A HISTORY OF KENT 



to be new named it D. westwoodii. In this genus the first antennae 

 are twenty-five jointed, the right one in the male being prehensile. 

 Eurytemora affinis (Poppe) and £. lac'wulata (Fischer) have been found 

 by Scourfield at Gravesend. The first antennae are twenty-four jointed, 

 with the clasper on the right. Of the family Arpacticidae Canthocampus 

 staphylinus (Jurine) is reported by Scourfield from Chislehurst, and 

 Moraria ajidersonsmithi, T. and A. Scott, from Keston. The last-named 

 authors say that the genus Moraria was instituted to include an interest- 

 ing Arpactid from Loch Morar, Inverness-shire, ' having characters 

 connecting the fresh-water species Attheyella cryptorum, Brady, with the 

 marine Cylindropsyllus laevis, Brady.' ' ' The anterior antennae in both 

 male and female are short, stout, and seven-jointed, the male antennae 

 being hinged between the fourth and fifth joints, and adapted for 

 grasping.'^ Mr. Scourfield, writing to me, 17 May 1902, says, 'I 

 also enclose a summary of all my records of fresh and brackish water 

 Entomostraca from Kent. I am sorry it is not longer, but it has 

 happened that I have not collected much in Kent. There are, however, 

 several interesting things in the list, e.g. the two species of 'Eurytemora, 

 Cyclops dybowskii, and Moraria andersonsfiiithi.^ It can scarcely be neces- 

 sary to point out how largely Mr. Scourfield, by his generous supply of 

 unpublished lists, has contributed to the completeness of this report on 

 the Crustacea of the county. 



Of parasitic and semiparasitic Entomostraca many are Copepoda 

 which attach themselves with more or less freedom or fixity to fishes, 

 and are on that account called ' fish-lice.' How large a number of 

 parasitic Crustacea in general might be added to the catalogue of the 

 Kentish fauna can be with certainty inferred from some passages in 

 England's Topographer, in which their hosts are mentioned. Thus Mr. 

 Ireland says, ' The Medway abounds in fish ; particularly carp, perch, 

 tench, pike, dace, chub, roach, and gudgeons ; and but rarely a salmon 

 is caught weighing twelve or fourteen pounds : that fish formerly 

 abounded in this river,i as several manors belonging to the priory of 

 Rochester were compelled to furnish one or more annually, for the 

 table of the monks : and below Rochester, the finest and largest smelts 

 are caught, as well as soals, flounders, dabs, thornbacks, maids, etc. In 

 former times the sturgeon was so abundant in the stream that the Bishop 

 of Rochester claimed a duty from the same, which constituted a con- 

 siderable part of his revenue, as second to the Archbishop ; another 

 being also paid to the King.' 'The Cray abounds in trout of the finest 

 flavour, colour and size.' Elsewhere he tells us that ' In the year 

 1774 a most remarkable fish was caught on Faversham Flats, called mola 

 salviani, or the sun fish, which weighed about nineteen pounds and a 

 half, and was two feet in diameter. This fish is very rarely met with in 

 our narrow seas,' and in a ' Chronology of remarkable events relating 

 to Maidstone,' one entry is, ' R. whale and two porpusses taken in 



> Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, xi. 213 (1893). 



» T. Scott in Eleventh Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, pt. 3, 228 (1893). 

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