of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 273 



also obtained on Spirontocaris pusiola, collected by the " Garland " in 45 

 fathoms off Aberdeen, November 7th. 



Professor G. O. Sars states that Phryxus abdominalis, which is the 

 commonest of the Norwegian Bopyrids, is found infesting no fewer than 

 nine different Carides : — Spirontocaris gaimardi, polaris, pusiola, turgida, 

 spinus, and securifrons, and Pandalus montagui, borealis, and propinquus, 

 and probably one or two others.* On the other hand, M. Bonnier, who, 

 along with Professor Giard, has devoted a long time to the study of these 

 crustaceans, considers that the identity of the Bopyrids from all these 

 different species of the Caridea with the Phryxus abdominalis of Kroyer, 

 which is found on Spirontocaris gaimardi, M.-Edw., is at least open to 

 doubt.t I may say, however, that, so far as I have been able to make 

 them out, the species I have recorded above agree very well with the 

 description and figures of Phryxus abdominalis, Kroyer, given by Professor 

 Sars in the work referred to. 



Sub-Order SYMPODA, Stebbing, 1900 (CUMACEA, Auctorum). 



Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing has shown that Cuma, so familiar as the name 

 of a genus of Crustaceans, had long before been used as the name of a 

 Molluscan genus, and further, that it was necessary that the sub-ordinal 

 name " Cumacea," which had been derived from Cuma and therefore 

 could rvot stand, must be replaced by some other, and the name he 

 proposes as a substitute is " Sympoda.' 



» + 



Fam. Bodotriid^e, Stebbing 



The generic name Cuma being set aside as preoccupied, leaves room for 

 the restoration of Goodsir's Bodotria, and as Bodotria is the typical and 

 the oldest genus in the family with which it is associated, it necessarily 

 forms the basis of the family name. 



Genus Bodotria, Goodsir (1843). 



Bodotria arenosa, Goodsir (Cuma scorpioides, G. 0. Sars), was obtained 

 in a gathering collected by the steam trawler "St. Andrew," about fifty 

 miles south-south-east of Fair Island on October 16th ; in this species the 

 inner ramus of the uropods is composed of a single piece. Bodotria 

 scorpioides (Mont.) (= Cuma edivardsii, Goodsir) has been obtained in 

 gatherings collected during the past year in the Dornoch Firth, and off 

 Aberdeen ; in this species, which appears to be more common than the 

 previous one, the inner ramus of the uropods is distinctly biarticulated. 

 Bodotria yulchella (G. 0. Sars) occurred in gatherings collected by the 

 " Garland " off Aberdeen in 36 to 49 fathoms in October, and in 

 November in 45 fathoms. 



Genus Iphinoe, Spence Bate (1856). 



Iphinoe serrata, Norman, was moderately frequent in one or two of the 

 gatherings collected to the south-eastward of Fair Island in October last. 



* G. 0. Sars, '■ An Account of the Crustacea of Norway," vol. ii. (Isopoda), p. 217 

 (1896-99). 



f Jules Bonnier, " Contribution a l'e'tude des Epicarides Les Bopyridse," Publications de 

 la Station Zool. de Wimereiix, viii., p. 381 (1900). 



X Stebbing : On Crustacea brought by Dr. Willey from the South Seas. A. Willey's 

 Zoological Results part v., p. 609 (Dec. 1900). 



