96 Mr. E. J. Miers on Arctic Crustacea. 



Wing 1-96 inch, tail 1*06, tarsus 0-50, culmen 0-38, 

 Discovered by Mr. A. H, Everett at Monte Alban, in 

 Luzon. 



Oxycerca Everefti, sp. n. 



^ and ? . Chin and throat dark brown ; breast, flanks, 

 and thigh-coverts warm nutmeg-brown. Abdomen and vent 

 pure white, some of the lower breast-feathers being marked 

 with brown, and some of the flank-feathers being white on 

 their inner webs, brown on their outer, and with white shafts. 

 Under tail-coverts very dark brown or black. Above, wings, 

 and coverts brown, each feather, except the frontal and upper 

 tail-coverts, having a conspicuous pure white central line 

 along the shaft, very prominent on the wing-coverts. Some 

 of the upper tail-coverts tipped with ochre. Rectrices brown, 

 the middle pair broadly margined, the laterals less so, with 

 yellow and greyish yellow. Inner edges of the quills pale 

 nifous seen from underneath. 



Wing 1-87 inch, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-56, culmen 0*38. 



Several examples of this species were obtained by Mr. A. 

 H. Everett at Monte Alban and San Mateo, in Luzon. The 

 sexes do not differ in plumage. A representative form of O. 

 leucogaster. 



XIV. — Report on the Crustacea collected hy the Naturalists 

 of the Arctic Expedition in 1875-76. By Edward J. 

 Miers, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Assistant in the Zoological Depart- 

 ment, British Museum. 



[Continued from p. 66.] 



AMPHIPODA. 



Anonyx nugax. 



Anonyx nnqax, Phipps, Voy. North Pole, Appendix, p. 192, pi. xii. 



fig. 2 (1774). 

 Gammarus nuqax, Sabiue, Append. Capt. Parrj's 1st \ oy. p. 51 



(1821). 

 Talitrm nuqax, Ross, Append. Capt. Parry's .3rd Voy. p. 119 (182G) ; 



Appeud."4th Voy. p. 205 (1828). 

 Lysianassa laqena, Kroyer, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Afh. vii. p. 237, 



pi. i. fig. 1 ■$ (1838) ; M.-Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust, iii. p. 21 (1840); 



Bell iu Belcher, ' Last of the Arctic Voyages,' Crust, p. 406 (1855). 

 Lysianassa appendiculosa, Kroyer, /. c. p. 240, pi. i. fig. 2 (^ (1838). 

 Lysianassa appendiculata, M.-Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust, iii. p. 21 (1840) ; 



S. Bate, Cat. Aniphip, Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 67, pi. x. fig. 8 (S. 



