358 EEPOKT OF COMMISSIONEE OP FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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The species is named iu lionor of G. W. Baird, tlie accomplished chief 

 engineer of the Albatross. 



MuNiDOPSis cuRViROSTKA Whiteaves. 



Amer. Jour. Sci., Ill, vii, p. 212, 1874; Report on further deep-sea dredging 

 operations iu the Gulf of Saint Layprence [in 1873], p. 17, 1874. Smith, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, Cambridge, x, p. 21, pi. 8, figs. 2, 3, 3a, 1882. 



Specimens examined. 



Three specimens give the following measurements in millimeters : 



Number of specimen 



Station 



Sex 



Length fiom tip of rostrum to tip of telson 



Length of carapax, iacluding rostrum 



Length of rostrum 



Greatest breadth of carapax 



Length of cheliped 



Length of chela 



Length of dactylns 



Length of first ambulatory perseopod 



7059 

 2052 



7058 

 2051 



7059 

 2052 



22.0 



13.5 

 6.5 

 5.9 



17.0 

 6.0 

 2.9 



14.5 



? 



32.0 



18.0 

 8.0 

 8.3 



25.0 

 8.7 

 4.8 



20.0 



? 



38.0 

 21.7 

 10.6 



9.7 

 27.0 

 10.3 



5.2 

 2L7 



The eggs are very few in number — between thirty and forty each in 

 the females measured — and in recently-preserved alcoholic specimens 

 about 0.80™™ by 0.75™™ iu greater and less diameter. 



MACRURA. 



ERYONTID^. 



Pentachbles soulptus Smith. 



Polycheles sculphis Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. London, V, v, p. 269, April, 



1880; Proc. National Mus., ii, p. 345, pi. 7, 1880. 

 Pentacheles sculpim Smith, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, x, p. 23, pis, 3, 4, 1882. 



Station 2115, November 11, north lat., 35° 49' 30", west long., 74° 34' 

 45", 843 fathoms, mud and sand, temperature 39° — 3 young males (7141.) 



Measurements of the largest of these specimens is given under the 

 next species. 



