THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTORY. 



[FIFTH SERIES.] 

 No. 23. NOVEMBER 1879. 



XXXVII. — Additions to the Amphipodous Crustacea of New 

 Zealand. By George M. Thomson, Dunedin. 



[Plate XVI.] 



A GREAT boon was conferred upon working naturalists in this 

 colony by the publication, in 1876, of a Catalogue of the 

 Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand, by Mr. E. 

 J. Miers, of the British Museum, under the auspices of the 

 Colonial Government. Information on the subject was there 

 collected together which had previously been obtainable only 

 by reference to expensive and difficultly obtainable works ; 

 and though the catalogue was necessarily imperfect, it gave 

 a good starting-point to those engaged in working up this 

 branch of the New-Zealand fauna. Naturally enough, chiefly 

 the larger Crustacea belonging to the Brachyura and Macrura 

 had been obtained by earlier collectors, and the list of them 

 is tolerably complete. It is to the Isopoda and Amphipoda 

 that additions will chiefly be made, these tribes being well 

 represented in our seas. 



Mr. Miers has enumerated fifteen species of Amphipoda in 

 his catalogue, all of which, with the exception of Phronima 

 novce-zealandim, Powell, were previously described in Spence 

 Bate's catalogue of Amphipodous Crustacea in the British 

 Museum. Of these species, Talitrus (?) novce-zealandice, Dana 

 [Orchestoidea (?) novi-zealandim, Spence Bate), must be ex- 



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