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the inner lateral margin slightly so, both ciliated. The second and 

 third peduncular articles are slender, elongate, cylindrical, the whip 

 slender, two and one-third times as long as the rostrum. 

 The first legs are short, stocky, chelate. 



The second legs are longer, slenderer, with the carpus more elongate 

 than in the first legs. 



The third, fourth and fifth legs are monodactyl, slender, each with 

 the propodus elongate, the dactyl scarcely half so long, curved, acumi- 

 nate, both joints armed along the inferior lateral margin, with a row 

 of spinules, also setae. 



Synonymy. — Tozeuma carolinensis Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. 

 Phila., vol. 80, p. 328, 1878 ; op cit., vol. 31, p. 413, pi. 14, fig. 8, 

 1879 (1880) ; Amer. Nat., vol. 33, p. 715, fig. 8, 1899.— Verrill, 

 A. E., Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 11, p. 19, 1901. — 

 M. J. Rathbun, Tozeuma carolinense M. J. Rathbun, Bull. 20, 

 U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 20, pt. 2, p. 114, 1901.— Hay and Shore, 

 Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 35, p. 391, pi. 27, fig. 2, 1918.— 

 Verrill, A. E., Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 26, p. 127, 

 pi. 19, figs. 3-3m, pi. 42, figs. 11, If, text fig. 10, 1922. 



Genus : SPIKONTOCARIS Spence Bate. 



Spirontocaris tenuis (Spence Bate). 



Plate 55. 



Type: The type was taken by the "Challenger" off Nova Scotia, in 

 85 fms., and is deposited in the British Museum. 



Distribution : Hitherto known only from the type. 



Material examined : Five specimens, one of which is very small, 

 the other four are large, ovigerous females taken in dredge in 200 fms. 

 of water, September, 1926, nine miles southwest by west of Port 

 Basque, Newfoundland, by the "Ara,'' William K. Vanderbilt, com- 

 manding. 



Technical description: Female: Body robust, rostrum laminate, 

 abdomen beyond the third segment bent downward. Rostrum 89 mm, 

 long, carapace 13 mm. long ; abdomen about two and two-thirds times 

 as long as the carapace. The rostrum is directed forward in almost a 

 straight line for the proximal three-fourths, the distal fourth being 

 curved upward slightly, but the entire rostrum is less elevated than 

 the crested anterior portion of the carapace with which it is continu- 

 ous. There are seven acute, forward and upward directed teeth, three 

 on the carapace and four on the upper rostral margin ; in addition to 



