4Q . CRUSTACEA MALACOSTRACA. 



Antilles; A. M.-Ed\vards & Bouvier (Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., XIX, p. 139) state: "L'espece typique parait 



etre localisee dans la mer des Antilles , elle ne remonte pas an-dessus de 80 brasses et descend 



jusqu'a 573", and they continue: "Elle est representee dans les eaux orientales de l'Atlantique par la 

 variete concolor A. Milne-Edwards et E. L. Bouvier du Talisman (495 a 1600 metres), et dans le Paci- 

 fique oriental par la variete occidentalis Eaxon de 1'Albatross (495 brasses)". I think that "var. concolor" 

 really belongs to I '. nitidus as a variety ; "var. concolor''' has been taken by the "Caudan", "Travailleur" 

 and "Talisman" in the Gulf of Gascogne and from there southwards to the Cape Verde Islands, in 

 40,5 — 1710 meters, also in the Indian Ocean off Cape Natal, 440 fm. (Stebbing). x\lcock (1899) gives 

 U. nitidus — presumably not the typical form but var. concolor — from the Laccadives, 636 fm., and 

 from the Bay of Bengal, 320-296 fm. It appears to me somewhat more doubtful whether var. occi- 

 dentalis Faxon is a variety of U. nitidus or an independent species, as Faxon (Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool. XVIII, p. 101) gives several differences between the two, but naturally I can contribute nothing 

 to the solution of the question. Faxon has only had four specimens of his U. nitidus var. occidentalis 

 from a station in the Gulf of Panama, 458 fm. (the 495 cited above from the French authors must 

 have been an error in printing). 



Remarks. I have compared the "Ingolf" specimen with two specimens of U. nitidus var. 

 concolor taken by the "Talisman" and found complete agreement. 



31. Uroptychus rubro-vittatus A. M.-Edw. 



1881. Diptychus rubro-vittatus A. Milne-Edwards, C. R. Acad. Sc. 5. dec. 1881 (teste A. M.-Edw. & Bouvier). 

 ! 1894. A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, Res. des Camp. Sc. de THirondelle, Fasc. VII, 



p. 88, PI. VI, figs. 1— 12. 

 1900. A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, Exp. Scient. du Travailleur et du Talisman, 



Crust. Dec, I, p. 356, PI. XXXII, figs. 6—14. 

 Occurrence. This species was not brought home by the "Ingolf; on the other hand it was 

 taken by the "Thor" in 1903 at the following locality. 



South of Iceland: 63 12,5' N. L,., 20 06' "W. L., 300 fm.; 13 spec. 



Distribution. The species has been taken several times in the eastern Atlantic, namely, off 

 northern Africa and southern Europe between 26° 20' N. L. and 46 40' N. L. as also at the Azores 

 I A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, Bonnier, Caullery). The depth was from 160 to 744 fm. Its occurrence 

 south of Iceland is interesting. 



Remarks. Some of the specimens taken are remarkable for their quite unusual size; they are 

 much larger than those whose measurements are given in the literature and I may therefore give 

 some details concerning them. The largest male has the following dimensions: length from tip of 

 rostrum to end of abdomen 33 mm., thorax with rostrum 18 mm., left first leg 63 mm.; in the 

 largest female with eggs the length of the body when stretched was 40 mm., of thorax with rostrum 

 177 mm., left first leg 56 mm. 



