t'KI'IIALOi'on.V MASSY. 15.-> 



rid-es are apparent on the external surface of the ovidiical glands. Part of the interior 

 of tin- ovary, with eggs /// *t/n, is shown in Fig. 20. The contents of the stomach and 

 crop ol specimens A. P>. and ( '. and those of two females from the same haul, were 

 examined, and consisted of fragments of sponge and manv spmige-spiciilae, pieces of 

 glandular skin, setae of Polychaeta, operciila of Sj>/r<>r/>/.. a (braminit'er. and a ipiantity 

 of much digested animal debris, some ol it apparently crustacean. These specimens 

 were taken on muddy "'round, and in no case was there a "real quantity of food 



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present: either crop or stomach, in some instances, being quite emptv. In a young 

 specimen from Oates Land, from a bottom of undecomposed animal </< ; /ir/*. the stomach 

 and crop were distended to their utmost capacity with animal substances. 



Dimensions in Miflitnt'fn'*. 



Station 341). Station 338. 



A' B<5 C<S 9 9 



Kml of liody to mautlf-margin . .35 40 32 25 .">."> .">."> 



Breadth of l.ody . . 30 50 53 42 42 38 



Breadth of head . . . 30 1 1 28 33 30 23 



1st right arm . 72* 12 1 93 77 mutilated 64 



2nd right arm . . 71* 112 99 78 21) 62 



3rd right arm 74 lol 89 65 Its 65 



4th right arm 85" 131 99 82 102 65 



Hectoeotylus . .6655 



Diameter of largest sucker . 3 4 4 '75 2 '50 3 2 



Distribution. Type, a female taken at Booth-Waudel Island. South Shetland*, 

 (I.") 05' S. hit., among algae and shingle mi the beach, Sept, 3rd, 1904 (.louliin, '05). 

 Smith Orkneys, August, 1903, 10 fathoms, a male; same locality, May, 1903, 

 9-10 fathoms, a female (Iloyle, '12). Antarctic, two specimens (Joubin, '14). 



tixrltitfx f/ti'iji/ef/ (Joubin). Figs. 22-28. 



Eli'diiiii- Turqiicll, Joubin, Exp. Antarctique Francaisc, pp. 9-11, jil. 1, figs. 3-6, 1905; Joubin, 

 Deuxieme Exp. Antarctique Franoaise, pp. 37-38, text-figs. 3, 4, 1914. 



Station 42, oft' Rio de Janeiro, 22 56' S., 41 34' W., 40 fathoms (73 m.), Agassi/ 

 trawl, bottom fauna (sand), May 2nd, 1913. One $. 



Station 314, 5 miles N. of Inaccessible Island. McMnrdo Sound. 222-241 fathoms 

 (40G-441 m.). Agassi/ trawl, bottom fauna (mud), -Ian. 23rd, 191 1. One ?. 



Station 355, oft' Cape Evans, .M.-Murdo Sound, 77 4C/ S.. 1C.C 8' K, 300 fathoms 

 (547 m.). Agassi/ trawl, bottom fauna. Jan. 20th. 1913. OIK- ', one <j>. 



The male from Station 355 and the female from Station 314 have both got a 

 sijiiat body, with a very few dorsal tubercles, closelv resembling that figured bv .Imibin 

 ('05. pi. 1. tigs. 3. 4). The females from Stations 355 and 42 have a longer, narrower 

 body, but both are wrinkled and distorted; neither has any tubercles. The colour of 

 the specimens varies from pinkish to purple-grey. The ehromatophores are always 



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