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In the same year J. S. KINGLEY, 32, gave a drawing of Rhabdosoma 

 Batei, n. sp., which name however is only a synonym for Xiphocepha- 

 lus armatus, H. MILNE EDWARDS. 



In 1885 J. V. CARUS, 33, recorded the Oxycephalids hitherto men- 

 tioned from the Mediterranean viz; Oxycephalus similis, GLAUS, doubtfully 

 referring to Natalius candidissimus, COSTA, as synonymous with it; he further 

 mentioned 0. typhoides, GLAUS; and enumerated also among the Oxy- 

 cephalidae, but with a sign of interrogation, Carcinornis acutirostris, COSTA, 

 C. inflaticeps, COSTA, Orio Zandeus, Cocco, Chiropristis messanensis, Cocco, 

 and Ornithoramphus Coccoi, NATALE. Of these animals Orio Zancleus is 

 an Eupronoe, GLAUS, and Chiropristis an Anchylomera, H. MILNE EDWARDS; 

 for the probable synonymy of the remaining ones see, above p. 4 and 6. 



Iii 1886 A. GERSTAECKER, 34, gave Oxycephalidas as the fifth 

 family of the Hyperina anormalia, including the two genera Oxyce- 

 phalus and Rhabdosoma and supported the view of GLAUS, that Rh. ar- 

 matum and Rh. Whitei were the same species. He gave also a copy of 

 GUERIN'S drawing of Oxycephalus oceanicus. 



In 1887 the author of this treatise, 35, published a preliminary pa- 

 per on the systematical arrangement of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea, enu- 

 merating and describing briefly the following Oxycephalids, Gloss o- 

 cephalus, n. g. with the species G. Milne Edwardsi, n. sp., and G. 

 spiniger, n. sp.; Oxycephalus piscator, H. MILNE EDWARDS, 0. 

 Clausi, n. sp. 0. tuberculatus, SPENCE BATE, 0. pectinatus, n. sp., 0. 

 latirostris, GLAUS, 0- porcellus, GLAUS, O.pronoides, n. sp., 0. Steenstrupi, 

 n. sp., and 0. longiceps, GLAUS, the last four species being recorded in the 



32. JOHN STERLING KINGSLEY. The Standard Natural History. Vol. 2; Crusta- 



cea and Insects. Boston, 1884. 



33. JULIUS VICTOR CARUS. Prodromus Faunse Mediterrauese sive Descriptio Ani- 



malium Mediterranei incolarum, quam comparata silva rerum qua- 

 tenus innotuit, adiectis locis et nominibus vujgaribus eorumque 



auctoribus in comtnodum Zoologorum congessit J. V. C. Vol. 



1, p. 427428. Stuttgart, 1885. 



34. A. GERSTAECKER. D:r H. G. BRONN'S Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, 



wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. 5 ter Band. 2 te Ab- 

 theiluug. Gliederfiissler, Arthropoda, p. 486 487, pi. 25, fig. 

 6 and 6 a. Heidelberg, 18841886. 



35. C. BOVALLIUS. Systematical list of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea. Bihang till 



Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handliugar. Band 11. 

 N"> 16, p. 3440. Stockholm, 1887. 



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