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we must include most of those here referred to the genera Macrocypris, Argillcecia, and 

 Pontocypiis. 



Phlyctowphora zealandica, n. sp. (PI. III. fig. 1, a-m). 



Carapace elongated, compressed ; seen from the side, subsiliquose ; greatest height 

 situated in the middle, and equal to less than half the length ; anterior extremity well 

 rounded, posterior narrowed, and ending in a subacute angle near the ventral surface ; 

 dorsal margin well arched, and continued in an unbroken curve to the infero-posteal 

 angle, ventral margin shghtly sinuated in the middle ; seen from above, the outUne is 

 ovate, widest in the middle, and tapering only slightly to the broadly -rounded extremities ; 

 ■width and height about equal ; end view subcircular, rather narrowed and angular below. 

 Shell-surface smooth, whitish, marked with a few irregular strigse of a blackish hue, and 

 on the ventral surface with a broad longitudinal and transversely striated squamous 

 band. Length, l-26th of an inch {"98 mm.). 



Several specimens of this species were taken in the tow-net at trawl in Wellington 

 Harbour, New Zealand ; at Port Jackson, Australia, in a depth of 2 to 1 fathoms ; and 

 at Humboldt Bay, Papua, in 37 fathoms. 



[PL HI. fig. 1, a-m. a Carapace seen from left side, b from above, c from below, 

 d from front, e anterior antenna , f posterior antenna, g mandible, h first maxilla, ^ second 

 maxilla, j first foot, h second foot, I postabdominal ramus, m spermatic gland of male. The 

 figures of the shell magnified 50 diameters.] 



Aglaia, G. S. Brady. 



Aglaiu, Brady, Les Fonds de la jMer, torn, i., 1867. 



Aglaia, Brady, Crosskey, and EolDertson, Post-Tertiary Entomostraoa, 1874. 



Shell smooth and polished, of aliout equal height before and behind, comjiressed, 

 subcylindrical. Anterior antennse seven-jointed, beset with short stout setae ; posterior 

 robust, and bearing at the apex of each joint several strong curved setse ; furnished also 

 "with a very small hyaline vesicle, and on the penultimate joint with a lash of very short 

 setae. Mandibles slender, divided at the extremity into about five blunt teeth, and 

 furnished with a large, narrow, branchial palp. First pair of jaws divided into four 

 elongated segments, and bearing a distinct branchial appendage ; second pair also 

 provided with a branchial lamina, and with a simple conical setiferous palp. First pair 

 of feet long, five-jointed, with a long terminal claw; second pair flexuous, four-jointed, 

 last joint armed with three setae, one of which is very long, and finely pectinate on its 

 inner margin. Postabdominal rami moderately robust, bearing two curved terminal 

 claws, one seta on the anterior, and two on the posterior margin. Testis disposed round 

 the body of the animal ; mucous gland of the male elongated, and composed of seven 

 series of whorled filaments. 



(ZOOL. CHALL. EXP.— PART III. — 1880.) C 5 



