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Plabellipee a. 



1882. Flabellifera, Sars, ChristianiaVidensk.Forh. no. 18, p. 58. 

 1897. Flabellifera, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii. pt. 3, p. 43. 

 See also the references under the Tribe Asellota for other 

 notices of the present tribe. 



Fam. Sbh^romid.e. 



1840. ' SpJteromiens,' Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, vol. iii. 

 p. 197. 



1847. Sphceromidce, White, List of Crustacea in Brit. Mus. 

 p. 102. 



1853. Spheromidce, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exped. vol. xiii., Crust, 

 pt. ii. p. 748. 



1857. Sphceromidce, White, Popular Hist. British Crustacea, 

 p. 244. 



1867. Sphceromidce, Bate & Westwood, Brit. Sessile-eyed Crust, 

 vol. ii. p. 398. 



1870. Sphceromidce, Miers, Crustacea of New Zealand, p. 109. 



1880. Sphceromidce, Kossmann, Zool. Ergebn. einer Beise 

 Bothen Meeres, p. 111. 



1880. Sphceromidce, Harger, Bep. U.S. Connn. Fisheries for 

 1878, pt. 6, p. 367. 



1886. Sphceromidce, Beddard, 'Challenger'" Isopoda, Beports, 

 vol. xvii. p. 145. 



1893. Sphceromidce, Stebbiug, Hist. Crust., Internat. Sci. Ser. 

 vol. lxxiv. p. 359. 



1900. Sphieromidce, H. Bichardson, The American Naturalist, 

 vol. xxxiv. p. 222. 



By what must be regarded as a very uulucky accident this 

 family is not at present represented in the fauna of Norway, so 

 that we are without the light which would otherwise certainly 

 have been shed upon it in the recently published work on 

 Norwegian Isopoda by Professor G. O. Sars. 



The genus Sphceroma, from which the family takes its name, 

 was instituted by Bosc, or by Latreille in Bosc's Hist. nat. des 

 Crustaces, vol. ii. p. 182, in the year 1802. As Gruerin-Meneville 

 has pointed out in his ' Iconographie,' there was for long a great 

 confusion as to the synonymy of the typical species. All that can 

 now be determined is, that Bosc included in the genus the Oniscus 

 conglobator of Pallas, 1766 (which Pallas himself identifies with 

 Oniscus asilus Linn., 1758), and as a synonym of this the 

 Cymothoa serrata of Eabricius, 1793, earlier described as Oniscus 

 serratus in the 'Mantissa,' 1787. Pallas had before this changed 

 the name of his species to globator, and authors, in long succession, 

 with the exception of Guerin-Meneville, have united the species 

 of Pallas with that of Fabricius and yet inconsistently adopted 

 the name serratum in preference to the earlier globator or conglobator. 



