15 Grust. 
CRUSTACEA. 
Nectocrangon lar and 4 species of Ilippolyte are common with the Arctic 
region of the Atlantic. S. Smith, Rep. Geol. Surv. Canada, 1878-79 
[1880], pp. 206 B-216B. 
9 . Australian Seas. 
E. J, Miers hesitates to admit the occurrence of several northern or 
Arctic species of marine Crustacea at New Zealand, as stated by Kirk ; 
they may be closely allied, but not identical. Ann. N. H. (5) v. p. 125. 
58 species of Australian OxyrrhyncTia enumerated, and many new de- 
scribed. Those of northern Australia are very near those of the Malayan 
and Melanesian seas ; those of the southern extra-tropical part of 
Australia have remarkable analogies with the forms of New Zealand, 
Japan, and indirectly of Europe. The greater number of the northern 
species belongs to the families Periceridce and Parthenopidce; the southern 
species belong almost exclusively to the Inachidce and Blaiidce. W. A. 
Haswell, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. iv. [1879] pp. 431-458, pis. xxv.-xxvii. ; 
abstract in Ann. N. H. (5) v. pp. 145-147. 
New localities for some Australian Leucosiidce ; Haswell, 1. c. pp. 403 
& 404. 
Notes on Australian Amphipoda; id. Ann. N. H. (5) v. pp. 30-34. 
Those of Port Jackson and tropical Queensland are remarkably different. 
Most of these have been already described and figured in P. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. W. iv. [1879] pp. 319-349, pis. xviii.-xxiv. [Zool. Rec. xvi.]. Some 
additions by the same ; op. cit. v. pp. 97-105, pis. v.-vii. 
Neio Zealand. A new Mysid, a new Tanaid, and 7 new or little-known 
Amphipods described by G. M. Thomson, Ann.N. H. (5) vi. pp. 1-6, pi. i. 
A new Palinurus by Kirk, tom. cit. p. 14. 
Abyssal and Cavernicot.e Crustacea. 
O. Grimm enumerates several instances of Amphipods which live in 
depths from 35-250 fath. in the Caspian Sea, and which nevertheless are 
provided with eyes in different degrees of perfection, some with red pig- 
ment, some without pigment. Niphargus caspius has very small eyes 
with dark pigment, and much developed cylindrical organs for smelling 
and touching (scarcely for hearing) on its upper antennae ; Onesimus 
caspius has eyes without pigment, and much developed cylindrical organs 
for touching, hidden in the external plates of the maxillipeds, &c. He 
comes to the conclusion that in depths of 100 metres and upwards, there 
is no absolute darkness, and that in such depths some animals are pro- 
vided with very large eyes, others with imperfect eyes, but in compensa- 
tion with other highly developed sensitive organs on various parts of 
their body. Arch. f. Nat. xlvi. pp. 116-126; translated, Ann. N. H. (5) 
V. pp. 82-92. 
Gammarus (Nijihargus) puteanus (Koch). Specimens of pale bluish- 
grey colour found in a pond at the entrance of the cavern of Falkenstein, 
other specimens in wells at various localities; S. Fries, Wurtt. nat. 
J. H. xxxvi. pp. 105-109 & 117. 
