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terranean. The Copenhagen Museum possesses specimens from tnur localities 

 in the North Atlantic : — Lat. 37° N., long. 41° W.; Lat. 33° N., long. 47° W.; 

 Lat. 24° N., long. 22° W., and Lat. 23° 31' N., long. 22° 4' W.; furthermore 

 from one place in the South Atlantic: — Lat. 22^° S., long. 292° W., from one in 

 the Southern part of the Indian Ocean about at Lat. 23° S., long. 81i°E., 

 finally from a place at .Japan: — Lat. 31° 20' S., long. 132° 29' E.— Most of the 

 specimens recorded have been taken at the surface. 



Group b. Species with a single pair of lateral denticles on the carapace. No 

 dorsal process on third to fifth abdominal segment. 



17. Euphausia pacifica H. .J. Hansen. 



Plate 7, figs. 5a-.5b. 



1911. Euphausia pacifica H. J. Hansen, Bull. Mas. Ocean. Monaco, no. 210, p. 2S (vvifh two figures 

 in the text). 



4 fms., surface net. 1 immature speci- 



Sta. 4571. Oct. 7, 1904. Lat. 33° 40' N., long. 119° .35' W. •! ^"f"^' ... 



I 300 fms. to surface. 2S immature speci- 



mens. 



Description. — The frontal plate is extremely short, without any real rostral 

 process, but at the middle feebly produced as a triangle several times broader 

 than long, with the vertex in the adults generally rounded, rarely acute, in 

 immature specimens rounded or acute. 



The eyes are extremely large; the distal joint of the stalks short. — The 

 antennular peduncles are somewhat long, more slender in immature specimens 

 (fig. 5a) than in adults; lobe of first joint is in the adults a small, oblong-triangu- 

 lar, acuminate, and acute process; in specimens a little more than half grown 

 it is somewhat shorter in jiroportion to breadth (fig. 5b). Secon<l joint is dis- 

 tinctly longer than the third, with the inner distal angle on the uj^ijcr surface a 

 little produced, acute. 



The copulatory organs afford excellent sj^ecific characters, but as all speci- 

 mens in the Agassiz collection are far from adult I have not figured these organs; 

 in the recently pubhshed description of this species, quoted above, I have given 

 a preliminary representation of the organs and may now refer to that paper. 



One of the largest specimens in the Agassiz collection is only a little more 

 than half-grown and measures 11 mm. in length, while adults are generally 

 18-22 mm. long. 



Remarks. — This species is closely allied and similar to K. lucens H. J. 11. 

 (= E. splendens sens. G. O. S.), but it is well distinguished by a lew small char- 



