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wedge-shaped again and longer than broad. Syzygies occur between the third 

 and fourth brachials, again between the ninth and tenth and fourteenth and 

 fifteenth, and distally at intervals of three oblique muscular articulations. 



P^ about 6 mm. long, very slender and delicate, somewhat stiffened, with 

 about nine segments, the first about as long as, or slightly longer than, broad, 

 the second and third twice as long as broad, the following gradually increasing 

 in length and becoming exceedingly elongated distally; P.^ about 10 mm. long, 

 proportionately stouter than Pj and stifEer, with fifteen segments, the first 

 squarish, the second slightly longer than broad, the third twice as long as broad, 



Fig. 46. — Eumetra indica. 

 Lateral view of the type. 



the remainder from three to four times as long as broad ; P.^ 8 mm. long with fifteen 

 segments, similar to P, but slightly less stout; P^ like Pji P5 5 mm. long, 

 slightly more slender than P^ , with ten segments which have slightly everted 

 and spinous distal ends ; the following pinnules are similar ; the distal pinnules 

 are lacking. 



The colour in spirits is light brownish yellow with traces of a broad median 

 dorsal line of purple. 



Locality.— 0^ Port Blair, Andaman Islands ; 112 fathoms.— One broken speci- 

 men. 



