A. 8. Packard—New North American Phyllopoda. 111 
under side. The stylets are scarcely as long as the body, while 
in cancriformis they are considerably longer, and the fine spines 
are a little stouter. No. of segments beyond the hind edge of 
carapace 19 (in cancriformis 19); no. behind last pair of feet 7 
in cancriformis 6); length of body 1:00; length of carapace 
along the middle 64; length of carina, 45; distance from end 
of carina to front edge of carapace 86; length of caudal stylets 
95; diameter of ovisac ‘15 inch, ovisacs situated on the 11th 
air of maxillipeds as in all the other species of the genus 
to m 
own to 
“Collected from a stagnant pool in a jungle four days after a 
shower of rain had fallen. For five months previous to this 
rain there had been no rain upon the earth. imalaya Moun- 
tains, North India, near where the Sutlege river debouches into 
the plains. April, 1870.” Mus. Comp. Zoology, Cambridge. Two 
specimens, 
BRANCHIPODIDA. 
Streptocephalus Texanus, n. sp.—The male differs from S. sim- 
ils Baird, from St. Domingo, to which it is otherwise set 
allied, in the longer branch of the inferior antennz being muc 
teaches to the penultimate segment of the abdomen, while ac- 
cording to Baird’s figure it scarcely reaches to the end of the 
4th segment from the end, and the second antenne are repre- 
sented as being much larger than in our species. The male 
organs arise from the 8th segment from the telson, and the 15th 
of the body; and are sim le, unarmed, slender, cylindrical, very 
long, and curled around (in aleoholic specimens) so as to touch 
at their insertion. Total length, male, 65; length of longer 
See stead, including the telson; 15 pairs of feet. Antenne 
th 8 joints on sh branch, the 7th and 8th joints subdivided 
fach into two subjoints; the sete slightly plumose on the basal 
