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in the shape of small expansions at the base of the stem of the 
gill.’’ While this is not the case with the Indian species—Alcock 
found that they fell readily into two groups—the passage quoted 
above, coming as it does from a high authority on crustacean 
morphology, seems to show that the two groups merge in the 
Eastern Pacific and we propose, therefore, to combine once more 
the genera Polycheles and Pentacheles. 
Polycheles typhlops, Heller. 
Polycheles typhlops, Heller, 1862, p. 389, pl. i, figs. 1—6, and 
Senna, 1903, p. 332, pl. xviii, figs. r—1I. 
Pentacheles hextii, Alcock, 1894, p. 237; 1901, p. 172, and Jl. 
Zool. Invest., Crust., pl. x, fig. 2. 
One female, 70 mm. in length, was obtained at St. 391. 
This specimen agrees in all its characters with examples 
described by Alcock under the name of P. hextii ; but we are of 
the opinion that the form which has received this name is 
identical with the older Polycheles typhlops of Heller, a species 
hitherto known only from the Mediterranean and East Atlantic. 
We have closely compared specimens of P. hextiit with two 
examples of P. typhlops obtained by the ‘ Talisman’ expedition 
off the Cape Verde Islands and with a large drawing of a specimen 
from the W. coast of Ireland. The only difference that we have 
been able to discover is that the epipod at the base of the outer 
maxillipeds is a trifle larger in the Atlantic specimens; but the 
spinulation and proportions of examples from the two localities 
and the peculiar character of the orbit correspond so precisely 
that the specific identity of the two forms cannot be doubted. 
The species affords yet another illustration of the wide-spread 
distribution of many deep-sea Crustacea. 
Polycheles phosphorus, Alcock. 
Polycheles phosphorus, Alcock, 1901, p. 168, and Ill, Zool. Iivwest., 
Crust., pl. viti, fig. 2. 
A female, 74 mm. in length, was found at St. 388. 
Anonunrd, 
Tribe Galatheidea. 
Family GALATHEIDAE. 
Munida microps, Alcock. 
Munida microps, Alcock, IgoI, p. 240, and J//. Zool. Invest., Crust , 
pl. xiii, fig. 5. 
A single male, 36 mm. in length when fully extended, was 
obtained at St. 388. 
