96 Dr. W. T. Caiman on 



the scutell inn. without a distinct median sulcus, hut with a 

 strong apical fovea, the posterior slope with a strong median 

 sulcus. Abdomen closely and minutely punctured, rather 

 sparsely clothed with very short silver-grey pubescence, 

 which does not form apical fasciae ; second sternite very 

 minutely and closely punctured on the sides, much more 

 strongly and rather sparsely in the middle ; the third and 

 following sternites very sparsely and deeply punctured in 

 the middle. Seventh tergite elongate-triangular, rather 

 narrowly rounded at the apex, densely clothed with coarse 

 reddish-gold pubescence. Eighth sternite rather narrowly 

 truncate at the apex, the angles not produced. First 

 recurrent nervure interstitial with the first transverse 

 cubital nervure, second received just before the middle of 

 the second cubital cell ; third abscissa of the radius nearly 

 twice as long as the second and about equal to* the first. 

 Six spines on the basal joint of the fore tarsus. 



Hub. Mlanje, Nyasaland, 2300 ft. (S. A. Neave), October. 



A very distinct species in colour, in "the position of the 

 first recurrent nervure, and in the even distribution of the 

 pubescence of the tergites. 



XIV. — On Barnacles of the Genus Scalpcllum from Deep-sea 

 Telegraph- Cables. By W. T. Calman, D.Sc 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



During the last few years the British Museum (Natural 

 History) has received collections o£ deep-sea animals taken 

 from telegraph-cables raised for repair in the Atlantic and 

 in Oriental seas. Most of these collections have been obtained 

 by the cable-ships of the Eastern and Associated Telegraph 

 Companies, and the Museum is indebted to Mr. Walter 

 Judd, Electrician-in-Chief of these companies, who has taken 

 much trouble to facilitate the collecting and safe trans- 

 mission of the specimens. The Museum is not less indebted 

 to the captains and other officers, and particularly to the 

 medical officers of the various ships, by whom the collections 

 were actually made and who have supplied exact details of 

 the positions and depths at which the specimens were taken. 

 The following is a list of the ships by which the specimens 

 described in this paper were obtained, and indicates the 



