THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FIFTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circhm vitreos considite fontes: 

 Polliee virgineo teneros hie carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divse, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphse Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata eorallia trunco 

 Vellite museosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Perte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



iV. Parthenii Giannettasii Eel. 1. 



No. 19. JULY 1879. 



I. — Descriptions of new or little-known Species of Maioid 

 Crustacea (Oxyrhyncha) in the Collection of the British 

 Museum. By Edward J. Miers, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Assis- 

 tant in the Zoological Department. 



[Plates IV. & V.] 



The present paper contains descriptions of all the species of 

 Oxyrhyncha in the British-Museum collection that appear to 

 have been hitherto unrecorded, with the exception of a few 

 specimens whose age or condition is such as to render it un- 

 advisable to describe them as new to science. Two or three 

 were noticed, but not described, by White, so long ago as 1847, 

 in the ' List of Crustacea in the Collection of the British 

 Museum.' 



For diagnoses of the new genera briefly referred to below, 

 and characters of the families, I must refer to my paper on 

 " The Classification of the Maioid Crustacea," published in 

 the ' Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology,' vol. xiv. p. 634, 

 for the present year. 



The following is a systematic list of the species : — 

 Ann. & May. N. Hist. Ser. 5. Vol. iv. 1 



