94 



DISCOVERY REPORTS 



= present, 



absent. 



Amphicaryon ernesti sp.n. 



It has long been clear to me that two distinct species may have been confused under the name 

 A. acaule. At the same time, except for two specimens from Tristan da Cunha.and west of the 

 Cape Verde Islands attributed to Mitrophyes peltifera by Moser (1925) (Haeckel's M. peltifera), a third 

 species of Amphicaryon, has not, since his day, been recognized again, and has been regarded as 

 a problematic species. Over a period of many years I have sorted out specimens of two species of 



