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n. Genus Systellaspis Bat 



e i8S8. 



affinis (Faxon) 1896 . 

 ciistata (Faxon) 1893 



debilis (A. M.-Edvv.) 1881 



debilis (A. M.-Edw.) var. 



indica de Man 1916. 

 ecliimirus Cout. 191 1 

 lanceocaudata Bate 1S88 



acut if roils Bate 18SS. 



Off Grenada 

 I Gulf of Panama 

 Arabian Sea 

 •South of Iceland 



West Atlantic between New York 



and the West Indies 

 From South of Iceland to the Bay 

 of Biscay 

 I South of the Azores 



•West of the Cape Verde Islands 



jSouth Atlantic(35°39's., 8°,6'W) I 

 Hawaiian Islands 



Halmaheira Sea 



Off the coast of Portugal 



Off Japan 



DEPTH 



IN FATHOMS | 



'59 

 H/i, 1772 

 890 

 From 41 1 to 

 I 2512 



On a few oc- 

 casions adult 

 specimens and 

 larvae have ' 

 been caught ' 

 quite near the I 

 surface 



436 

 345 



REMARKS 



With this specics.4r««///. 

 gracilis (S. I. Smith) 

 1882 is identical, while 

 Systell. Bouvieri Cout. 

 1905 proved to be a 

 young stage oi Systell. 

 debilis. 



ni. Genus Acanthephyra A. M.-Edw. 1881. 

 Aru Islands 



800 



approxima Bate 1888 

 approxima Faxon 1895 



armata A. M.-Edw. 18S1 



arma/a A. M.-Edw. var.>«. 

 briata W.-Mas. 1894 . 



Sarmiento Channel, Patagonia 



i Gulf of Panama 



j Galapagos Islands 



I Off Santa Lucia, West Indies 



Off Frederikstaed, Santa Cruz, West 

 Indies 

 I Off Nevis, West Indies 



Bali Sea 



Strait of Makassar 

 I Off Banda Island 

 I East of Ceram 

 I West of Salawatti 



Kei-islands 



400 



458—1168 



384 

 422 



450 



356 

 694 



655 

 200 

 567 



798 

 560 



Arabian Sea 

 Bay of Bengal 

 Andaman Sea 



406 



|475 and 594-225 I 

 405 



The first of the three- 

 specimens described 

 by Bate is considered 

 to be the type, while 

 Stanley Kemp has 

 pointed out in 1906 

 that two of the three 

 belong probably to 

 Acantk. curtirostris 

 W.-Mas. 



