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Cole’s variety bermudensis of this species was proposed for speci- 
mens which differed from Hoek’s description in that they lacked 
lateroventral tubercles on the femur, were indistinctly segmented 
between the third and fourth trunk segments, and had cribriform 
cement glands. I have reexamined these Bermuda specimens and 
find that they fall within the wide range of variation for this plastic 
species. In some of the Florida region material, notably the female 
from Tortugas and the male collected at Fish Hawk station 7201, these 
femoral protuberances are identical with those illustrated by Hoek 
(pl. 14, fig. 5), but in another specimen (Fish Hawk station 7148) they 
are very low, and they are lacking in the other specimens. On none 
of the material could I find anything like the gland elaborately illus- 
trated by Hoek (pl. 16, fig. 18), and no such gland is mentioned in his 
formal description of the species. Reference to it is made in a later 
section of his paper, in which he refers to the cement gland of this 
species as a “single pore at the end of the joint, placed at the tip of a 
conical excrescence.’’ Reference of this structure to A. insignis is 
clearly a lapsus calami; there is nothing in Hoek’s description of 
Phozichilidium insigne or in the figures to indicate the presence of 
such a ‘conical excrescence.’”’ My suspicions have been confirmed by 
Dr. Isabella Gordon, who examined the Challenger type for me and 
found an open cribriform structure on the femur, of the type en- 
countered in all the males from these collections. 
Some of the female specimens have a completely segmented trunk. 
The ventral processes on the proboscis of the female are very variable, 
in some they are entirely lacking, in others they are quite prominent, 
resembling a pair of cones, projected forward. An intermediate condi- 
tion is represented in figure 28, d. The blunt condition of the eye 
tubercle described by Hoek was probably a result of the same rough 
treatment which deprived his specimen of three of its legs; in most of 
these specimens the tubercle is pointed. 
The genital protuberances of the female are relatively low and 
broad, with pores on all of them. In some of the male specimens 
these protuberances are very long, but apparently functional only in 
the last two pairs of legs. 
The cribriform gland opening is a narrow ellipse with a longitudinal 
dividing septum. 
In size the specimens vary from 25 to 40 mm. in extent. 
Distribution —Bahia, Brazil, to Bermuda, off Cape Hatteras, 
Tortugas, and western Florida. 
ANOPLODACTYLUS TYPHLOPS Sars 
FIGURE 29, a-c 
Anoplodactylus typhlops Sars, 1888, No. 6; 1891, pp. 29-31, pl. 2, fig. 3, a-c.— 
CARPENTER, 1905, p. 5, pl. 3, figs. 12-19.—SrerHEensEN, 1935, pp. 29-380. 
