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V. 0)1 neii) or imperfectly-known Ostracoda, chiejlij from a Collection in the Zoological 

 Museum, Copenliagen. By Geokge Stewardson Bkadt, M.T)., LL.D., U.Sc, 

 F.B.S., C.M.Z.S. 



Eeceived February 11, read March 19, 1901. 



[Plates XXI.-XXV.] 



x'OR the opportunity of examining and describing examples of most of the species 

 noticed in this paper, I am indebted to tlie kindness of Drs. Meiuert and H. J. Hansen, 

 of the Zoological Museum at Copenhagen. The specimens were collected by different 

 observers and in various parts of the world, the particulars as to collectors and habitat 

 being recorded, so far as they are known to me, under the description of each species. 

 As a supplement to this report, I have given in tabular form an account of the 

 Ostracoda contained in a series of tow-net captures made in the North Atlantic by 

 Dr. George Murray, F.R.S., of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. 



Among these there is a single new species — Conchcecissa cucuUata — -which I have 

 to thank Dr. Murray for allowing me to describe here. This, indeed, is the only new 

 species outside of the Copenhagen Collection which is noticed in tlie present paper. 



Family ASTEROPID^ Brady & Norman. 



Genus Asteeope Philippi. 

 AsTEROPE OCULATA, sp. nov. (Plate XXI. figs. 6-13.) 



Shell of the male subovate: seen from the side (fig. 6) elliptical, slightly higher 

 in front than behind, height equal to rather more than half the length ; anterior 

 extremity rounded, antennal notch rather wide and shallow; posterior extremity not so 

 fully rounded and bearing two fascicles of hairs, one near the dorsal, the other near the 

 ventral end ; dorsal margin very feebly arched, often with a slight depression behind 

 the middle, ventral somewhat more distinctly arched : seen from above (fig. 7) the 

 outline is subcuneate, much wider in front than behind, the greatest width equal to 

 about one-third of the length ; anterior extremity obtusely pointed, almost mucronate ; 

 posterior subacute ; lateral margins evenly curved, but flattened and almost rectilinear 

 in the middle third. Surface of the shell smooth, whitish or cream-coloured, the large 

 eyes showing very conspicuously as black circular patches beneath the middle of the 

 dorsal margin. Length 1"35 mm, 



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