162 GAMMARID^. 



ovate, having the pahn very oblique, and furnished with a 

 few very slight hairs. The rest of the appendages of the 

 only specimen of this species which we have seen are 

 mutilated. 



Kroyer in his generic description states that both pairs 

 of hands are very large, which must be assumed to be a 

 specific, rather than a generic character, and hence, since 

 his genus was founded upon the observation of a single 

 species, this character belongs to (Ediceros saginatus alone. 

 In this respect our species differs from that of Kroyer, 

 as neither of the hands can be described as being large, 

 and the second is decidedly smaller than the first. 



It is in the collection of the Rev. A. M. Norman, 

 having been taken by him, and Mr. J. Gwyn JefiTreys, in 

 from seventy to ninety fathoms of water, sixty miles east 

 of the ShetJands, in the summer of 1861. 



