206 General Notes. (February, 
now in possession of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. — 
The species was first discovered in this country by Mr. Samud 
Powel in a garden at Newport, R. I., in 1868; it has also been found - 
at Philadelphia and Brooklyn.—A. F. Gray. 
A Buinp Copepop oF THE FamiLy Harpacricip&.— The interest - 
now centering upon these animals, which through peculiarities in 
their habitat have dispensed with important organs, may warrant 
the mention of a case of the disappearance of the eyes in an order 
of Crustacea in which it has not been hitherto noticed so far as 1 
now. 
While collecting marine Copepoda in the Gulf of Mexico a 
gathering was taken from a very slightly saline marsh, a ditch 
passing through the marsh affording the only water of sufficient 
depth in which to use the net. This ditch is about eighteen inches _ 
in breadth, but of moderate depth, and extends continuously for | 
some distance; it is so shaded by high salt sedge grass as not to 
be found save by accident. The gathering here secured proved | 
to contain a new species of the sub-family Longipediine and : 
closely allied to the genus Bradya established by Boeck in 1872 
a a marine Copepod dredged in rather deep waters about | 
urope. Bee 
_ The American species, which has been named Bradya Linc i 
in allusion to its muddy habitat, was found to lack in both sexe 
_the pigmented eyes which in other Harpacticide are $0 ae: 
spicuous in the center of the forehead or on either side. It be 
be regretted that lack of opportunity to repeatedly collect B | 
interesting species, and to endeavor to ascertain if truly pelagic 
species also inhabit our waters, robs this discovery of much off 
interest — C., L. Herrick. 
THE SUCKER ON THE FIN OF THE HETEROPODS IS NOT AS | 
CHARACTERISTIC_—The posterior margin of the “ fin” of the | 
genera of Heteropoda, Pterotrachza, Firoloides and Carina 
Gasteropoda from which the Heterop. of gre 
3 leteropods sprung was O' > ii 
portance. The free-swimming habits which these active M° 
