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under the name Pherusa australis by Haswell from Botany Bay, New South Wales. 

 Unfortunately I have been unable to secure specimens from Australia and the types 

 of Haswell's species are no longer available, but after carefully going through Has- 

 well' s description I am convinced that Mr. Stebbing is right; the description on the 

 whole agrees well with the specimens and seems to be confirmed by the statement 

 and by the figure showing that there are three spines on the inner border of the inner 

 ramus of the third uropod ; for these are certainly present as shown in Haswell' s 



Fig. 3. — Paracalliope fluviatilis. 

 a. — Whole animal, side view. c. — Lower antenna. 

 b. — Upper antenna. d. — First gnathopod of male. 



e. — Second gnathopod of male. 



figure in ordinary fully adult specimens, though the number may sometimes be greater 

 or less than three. Probably the species will be found to occur in other fresh- 

 water or brackish localities on the east coast of Australia or between Australia and 

 India. 1 



1 Two or three weeks after posting the MS. containing the remarks made above I received from 

 Professor C. F. Baker of Los Banos, Philippine Islands, a few amphipods from Nasugbu, south coast 

 of Luzon, most of which proved to be specimens of Paracalliope fluviatilis (G. M. Thomson) quite 



