TIIK ANNALS 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 27. MARCH 1900. 



XXXII. — A Neio-Zealand Species of the Avxjyhipodun Genus 

 Cyproidia. By Chaulks Chilton, M.A., D.Sc, ALB., 

 CM., F.L.S., Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh. 



[Plate v.] 



A FEW sj)eciniciis of" the s])ecies described in this paper have 

 been in my possession tor a considerable time, and were obtained 

 some years ago by siiri'acc-netting in Otago Harbour, New 

 Zealand. I have hitherto refrained from publishing the 

 species, owing to uncertainty as to its generic position; but 

 as that difficulty appears likely to increase as time goes on, I 

 have decided to describe the species now under the genus 

 Cyp roidia , II a s w e 1 1 . 



This genus was instituted by Haswcll in 1880 for two 

 Australian species*, and the description was afterwards given 

 with some slight additions and corrections in his Catalogue 

 of tlie Australian Crustacea in 1882 f. In 1885 a British 

 species was described by IStebbing +, who pointed out the close 

 resemblance between the genus Cyproidia and another genus 

 Utegoplax, founded by Sars in 1882. Another British species 



• Troc. Linn. vSoc. N. S. "SV. vol. iv. pp. .'i^O-Si'l. 

 t 'Catalogue of tiie Stalk- and Se.«file-cycd C'lustacca of Australiii,' 

 p. I'L'Jt. 



I Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. o, vol. xv. 186."), p. o'J, pi. ii. 



Antui' May. y. JJisf. Ser. 7. I'c/. v. Ki 



