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also obtained on Spirontocaris pusiola, collected by the ‘‘ Garland” in 45 
fathoms off Aberdeen, November 7th. 
Professor G. O. Sars states that Phryxus abdominalis, which. is the 
commonest of the Norwegian Bopyrids, is found infesting no fewer than 
nine different Carides : — Spirontocaris gaimardi, polaris, pusiola, turgida, 
spinus, and securifrons, and Pandalus montagut, borealis, and propinquus, 
and probably one or two others.* On the other hand, M. Bonnier, who, 
along with Professor Giard, has devoted a long time to the study of these 
crustaceans, considers that the identity of the Bopyrids from all these 
different species of the Caridea with the Phryxus abdominalis of Kroyer, 
which is found on Spirontocaris gaimardi, M.-Edw., is at least open to 
doubt.t I may say, however, that, so far as I have been able to make 
them out, the species I have recorded above agree very well with the 
description and figures of Phryxus abdominalis, Kroyer, given by Professor 
Sars in the work referred to. 
Sub-Order SYMPODA, Stebbing, 1900 (CUMACEA, Auctorum). 
Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing has shown that Cuma, so familiar as the name 
of a genus of Crustaceans, had long before been used as the name of a 
Molluscan genus, and further, that it was necessary that the sub-ordinal 
name ‘Cumacea,” which had been derived from Cuma and therefore 
could not stand, must be replaced by some other, and the name he 
proposes as a substitute is ‘‘Sympoda.” ¢ 
Fam. Bopotrip#, Stebbing 
The generic name Cuma being set aside as preoccupied, leaves room for 
the restoration of Goodsir’s Bodotria, and as Bodotria is the typical and 
the oldest genus in the family with which it is associated, it necessarily 
forms the basis of the family name. 
Genus Bodotria, Goodsir (1843). 
Bodotria arenosa, Goodsir (Cuma scorpioides, G. O. Sars), was obtained 
in a gathering collected by the steam trawler ‘St. Andrew,” about fifty 
miles south-south-east of Fair Island on October 16th ; in this species the 
inner ramus of the uropods is composed of a single piece. JSodotria 
scorpioides (Mont.) (= Cuma edwardsit, Goodsir) has been obtained in 
_ gatherings collected during the past year in the Dornoch Firth, and off 
Aberdeen ; in this species, which appears to be more common than the 
previous one, the inner ramus of the uropods is distinctly biarticulated. 
Bodotria pulchella (G. O. Sars) occurred in gatherings collected by the 
“Garland” off Aberdeen in 36 to 49 fathoms in October, and in 
November in 45 fathoms. 
Genus Iphinoé, Spence Bate (1856). 
Iphinoé serrata, Norman, was moderately frequent in one or two of the 
gatherings collected to the south-eastward of Fair Island in October last. 
* G. O. Sars, ‘*An Account of the Crustacea ef Norway,” vol. ii. (Isopoda), p. 217 
(1896-99). 
+ Jules Bonnier, ‘‘ Contribution a l’étude des Epicarides Les Bopyridee,”’ Publications de 
la Station Zool. de Wimereux, viii., p. 881 (1900). 
+ Stebbing : On Crustacea brought by Dr. Willey from the South Seas, A. Welley’s 
Zoological Results part v., p. 609 (Dec. 1900). 
