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recently C. B. Wilson, while bestowing richly deserved praise on 

 the work of Professor Sars, says that it would be discourteous to 

 try and carry his classification further, in advance cf its author's 

 own progress. Yet surely no higher tribute could be paid to a 

 principle of action than successful results produced by adopting it. 

 This indeed would seem to be Mr. Wilson's own feeUng, since he 

 immediately makes the attempt which he had just deprecated. He 

 suggests that the Cyclopoida should contain the Chondracanthidse 

 in addition to the Corycaeidae, Lichomolgidae and Ergasilidae, that 

 the Caligoida should contain the Lerngeidae in addition to the 

 Caligidae and Dichelestiidas, while leaving to the Lernaeoida the 

 Lernseopodidae and other indistinct possibilities. The present 

 Catalogue must here content itself with accepted families to be 

 hereafter allotted to appropriate tribes. 



Family SAPPHIEINID^. 



1853. Corycceidce, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. xiii., p. 1201. 

 1892. C, Giesbrecht, F. u. Fl. Neapel, vol. xix., p. 83. 

 1910. SapphirinidcB, Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 5. 



As in this family Sapphirina is a much older genus than 



Corycaus, the name of the family should be founded upon it. 



It has the sanction of Thorell's work in 1859, 



Gen. SAPPHIEINA, J. V. Thompson. 



1829. Sapphirina, Thompson, Zoological Eesearches, vol. i., Mem. 3. 

 1892. S., Giesbrecht, F. u. Fl. Neapel, vol. xix., p. 618. 



Sapphirina indicator, J. V. Thompson. 



1829. Sapphirina indicator, Thompson, Zoological Researches, vol. i., 

 Mem. 3, p. 47, pi. 8, fig. 2. 

 Near the Cape of Good Hope. 

 1853. S. i., Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. xiii., pp. 1203, 1238, 1254. 

 Dana and Giesbrecht regard the species as beyond certain 

 recognition. 



Sapphirina fulgens, Templeton. 

 ?1802. Oniscus fulgens, Tilesius, Neue Ann. Watterausch, vol. i., 



p. 10, pi. 213, fig. 24 (Templeton). 

 1836. Sapphirina f ., Templeton, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, vol. i., 



pt. 3, p. 194, pi. 21, fig. 8. 



