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a green variety at Roby in August and September, 1851 ; and a male of a 

 very large green variety from a ditch near Seaforth : it was very distinct from 

 that caught at Roby, and much more beautiful'; 1 D. hircus (Brady), of 

 which the author, Dr. G. S. Brady, F.R.S., remarks, ' I took a few specimens 

 only of this, which appears to be a quite distinct species, in Goat Water, a 

 tarn lying at a considerable elevation on the side of Coniston Old Man ' ; 2 

 femora longicornis (O. F. Miiller) from the mussel beds at Piel, a species of 

 which Sars observes that ' it moves in a peculiar revolving manner, and this 

 seems to be the case with all the members of this genus ' ; s and Eurytemora 

 affinis (Poppe), of which Temorella affinis (Claus) is a synonym, noticed by 

 Mr. Thompson in the following terms : ' Length 1-75 mm. A large number 

 of this species were taken by tow-net off the sand-banks at the mouth of the 

 Mersey in 1886. It was not subsequently recorded in the district until 1891, 

 when the filter-beds of the Bootle Corporation baths were found to be swarm- 

 ing with it. Mr. Ascroft has since sent me specimens found in tidal pools at 

 Lytbam. The males I have found are conspicuous by the number of sper- 

 matophores attached to them.' 4 In 1894 Mr. Ascroft found this species 

 filling the stomachs of fishes only half an inch long. 6 



The family Cyclopidas appeals in this county for further research. At 

 present it claims the vague Cyclops quadricornis, of which the Fauna of Liverpool 6 

 says in general terms : ' Common in most ponds and ditches ; all the varieties 

 are met with' ; C. abyssorun (G. O. Sars), reported by Brady as 'taken in 

 gatherings made by the deep net in Windermere and Coniston Water, but 

 by no means plentiful'; 7 C. scourfieldi (Brady), of which the same author 

 says, ' My first knowledge of this species was .... derived from specimens 

 which I took myself by moonlight in the surface-net at Coniston, in August, 

 1883 ; in this gathering it occurred in considerable numbers, as also in a 

 subsequent daylight surface-gathering from the same lake ' ; 8 and recently 

 he writes : ' The form described by me years ago under the specific name 

 scourfieldi has been identified by other authors (Lilljeborg, Herrick, Schmeil) 

 with C. kuckarti (Claus). I am doubtful as to the correctness of this identifi- 

 cation : both Schmeil and Herrick figure, with differences, peculiar pellucid 

 marginal lamina? on the last two joints of the larger antennas. I have been 

 unable to detect any such structure in my British specimens of C. scourfieldi, 

 neither does it exist in the Natal specimens nor in others from Ceylon, which 

 I refer to the same species.' 9 From these remarks the student will readily 

 infer that a very close attention to details is exacted by the requirements of 

 modern classification. The distribution too of a minute freshwater species 

 over several continents, though by no means unexampled, may still excite 

 some surprise. Concerning ' Cyclops magnoctavus (Cragin) ' Mr. Thompson 

 says : ' One or two specimens of this brackish species were found along with 

 quantities of Temorella affinis and Tachidius brevicornis in tow-net gatherings 

 sent to me by Mr. Ascroft, taken by him in low-water marine pools at 

 Lytham. It is evident that a considerable amount of fresh water finds its 

 way into the Lytham pools.' 10 This C. magnoctavus is now regarded as a 



1 Fauna of Liverpool, 55. Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumb. etc. xi. pt. i. 101 (1891). 



8 Crustacea of Norway, iv. 98 (1903). 4 Trans. L'werp. Biol. Soc. vii. 182. 



6 Op. cit. ix. 107. 6 Op. cit. p. 55. 1 Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumb. etc., xi. pt. i. 74. 



8 Ibid. p. 76. Proc. Zoo/. Soc. Ltmd. ii. 122 (1904). 10 Trans. Liverp. Biol. Soc. ix. 99. 



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