THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTOEY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 27. MARCH 1900. 



XXX IT. — A Neio-Zealand Species of the Amphlpodan Oenus 

 Cyproiclia. By Charles Chilton, M.A., D.Sc, M.B., 

 CM., F.L.S., Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh. 



[Plate v.] 



A FEW specimens of the species described in this paper have 

 been in my possession for a considerable time, and were obtained 

 some years ago by surface-netting in Otago Harbour, New 

 Zealand. I have hitlierto refrained from publishing the 

 species, owing to uncertainty as to its generic position; but 

 as that difficulty appears likely to increase as time goes on, I 

 have decided to describe the species now under the genus 

 Cyproidia^ Haswell. 



This genus was instituted by Haswell in 1880 for two 

 Australian species^, and the description was afterwards given 

 with some slight additions and corrections in his Catalogue 

 of the Australian Crustacea in 1882 f. In 1885 a British 

 species was described by Stebbing |, who pointed out the close 

 resemblance between the genus Cyproidia and another genus 

 Stegoplax, founded by Sars in 1882. Another British species 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vol. iv. pp. (320-321. 

 t ' Catalogue of the Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea of Australia,' 

 p. 229. 



X Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. o, vol. xv. 1885, p. 59, pi. ii. 



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