434 Dr. H. Woodward — Cretaceous Canadian Crustacea. 



ia halves very irregularly, and exposing the dorsal aspect of five 

 posterior abdominal somites and the telson with two swimmerets 

 on the left side still attached. The abdominal segments are smooth, 

 and the epimera broadly falcate and pointed as in Homarus. Length 

 of five abdominal segments, 40 mm. ; length of telson, 13 mm. ; 

 breadth of abdomen, 25 mm. 



The sternites are still attached to the abdomen, but the carapace 

 has been removed, exposing the inner and upper surface of the 

 cephalothorax, with the bases of five pairs of ambulatory appendages 

 still attached. Length of cephalothoracic portion, 30 mm. Some of the 

 small ambulatory legs on the left side are preserved nearly to their 

 extremities, and the bases of the large (chelate) fore-legs can also be 

 seen, one joint of which shows a tuberculated surface. Length of 

 base of area of sternites, 25 mm. ; greatest breadth, 15 mm. There 

 is no trace whatever of the presence of large palinurid antennae. This 

 and the general character of the thoracic appendages and the form of 

 the abdomen, resembling the modern Homarus rather than Palinurus, 

 lead me to refer this fossil to the genus Hoploparia. I have added 

 the specific name of Bennetti after its discoverer. 



Formation : Upper Cretaceous. 



Locality : Comox Eiver ; collected by Mr. J. Bennett in 1895. 



Enoploolytia mince, sp. nov. 



The evidence for this species consists of a nodule (4" x 3", 

 No. 9 in Dr. Whiteaves' list, marked also 59 in white paint) split 

 into two parts, but afi"ording little comfort to the investigator. One 

 can make out an imperfectly preserved carapace (cephalothorax), 

 with a tuberculated surface from which two pairs of imperfectly 

 preserved antennas take their origin and the flagella of which can 

 be indistinctly traced. These are followed by a pair of long and 

 slender chelate appendages, with finely tuberculated surfaces, the 

 fingers of the forceps being very attenuated as in Enoplodytia 

 LeacMi. Two pairs of slender ambulatory legs follow ; these also 

 have forcipated or chelate extremities. The abdominal segments 

 are narrow and only imperfectly preserved. 



The specimen is from the Upper Cretaceous of Hornby Island, 

 and was obtained by Mr. W. Harvey in 1893. 



Mkyeria ? Harveyi, sp. nov. 



The evidence of this species rests on a single specimen exposed on 

 the half of a fractured nodule (3|^ inches x 2|^ inches), marked 

 No. 8 in list. It is also marked 3 in ink. It was obtained by 

 Mr. W. Harvey in 1895 at Hornby Island, and shows the remains 

 of the abdominal somites and the long slender rugose fore-limbs 

 of the cephalothorax (2^ inches in length by i inch in thickness). 

 They do not appear to have possessed forceps at their extremities, 

 but were monodactylous. The form of the epimera of the abdomen 

 agrees witli Meyeria vectensis in shape. 



From the Upper Cretaceous. Named after its discoverer, Mr. W. 

 Harvey. 



