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Microniscus. The little parasite known by this name, and which, in 
the tow-net gatherings of the ‘‘ Garland,” is sometimes found clinging to 
Calanus, Pseudocalanus, and other Copepods, has just been shown by 
Prof. Sars (‘‘ Crustacea of Norway,” vol. ii., p. 218-220, 1898) to be one 
of the post-larval stages of a species of Phryxus. In my paper on the 
“Marine Fishes and Invertebrates of Loch Fyne,” published in the 
Fifteenth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland (p. 136, 1897), 
attention was directed to the close resemblance between Microniscus and 
the young of Phryxus fusticaudatus, Spence Bate, but no definite opinion 
was expressed as to the relationship between them. Probably more than 
one kind of Bopyrus is represented by these Micronisci, but it may, at 
this stage, be difficult to distinguish the one kind from the other. 
CUMACEA. 
Several interesting Cumaceans have been observed during the examina- 
tion of tow-net gatherings recently collected, the following of which may 
be referred to :— 
Lamprops fasciata, G. O. Sars, has been obtained sparingly in a 
gathering from the Cromarty Firth. Hemilamprops rosea, Norman, 
occurred in a gathering from Station IV. (Kilbrennan Sound), Firth of 
Clyde. Leucon nasicus, Kroyer, was obtained in a gathering from 
Station XII. (Firth of Clyde), depth 40-43 fathoms. Hudorellopsis 
deformis (Kroyer)—a curious little Cumacean—was taken at Stations 
VII. and VIIL., Firth of Clyde, in moderately deep water. Hudorella 
truncatula (Spence Bate) occurred in gatherings from Clyde Stations 
VIL. and VIIL., and Hudorella marginata (Kroyer) in a gathering from 
Station XII. 
Campylaspis rubicunda, Lillejeborg, was obtained in gatherings from 
Clyde Stations XII. and XVII. Cumella pygmcea, G. O. Sars, occurred 
in a gathering from Station IV. (Kilbrennan Sound), Firth of Clyde, 
24th August 1898, and in one from Station XV. Moray Firth, 15th 
November 1897. 
Cuma pulchella, G. O. Sars, though only recognised within recent 
years asa member of the British fauna, has apparently a wide distribution 
around our shores. It was obtained in the Firth of Forth in 1889-90, 
and recorded in Part III. of the Eighth Annual Report of the Fishery 
Board for Scotland, p. 329, and afterwards in the Liverpool Bay District 
(Eighth Annual Report of the Liverpool Marine Biological Committee, 
p. 25). I have now to record its occurrence in the Clyde, having ob- 
tained one or two specimens in some washings of dredged material from 
Station VI. As pointed out by Dr. Norman, the first joint of the seventh 
foot is furnished with a series of backward-directed tootl-like processes, 
_ by which character C. pulchella may be distinguished froin its congeners. 
SCHIZOPODA. 
The Schizopoda, though plentiful in some of: the gatherings, were 
usually limited to a few species, amongst which the Euphausiide were 
the most numerous. The Schizopod usually of most frequent occurrence 
in the Clyde and Loch Fyne gatherings is Boreophausia raschit, but in 
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