458 REPORT— 1895. 



well-marked species, as it has strong points of resemblance in common 

 with the three genera, Pseudocalanus, Stephos, and Pseudocydopia. "With 

 Fseudocyclopia it agrees in all points excepting in the number of joints in 

 the anterior antenna?, and the primary branch of the posterior antennae, 

 and as in general appearance and in the first four pairs of swimming feet 

 it strongly resembles Pseudocydopia, it was decided provisionally to place 

 it in that genus. Its fifth pair of feet, however, are more like those of 

 Stephos. In the 'Twelfth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for 

 Scotland ' Mr. Thomas Scott added a new species belonging to this genus 

 recently found by him in the Forth area. As the genus Pseudocydopia 

 forms a sort of missing link between the families Calanidaj and Miso- 

 phriidae, Mr. Scott has wisely constituted a new family, the Pseudo- 

 cyclopiidfe, for its reception. The species of Fseudocyclopia described 

 by him having respectively sixteen and seventeen joints in the anterior 

 antennae, he has made that number a family cliaracter. The species 

 here described has, however, twenty joints in the anterior antennae, 

 and as it otherwise agrees in all respects with the family characters of 

 Pseudocyclopiida?, Mr. Thompson suggested that the words 'sixteen to 

 seventeen jointed ' be altered to ' sixteen to twenty jointed ' as a character 

 of this new family, with which Mr. Scott at once concurred. 



The following species of Copepoda, viz., Diosaccus pii'opinquus, T. and 

 A. Scott; Ameira exigua, T. Scott; A. longiremis, T. Scott ; Laophonte 

 inopinata, T. Scott; Pseudoicestu-oodia pyymcea.T. and A. S. ; and possibly 

 a new Laoplionte and one or two other doubtful species were obtained 

 from washings from sponges collected by Dr. Hanitsch at Port Erin in 

 August 1894, and are new to the district. 



One specimen of ModioJicola insignis, Aurivillius, also new to the 

 district, was found in the washings of dredged material taken some miles 

 off Peel in June 1895. This species is known as a messmate within the 

 shell of the ' horse mussel ' {Mytilus modiolus), and has been recorded by 

 Canu ('Les Copep. du Boulon.,' p. 238, plate xxx. fig. 14-20), and more 

 recently by Mr. Scott from the Firth of Forth. 



Mr. A. O. Walker reports as follows on the Higher Crustacea : — 



PODOPHTHALMATA. 



Munida rugosa, Fabr. — One young, April 25, 1895, station 3. 



Crangon (Po7itophihis) spinosus, Leach. — Several, April 25, 1895, 

 station 3. Colour: whitish, fi-eckled with reddish-brown on the antennal 

 scales and legs; sparsely on the front and hind margins of thorax and first 

 three abdominal segments, and densely on the last three abdominal seg- 

 ments, hind margin of third and generally front margin of fourth 

 abdominal segments and proximal half of telson and lateral appendages 

 milk-white. Length, 2^ in. 



CUMACEA. 



*Cuma pulchella, Sars. — Little Orme, 4-7 fathoms, rocks and sand, 

 September 14, 1894. 



Cumopsis Goodsiri, Sars. — With the last species. 



* Those species marked with a star are new to the British fauna. 



