of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 257 
Genus Macrocypris, G. 8. Brady (1868). 
Macrocypris minna (Baird), | 
1850. Cythere minna, Baird, Brit. Entom., p. 171, t. xx., fig. 4, 
4 a-d. 
1868. Macrocypris minna, Brady, Mon. rec. Brit. Ostrac., p. 392, 
t. xxvil., figs. 5-8; t. xxxviil., fig. 4. 
1889. Macrocypris minna, Brady and Norman, op. cit., vol. iv., 
Se, p. ILC. 
This fine species was frequent in a tow-net gathering collected on the 
19th October, 1900, in 80 to 85 fathoms, about fifty miles 8.S.E. of Fair 
Island, between Orkney and Shetland. The tow-net had touched bottom, 
and when hauled up was found to contain a considerable quantity of 
mud, this was washed through the net and the material that remained in 
the net was preserved; mixed up in this material was a considerable 
number of Macrocypris. In the Monograph of the Marine and Fresh. 
water Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and North-Western Europe, the 
authors, referring to Macrocypris minna, say (op. cit., p.117) that “the only 
British locality for this species is Shetland, where a single specimen was 
dredged by MacAndrew forty years ago, and a second by A. M. N. on the 
outer Haaf in 1861.” : 
CYTHERELLID”. 
Genus Cytherella, Jones (1849). 
Cytherella abyssorum, G. O. Sars. 
1865. Cytherella abyssorum, G. O. Sars, Overs. of Norg. marine 
Ostrac., p. 127. 
1865. Cytherella beyrichi, G.S. Brady, ‘‘On New or Imperfectly 
Known Ostrac.,” Trans. Zool. Soc., vol. v., p. 362, Pl. lvii., 
figs. 3 a, b. 
1866. Cytherella scotica, G.S. Brady, Brit. Assoc. Rept. (1866), 
joe 
1896. Cytherella abyssorum, Brady and Norman, op. cit., vol. v., 
Site pemlonPloixvi, ties) 12,5; Pl Ixvir., figs, to) 14 
A single perfect specimen and a valve of this species were obtained in 
the same material with the last; Cytherella abyssorum seems to be a rare 
species in our seas, as the only Scottish record for it hitherto appears to 
be that of G. S. Brady, who, in his “Monograph of Recent British 
Ostracoda,” states that two or three specimens were obtained by himself 
and the Rev. A. M. Norman amongst sand dredged by Mr. Jeffreys in 60 
fathoms in the Minch.* 
It may be mentioned in passing that the Foraminifer Saccamina sphera 
was very common in this gathering ; a few other Foraminifera, such as 
Astrorhiza arenaria, Psammosphera fusca, and Placopsilina bulla, were 
also observed. 
* Trans, Linn. Soc., vol. xxvi., p. 473, Pl. xxxiv., figs. 18-21. 
