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CHONDEACANTHID.E. 



Lamippe proteus, Claparede. 



This curious little species is common on the Alcyonium digitatum, or 

 "Dead-man's Fingers," so frequently brought up in the trawl-net or on 

 fishermen's lines. A number of specimens were recently obtained on 

 pieces of Alcyonium trawled by the "Garland" off Aberdeen. Lamippe 

 proteus was first recorded from the Scottish seas in 1895 from specimens 

 observed in the Firth of Forth. 



Lamippe forbesi, T. Scott. 



1896. Lamippe sp., T. Scott, Fourteenth Ann. Rept. of the Fishery 

 Board for Scotland, Part III., p. 164, PI. IV. figs. 9-12. 



This distinct form was first observed in the Firth of Forth in the early 

 part of 1896, and the same species was almost immediately afterwards 

 found by my son in Liverpool Bay. At that time it was thought it might 

 be a species which was already described, and it was therefore recorded as 

 " Lamippe sp." L. forbesi seems to be a rare species, for, although 

 the portions of Alcyonium recently examined yielded between two and 

 three hundred specimens of L. proteus, only two specimens of L. forbesi 

 were observed after a careful search. L. forbesi is a distinctly larger 

 species than L. proteus. 



Change of Name. 



Genus Eurynotopsyllus, nov. nom. [— Eurynotus, T. and A. Scott (1898) 

 preoccupied.] 



In 1898 a new Oopepod from the Clyde was described and figured by 

 T. and A. Scott in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," s. 7, 

 vol. i., p. 188, under the name of Eurynotus insolens; it was also recorded 

 under the same name in Part III. of the Sixteenth Annual Report of the 

 Fishery Board for Scotland (1898), p. 279. I have now ascertained that 

 Eurynotus has already been twice used — viz., by Kirby in 1817 for a 

 genus of Coleoptera, and by Agassiz in 1835 for a genus of fishes; as, 

 therefore, the name cannot be retained for this Copepod I propose to 

 change it for the altered form Eurynotopsyllus (Eurynotus plus psyllus, 

 a flea). 



Order 2, OSTRACODA. 



Bairdiid^: 



Genus Bairdia, M'Coy (1849). 



Bairdia inflata (Norman). 



1862. Cy there inflata, Norman, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 xi., p. 49, PI. iii., figs. 6-8. 



1896. Bairdia inflata, Brady and Norman, " Mon. M. and F.-W. 

 Ostrac. of the N. Atlantic and N.-W. Europe" (Sci. Trans. 

 Boy. Dublin Soc, vol. iv., s. ii., p. 112. 



One whole specimen and a valve of this species occurred amongst some 

 sand dredged in about 80 fathoms to the east of Fair Island in October 

 last. 



