VII. 
SURVEY OF FISHING-GROUNDS, WEST COAST OF IRELAND, 1890-1891. 
X.—REPORT ON THE CRUSTACEA SCHIZOPODA OF IRELAND. By 
HRNEST W. L. HOLT, anno W. I. BEAUMONT, B.A., Canvas. 
(Pirate XVI.) 
COMMUNICATED BY DR. R. F. SCHARFF, 
[Read Aprit 19, Received for Publication May 30, 1899. Published Apri 30, 1900. ] 
Wuen the Survey terminated in 1891 all the collections, with the exception of 
certain duplicates otherwise disposed of by the Society, were handed over to the 
National Museum. A great deal of the material remained still unexamined, 
or had only been roughly sorted by one of us during the survey. ‘This was 
especially the case with the smaller Crustacea and other minute forms taken in 
fine-meshed nets of various descriptions. We have recently been able, by the 
permission of Dr. R. F. Scharff, to examine a number of bottles containing such 
gatherings, and now present the results of our observations in so far as concerns 
the Schizopoda. 
At the same time, since the energies of the Society are once more directed to 
the marine zoology of the country, we have endeavoured to compile as complete 
a list of Irish members of the group as can be obtained from all the material in the 
national collection, and from the meagre literature of the subject. Such a 
list, imperfect as it certainly is, cannot fail to be useful as a basis for future 
observations. It has been brought as far as possible up to date, while in press, 
by observations made at the Society’s Marine Laboratory during the present 
year, and by the examination of the ‘‘ Oceana” Collection. 
Though in themselves of no commercial value, the Schizopoda form a most 
important item in the food of fishes, while the observed conditions of their distri- 
bution, and the pelagic or partially pelagic habit of at least some of the species 
appear likely to yield results of interest, were the subject adequately studied. 
Norman’s admirably useful synopsis of the British members} is sufficiently 
recent to enable us to confine our introductory remarks to a brief comparison of 
+ ‘British Schizopoda of the families Lophogastride and Euphauside.”’ Ann. lag. Nat. Hist., 8. 6, 
ix., 1892, p. 454, and ‘ British Myside,” 2b7d., x., 1892, p. 143. 
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