THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum. 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes : 

 Polliee virgineo teneros hic carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum. divse, replete eanistrum. 

 At T08, o NrmphfiB Craterides, ite sub umias ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunoo 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et piogoi conchy lia succo." 



N.PartheniiGiannettasi, Eel. I. 



No. 109. JANUARY 1897. 



I. — A new AmpMpod from New Zealand (^Family 

 Pontoporeiidge). By Charles Chilton, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. 



[Plate v.] 



The e^enus Platyischnopus was established in 1888 by the 

 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, in his Report on the ' Cliallenger ' 

 Amphipoda, for a species two imperfect specimens of which 

 were obtained in Port Jackson at a depth of between 2 and 

 10 fathoms. The genus was placed provisionally in the 

 family Pontoporeiidge, but at the same time it was pointed 

 out that " the combined characters of its peculiar head, the 

 chelate gnathopods, and the emarginate telson, give it a more 

 or less isolated position among the Amphipoda at present 

 known " *. 



I find that I have a species in my collection of New- 

 Zealand Crustacea that appears to come under this genus, 

 although it differs in some points, as explained further on. 

 It is represented, however, by only a single specimen taken 

 iu Otago Harbour by surface-netting on the night of Se|)- 

 tember 19th, 1891. The specimen was at the time partially 



* Report on the ' Challenger' Amphipoda, p. 830. 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 6. Vol. xix. 1 



