(;anon A. M. Norman on British Amphipoda. 37 



Nab. Off Little Orme, Denbighshire, 2-7 fathoms 

 (A. 0. W.): Mus. Nor. Tenby (Stebbing) ; Kilchattan 

 Bay, Firth of Clyde, 5 fathoms, muddy sand (D. R.) ; Inch- 

 keith. Firth of Forth {T. S.) ; 8 miles off Fleshwick Bay, 

 Isle of Man, 33 fathoms, and Valentia, Ireland {A. 0. IF.). 



Distrib. West Norway {O. 0. Sars) ; Bale de Houat, 

 France {Chevreux) : Mus. Nor. Among algas in shallow 

 water all along coasts of Norway and Finmark [G. 0. Sars) ; 

 Spetsbergen {Norw. North Atlant. Exped.) ; Franz-Josef 

 Land, Jackson- Harmsworth Exped. {T. S.) ; Kattegat 

 {Meinert) ; Naples {Delia VaJle) . 



Genus 5. Cyproidia (Haswell?), Stebbing. 

 = ? Peltocoxa, Catta. 



It is at this time impossible to say in what genus the 

 Cyproidia damnoniensis, Stebbing, should be located, and I 

 think it best therefore to leave it where he placed it. As 

 both Delia Valle and myself, however, have found this 

 species in the Mediterranean, probability is given to the 

 assumption of Delia Valle that Cyproidia is a synonym of 

 Peltocoxa, Catta^ described in 1875 * from specimens taken 

 at Marseilles, but that author's description of the genus is so 

 inadequate that it requires much to be assumed to employ it. 



Haswell, in his amended description of Cyproidia (' Cat. 

 Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea,' Sydney, 1882), 

 states that the " antennse are subequal, superior icithout an 

 appendage.^'' If that is really so, Stegoplax of G. O. Sars is 

 a synonym. But Stebbing appears to have concluded that 

 the secondary appendage, which is extremely minute, had 

 been overlooked by Haswell, and consequently placed in 

 Haswell's genus his Cyproidia damnoniensiSy which has such 

 an appendage. 



Haswell put two species in his genus, Cyproidia lineata 

 and C. ornata. Quite recently Mr. Stebbing f, having 

 received specimens of the first of these species from 

 Mr. Haswell, has instituted, apparently on very slight 

 grounds, another genus (^Paracyproidia) for its reception, but 

 gives us no information as to the antennse either of his new 

 genus or of Cyproidia ornata^ which he leaves as the type of 

 Haswell's Cyproidia. 



* Peltocoxa Marioni, Catta, Revue des Sci. Nat. vol. iv. 1875, p. 161. 

 t Stebbing, " Revision of Amphipoda," Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 7 , 

 vol. iv. 1S9'J, p. 207. 



