586 



Dr. W. T. Caiman on the 



Hohtype. — Female in British Museum, collected at Royal 

 Sound, Kerguclen, by Rev. A. E. Eaton. Reg. no. 76. 27. 



Bemarlxs. — Miers's first description of this species was 

 published " certainly not later than 1st July, 1875 " (as I am 

 informed by Messrs. Taylor and Francis), and tlieretoro 

 preceded Heller's application of the same name to an arctic 

 sj^ecies in a paper communicated to the Vienna Academy on 

 19th July, 1875. Miers's alteration of the name to A . ant- 

 arciicum was unnecessary, but renders invalid PlV-ffer's use of 



Fijv. 1. 



Nymphon gracUipes, Miers, liolotype, dorsal view. Legs and palps 

 omitted, x 10. 



N. antarcticum for a species from South Georgia, which now 

 requires a new name. Heller's species, renamed A^. helleri 

 by Bohm *, is identified by Hoek and others with N. strcjimti, 

 Kr(^yer, and by Norman f with N. giganteum, Goodsir. 

 Miers's descriptions and figures are quite inadequate, and 



* MB. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879, p. 170. 



t Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxx. p. 214 (1908). 



