264 Mr. E. J, Miers on Anomorhynchus 



XXVT. — Further Note on Anornorliynchns {or Colossendeis) 

 Smitliii. By Edward J. Miers, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



I AM indebted to the Rev. A. M. Noi-man for reference to a 

 Pycnogonid described by Prof. G. O. Sars under the narae of 

 Colossendeis aiigusta in ' Archiv f. Matliematik og Natiir- 

 videnskab/ andet Bd., tredie Hefte p. 368 (1877), which I 

 unfortunately overlooked, as no reference is made to the species, 

 either in the ' Zoological Record ' or the German " Bericht " 

 in the ' Archiv f. Naturgeschichte ' for 1877-78, but whose 

 close affinity to Anomorhynchus Smithii was evident on a 

 comparison of Prof. Sars's description with the types of the 

 species from Franz- Josef Land. A second species, Colossen- 

 deis prohoscidea (Sabine) = Colossendeis horealis, jarzynsky, 

 is referred to ; but neither the page of Jarzynsky's descrip- 

 tions nor any diagnosis of the genus is added. 



In reply to an inquiry addressed to Prof. Sars on this sub- 

 ject, I learn that the genus Colossendeis was described by 

 Jarzynsky in a memoir entitled " Praemissus catalogus Pyc- 

 nogonidarum inventarum in mari glaciali ad oras Lapponiaj 

 rossicffi et in Mari Albo anno 1869 et 1870." This memoir 

 forms part of a preliminary list of the Echinodermata, De- 

 capoda, Amphipoda, and Pycnogonida of the White Sea and 

 Russian Lapland, of which a '' separate copy" was commu- 

 nicated to Prof. Sars by its author. It bears date 1870, but 

 has never been mentioned by the Englisli or German recorders 

 of carcinological literature, although its existence is adverted 

 to by Dr. Liitken in his record of the literature of Echino- 

 dermata in 1872, by whom the title is not cited. No copy of 

 it is in the British Museum ; nor is it to be found in the 

 library of either tlie Royal, Linnean, or Zoological Society. 



Prof. Sars further informs me that his copy of this paper is 

 without any indication of its place of publication. He believes 

 this to have been in some one of the Russian periodicals ; but I 

 have been unable to find it in any to which I have access. He 

 has, however, obligingly appended to his letter a copy of Jar- 

 zynsky's original descriptions, which leave no doubt that our 

 species is congeneric with the types of the Russian naturalist. 

 If, therefore, evidence be forthcoming of the regular publi- 

 cation of the memoir of Jarzynsky, the name Anomorhynchus 

 will yield, on account of its later publication, to Colossendeis* . 



Prof. Sars, in his " Prodromus " in the Norwegian perio- 

 dical above referred to, regards Jarzynsky's type [Colossendeis 

 horealis) as identical with Phoxichilus prohoscideus^ a species 



* Prof. Sars believes tbat tlie genus Colossendeis is itself identical with 

 Hhopnlorhynchus of Wood-Mason — an opinion from which I must respect- 

 fully differ, in view of tlie widely-separated habitats of the types and of 

 the distinctions mentioned in my paper. 



