PHYLLOPOD CRUSTACEA OF JAPAN. lOll 



of the frontal appendages, it comes nearest to the African Streptocepbalus 

 2)rohoscidens, Frfld., described by A. Brauer. 



Comparatively few books of reference at my disposal make it very difhcult 

 for me to determine the systematic position of the present species, and it is 

 a bold attempt on my part to attach a new specific name to the present 

 species. I do this, however, only for the sake of convenience, and am ready 

 at any moment to change it for any other name, in case that it proves 

 to be an already known species. 



Books of Eeference : — 



Leydig, Fr. : — Ueber Artemia mlina and Branchipus stdgnaUs. 



Zeitschrift fiir wiss. Zoologie Bd. HI. 1851. 

 Klunzijiger : — Ueber Branchipiis ruhricaudatus n. sp. Zeitschr. f. 



wiss. Zool. Bd. XVII. 1867. 

 Brauer, Friedrich :— Beitrjige zur Kenntniss der Phyllopoden. Sitzb. 



der k. Akad. der Wissensch. I Abth. Mai-Heft. 1877. 

 Spangenberg, F,: — Zur Kenntniss von Branchipus fitagnalis. Zeitschr. 



f. wiss. Zoologie. Bd. XXV. 1875. 

 Nitsche, H. : — Ueber die Geschlechtorgane von Branchipus Grubi. 



Zeitschr. f. wiss. Zoologie. Bd. XXV. 1875. 

 Schmankewitsch. T. AV. : — Ueber das Verhiiltniss der Artemia salina 



Miln-Edw. zur Artemia Mahlhausenli Miln-Edw. und dem Genus 



Branchipus Schjif. Zeitschr. f. wiss. Zoologie. Bd. XXV. 1875. 

 : — Zur Kenntniss des Einflusses der iiusseren 



Lebensbedingungen auf die Organization der Thiere. Zeitschr. f. 



wiss. Zoologie. Bd. XXIX. 1877. 

 Gissler, C. F. :— Description of a hermaphrodite Phyllopod Crustacean 



{Euhranclupus i-'ernalis), American Naturalist. 1881. 

 : — Evidences of the effect of chemicophysical 



influences in the evolution of Branchipod Crustaceans, American 



Naturahst. 1881. 

 Packard, A- S, Jr. ; — A Monograph of the Phyllopod Crustacea of 



