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Notes on some Copepoda from the Faroe Cliaunt'l. 

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



[Eead 18th December, 1902.] 



(Plates 1-3.) 



It sometimes happens, during marine investigations, that [)ieces 

 of water-logged and partly-decayed wood are brought up in the 

 dredge or trawl-net. These pieces of wood, if carefully examined, 

 will not infrequently be found to harbour rare, and sometiaies 

 uudescribed, species of Entomostraca. In such pieces of wood 

 dredged in the Clyde, the Firtli of Forth, and elsewhere I 

 have obtained the somewhat rare ostracod Gytheropteron humile, 

 Brady & Norman, in considerable numbers ; and my son, 

 Mr. Andrew Scott, has found the same ostracod in similar 

 pieces of wood from Barrow Channel, Lancashire *. This 

 ostracod was described in 1889 1, and at that time the Clyde 

 near Greenock, and Yigo Bay, Spain, were the only two places 

 where it was known to have been obtained. Moreover, it is in 

 such pieces of wood, and often associated with the ostracod 

 named, that I usually find the curious copepod Laoplionte sim- 

 ulans, T. Scott J. The Copepoda recorded in the following 

 notes were, like the two species just referred to, obtained from 



* Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc. vol. sv. (1901) p. 348. 



t " Mon. Marine and F.-W. Ostrac," by Prof. G. S. Bradj and Eev. A. M. 

 Xorman (Trans. Eoy. Dublin Soc. vol. iv. s. II. p. 219, pi. 20. figs. 4-7). 



I 15th Ann. Eep. Fishery Board for Scotland, part iii. (1897) p. 161. 

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