Indian Deejj-sea Dredging. 3G1 



of the second abdominal terguni is bispiuose, and the dorsal 

 carinfB of the sixth are 3- or 4-spinose ; (5) it is a much 

 larger and altogether finer species. 



Male. Female, 



millim. millim. 

 Total length from tip of rostrum to tip 



of telson 62 72 



Length of carapace from tip of rostrum 



to middle of posterior margin .... IS 20 



Length of abdomen to end of telson . . 4.S-5 50 



Colour in life chalky yellow. Eyes in spirit dark choco- 

 late-brown. 



Four males and two ovigerous females from Station 115, 

 188 to 220 fathoms. 



PoNTOPHiLUS, Leach. 



32. Potitopliilus gracilis J S. I. Smith. 



Fontophilns gracilis, S. I. Smith, Bull. Mus. Oomp. Zool. 1882, x. p. 36, 

 pi. vii. figs. 2-3 a; Rep. U. S. Fish. Comm. 18815, pi. xi. figs. 1,2 

 (nee Sp. Bate, * Challenger ' Macrura, 1888, p. 487, pi. Ixxxvii.). 



One fine ovigerous female from Station 112, 561 fathoms, 

 and a small and somewhat mutilated specimen from Station 

 113, 683 fathoms. 



Colours in life transparent cloudy purple, corneas milky 

 orange. (In spirit rich orange-coloured and opaque.) 



33. Pontophilus ahyssi, S. I. Smith. 



Pontophiltfs abi/ssi, S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. Fish. Comm. 1884, p. 19, 

 cS 2 > l^«"*^. P- -iQ, pi. xi. figs. 3-5, c? $ • 



A fine female from Station 110, 1997 fathoms. 



Colour in life translucent cloudy purple (dark orange in 

 spirit), with the corneas milky or chalky orange (in spirit 

 Indian yellow and opaque). 



Also a mutilated ovigerous female from Station 117, 1748 

 fathoms. Colour in the fresh state purplish, corneae dull 

 yellow. (In spirit as in the preceding specimen.) 



The eyes in this species are decidedly shorter and less pro- 

 duced at the inner apex than in the preceding. 



Prionocrangon, gen. nov. 



Integument smooth and polished. Carapace compressed, 

 armed with a short, sharp, ascendant, narrow, triangular 



