368 Messrs. Brady and Robertson on Dredging 



margin obtusely angulated in front of the middle, thence 

 sloping steeply towards each extremity ; inferior quite 

 straight. Seen from above, the outline is ovate, widest in 

 the middle ; extremities pointed ; width equal to half the 

 the length. Shell of the male narrower and longer. Shell- 

 surface smooth and polished, bearing a few short, scattered 

 hairs, which are papillose at the base ; obscurely punctate 

 on the ventral surface. Colour whitish. Length -gV inch. 

 Hah. In a large tidal pond at Westport Quay, amongst Zos- 

 tera) and at Budle Bay, Northumberland*. 



Cythere pulchella, Brady. PL XX. figs. 1-3. 



Cythere pnlchella, Brady, Monog. Rec. Brit. Ostrac. p. 404 ; Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vol. ii. p. 32, pi. 5. tigs. 18-20. 



This species was admitted into the ' Monograph of the 

 British Ostracoda ' on the occurrence of a single specimen in 

 shell-sand from Sutherlandshire. We have found it sparingly 

 in most of our gatherings from the Connemara district ; but it 

 would appear to reach its finest development in the Arctic 

 seas. (See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. loc. cit.) 



Hob. Westport, Clifden, and Birterbuy Bays. 



Cythere Robertsoni, Brady. 



Cythere Robertsoni, Brady, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vol. ii. p. 33, pi. 4. 

 figs. 5, 8-10. 



This species is new to the British fauna, the specimens from 

 which it was originally described having been dredged by 

 Mr. Robertson at Christiania. 



Hab. Dublin Bay, 3-4 fathoms ; Westport Bay, 4 fathoms. 



Cythere cicatricosa, Sars. PL XIX. figs. 13, 14. 



Cythere cicatricosa, G.O.Sars, Oversigt af Norges marine Ostracoder, p. 33. 

 badia (in part), Brady, Monog. Recent Brit. Ostrac. p. 399 (but not 



figures). 

 ? crispata, Brady, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vol. ii. p. 221, pi. 14. 



figs. 14, 15. 



Carapace of the female, as seen from the side, subreniform or 

 subsigmoid, higher in front than behind ; greatest height in 

 front of the middle, and equal to more than half the length ; 

 anterior extremity rounded, posterior subtruncate, slightly 

 sinuated above the middle : superior margin gently arched, 

 slightly excavated in front of the eyes, and ending in an 

 obtuse angle behind ; inferior deeply sinuated near the 



* Budle Bay is a large expanse of shallow water which at low tide 

 recedes so as to leave a muddy flat, through which a small stream finds its 

 way to the sea. The situation is, therefore, essentially similar to that at 

 Westport, where C. gibbosa was first found. — G. S. B. 



