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the 3. and 4. joint are as yet not.separated by articulation. The 
pleopoda are cleft, but not articulated. In the uropoda, the inner ramus 
is very short, and has abt. 6 bristles at its point. In some few speci- 
mens there may be a pair of spines over the base of the rostrum. 
Spirontocaris (?) larva Nr. 5 (Fig. 12). 
Bredefjord St. 64, 600 m. w. (23/vır), 1 spec., 9 m. 
A highly characteristic larva was taken at this station. It is a young 
Mysis stage, there being exopodites in pl—p3, and it is easily distin- 
E = EXT 1 
= => à SE 
— D 
mye LED 
PUR 2 
и 
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Fig. 12. Spirontocaris(?)-larva Nr. 5. 
guised by the following characters: Rostrum very long, only slightly 
shorter than the carapace, pointed, with three teeth above the base; 
the eye is very large and somewhat flattened; there is a spine above the 
eye, and above and below the 2. ant.; the anterior portion of the lower 
edge is armed with abt. 10 teeth. The abdomen very long and thin, 
with a marked break, which cannot, apparently, be straightened out, 
at the 3. abdominal segment, which is drawn out into something resem- 
bling a carina at the hinder end. There is also a spine on either side 
of the 5. abdominal segment. 
With regard to ant. 1, there is nothing to remark, save that this 
is very slender; the 1. joint of the peduncle has a spine on its lower 
side; the 2. joint is-not yet separated from the first. In ant. 2, the fla- 
