200 Dr. W. T. Calman on the 
the proboscis was “ distinctly four-cleft at its apex—a pecu- 
liarity, as far as I know, hitherto unknown among Pyecnogons,”’ 
and that the palpi consisted of nine segments. Loman, in 
1911 (Abh. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen, Suppl. Bd. 1. 
Abh. 4, p. 6), pointed out, on the evidence of sketches of the 
holotype which I sent to him, that both these statements were 
Fig. 1. 
Ascorhynchus auchenicus (Slater), holotype, dorsal view. Legs omitted. 
wrong, and he identified the genus with the earlier Asco- 
rhynchus of Sars and the species with the Gnamptorhynchus 
ramipes of Bohm, 
Loman’s determination of the genus is certainly correct, 
but I am not convinced that his identification of the species 
is so. 
Description.—The specimen is probably a female, the 
genital openings on the last two pairs of legs being distinetly 
