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Order: CALYCOPHORAE. 



Family: PRAYIDAE. 



Subfamily: Prayinae. 



Genus : NECTRODEOMA H. B. Bigelow. 



Nectrodroma reticulata Bigelow. 



Type: Collected by the "Albatross," station 4681, 300 fms., down, 



two nectophores and three bracts; deposited in the U. S. National 



Museum or Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Distribution : Known only from three small catches in the tropical 

 American Pacific, in the vicinity of the Galapagos Islands, Cocos 

 Island, and Cape Mala, Panama. 



Material examined : One unusually fine colony and two not quite 

 perfect nectophores of this rare animal were caught 300 fms., down, 

 in the Pacific Ocean, 50 miles S. W. off Cape Mala, Panama, March 

 16, 1926, by the "Ara." 



Color: Transparent, colorless, except for the yellow oil globule in 

 the oleocyst. 

 Life history : Not known. 



Technical descmption: The "Ara" specimens conform in all 

 essentials with Dr. Bigelow 's excellent description and figures of the 

 species. 



References: Nectodroma reticulata H. B. Bigelow, Mem. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 38, p. 206, pi. 1, figs. 7, 8, pi. 3, figs. 1-7, 1911. 



Family: DIPHYIDAE. 



Subfamily : Abilinae L. Agassiz. 



Genus : ABYLOPSIS Chun. 



Abylopsis eschscholtzii (Huxley). 



Type : Huxley's type material was collected in all the seas traversed 

 by H. M. S. "Rattlesnake," during the survey of the intricate passage 

 within the Barrier Reef, which skirts the eastern shores of Australia 

 and exploring the sea which lies between the northern end of this reef 

 and New Guinea and the Louisade Archipelago. Depository, British 

 Museum. 



Distribution : Widely distributed over the tropic Pacific and Ma- 

 laysian regions. Deep-sea. 



Material examined : Several bracts were taken in the dredge down 

 300 fms., Pacific Ocean, 50 miles S. W. of Cape Mala, Panama, March 

 16, 1926, by the "Ara." 



