MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



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947, 312 fathoms, three hundred and ninety^ihree specimens, nearly all adults 

 anil many of them very large, were taken at one haul of the trawl. 



The carcincecia of all the specimens seen are formed by colonies of Epizoan- 

 thus paguriphilus Verrill, which at first invest spii'al shells which are finally 

 absorbed by the basal coenenchyma of the growing polyps. 



GALATHEID^. 



Galacantha rostrata A. M.-Edwards. 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., VIII. p. 52, 1880. 



Plate IX. Figs. 3, J8». 



Station 340, N. Lat. 39° 25' 30", W. Long. 70° 58' 40", 1394 fathoms ; and 

 Station 341, N. Lat. 39° 38' 20", W. Long. 70° 56', 1241 fathoms ; two males, 

 which give the following measurements : — 



Station 



Sex 



Length from tip of rostrum to tip of telson 

 " of carapax to bases of rostral spines 

 Greatest breadth excluding spines 



" " including " 



Length of rostrum above its lateral spines 



" gastric spine .... 

 Greatest breadth of abdomen, third somite 



" diameter of eye 

 Length of cheliped 



" chela ..... 



" dactylus . . . . . 



" first ambulatory leg 



" posterior leg ... . 



MUNIDOPSIS Whiteaves. 



Munidopsis "Whiteaves, Amer. Jour. Sci., 3J ser., VII. p. 212, 1874. 

 Galathodes A. M.-Edwakds, Bull. Mus.-Cwjip. Zool., VIII. p. 53, 1880. 



Munidopsis curvirostra Whiteaves. 



Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d. ser., VII. p. 212, 1874 ; Report on further Deep-sea Dredging 

 Operations iu the Gulf of St. Lawrence [in 1873], p. 17, 1874. 



Plate VIII. Figs. 8, 3, 3". 



Station 325, N. Lat. 33° 35' 20", W. Long. 76°, 647 fathoms, one small male, 

 which gives the following measurements : — 



