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strongly curved than the outer, while only in one specimen of medium size the minute spinule 

 on the outer margin was observed, nearly at the posterior third. 



The external maxillipeds reach as far forward as the antennal scale or are but litde shorter. 

 The legs of the i"*' pair reach to the far end of the penultimate joint of the outer maxillipeds, 

 those of the 2'"^ pair project, in the largest specimen, by the chela beyond the apex of the 

 antennal scale, in the other specimens they become shorter according to their age, so that they 

 reach in the youngest individual, which is 54 mm. long, only to the middle of that appendage. 

 The 2"*^ legs are at every age shorter than any of the three posterior peraeopods, which 

 regularly decrease in length from the 3"' to the 5"^; in the largest specimen the peraeopods 

 of the y^ pair project by the dactylus and two-fifths of the propodus beyond the tip of the antennal 

 scale, while those of the 5"^ pair just reach to that tip; in the youngest specimen, long 54 mm., 

 the 3''"^ pair extend only by half the dactylus beyond the scale and those of the 5"" almost to 

 the tip. The dactyli of the 3'^' pair measure one-third the propodi and are grooved above along 

 the two distal third parts; the dactyli of the 4"' pair (Fig. 59^-, ^gd and 59^) are I'-j^-Umes as 

 long as those of the 3''<', they are nearly half as long as the propodi, their upper side is 

 broadly grooved to near the articulation and longitudinally ridged nearly in the middle from 

 the tip to near the base; the dactyli of the 5''^ pair, finally, are, like in some other species of 

 this genus, a little shorter than those of the 4'^, are about half as long as the propodi and 

 resemble also in the other details the dactyli of the 4'*^ pair. 



Ova large, 2,5 — 3 mm. broad. 



The young female from Stat. iS is 56 mm. long from tip of rostrum to tip of telson 

 and certainly belongs to this species. The eyes are still of a drab colour. Two small granules, 

 placed close together, exist on the swelling of the hepatic region, about midway between the 

 anterior border of the carapace and the hepatic groove, like in the other specimens. 



Glyph, sicaria Faxon from the Gulf of Panama differs by the following. The upper 

 surface of the rostrum is plane and smooth, not corrugated, and the lower surface has no 

 median keel. The branchiostegal spine is more strongly directed downward in a lateral view. 

 The anterior moiety of the 4''^ or lateral crest is not armed with spines, but broken into two 

 tubercles, the posterior of which is the more prominent. The tubercles on the gastric region do 

 not tend to form very well-marked carinae. 



8. Glyphocrangon megalophthalnia de Man. PI. XX, Fig. 60 — 60/. 



Glyphocrangon megalophthalma J. G. de Man, in: "Tijdschr. d. Ned. Dierk. Vereen." (2) Dl. XVI, 

 Afl. 2 and 3, 1918, p. 296. 



Stat. 4S. April 13. 8°4'.7 S., u8°44'.3 E. Flores Sea. 2060 m. Bottom fine, grey mud; partially 



green. 2 young females. 

 Stat. jd. June 9. 4°22'.iS., ii8°i6'.9E. Strait of Makassar. 2029 m. Bottom fine, grey mud 



(Globigerina). 2 females, one of which is full-grown, ovigerous, the other of 



medium size. 

 Stat. 208. Sept. 22. 5°39'S., I22°I2'E. South of Muna Island. 1886 m. Bottom solid green 



mud. I adult male. 



This species, which inhabits the sea south of Celebes, is apparently clo.sely related to 



