PLATÉ VI. 



Fig. il — 1 1 ƒ. Systellaspis debilis (A. M.-Edw.) var. indica de Man. All the figures are taken from the egg- 

 bearing female, collected at Stat. 161. — 11 carapace and i s i abdominal somite, X 2; 

 i i a third, fourth and fifth somite of the abdomen with the contiguous parts of the second 

 and sixth, X 2; \\b postero-lateral margin of 4 t!l , lic of 5 th somite, X 6; 1 1 d peraeopod 

 of 3rd pair, X 6; 1 1 ^ proximal, 1 1 ƒ distal part of dactylus, X 12. 



Fig. 12 — 126". Acanthephyra purpurea A. M.-Edw. — 12 carapace and the three anterior abdominal somites 

 of the almost full-grown male from Stat. 208, X 1V2 (the carapace appears on this figure 

 -J 3 mm. too long!); 12a rostrum of the specimen, long 17 mm., from Stat. 203, that belongs 

 to the parva-stage, X 50; 12b rostrum of one of the two specimens from Stat. 230, long 

 20 mm., that also belongs to the par va-stage, X 50; 12c first, second and third abdominal 

 somite of the young specimen, long 34 or 35 mm., from Stat. 230, in which the yi somite 

 presents still the characteristic shape of the parva-stage, though the rostrum is already 

 formed like in the adult. 



Fig. 13 — 13a. Acanthephyra armata A. M.-Edw. — 13 telson of the adult male from Stat. 161, X 2; 

 13a extremity of telson of a male from Stat. 173, X 4- 



Fig. 14 — I4<r. Acanthephyra media Bate var. obüqiurostris de Man. Male from Stat. 14S. — 14 carapace, 

 ( 2; I4« telson, X 4; 14^ and \\c eyepeduncle looked at respectively from above and 

 from the outer side, X 6. 



F'g- '5 — 1 5&- Acanthephyra curtirostris W.-Mas. — 15 the left eyepeduncle of the adult female from 

 Stat. 217, X 8; 15c? the right eyepeduncle of the adult male from Stat. 185, X 8; 15/; the 

 right eyepeduncle of the young specimen from Stat. 48. In the three figures the eyepeduncle 

 is looked at from above. 



Fig. 16. Acanthephyra sp. — Rostrum of the first specimen from Stat. 230, X 50. 



