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South-West of Iceland: St 74: 62 17' N. L., 24 36' W. L., 695 fin., temp. 4-2°; 1 spec. 

 South of Iceland: St. 68: 62 06' N. I y ., 22° 30' W. L., 843 fm., temp. 3-4°; 2 spec. 



— - - 67: 6i°3o' — 22 30' - 



— - - 40: 62°oo' 21 36' - 



- 66: 6i° 33 ' - 20° 43' - 



— - - 63: 62°4o' - i9°o5' - 



- 47: 6 1 ° 3 2' 13° 40' 

 Distribution. Sp. Bate's single specimen was taken in the neighbourhood of the Canary 



Isles. Many specimens were taken south-west of Ireland, 750 fm. (Caiman). According to the above 

 it is a purely deep-water form from the Atlantic; it has without doubt a much greater geographical 

 distribution than as yet known. 



Remarks. My specimens agree with Caiman's remarks; further, before I read this author, I 

 had considered them to belong to Bate's species. It differs from N. ensiferus Bate in the shorter 

 rostrum, the length of which is between that in N. ensiferus and N. cursor A. M.-Edw. ; it also differs 

 from N. ensiferus in that the eyes seem a little larger; further, the posterior corner of the fifth 

 abdominal segment is less drawn out though it ends in a very small or rudimentary spine; lastly, 

 the third abdominal segment is dorsally less produced than in N. ensiferus. 



71. Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edw. ' 



1881. Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edwards, Comp. Rend. Ac. Sc. Paris, T. XCIII, p. 933. 

 !i882. Miersia Agassizii S. I. Smith, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. X, p. 67, PI. XI, figs. 5— 7, PI. XII, figs. 1—4. 

 1884. Acanthephyra Agassizii S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish & Fishery for 1882, p. 372, PI. VIII, fig. 1. 

 1886. — — S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish & Fishery for 1885, p. 667, PI. XV, 



figs. 1, 6, 6 a. 7; PI. XIV, fig. 2. 

 1888. purpurea Sp. Bate, Rep. Challenger, Vol. XXIV, p. 733, PI. CXXIV, fig. 3. 



Occurrence. The species has been taken by the "Iugolf" at 6 stations. 

 Davis Straits: St. 25: 63 30' N. L., 54° 25' W. L., 582 fm., temp. 3-3°; 1 spec. 

 West of Iceland: St. 12: 64 38' N. L., 32 37' W. L., 1040 fm., temp. 0-3°; 1 spec. 



— - - 11: 64°34' — 31 12' — 1300 — — r6°; 1 — 



— - -91: 64°44' - 31 o' — 1236 - — 3-1°; 1 

 South-West of Iceland: St. 17: 62 49' N. L,, 26 58' W. L., 745 fm., temp. 3-4°; 1 spec. 

 South of Iceland: St. 69: 62 40' N. L., 22°i7'W. L., 589 fm., temp. 3-9°; 1 spec. 



Further, it has been taken at 62°n'N. L., I9°36'W. L., 1000— 1100 fm. ("Thor") and south-west 

 of the Fseroes at 59 28' N. L., 8° 1' W. L., 687 fm. (Bergen Museum). In 1904 it was taken by the 

 "Thor" at the following places: 



1 After the text on this species was written I received Stanley W. Kemp's very elaborate study on Acanthephyra in 

 "Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest. 1905, I., [1906]". The author spends more than twelve pages on A. purpurea, giving the 

 dreadful synonymy and numerous new details on its characters, variation, distribution, etc. Instead of adding to my own 

 text, I have preferred to refer readers to Mr. Kemp's paper. 



