604 THE VOYAGE OF K.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



Station 74, 1869. Between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands. Lat. 60° 39' 0" N., 

 long. 3° 9' 0" W. Depth 203 fathoms. Bottom temperature 8 0, 7 C. ; surface temperature 



11°°4C. 



-Station 4, 1870. West of Ushant. Lat. 48° 32' 0"N., long. 9° 59' 0" W. Depth 717 

 fathoms. Bottom temperature 7°'5 C. ; surface temperature 16°3 C. 



•-Station 6, 1870. West of Ushant. Lat. 48° 26' 0" N., long. 9° 44' 0" W. Depth 358 

 fathoms. Bottom temperature 10 o, C. ; surface temperature 16°-9 C. 



•-Station 1 4, 1870. Off the west coast of Spain. Lat. 40° 6' 0" N., long. 9° 44' 0" W. 

 Depth 469 fathoms. Bottom temperature 10°'8 C. ; surface temperature 18°"4 C. 



"-Station 17, 1870. Off the west coast of Spain. Lat. 39° 42' 0" N., long. 9° 43' 0" W. 

 Depth 1095 fathoms. Bottom temperature 4°"3 C. ; surface temperature 19°-8 C. 



Remarks. — The stations marked with an asterisk in the above list are recorded by Sir 

 Wyville Thomson in The Depths of the Sea. All the examples of this species received 

 by me, excepting fragments from Station 74, are placed together and bear no indication of 

 the station or stations from which they were obtained. 



2. Brisinga coronata, Sars. 



Brisinga coronata, G. O. Sars, 1371, Vidensk-Selsk. Forhandlmger f. 1871, p. 5 ; On some remarkable 

 forms of animal life from the great depths off the Norwegian coast, Part II., University Program, 

 Christiania, 1875. 



Localities. — " Porcupine " Expedition : 



Station 23, 1869. South of Rockall Bank. Lat. 56' 7'0" N.,long. 14° 19'0"W. Depth 

 630 fathoms. Bottom temperature 6° - 4 C. ; surface temperature 14°"0 C. 



Station 45, 1869. South-west of Cape Clear. Lat. 51° 1' 0" N., long. 11° 21' 0" W. 

 Depth 458 fathoms. Bottom temperature 8°'9 C. ; surface temperature 15°9 C. 



Station 13, 1870. Off the west coast of Spain. Lat. 40° 16' 0" N., long. 9° 37' 0" 

 W. Depth 220 fathoms. Bottom temperature ll° - C. ; surface temperature 18 0, 1 C. 



Remarks. — Other examples were also obtained during the " Porcupine " Expedition, 

 but unfortunatelv bear no indication of the station at which thev were taken. 



3. Brisinga verticillata, n. sp. (PI. CIX. figs. 9-11). 



Rays eight. R=175 mm. ; r = 6"5 mm. R<27 r. Breadth of a ray at the base, 4 

 mm. ; at the widest part of the ovarial inflation, 5 mm. (measured at 30 mm. from the 

 disk) ; midway between the disk and the extremity, 2'5 mm. 



Rays very elongate and slender, subcylindrical and depressed at the base, uniform in 

 breadth for a short distance, then slowly swelling into a short, slightly fusiform, ovarial 

 inflation, which gradually contracts and terminates at about 40 mm. from the disk, the 



