REPORT ON THE PYCNOGONIDA. 3 
The species of the English coast found (1842—44) a new monographer in Goodsir,! 
who in three consecutive papers enumerates a large number of species new to the fauna 
of the British Isles and to science in general. Two new genera (Pephredo and Pasithoe) 
are proposed by him, but owing to the want of detail Mr Goodsir’s papers are of little 
value, for it is absolutely impossible to recognise either his new genera or his new species 
from such descriptions as he gives. 
Of as little value is the list given by base (1864), in which all Goodsir’s species 
are found, in addition to some new Ammotheas and species of his new genus Achelia. 
Since Hodge’s list—though occasionally in English periodicals short descriptions of new 
species. have been published—no special paper on the Pycnogonids of the English coast 
has appeared. 
Those of the Norwegian coast found a very able describer in Kréyer (1845),’ who 
gives very clear diagnoses of the genera and species. As a new genus he proposes 
Zetes, and the total number of species described by him is twelve. These descrip- 
tions were published without illustrations; but illustrations to the text may be found 
in Quoy and Gaimard’s Voyages en Scandinavie, Laponie, &c., Zoologie, Crustacés, 
pl. xxxix. (1840). 
For the Pyenogonids of Northern Europe and the coasts of the Arctic Ocean, besides 
Kréyer, the following authors must be mentioned :—Otho Fabricius‘ for the coast of 
Greenland, as mentioned above. Sabine® (1824) describes two Nymphons (N. grossipes and 
N. hirsutum) and a species of Phoxichilus (P. proboscideus—a true Colossendeis, Jar- 
zyusky), found on the shores of the North Georgian Islands. Bell (1855),° in Belcher’s 
Last of the Arctic Voyages, gives descriptions and drawings of two new species of Nym- 
phon (N. hirtipes and N. robustwm) common in higher northern latitudes. Jarzynsky (1870)' 
enumerates the species of Russian Lapland and the White Sea. A new genus (Colos- 
sendeis) is proposed by him. Buchholz (1874),* in the narrative of the second German 
North Polar Expedition, enumerates three species of Nymphon, but none of these are new. 
1 Harry D. S. Goodsir.—Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol. xxxii., 1842; ibid., vol. xxxiii., 1842; On the 
Specific and Generic Characters of the Araneiform Crustacea, Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. xiv., 1844. 
? George Hodge.—List of the British Pycnogonoidea, with descriptions of several new species, Ann. and Mag. of 
Nat. Hist., vol. xiii., 3d series, 1864. 
3 Henrik Kroyer.—Bidrag til Kundskab om Pyknogoniderne eller Sospindlerne, Natur-historisk Tidskrift, Ny 
Raekke, i., 1845, 
4 Loe. cit. ; 
5 A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry’s Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage in the 
years 1819-20, containing the Zoological and Botanical Notices, London, 1824; Marine Invertebrate Animals, by 
Captain Edward Sabine. 
6 Thomas Bell—Account of the Crustacea of the Last of the Arctic Voyages in Search of Sir John Franklin, 
under the command of Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B., &c., in two volumes, vol. ii., 1855. 
7 Th. Jarzynsky.—Promissus catalogus Pyenogonidarum inventarum in mari glaciali ad oras Lapponie rossice et 
in Mari albo, anno 1869 et 1870, Annales de la Soe. des Natur. de St Petersb., 1870. 
8 R. Buchholz.—Crustaceen der Zweiten Deutschen Nordpolarfahrt, Anhang; Pycnogonida, Die Zweit Deutsche 
Nordpolarfahrt, ii. 396, 1874. 
