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Genus 461. Taurospyris,'^ Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 442. 

 Definition. — Z ygospyrida with twopairs of lateral feet and one pairof lateral horns. 



The genus Taurospyris bears only two frontal horns in the coryphal face of the shell, 

 and may therefore be derived from the preceding closely aUied Elaphospyris by reduction 

 and loss of the middle or apical horn. 



1. Taurospyris cervina, n. sp. (PL 95, fig. 12). 



Shell nut-shaped, thorny, with deep sagittal stricture and irregular roundish pores ; three pairs 

 of larger pores on each side of the ring. Basal plate with four large pores. Two horns cylindrical, 

 curved, widely divergent, about as long as the shell, branched. Four feet of nearly equal length, 

 also cylindrical and curved, divergent, somewhat longer than the shell, in the distal half branched 

 like a deer's antler. 



Dimensicms. — Shell 0'07 long, O'll broad ; horns 0'03 long, feet 0'06 long. 



Habitat. — South Atlantic, Station 332, depth 2200 fathoms ; also fossil in Barbados. 



2. Taurospyris hovina, n. sp. 



Shell subspberical, smooth, with slight sagittal stricture and small circular pores. Basal plate 

 with six larger pores. Two horns conical, curved, divergent, about as long as the shell. Two 

 pectoral feet very large, twice as long as the shell and as the two thinner tergal feet ; all four feet 

 curved, cylindrical, divergent, pointed at the distal end. 



Dimensions. — SheU 0'08 long, 0'09 broad ; horns and posterior feet O'l, anterior feet 0"2 long. 



Habitat. — Tropical Atlantic, Station 347, depth 2250 fathoms. 



Genus 462. TJierospyris,^ Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 442. 

 Definition. — Zygospyrida with two pairs of lateral feet, without apical horn. 



The genus Therospyris has two pairs of lateral feet corresponding to those of the pre- 

 ceding three genera, but differs from them in the complete absence of horns on the 

 coryphal face of the shell. 



1. Therospyris canis, n. sp. 



Shell nut-shaped, tubercidate, with deep sagittal stricture. Pores irregular, roundish. Basal 

 plate with four longer pores. Surface covered with roundish tubercles. Four feet equal, divergent, 

 about as long as the shell, thickened at the distal end, club-shaped, not forked. 



Dimensions. — SheU 0-07 long, Oil broad ; feet O'OO long. 



Habitat. — Fossil in Barbados. 



' Taurospyris = 'BxL\\-\)a.skitt ; T»i(>os, (1^1/5/5. 



2 r/i«rosp2/ns= Basket with four feet, like u beast ; 6^^, a^yj/;. 



