CRUSTACEA OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM 



mouths were full of small Crustaceans, with which the sea was 

 literally alive ; heaps of these were afterwards washed ashore 

 by sea-winds, and afforded a feast for starlings and other 

 frequenters of the tidal line." 



Mr. Nelson sent to me a'small bottle of the specimens from 

 the shore for identification. The mass was composed of 

 Euthemisto coinpressa ; but there were also several examples 

 of Nematoscelis borealis Norman, and one of Thysanoessa 

 longicandata Kroyer. Mr. Nelson would seem from his 

 description to have seen the Kittiwakes feeding on these 

 Crustaceans off the Durham coast, but at any rate it is certain 

 that these Crustacea came from the north, down the Northum- 

 berland and Durham coasts, before they reached the spot 

 where they were cast up upon the strand in the extreme N.E. 

 of Yorkshire. They may be included therefore as occasional 

 visitants off our coasts (A. M. N.) N.D. 



Nematoscelis borealis (Norman). 



1872. Thysanoessa borealis, Norman, in Sim (G.), "Stalk- 

 Eyed Crustacea N.E. Coast of Scotland " (Scottish 

 Naturalist), p. 8 (separate copy). 

 1882. Nematoscelis megalops, G. O. Sars, Prelim. Notices 

 of Schizopoda of " Challenger" Exped. (Christ. Vidensk. 

 Forhand.), p. 27 (separate copy). 

 1885. Nematoscelis tnegalops, G. O. Sars, Report 

 "Challenger"' Exped. Schizopoda, p. 127, pi. xxiii., 

 figs. 5-io> Pl- ^-^iv- 

 1892. Nematoscelis megalops, Norman, Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. ix., p. 464. 

 In my notes in the last-named paper I have referred to some 

 slight diflferences which ajipear to exist between the British 

 specimens and that figured by Sars, and should those difTer- 

 ences be not truly specific my name ^V; borealis can be adopted. 

 I""()r the occurrence of this species on our coast see notes on 

 the preceding species ; considering that there were the remains 

 of several specimens of this species in the very small amount of 

 material which I examined, it woukl seem to have occurred in 

 great profusion off our coast (A. M. X.) N.D. 



