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mamts, S. I. Smith, the chelipedes are more densely pubescent, the immobile finger of 

 the right chela is not bent at an angle to the lower border of the hand, and the fingers 

 of the left chela are relatively shorter than in the present species. 



Habitat. — Station 56, oft' Bermuda; depth, 1075 fathoms; bottom, coral mud. A 

 female with ova in a shell of Trochus [Margarita) infundihnlmn, Watson. 



Station 106, off Sierra Leone; depth, 1850 fathoms; bottom, Globigerina ooze. 

 Several specimens in shells of Pleurotoma sp. and DentaUum sp. 



Station 133, near Tristan da Cunha ; depth, 1900 fathoms; bottom, Globigerina 

 ooze. Three specimens in shells of lanthina rotundata. Leach (a pelagic Mollusc, the 

 shells of which had sunk to the bottom), and Pleurotoma sp. 



Station 195, offBanda; depth, 1425 fathoms; bottom, blue mud. Several specimens 

 protected merely by Anemones. 



Station 205, off the Philippines; depth, 1075 fathoms; bottom, blue mud. A single 

 specimen in a shell of Pleurotoma sp. 



Station 218, north of Papua; depth, 1070 fathoms; bottom, blue mud. A single 

 specimen protected by an Anemone. 



Station 237, off Yokohama; depth, 1875 fathoms; bottom, blue mud. Several 

 specimens protected by Anemones, as well as two young individuals in bare shells of 

 Pleurotoma sp. (?). 



Station 300, west of Valparaiso; depth, 1375 fathoms; bottom, Globigerina ooze. 

 Many fine specimens protected by Anemones, with the shells absent or so wasted as to be 

 unrecognisable. 



Station 304, Port Otway, Patagonia; depth, 45 fathoms; bottom, green sand; a single 

 specimen in a shell of Trochus sp. There can be little doubt that in this case some error 

 has arisen in the labelling, as a shallow-water habitat for the species is quite out of the 

 question. 



Station 335, near Tristan da Cunha ; depth, 1425 fathoms ; bottom, Pteropod ooze ; 

 A single specimen in a shell of Pleurotoma sp. 



Parapagurus abyssorum, A. Milne-Edwards, var. scabra, nov. (PI. IX. fig. 3). 



Characters. — The granulations present on the chelipedes and ambulatory limbs in the 

 typical form of the species, are replaced in the variety by short thick spinules. In the 

 chelipedes these are most strongly developed on the upper surface of the carpus, and on 

 the lower surface of the merus, while in the ambulatory limbs they are well marked on 

 the anterior border of the meral, carpal, and propodal joints. The external px'olongation 

 of the second antennal peduncular joint is dentate, and an acute spinule is present on the 

 inner and distal margin of the same joint ; the antennal acicle has a series of distinct 

 spinules on its inner border. The eye-stalks as well as the antennal peduncles show a 



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