135 



in the McMliterraiicaii, lu-ar Madeira, the Canaries and near St. 

 Vincent in tlie Cape Verde Ishmds, but the few specimens froni 

 Naples do not enable me to substantiate this supposition. 



The only egg-bearing- female from the Bay of Sebastopol is 

 46 mm. long, the same length is indicated by Rathke for liis 

 P. degam. Tliis variety diifers in the first place from the typical 

 species and from the variety iïiiermcd'Ki Jnj the rostrinii (Fig. lir — 1//) 

 cxteiidhuj (i/iHosf (jciicnfl/// more or le>>s beijoiul the antetuKil .icales: 

 in 45 of 60 specimens from the Bay of Sebastopol, i. e. in 75 

 per cent., the i'ostrnm projects 0,5 to 1,25 mm. hei/oHd tlie tip 

 of the antennal scales, only in 14 specimens, i. e. in 23 per cent., 

 it is jnst as long as the latter and only in one very young indi- 

 vidnal the rostrum did iiot yet reach to their distal extremity. 

 In the ova-bearing female from Rovigno, which, like the ova- 

 bearing specimens from Brixhani, is of a small si/,e, only 35 mm. 

 long, in the ova-bearing females from Naples that measure 45 — 52 mm. 

 and nearly in all the young individuals from Kovigno, the rostrum 

 appears, however, as long as the scales, but in the specimen from 

 Madeira that Dana lias figured, it distinctly projects beyond them. 

 The formulae of 57 specimens from the Bay of Sebastopol are 

 the following : 

 .i 2 <■' ;! 



9 + 1 . H -,- 1 ^ . 



— j — one specimen, .^ twenty six specimens. 



9+1 . 8+0 



— - — one specimen, — ^r — one young specimen. 



o o 



2 o.- 3 2 ",- -i 



8 + 2 „ . 7 + 2 . 



— - — ■ tour specimens, — ~ — six specimens. 



2 nr 3 2 or 3 



8 + 1 . ,^ . 7+1 



— j — eiglit specimens, — - — ten specimens. 



The diversity of these formulae is not so great as in the 



variety intenncdia] the forinula - — — here also mostly occurs, 



o 



7+1 8+1 



more rarely the formulae — - — and — - — , so that in L. ^^qnlUa 



