52 DISCOVERY REPORTS 



tion, E. unguiculata was taken at twenty-five stations. At ten of these it was captured with E. australis, 

 at nine with grimaldii and at three stations all three species were taken together in the same haul. 



The Discovery records show that the species is widely distributed in the waters of the Atlantic, 

 from the Scotia Sea to the N.E. of Cape Verde Islands. It has been recorded from British waters and 

 from the Greenland and Iceland coasts, but the majority of captures have been made in tropical 

 and sub-tropical waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. 



E. unguiculata is bathypelagic in habit and is most abundant at about 2000 m., though it may occur 

 in much shallower water. The greatest depth at which it was taken in the Discovery collection was 

 between 2000 m. and 2500 m. at station 10 1 C and the least between 700 m. and 500 m. to the surface 

 at station 281. 



Eucopia sculpticauda Faxon, 1893 



1885 a Eucopia australis (pars) G. O. Sars, p. 55, figs. 



1885 Eucopia equatoria Spence-Bate, see G. O. Sars, ibid. p. 55, nomen nudum. 



1893 Eucopia sculpticauda Faxon, p. 218. 



1895 Eucopia sculpticauda, Faxon, p. 292, figs. 



1905 a Eucopia intermedia Hansen, p. 5, figs. 



1905 a Eucopia sculpticauda, Hansen, p. 7, fig. 



1930 Eucopia sculpticauda, Illig, p. 400, figs. 



1942 Eucopia sculpticauda, Fage, p. 56, figs. 



195 1 Eucopia sculpticauda, Tattersall and Tattersall, p. 109, figs. 



Occurrence : 



41° 37' 15" N., 12 36' 20" W. 10. x. 25. West of Portugal, 900-0 m., 1 S, 35 mm. 



13° 25' N., 18 22' W. 28. x. 25. West of Gambia, 900-0 m., 1 adult 9, 44 mm. 



6° 55' N., 15 54' W. 2. xi. 25. South-east of Monrovia, 800-0 m., 1 imm. 9, 33 mm., 1 juv., 25 mm., fragment. 



St. 86. 24. vi. 26 (day). West of Cape Town, iooo(-o) m., 1 adult $, 51 mm., fragments of smaller female. 



St. 100 C. 4. x. 26 (day). West of Table Bay, 25oo(-o) m., 5 small juv. 



St. 101. 15. x. 26 (day). West of Cape Town. Three hauls: (i) 950-850 m., 1 <$, 55 mm.; (ii) 1410-1310 m., anterior 



end only of very large specimen; (iii) 2580-2480 m., night, large 9 with telson missing. 

 St. 256. 23. vi. 27 (day). West of Cape Town, 1 ioo-85o(-o) m., 1 6*. 47 mm. 

 St. 281. 12. viii. 27 (day). West of Cape Lopez, 95o-85o(-o) m., 2 $<$, larger, 32 mm., 8 99, largest, 38 mm., 



10 juv. and fragments. 

 St. 287. 19. viii. 27 (night). Gulf of Guinea, iooo-8oo(-o) m., 4 adult 99, largest 36 mm., 4 juv., fragments. 

 St. 295. 25. viii. 27 (day). West of Sierra Leone, 2700-250o(-o) m., 1 juv. $, 1 small juv. 

 St. 298. 28. viii. 27 (day). West of Cape Verde, i20o-90o(-o) m., 1 S, 38 mm., 3 99, largest 32 mm., 8 juv. 

 St. 414. 28. viii. 30 (night). South of Cape Town, 1700-1000 m., 1 juv. 



St. 440. 21. ix. 30 (day). East of Durban, 1050-950^0) m., 1 <$, 36 mm., 1 9, 43 mm., 1 juv. 

 St. 696. 12. v. 31 (day). Mid- Atlantic, south-west of Cape Verde Is., 1000-750 m., 1 $,44 mm., 2 small juv. 

 St. 699. 14. v. 31 (day). West of Cape Verde Is., 1000-750 m., 2 small juv. and fragment. 

 St. 700. 18. v. 31 (day). North-east of Cape Verde Is., 2025-0 m., 1 $, 41 mm., 1 juv. 



St. 1574. 23. iv. 35 (night). Between Beira and Madagascar, 1100-450 m., 1 9, 40 mm., fragments of smaller 9- 

 St. 1576. 25. iv. 35 (night). West of Madagascar, 1100-400 m., 1 9, 42 mm., 1 small $. 

 St. 1580. 27. iv. 35 (night). North of Comoro Is., 1300-0 m., 1 adult 9, 47 mm. 

 St. 1582. 29. iv. 35 (night). East of Zanzibar, i900-i85o(-o) m., 1 adult 9, 37 mm., 1 adult 9 with telson missing, 



7 juv., fragments. 

 St. 1585. 1. v. 35 (night). East of Kismayu, 1400-700 m., 2 99. 43 mm., 1 juv. 9, 3 small juv. 

 St. 1586. 2. v. 35 (night). East of Mogadishu, 1650-950 m., 1 9, 35 mm., 2 juv. 



St. 1587. 3. v. 35 (night). South-east of Ras Hafun, 1250-800, 2 $$, larger 41 mm., 1 imm. 9, 3 small juv. 

 St. 1765. 7. v. 36 (day). East of East London, 1350-800 m., 1 small juv. (Colour note, 'brilliant scarlet'.) 

 St. 2055. 28. iv. 37 (day). East-north-east of St Helena, 2000-1400 m., 1 o, 28 mm., 2 small juv. (Colour note, 



'deep scarlet'.) 



