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faces longitudinally fluted. The legs are devoid of bristles or 

 pilosity. 



References : Cancer edwardsii, Bell, T., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

 don, 1835, vol. Ill, p. 87; Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 1835, 

 vol. I, p. 338, pis. 44, 47, figs. 2, 3.— DANA, J. D., in Wilkes, C, 

 U. S. Explor. Exped., Crustacea, 1852, vol. XIII, p. I, p. 153 

 (partim) .—Kin AH AN, J. R., Journ. Roy. Soc. Dublin, 1858, 

 vol. I, p. 336. — Milne Edwards, A., Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. 

 Nat. Paris, 1866, 1866, t. I, p. 193.— MiERS, E. J., Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1881, p. 63. 



Platijcarcinm edwardsii, MiLNE Edwards, H., et Lucas, P. H., 

 in d'Orbigny's Voy. I'Amerique Merid., 1844, t. VI, pt. I, 

 p. 20.— NicoLET, H., in Gay, C, Hist. Chile, Hist, fisica, nat. 

 y polit. de Chile, Zool., 1849, t. Ill, pt. Crustacea, p. 144. 



Cancer edwardsii, MiERS, E. J., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1881, 

 p. 67. 



Ca7icer edwardsii variety annidipes, MiERS, E. J., op. cit., p. 63, 

 p. 67. 



Family: GALENIDAE 



Genus: GERYON Kroyer 



Geryon quinquedens S. I. Smith 



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Plates 93, 94 and 95 



Type : Professor Sydney Smith's type series was collected by 

 the United States government steamer "Speedwell," off Casco 

 Bay and off Massachusetts Bay, Gulf of Maine, and is divided 

 between the United States National Museum and the Peabody 

 Museum, Yale University. 



Distribution: This species, which is very close to, but not 

 identical with, the European Geryon tridens Kroyer, known from 

 the deep water of boreal western European seas, has been repeat- 

 edly taken by the United States government explorations, in 

 depths ranging from 22 to 1,178 fathoms, the occurrence being 

 more frequently in the greater depths, at stations from off Nova 

 Scotia southward as far as Cape Frio, Brazil. It was taken by 

 the "Valdivia" at Saint Paul Island, in 2,068 meters (Doflein) 



