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KEPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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The species is named in bouor of G. W. Baird, tlie accomplislied chief 

 engineer of the Albatross. 



MuNiDOPSis CURVIROSTEA Whitcaves. 



Amer. Jour. Sci., Ill, vii, p. 212, 1874; Report on further deep-sea dredging 

 operatious in tlio Gulf of Saint Lawrence [in 1673], p. 17, 1874. Smith, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, x, p. 21, pi. 8, figs. 2, 3, 3o, 1882. 



Specimens examined. 



Locality — 

 N. lat. W. long. 



37 12 22 

 39 41 00 



39 40 05 

 41 53 00 

 41 13 00 

 41 09 40 

 41 12 50 

 41 13 00 

 41 13 00 



40 16 50 

 39 44 30 



74 20 04 

 69 20 20 



69 21 25 

 05 35 00 

 66 00 50 

 66 02 00 

 66 12 20 

 66 19 50 

 66 19 50 

 07 05 15 

 71 04 00 



35 49 30 

 35 45 23 



74 34 45 

 74 31 25 



Depth. 



Fath. 



788 



1,100 



1,098 



858 



906 



1, 255 



499 



75 



75 



1,290 



1,022 



843 



Temperature 



and nature of 



bottom. 



Date. 



39°; bu. M., 



gib. O. 

 45°; gib. O. 

 39°; gy.M. 

 bu. M. 

 39° ; bu. M. 

 40° ; gy. S. 

 45°; 

 45°; 

 40°; 

 38i° ; F. S. M. 



May 

 Aug. 



Aug. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 



39°; M.,fne.S. 

 39°;bu.M.,fue.S, 



Sept. 21 



Nov. 11 

 Nov. 11 



Specimena — 



With 



eggs. 



Three specimens give the following measurements in millimeters : 



Number of specimen 



station 



Sex 



Length from tip of rostrum to tip of telson 



Length of carapax, including rostrum 



Length of robtrum 



Greatest breadth of carapax 



Length of cheliped 



Length of chela 



Length of d.actylus 



Length of first ambulatory peraeopod 



7059 

 2052 



? 



38.0 

 21.7 

 10.6 



9.7 

 27.0 

 10.3 



6.2 

 21.7 



The eggs are very few in number — between thirty and forty each in 

 the females measured — and in recently-preserved alcoholic specimens 

 about 0.80°"" by 0.75°"" in greater and less diameter. 



MACEURA. 



ERYONTID^. 



Pentacheles soulptus Smith. 



Polycheles 8(yulptu8 Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. London, V, v, p. 269, April, 



1880; Proc. National Mns., ii, p. 345, pi. 7, 1880. 

 Pentacheles sculptus Smith, Bull. Mus. Coiup. Zool., x, p. 23, pis, 3, 4, 1882. 



Station 2115, November 11, north lat., 35° 49' 30", west long., 74° 34' 

 45", 843 fathoms, mud aud sand, temperature 39° — 3 young males (7141.) 



Measurements of the largest of these specimens is given under the 

 next species. 



