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TERUA XOVA" EXPEDITION. 



uniformly distributed in line dots. Arms two and ;i half to three times of body, and 

 wdi one-third to one-fifth of arms. The funnel-organ is very like that of M~. cftarcoti, 

 and consists of two V-shaped pads of very liroad outline, especially posteriorly. The 

 lieclocotyliis (Fig. ii(j) is broad and elumsy, and the outer edges of the spoon-shaped 

 process have a number of ridges, I nit the hollow inner surface is almost quite smooth. 

 The sperm-canal is verv liroad, and its outer surface is closely striated. The specimen 



Pew* 



, 22. Moschites turgueti, male reproductive organs, natural size. 

 acc.yl., Accessory gland; N., Needham's pouch; p., prostate; pcli., 

 pouch-like dilatation ; pen., penis ; Y.I)., vas deferens ; V.E., vas 

 etferens ; V.S., vesicula seminalis. 



24:. Moschites iitrq/ieti, ovary, x 3. ml., Oviduct; 

 oil.ijL, oviducal gland. 



FlG. 2.3. Mvscllitrx /;'- 



qiirtl, genital gland, 

 X 2. ' 



Fid. 25. MunrJlih'is 



turqueti, ova, much 



enlarged. 



Fid. 26. Moxdilti 



/i, extremity "f 

 hectocotylized arm, 

 slightly enlarged. 



taken otf llio de Janeiro, which has the arms three times the length of body, and a web 

 extending one-fifth of their length, and almost obsolete ventrally, is referred here with 

 some slight hesitation, as it is paler in colouring, and the arms seem a little longer and 

 slenderer, with more prominent suckers, than those of the other specimens. In the 

 shape of the liody. however, it resembles the female from Station 355, and the funnel- 



