358 Messrs. J. Wood-Mason and A. Alcock on 
LIU.—Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marine 
Survey Steamer ‘Investigator,’ Commander R. F. Hoskyn, 
R.N., commanding.—Series I1., No. 1. On the Results of 
Deep-sea Dredging during the Season 1890-91. By J. 
Woop-Mason, Superintendent of the Indian Museum, and 
Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College 
of Bengal, and A. Aucockx, M.B., Surgeon I.M.8., Sur- 
geon-Naturalist to the Survey. 
[Continued from p. 275. } 
Family Acanthephyride. 
ACANTHEPHYRA, A. Milne- Edwards. 
37. Acanthephyra sanguinea, sp. n. 
@. Closely allied to A. Agasstziz?, S. I. Smith, g¢ (4. 
purpurea, A. M.-Edw., 9), from which it differs in the 
minute size of the spines of the anterior margin of the cara- 
pace, which are so small as to be scarcely discernible by the 
unaided eye; (?) in the armature of the telson, which bears 
only five pairs of dorsal spinules besides three longer and 
subequal terminal ones ; in its longer and slenderer rostrum, 
which is fully twice the length of the antennal scale; and in 
its less elongated abdomen. 
Colour in life deep crimson. 
Acanthephyra sanguinea, 9, nat. size. 
