of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 237 



Family Misophriid/E, Brady (1878). 

 Genus Misophria, Boeck (1864). 



Misophria pallida, Boeck. 



1864. Misophria pallida, Boeck (5), p. 24. 



1878 Misophria pallida, Brady (8), vol. i. p. 79, pi. xiii. figs. 

 11-16; pi. xviii. figs. 11-12. 



Habitat. — Off St Monans, and also west of Queensferry. 

 Several specimens of this apparently rare species have been obtained 

 at both the parts of the Forth area mentioned. 



' Genus Pseudocyclops, Brady (1872). 



Pseudocyclqps crassiremis, Brady. 



1872. Pseudocyclops crassiremis, Brady (7a), vol. Iv. p. 431, pi. 



xvii. figs. 1-8. 

 1878. Pseudocyclops crassiremis, Brady (8), vol. i. p. 82, pi. vii. 



figs. 1, 2 ; pi. xii. fig. 14. 



Habitat. — Off St Monans. Rather scarce. 



This seems to be a perfectly distinct species, so far as could be made 

 out. 



Family Cyclopid^e. 



Genus Cyclopina, Claus (1863). 



Cyclopina gracilis, Claus. 



1863. Cyclopina gracilis, Claus (14), p. 104, pi. x. figs. 9-15. 

 1878. Cyclopina gracilis, Brady (8), vol. i. p. 93, pi. xxiv.B. figs. 



1-9; pi. xci. figs. 10, 11. 

 1892. Cyclopina gracilis, Canu (11), p. 181. 



Habitat. — Off St Monans, and various other parts of the Forth west 

 to near Charleston. 



This pretty and well characterised species is not uncommon within the 

 Forth area. 



Cyclopina elegans, sp. n. (PI. V. figs. 9-19.) 



Description.— Female. Length, -83 mm. (i^-th of an inch). Body 

 elongate, slender. Forehead narrowly and evenly rounded. Anterior 

 antennae rather shorter than the first cephalo-thoracic segment, and con. 

 sisting of nineteen joints. The fifth to the ninth joints are very short, while 

 the eleventh is about equal in length to the basal joint, and considerably 

 longer than any of the others that preceed or follow, as is shown by the 

 formula : — 



12 ' 6 • 5 • 5 ' 3 • 2 • 2 _• 2 -3- 11 ' 4 • 4 • 4 • 4 j 4 • 5 • 4 • 6 • 7 • 

 1 • 2 \ 3 • 4 ' 5 * 6 • 7 ' 8 ' 9 ■ 10 • U • 12 "• 13 • 14 r 15 • 16 '17 « 18 '19 ■ 



The fourth joint appears to be composed of two coalesced joints, as a 

 faint line could be observed extending from the upper margin to fully 

 halfway across the joint . (fig. 10). Posterior antenna? four-jointed, 

 secondary branch obsolete or entirely absent (fig. 12). Mandibles well 

 developed, and furnished with a large palp. The primary branch of the 

 palp is elongate and three-jointed ; while the secondary branch, which 

 springs from the basal part of the primary branch, is short and four- 

 jointed (fig. 13). The basal part of the maxilla-palp, which is delated 



