i 3 o DISCOVERY REPORTS 



St. 563. 1. i. 31 (day). Bellingshausen Sea, 450-180 m., 1 £, 8-5 mm. 



St. 590. 14. i. 31 (day). West of Graham Land, 1400-1150 m., 1 $, 9 mm. 



St. 591. 14. i. 31 (day). Bellingshausen Sea, 360-122 m., 1 juv. <J, 3-5 mm. 



St. 592. 15. i. 31 (day). Bellingshausen Sea, 350-124 m., 1 $, 9 mm., with large empty brood-sac. 



St. 594. 15. i. 31 (day). North-west of Graham Land, 435-165 m., 1 $, 9-5 mm. 



St. 663. 5. iv. 31 (day). East-north-east of South Georgia, 500-250 m., 1 very small juv. 



St. 666. 17. iv. 31 (day). North-east of South Georgia, 750-500 m., 1 $, 8 mm. 



St. 668. 19. iv. 31 (day). North of South Georgia: (i) 750-500 m., 1 $, 8 mm., 1 $, 5-5 mm.; (ii) 1500-0 m., 



1 (J, 7-2 mm. 

 St. 673. 25. iv. 31 (night). West of Tristan da Cunha, 500-250 m., 2 ??, 6-5 and 4-2 mm. 

 St. 946. 3. ix. 32 (night). South of Chatham Is., 270-120 m., 1 small juv. 

 St. 971. 25. ix. 32 (night). North of Bellingshausen Sea, 340-120 m., 1 $, 8 mm. 

 St. 1517. 14. ii. 35 (night). East of Weddell Sea, 420-230 m., 1 $, 8 mm., 2 small juv. 

 St. 1539. 25. ii. 35 (night). Ice Edge, off Enderby Land, 350-230 m., 1 $, 8-5 mm. 

 St. 1558. 1. iv. 35 (night). North-west of Prince Edward Is., 1300-0 m., 1 $, 7-5 mm. 

 St. 1838. 12. x. 36 (day). West-north-west of South Sandwich Is., 750-250 m., 1 ?, 7 mm. 

 St. 1915. 2. xii. 36 (day). Scotia Sea, 550-350 m., 1 ^, 8 mm., 1 <J, 9-5 mm., 1 juv. $, 6 mm. 

 St. 2550. 23. i. 39 (night). 67 27-8' S., 06 35-3' E., 430-230 m. 1 imm. g, 8-2 mm., 3 $$,7-9-2 mm., 5 juv. 

 St. WS 30. 19. xii. 26 (night). Off South Georgia, 250-100 m., 1 imm. 5. 6-8 mm. 

 St. WS 173. 6/7. iii. 28 (night). East of South Georgia, 500-250 m., 1 $, 7-5 mm. empty brood-sacs. 

 St. WS 552. 3. ii. 31 (day). Off South Georgia, 250-200 m., 2 $$, 10 and 8 mm., with large empty brood-sacs. 

 St. WS 976. 6. iii. 50 (day). Nearly 200 miles west of Walvis Bay, 250-100 m., 1 juv. 3 mm. 



Remarks. This species appears to be rather less fragile than either of the two preceding ones. Most 

 of the specimens are in good condition and retain their thoracic appendages. There is a colour note in 

 the tube from station 590 as follows: 'Transparent. Red dots on sides of abdomen and distal leg 

 joints. Upper side of eyes with patch of silvery grey.' 



There is some considerable variation in the length of the spines arming the body and telson, but 

 the shape and form of the antennal scale, the proportions of the telson and uropods and the disposition 

 of the spines arming the carapace and abdominal somites are so uniform that I have no hesitation in 

 referring the specimens to E. zurstrasseni. 



Distribution. This species was first recorded from the Indian Ocean west of the Chagos Islands, 

 when the type specimen was captured in a vertical haul from 2500 m. to the surface (Illig, 1906a). 

 Hansen (1913) recorded it from south of Prince Edward Island and Zimmer (1914) from the Falkland 

 Islands — both records from vertical hauls to the surface. Illig (1930) recorded it from the south-east 

 and east of Bouvet Island and from between the Chagos Islands and the Seychelles, again in vertical 

 hauls with open nets from 2500 m. and less to the surface. 



In the Discovery collection the species has been taken in closing nets at no fewer than twenty 

 stations and, though it once occurred in a net fishing between 2500 m. and 2000 m. at station 100 C, in 

 all the others it was taken between 750 m. and 100 m., the greatest number being taken between 

 300 m. and 500 m. 



The Discovery collection considerably enlarges its known geographical range and proves this 

 species to be widely distributed far south in the Antarctic Ocean where it was taken at eleven 

 stations. 



It also occurred at fifteen stations in the South Atlantic Ocean and at one in the South Pacific. 

 Up to the present it has not been recorded from the northern hemisphere. 



