CRUSTACEANS 



and the Ou'ie, and also generally stated to occur ' in the rivers and broads 

 of the East-Anglian fen district.' ^ 



Paradoxostoma vartabile (Baird), from the Ouse. Baird describes 

 this species as rejoicing in a variety of colouring, which w^ill please or 

 exasperate the naturahst according to taste. Its shell may be almost 

 black, or of a uniform dark brown, or altogether of a fine flesh colour, or 

 of a light flesh colour with greenish edges and the centre crossed by dark 

 streaks, or it may be white with one black band across the middle and 

 another behind attended by a beautiful reddish or bright bronze spot.^ 



Paradoxostoma abbreviatum, Sars, from the Ouse.^ 



Paradoxostoma ensiforme, Brady, from the Ouse.^ 



Paradoxostoma normani Brady, from Breydon Water.* 



Paradoxostoma flexuosum^ Brady, from the Ouse, but in this case the 

 Yorkshire Ouse is perhaps intended.® 



Sclerochilus contortus, Norman, taken on the Norfolk coast by Mr. 

 D. O. Drewett.' 



To this catalogue of Ostracoda might be added not a few species, 

 which are described as ubiquitous in Great Britain or as common 

 throughout the East-Anglian district. Of the Cladocera, entomostracans 

 with branched antennas. Dr. Brady records Moina rectirostris (O. F. 

 Miiller) as having been taken in Norfolk by Mr. D. J. Scourfield,^ 

 and this group is certainly represented in the county by species of the 

 universally distributed Daphnia, of Lynceus and other genera, which will 

 better be discussed when there is ample room and verge enough to trace 

 their characters. Since Norfolk is rich in fishes, it is sure also to be rich 

 in the parasitic Copepoda, by which fishes are beset in a striking variety 

 of eccentric forms. Since also the county has both tracts of fresh water 

 and a sea coast, it is sure to have a multitude of species of free-living 

 Copepoda, though only a few seem to have been especially mentioned 

 as occurring within its limits. Dr. Brady records three of the family 

 Cyclopids and two Calanids. 



Cyclops scourjieldi, Brady, from Wroxham, Filby and Rollesby 

 broads and Heigham Sound. Mr. Scourfield has also taken it in the 

 ' Victoria Regia Tank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park.' Dr. 

 Brady himself has taken it by moonlight in Coniston Lake.* This 

 species is now again identified with C. leuckarti, Claus, from which Dr. 

 Brady thought it should be distinguished. 



Cyclops viridis (Jurine), from the broads of Norfolk and Suffblk. 

 This widely distributed species occurs in slightly brackish water at 

 Lymington in Hampshire. In his Ray Society Monograph, Dr. Brady 

 recorded the Norfolk form as Cyclops gigas, Claus, a ' giant ' one-ninth 



' Monograph, pt. i. p. 228 ; Jnn. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. vi. p. 33. 



2 Ibid. p. 33 ; Brit. Entom., p. 170. 



3 Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. vi. p. 33. 



* Ibid. p. 33, compared with Monograph, pt. i. p. 231. 



" Monograph, pt. i. p. 237. ^ Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xxvi. p. 456. 



' Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland, vol. xiii. pt. ii. p. 245, 1898. 

 ^ Ibid. vol. xi. pt. i. p. 75 (lo), 1891. 

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