Preliminary Notices on the Schizopoda of H. M. S. 

 "Challenger" Expedition. 



(Publiahed by permission of the Lords Commiasioners of the Treaaury.) 



By 



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Mectin°r of llth May 1883. 



In preparing the Report on the "Challenger" Schizopoda, which 

 have been confided to me for description, I have deemed it advisable 

 to follow the method usually adopted in snch cases, viz: to pub- 

 lisch a preliminary account on the subject, in order to show the 

 extent of the material which has to be subjected to an exhanstive 

 treatment. 



The Schizopoda form a very interesting portion of the extensive 

 zoological collection acquired during the "Challenger" Expedition. and 

 some of the most striking forms have already been partly treated 

 upon by the late Dr. Willenioes Suhm, whose sudden death, occurring 

 whilst on the Expedition. was so deeply deplored by his friends 

 and scientific colleagues. 



In a very interesting paper. inserted in the f ransactions of 

 the Linnean Society of London, the writer, besides giving a short 

 description. with drawings, of a few other Crustacea, also treats of 

 5 remarkable forms of Schizopoda. tåken from the great deeps of 

 the Atlantic, viz: Gnathopliausia f/iyas, Gn. soca, Gn. f/racilis, 

 Pctalophthalnms armiyer and Cludaruspis ungviculata, constituting 3 



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