4 10 Canon A. M. Novmau on British Isopoda. 



"Lat. 58°-()0° N., long. 5°-14° W/' (co-types of E. eh- 

 qantida from Copenliaoen Museum) ; lat. 54° 28' N., long. 

 11° 44 W., whicli is ' Porcupine/ 18G9, Stat. 17 {Davison), 

 and ' Porcupine,' 1870, Stat. 29, off Cadiz, in 227 fathoms : all 

 in Mas. Nor. 



4. Eurydice spim'gera, II. J. Hansen. 



1890. Eunjdice spinigera, H. J. Hansen, /. c. p. 3G7, pi. v. figs. 4-4 <•, 

 pi. vi. figs. 1-1 c. 



Jersey {Sine!, in Mus. Nor.), "Wliitsand Bay, Plymouth, 

 1903 {A. M. N.). Eev. T. R. R. Stebbing has previously 

 recorded tlie species as Britisii, having taken it in the harbour 

 at Ilfracombe (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. G, vol. xv. 1895, 

 p. 24). 



5. Eurydice inermis^ H. J. Hansen. 



1890. Eurydice inermis, H. J. Hansen, /. c. p. 866, pi. v, figs. 3-3/ 



A single specimen dredged by me in 1903 near the Eddy- 

 stone Lighthouse when in the Plymouth Biol. Lab. Steamer 

 (^A. M. iV.). The three type specimens in the Copenhagen 

 Museum on which the species was founded had been taken 

 off " Cap Lizard." 



*^^ Dr. Hansen has at the present time a paper of revision 

 of European Cirolanids in the hands of the Linnean Soc. 

 for publication. It will contain notes on some of tlie fore- 

 going species, and, moreover, descriptions of at least one new 

 Cirolana and one new Eurydice which have been procured so 

 near to the British coasts that they may reasonably be 

 expected hereafter to be added to our fauna. 



Fam. Idoteidae. 



Professor Sars has substituted the spelling Idoihea for that 

 of Idotea which has hitherto been generally adopted. The 

 generic name is first found in the ' Index Alphabeticus ' of 

 J. C. Fabricius, 1796, p. 86, where he introduces among 

 the names of those genera which he had already published in 

 the ' Entom. Syst.' others which he intended afterwards to 

 describe in his supplement : these are mere '' nomina nuda " ; 

 all that we find is " Idoihea, S.," implying that the genus 

 will be described in the supplement. The ' Supplementum 

 Entom. Syst.,' 1798 — published two years after the Index 

 just referred to, — contains at p. 302 the description of the 



