Spengel) was taken. With these and some green algte was an 

 enormous quantity of Tnbularia sp. The latter was in fine condition, 

 and both male and female reproductive organs were well developed. 

 Specimens were taken by Mr. E. T. Browne for identification, and will 

 be described by him. Overrunning both alga and Tuhularia was a 

 crowd of large Fodocerus falcatus. 



On October 21st a fisherman brought to the Laboratory an enormous 

 bunch of Lepas anatifera, fixed to a fragment of some cork structure — 

 thick sheets of cork secured together by wooden pins — found floating 

 in the Channel some two or three miles out. Concealed in this mass 

 was another specimen of Naidilograp&us minutus. (M. Edw.) Both 

 specimens were about half an inch across the carapace, and of a reddish 

 colour, but the second specimen had a broad band of white across the 

 anterior portion. T. V. Hodgson. 



* Bell, T. — History of tlic British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, London, 1853. 

 t Stebbinc;, T. R. "R..— Crustacea. lat. Sc. Ser. 1893. 



