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Anouea spnsrosA, sp. n. (Figs. 6 & 7.) 



Body elliptical, bluish purple ; body covered with spines, 

 bluish purple at the base, and the rest yellowish brown. Skin 

 granular. Anteunse four-jointed ; basal segment large, but 

 short; second segment longer; each with 1 large and 2 or 3 

 smaller spines ; third segment small, without spines ; fourth 

 segment longer, also without spines. Feet without tenent-hairs ; 

 daw with a small basal tooth, but covered nearly to the tip with 

 granules resembling those of the skin. 



Length j\ in. Breadlh Jg- in. 



Sab. Near Hobart, Tasmania ; found under a decaying log of 

 ■wood (A. Dendy). 



■On the Characters of the Crustacean Genus Bathynella, 

 Yejdovsky. By "W. T. Calman, B.Sc, University College, 

 Dundee. (Communicated by Prof . D'Arcy W. Thompson, 

 C.B., F.L.S.) 



lEead 1st June, 1899.] 



(Plate 20.) 



Ik a memoir on the fauna of certain wells, published in 1882 *, 

 Prof. Yejdovsky described under the name BatTiynella natans 

 & minute crustacean of very remarkable characters, of which, 

 two examples were obtained from a well in the city of Prague. 

 Prof. Vejdovsky placed it at the end of his memoir as a species 

 incertcE sedis, merely noting its superficial resemblance to a 

 minute gamraarid and giving no fui'ther discussion of its syste- 

 matic position. No additional specimens of this interesting 

 form have been obtained, and I am not aware that, with the 

 exception of a passing remark by Moniez, any reference has been 

 made to it by subsequent writers or any opinion expressed 

 regarding its affinities f. 



* 'Thierische Organismen der Brunnenwasser von Prag,' 1882. I am 

 indebted to my friend Dr. Chas. Chilton for calling my attention to this 

 memoir. 



t Since the above paper was read I have learned that Prof. Vejdovsky 

 published in 1898 a short paper in the Bohemian language dealing with the 

 systematic position of Bathynella (S.B. K. bohm. Ges. Wiss., math.-nat. CI. 



