Dr. E. Woodicard — Cretaceous Canadian Crustacea. 395 



1862. Todocrates (Becks, nom. nud.), Schliiter, Zeitsch. der Deutsch. Geol. 

 Gesellsch., xiv, 1862, pp. 710-716, taf. xii. 

 J I U887. Todocrates, Fritsch & Kafka, Crust. Bohm. Kreidform., pp. 20, 21, taf. iii, 

 '"* figs. 1 and 2 and text-fij?. 44. 



1893. Zinupdris (sic), Stebbing, Hist. Crustacea, p. 197. 



1896. Podocrates, AVhiteares, Trans, and Proc. Eoy. Soc. Canada, 1895, ser. ii, 



vol. i, sect. 4, pp. 132, 133. 



1897. Linuparus, Ortmann, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. iv, vol. iv, pp. 290-297, 



figs. 1-4^ in textr.- ^- - 



At the meeting of the Eoyal Society of Canada, May, 1895, 

 Dr. J. F. "Whiteaves gave descriptions of the fossils from the 

 Nanaimo group of the Vancouver Cretaceous series, and among 

 others described a new species of Crustacean, of which description 

 I subjoin a copy. 



Linuparus (Podocrates) Vancouverensis, Whiteaves, sp. 



" Carapace flattened, rectangular, longer than broad, marked by 

 three low angular tuberculous or spinose longitudinal ridges, on© 

 in the median line and one near each of the lateral margins, and 

 divided at about one-third the distance from the front by an obtusely 

 subangular cervical groove, which is rather broad but not very deep. 

 On the anterior portion or cephalic arch the lateral longitudinal 

 ridges are well developed, and armed with larger and more spinose 

 tubercles than those on the corresponding ridges of the posterior 

 portion, one a little behind the mid-length on each ridge being 

 larger than any of the others, but the central ridge is obsolete. lu 

 its place, just in advance of the cervical groove, there is an ovate 

 lanceolate or narrowly spear-shaped area, which is elevated at the 

 pointed end anteriorly, shallowly depressed posteriorly, and margined, 

 with a single row of small tubercles. Immediately in front of this 

 area there is a pointed or spinose tubercle, almost in a line with 

 the largest tubercle on each of the lateral ridges, and still farther 

 forward there are two similar tubercles at a short distance from the 

 anterior margin and about seven millimetres apart. On the posterior 

 portion, or scapular arch, the three longitudinal ridges are minutely 

 tuberculated, and extend from the posterior margin to the cervical 

 groove, where they each terminate in a pointed tubercle larger thaa 

 any of the rest, but the central ridge is shorter than either of the 

 two lateral ridges. Anterolateral angles of the carapace each armed 

 with a nearly straight but slightly divergent spine. Rostrum, 

 central portion of the anterior margin, and position of the eyes 

 unknown. External antennee broad and flattened at their bases, 

 inner antennea cylindrical at theirs. Walking feet slender, as is 

 usual in the genus. In addition to the spines and tubercles on the 

 lateral ridges and elsewhere, as already described, the whole of the 

 upper surface of the carapace is minutely granulose and apparently 

 setose, numbers of minute objects, which seem to be detached setaa, 

 being plainly visible under an ordinary lens." 



"Two miles up the Puntledge River, Vancouver Island, Rev. G. W. 

 Taylor, 1889 : a good specimen of the carapace, with the rostrum 

 and a small piece of the anterior broken off, but with considerable 



