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 I. Plesionika niartia (A. .M.-Edw.) var. seinilaevis Bate. PI. X, Fii^. 24 — 24^. 



Pandalus martins A. Milne-Edwards, Recueil de Figures de Crustaces nouveaux ou peu connus, 



Avril 1S83, PI. 21. 

 Plesionika Martia M. CauUery, Campagne du "Caudan", Paris 1S96, p. 378, pi. XV, fig. i — 6. 

 Pandalus Martins Tli. Adensamer, in: Denkschr. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Bd. LXV, Wien 1898, 



p. 624. 

 Pandalus (Plesionika) martins A. Alcock, Catal. Indian Ueep-Sea Crustacea, 1901, p. 95. 

 Pandalus martins A. Senna, Hull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. XXXIV, 1903, p. 308, Tav. Xl\', 



fig- 6—13, Tav. XV, fig. 1—4. 

 Pandalus martins M. J. Kathbun, in: U.S. Fish Commission Bulletin for 1903, Part 111, 



Wash. 1906, p. 914. 

 Pandalus (Plesionikaj martins A. R. Mc Culloch, in: Records of the Australian Museum, 



Vol. VI, Part 5, 1907, p. 355. 

 Pandalus (Plesionika) martins R. E. Lloyd, in: Records Indian Museum, \'o!. I, Pt. i, Cal- 

 cutta 1907, p. 4. 

 Plesionika martia Stanley W. Kemp, in: "Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest.", 190S, I. [1910], 



Dublin, p. 93, PI. XII, figs, i — 4. 

 Plesionika martia Th. R. R. Stebbing, in: Annals South African Museum, Vol. VI, London, 



1910, p. 392. 

 Plesionika martia II. Balss, Ostasiatische Decapoden, II, Munchen 19 14, p. 30. 

 Plesionika semilaevis C. Spence Bate, Report Challenger Macrura, 1S88, p. 644, PI. CXIII, fig. 3. 



Stat. 12. March 14. 7°I5'S., II5°I5'.6E. Bali Sea. 289 m. Bottom mud and broken shells. 



83 specimens of medium size, viz. 41 males and 42 females, all but 5 ova-bearing. 

 Stat. 38. April i. 7°35'.4S., ii7°28'.6E. Bali Sea. 521 m. Bottom coral. 6 specimens of 



medium size, viz. 3 males and 3 ova-bearing females. 

 Stat. 74. June 8. 5° 3-5 5., ii9°o'E. Off Makassar. 450m. Bottom Globigerina ooze. 4 speci- 

 mens of medium size, viz. 2 males and 2 females, one of which with eggs, and i 



very young specimen. 

 Stat. 100. June 29. 6°ii'N., 120° 37. 5 E. Sulu Sea. 450 m. Bottom dead coral, i male of 



medium size. 

 Stat. 173. Aug. 28. 3° 27.0 S., i3i°o'.3E. Between Ceram and \cw Guinea. 567 m. Bottom 



fine, yellow grey mud. i adult, full-grown male. 

 Stat. 262. Dec. 18. 5°53.8S., I32°48'.8 E. Kei-islands. 560 m. Bottom solid bluish grey mud, 



upper layer more liquid and brown mud. 1 young female without eggs and i 



still younger specimen. 

 Stat. 297. January 27, 1900. io°39'S., I23°40'E. Off the island of Rotti. 520 m. Bottom 



soft, grey mud with brown upper layer, i male of medium size. 

 Stat. 306. P'ebr. 8, 1900. 8°27'S., I22°54'.5E. Lobetobi Strait. 247 m. Bottom sandy muii. 



96 specimens of small size, among which, however, many are provided' with eggs. 

 Stat. 312. Febr. 14, 1900. 8° 19' S., ii7°4rE. Saleh-bay, north coast of Sumbawa. 274 m. 



Bottom fine, sandy mud. 287 specimens of small size, males and ova-bearing 



females. 

 Stat. 316. Febr. 19, 1900. 7° 19.4 S., ii6°49'.5 E. Bali Sea. 538 m. Bottom fine, dark brown 



sandy mud. 6 young females without eggs. 



Plesionika nuirtia is one of the common shrimps of deep water, it was dredged in 

 plenty in the Andaman Sea (A. Alcock, 1. c.) and Miss R.vthbun (1. c.) remarks that over 700 

 specimens were captured near the Hawaiian Islands in fifty hauls. It is therefore not surprising 

 that almost 400 specimens have been obtained b)- this expedition, but it is to be regretted 

 that there is only one full-grown specimen in this large collection, the male from Stat. 173, 

 that has a length ot lOy mm. from tip of rostrum to end of telson : the specimens from the 



