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General distribution: Japan (de Haan) ; Bay of Tokyo, Kadsiyama (Ortmann) •, 

 Nagasaki (Balss). The locality, mentioned by Doflein, Iterup, Kurile Islands, is not quite 

 certain, according to Dr. Balss. 



Family Glvphocrangonidae. 



Of the remarkable and very natural family of Glyphocrangonidae hitherto only one or 

 two species were known to inhabit the Indian Archipelago, namely Glyphocrangoti regalis Bate 

 and Glypli. gramdosis Bate, both obtained by the "Challenger" and of which the former was 

 taken off Banda Islands, the latter between New Guinea and the Admiralty Islands. The Siboga 

 Expedition, however, has not only found again these two, but has moreover discovered seven 

 other species, of which five proved to be new to science: owing to the great activity of our 

 dutch expedition we are therefore at present acquainted with nine species of Glyphocrangonidae 

 living in the Indian Archipelago, nearly as many as occur in the seas of British India, while 

 the total number of known species has increased from twenty five to thirty. 



By far the greater part of the species are found in the Indopacific, including the west 

 coast of America, for only seven are known from the Atlantic and of these one occurs 

 moreover also in the Indopacific. Two species. Glyph. sc2ilpta (S. I. Smith) and longirostris 

 (S. I. Smith) are found off the east coast of the United States; according to the Reverend 

 Stebbing both should also occur at Cape Point, South Africa, and a single specimen of Glyph, 

 longirostris was captured by the s. s. Helga off the west coast of Ireland. Four species, Glyph, 

 aculeata A. M.-Edw., neglecta Faxon, nobilis A. M.-Edw. and spinicauda A. M.-Ed\v, are recorded 

 from the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the first has moreover been captured by the 

 "Challenger" off Pernambuco. The last form, observed in the Atlantic Ocean, is Glyph, rimapes 

 Bate, that was taken by the same expedition between Buenos Ay res and Tristan da Cunha; the 

 range of this species is, however, almost cosmopolitan, for it was obtained by the "Challenger" 

 also near Juan Fernandez and near Yokohama. Besides Glyph, rimapes only one other species, 

 Glyph, hastacauda Bate, is known from Japan and only three others from the Pacific: Glyph, 

 acuminata Bate from near the I'iji Islands, granulosis Bate from between New Guinea and the 

 Admiralty Islands and, finally, regalis Bate, which is recorded, besides from ofi" Banda Islands 

 and three other localities in the Indian Archipelago, also from north of the Kermadec Islands 

 and from off Matuku, Fiji Islands. 



Five species are recorded from the west coast of Mexico, the Gulf of Panama and the 

 Galapagos Islands, namely : Glyph, alata, loricata, sicariv., spitmlosa and vicaria, all described 

 and figured by Walter Faxon in his valuable work on the Stalk-eyed Crustacea, obtained by 

 the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross". Glyph, podager Bate is still only known by 

 one single specimen, a female, which was taken by the "Challenger" near Marion Island in the 

 southern Indian Ocean, halfway between the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands. 

 The Indian Ocean, north of the Equator, is inhabited by no less than ten species, firstly 

 Glyph. Investigator is W.-Mas. with the variety andama7ie7isis W.-Mas., that occur as well in 



