On Crustacea found in a Deep-sea Cephalopod. 51 



Length 14 mm. 



Hab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd) ; Mackay, Queensland 

 (R. E. Turner) ; Clare, S. Australia (fV. Wesche). 



Unlike any other described species of the genus from 

 Australia, strongly resembles Abispa paragioides in general 

 colour. The specimens from S. Australia differ from the 

 Queensland individuals in having the vertex and mesopleurae 

 black. Some specimens from Swan River, W. Australia, 

 resemble the South Australian form. 



£ . Unknown. 



VT. — Votes on Crustacea found in the Gizzard of a Deep- 

 sea Cephalopod. By Thomas Scott, LL.D., F.L.S. 



[Plates II. & III.] 



Dr. W. E. Hoyle, the well-known authority on the Cepha- 

 lopoda, when examining one of these organisms captured 

 in deep water in the South Atlantic, discovered in its gizzard 

 a number of fragments and one or two moderately whole 

 specimens of small crustaceans, on which apparently the 

 creature had been feeding some time before it was captured. 

 The crustacean remains comprised several species, and 

 included representatives of the Isopoda, the Amphipoda, and 

 the Copepoda. Very few of tliem, however, were sufficiently 

 perfect for identification, and one of these is a rather inter- 

 esting species belonging to the Copepoda. 



I am indebted to the Rev. T. 11. R. Stebbing for the privi- 

 lege of overhauling this somewhat curious collection, and 

 also to my son Mr. Andrew Scott for the drawings which 

 illustrate this paper and for assistance otherwise. 



I have on several occasions found interesting Crustacea, 

 not only minute Copepods, but tolerably big crabs, such as 

 Hi/as, Pagurus, Geryon triden, and full-grown Norway 

 lobsters, in the stomachs of fishes, and in one case no fewer 

 than fifty-four pairs of cuttlefish jaws were obtained in the 

 stomach of a king-fish, Lampris luna* } but I think this is 

 the first time I have had the opportunity of examining a 

 carcinological collection obtained in the stomach of a 

 Cephalopod. 



The Cephalopod referred to — Stauroteuthis hippocrepium, 

 Hoyle +, was captured at a depth of 2125 fathoms in hit. 



* See Twenty-first Report Fishery Board for Scotland, pt. iii. p. 219 

 (with a photograph of the jaws), 

 t See Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol, xlii. no. l,pp. 1-77 (with 12 plates), 



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