. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 58G Dr. W. T. Caiman on the Holotype.—Female in British Museum, collected at Royal Sound, Kerguelen, by Rev. A. E. Eaton. Reg. no. 76. 27. Remarks.—Miers's first description of this species was published " certainly not later than 1st July, 1875 " (as lam informed by Messrs. Taylor and Francis), and therefore preceded Heller's application of the same name to an arctic species in a paper communicated to the Vienna Academy on 19th July, 1875. Miers's alteration of the


. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 58G Dr. W. T. Caiman on the Holotype.—Female in British Museum, collected at Royal Sound, Kerguelen, by Rev. A. E. Eaton. Reg. no. 76. 27. Remarks.—Miers's first description of this species was published " certainly not later than 1st July, 1875 " (as lam informed by Messrs. Taylor and Francis), and therefore preceded Heller's application of the same name to an arctic species in a paper communicated to the Vienna Academy on 19th July, 1875. Miers's alteration of the name to N. ant- arclicum was unnecessary, but renders invalid Pfeffer's use of Fig. Nymphon gracilipes, Miers, holotype, dorsal view. Legs and palps omitted, x 10. N, antarcticum for a species from South Georgia, which now requires a new name. Heller's species, renamed AT. helleri by Bohm *, is identified by Hoek and others with N. strcfrmi/. Kr<£yer, and by Norman f with Ar. giganteunt, Goodsir. Miers's descriptions and figures are quite inadequate, and * MB. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879, p. 170. t Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxx. p. 214 (1908).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd


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