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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



[Dec. 21, 1888. 



SOME RECENTLY DISCOVERED FORMS 

 OF MICROSCOPIC CRUSTACEA. 



(Part II., continued from p. 598.) 



A LTHOUGH our British species of Copepoda present 

 ■^ a large variety of form, they must for colour and 



obtained last year, during a biological visit to Madeira 

 and the Canary Islands. Over sixty varieties were 

 found about these islands, some adorned with brilliant 

 hues, which are still preserved after being mounted on 

 slides as microscopic objects. 



The majority of them are well figured and described 



Plate IV. 



' Fig. 1. Candace nigrocmcta, I.C.T., male, x 250. 



Fig. 2. Posterior antenna of ditto. X400. 



Fig. 3. First foot-jaw of ditto, x 400. 



Fig. 4. Fourth pair swimming-feet of ditto. X400. 



size yield the palm to foreign species, and it is now pro- 

 posed to describe a few recently discovered forms 



fig. 5. Fifth pair swimming feet of ditto, x 400. 

 Fig. 6. Abdomen and caudal segments of ditto. x 400. 

 Fig. 7. \Candace brevicomis, I.C.T., female. X250. 

 Fig. 8. Fourth swimming-foot of ditto, x 400. 



in Dr. Brady's excellent Challenger monograph on the 

 Copepoda, six, however, being new to science, of 



