332 Canon A. ^f, Norman on British Aviphipoda. 



Genus 4. UiiOTiiOE, Dana. 



Stebbin^ published an elaborate papsr " On the Genus 

 Urothoe and a New Genus, Urothoides " (Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 vol. xiii. 1891). He examined the specimens tiien in my 

 collection, and I follow here his lead, but think that some of 

 the species are of doubtful value ; but, on the other hand, I 

 can still less acquiesce in Delia Valle's views, who not only 

 unites the whole of the forms liere included, but adds U. irros- 

 trata, Dajia, U. ahbreviafa, Sars, and U. Poucheti, Chevreux. 

 Put on the question what characters suffice for specific distinc- 

 tion naturalists will always find it necessary to agree to differ. 



54*. Urothoe pulchella (A. Costa). 



1857. Egklia pulchella, A. Costa, '" Oro.-st. Anifip. Regno di Napoli," 

 Mem. d. R. Accad. d. Sci. di Napoli, vol. i. p. 190, pi. iv. figs. 3 a-g. 



1887. Urothoe pulchella, Stebbing, /. c. p. 11, pi. iv. .-v. 



1893. Urothoe irrostrata, Delia Valle, (139) p. 664, pi. v, figs. 3, 8, 

 pi. xxxvi. figs. 1-18, pi. Ix. figs. 11, 12. 



Hah. " Several specimens of this Urothoe have been ob- 

 tained in the Firth of Forth ; it is a smaller species than 

 U. marina'' {T. Scott, " Addit. to Fauna of the Firth of 

 Fourth," Fourteenth Rep. Fish. Board of Scotland, 1896, 

 p. 159). This is the only notice of it as a British species. 



Distrih. Naples [A. M. N.) ; West France {Chevreux). 



I was struck with the lovely rose-colour of the species (or, 

 at any rate, of the males) when I took them (.see Delia Valle, 

 pl.v. fig. 8). 



55. Urothoe elegans, Bate. 



1862. JTrothoe elegans, Bate & AVestwood, (1) vol. i, p. 200. 

 1887. Urothoe elegajis, Stebbing, I. c. p. 13, pi. i. 



Hab. Shetland, 60-70 fathoms; Isleof Cumbrae (A.M.N.); 

 off S.W. Ireland [Haddon) ; and the following from * Porcu- 

 pine,' 1869, Donegal Bay: Stats. 17 and 18, in 183 and 

 1 230 fathoms, off Donegal Bay ; also two other stations off 

 west of Ireland, in 90 and 1G30 fathoms : Mas. Nor. Heb- 

 rides (A. M. N.) ; off Ormes Head and North Wales and 

 Blacksod Bay, Ireland {A. 0. W.) ; Jersey {Sinai (& Hornetl), 



J)istrib. West France and Azores ( Chevreux). 



56. Urothoe inarinus, Bate. 



1862. Urothoe Bairdii, Bate & Westwuod, (1) vol. i. p. 193, cf . 

 1862. Uroth'^e marinus, Bate & Westwoud, (1) vol. i. p. 195, 2- 

 1887. Urothoe murinus, Stebbing, /. c. p. 16, pi. ii. 



