﻿PYCNOGONIDA OF ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION — HEDGPETH 153 



ACHEUA COMMUNIS (Boavier) 



Ammothea communis Bouvieb, 1906, pp. 20, 44-50, figs. 23-32. 

 Ammothea afflnis Bouvier, 1906, p. 50. 



Aohelia communis BotrvrEB, 1913, pp. 144-145. — Calman, 1915b, p. 57 (key).— 

 GOBDON, 1932b, figs. 59c, 60b ; 1944, p. 53. 



KECORD OF COLLECTIONS 



Station 164, 1 female ; station 238, 1 female ; case No. 1, 1 ov. male, 2 juveniles. 



Found from the South Orkneys and South Shetlands; Gordon 

 (1944) records it from off Enderby Land. 



ACHELIA SPICATA (Hodgson) 



Austrotliea spicata Hodgson, 1915, p. 147. 



Achelia spicata Calman, 1915b, pp. 57-60, figs. 13-14.— Gordon, 1938, p. 23; 1944, 

 p. 52. 



EECOBD OF COLLECTIONS 



Station 104, 2 males, 1 female, 1 juvenile. 



The auxiliary claws of one of the male specimens are longer than is 

 usual for this species, but all other characters agree. 



ACHELIA INTERMEDIA Caiman 



Achelia intermedin Calman, 1915b, p. 60, fig. 15. — Gordon, 1932b, fig. 59c, 60b ; 

 1944, p. 52. — Stephen SEN, 1947, p. 85. 



RECORD OF COLLECTIONS 



Station 33, 1 juvenile. 



Gordon (1944) considers this "probably" a circumpolar species. 



ACHELIA PARVULA Lomait 



AcheVui parvula Loman, 1923, p. 2, fig. A.— Gordon, 1932b, pp. 113-114, fig. 62. 



RECORD OF COLLECTIONS 



Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, 5 lots, 32 specimens, collected by W. L. Schmitt, 

 as follows : 



No. 81. Boat dredge, above battle monument ; February 23, 1927 ; 1 sp. 

 No. 92, South of municipal jetty, March 16, 1927; 6 specimens (4 of these, 



later culled from timicates, are in the A. M. N. H. collections). 

 No. 93. Boat dredge, off coal dock, March 17, 1927 ; 1 specimen. 

 No. 97. 8-10 fathoms, March 20, 1927 ; 6 specimens. 



No. 107. Taken with clam rake from under side of the Oreat Britain, April 

 14, 1927, from 1 fathom to surface ; 18 specimens. 



This is evidently a common species in the Falklands. It also occurs 

 in the Straits of Magellan. 



