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DISCOVERY REPORTS 



Table II 



* Length of femur regarded as 10. 

 •j- Usually greater than 8. 



J Usually greater than i-z. 



§ A few sub- Antarctic (Magellan District). 



Colossendeis scoresbii, n.sp. (Figs. 5 c, 6 6, c and "] a, b). 

 C. tnegalonyx, Hoek, 1881, p. 67, in part. 



St.WS 91. 8. iv. 27. 52° 53' 45" S, 64° 37' 30" W, 191-205 m.; f. d. S. Sh. Commercial otter 

 trawl: 2 young specimens and i larva with chelophores. 



St.WS 92. 8. iv. 27. 51° 58' 30" S, 65° 01' W, 143-145 m.; f. d. S. St. Commercial otter trawl: 

 I (J, I $, 6 young, of which 2 are soft, and 2 larvae with chelophores. 



St.WS 93. 9. iv. 27. 7 miles S, 80^ W of Beaver Island, West Falkland Island, 130-133 m.; 

 gy. S. Commercial otter trawl: 2 $?. 



St. WS 98. 18. iv. 27. 49° 54' 15" S, 60° 35' 30" W, 173-171 m. ; f. d. S. Commercial otter trawl: 



1 $, holotype. 



St. WS245. 18. vii. 28. 52° 36' S, 63° 40' W, 304-290 m.; d. gn. S. Sh. Commercial otter trawl : 



2 specimens with C. frigida. 



Diagnostic characters. Sixth palpal segment at least three times as long as wide, 

 seventh segment shorter than either eighth or ninth which are subequal; proboscis 

 subequal to trunk length; lateral processes separated; eyes present; terminal claw of 

 oviger short, less than one-third of tenth segment ; tarsus subequal to, claw as a rule 

 longer than, propodus. 



Description of holotype. Trunk non-segmented ; greatest width across first lateral 

 processes two-thirds of its length ; second and third lateral processes separated by their 

 own diameter. 



