Historical Notes. 9 



111 the same year J. S. Kingley, 32, gave a drawing of Rhabdosoma 

 Batei, n. ep., which name however is o-p\j a synonym for Xiphocepha- 

 lus armatus, H. Milne Edwards. 



In 1885 J. V. Carus, 33, recorded the Oxycephalids hitherto men- 

 tioned from the Mediterranean viz; Oxycephalus similis, Claus, doubtfully 

 referring to Natalias candidissimus , Costa, as synonymous with it; he further 

 mentioned 0- typhoides^ Claus; and enumerated also among the Oxy- 

 cephalidae, but with a sign of interrogation, Carcinornis acutirostris, Costa, 

 C. iiißaticep."^ Costa, Orio Zancleus^ Cocco, Chiropristis messanensis, Cocco, 

 and Ornithoramphus Coccoi^ Natale. Of these animals Orio Zancleus is 

 an Eupronoë^ Claus, and Chiropristis an Anckylomera, H. Milne Edwards; 

 for the probable synonymy of the remaining ones see, above p. 4 and 6. 



In 1886 A. Gerstaeckee, 34, gave Oxycephalidfe as the fifth 

 family of the Hyperina anormalia, including the two genera Oxyce- 

 phalus and Rhabdosoma and supported the view of Claus, that Rh. ar- 

 matum and Rh. Whitei were the same species. He gave also a copy of 

 Guérin's drawing of Oxycephalus océaniens. 



In 1887 the author of this treatise, 35, published a preliminary pa- 

 per on the systematical arrangement of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea, enu- 

 merating and describing briefly the following Oxycephalids, Glo s s o- 

 cephalus, n. g. with the species G. Milne Edwardsi, n. sp., and G. 

 spiniger, n. sp.; Oxycephalus piscator, H. Milne Edwards, 0. 

 Clausi, n. sp. 0. tuber culatus, Spence Bate, 0. pectinatus, n. sp., 0. 

 latirostris, Claus, 0- porcellus., Claus, 0. pronoides., n. sp., O. Steenstrupi, 

 n. sp., and 0. longiceps., Claus, the last four species being recorded in the 



32. John Steeling Kingsley. The Standard Natural History. Vol. 2; Crusta- 



cea and Insects. Boston, 1884. 



33. Julius Victor Caeus. Prodromus Faimse Mediterrauese sive Descriptio Ani- 



malium Mediterranei incolarum, quam comparata silva rerum qua- 

 tcuus inuotuit, adiectis locis et nominibus vulgaribus eorumque 



auctoribus in commodum Zoologorum congessit J. V. C. Vol. 



1, p. 427—428. Stuttgart, 1885. 



34. A. Gerstaeckee. D:r H. G. Bronx's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, 



wissenschaftlich dargesteUt in Wort und Bild. 5*" Band. 2'« Ab- 

 theilung. Gliederfttssler, Arthropoda, p. 486 — 487, pl. 25, fig. 

 Ö and 6 a. Heidelberg, 1884—1886. 



35. C. Bovallius. »Systematical list of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea». Bihang till 



Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. Baud 11. 

 N° 16, p. .34—40. Stockhohii, 1887. 

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