From the A.nnalp and Magazine of Natukal History, 

 fcjer. 7, Vol. xvi., November 1905. 



Notes on British Copepoda : Change of Names. 

 By Thomas Scott, LL.D., F.L.S. 



In the ' Fifteenth Annual Report o£ the Fishery Board for 

 Scotland' (1897), part iii. p. 150, I described a species 

 belonging to the Copepoda under the name o£ Delavalia 

 mimica ; but though it exhibited a close affinity with the 

 genus Delavalia, especially in the structure of the mandibles 

 and of the fifth pair of thoracic feet, the structure of the 

 first pair more nearly resembled those of Nitocra or Ameiraj 

 the inner branches of that pair being composed of three 

 instead of two joints. In my remarks ou the species I 

 referred to this difference ; but because the species had such 

 a general resemblance to Delavalia it was provisionally 

 ascribed to that genus. 



During recent years many specimens of this species, both 

 from the 8cottish and English coasts, have been examined, 



