TOMOPTERIDAE 85 



St. MS 31. 30. iv. 25. 2 miles N J E of Macmahon Rock, East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 

 40-0 m. Gear NC 50 V. One specimen. 



St. MS 32. I. V. 25. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 4I cables NE of Hobart Rock 

 to 1 1 miles SSE of Hope Point. 0-5 m. Gear NC 50 H. One specimen. 



St. MS 34 A. 2. V. 25. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 3^ miles SSW of Merton Rock 

 to 4I cables NE of Hobart Rock. 20 m. Gear NC 50 H. One specimen. 



St. MS 62. 24. ii. 26. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, i cable E to 3^ cables S of 

 Hobart Rock. 0-5 m. N 70 H. Five specimens. 



St. MS 68. 2. iii. 26. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 17 miles S J E to 81 cables 

 SE X E of Sappho Point. 220-247 m. Gear NRL. One specimen. 



St. SS 6. 29. xi. 27. 54° 20' 00" S, 29° 31' 00" W. 137-0 m. GearN 100 B. Two specimens. 



St. SS 10. 2. xii. 27. 54° 30' 20" S, 29° 38' 43" W. loo-o m. Gear N 100 B. One specimen. 



St. SS 12. 6. xii. 27. 54° 30' 20" S, 29° 50' 20" W. 122-0 m. Gear N 100 B. One specimen. 



St. SS 16. 14. xii. 27. 55° 00' 00" S, 27° 29' 00" W. 104-0 m. Gear N 100 B. One specimen. 



St. SS 17. 14. xii. 27. 55° 00' 00" S, 27" 43' 00" W. 99-0 m. GearN 100 B. One specimen. 

 Also Net 70 B. One specimen. 



St. SS 19. 19. xii. 27. 54° 51' 30" S, 27" 38' 00" W. 137-0 m. Gear N 70 B. One specimen. 



St. SS 21. 21. xii. 27. 56° 12' 00" S, 25^ 40' 00" W. 250-100 m. GearN 70 V. Two young 

 specimens. 



St. SS 22. 22. xii. 27. 55° 56' 00" S, 25° 56' 00" W. 95-0 m. GearN 100 B. Two specimens. 

 Net 70 B. One specimen. 



St. SS 32. 18. i. 28. 60° 57' 00" S, 25° 57' 30" W. ii5(-o)m. Gear N 70 B. One specimen. 

 Gear N 100 B. One specimen. 



St. SS 57. 23. ii. 28. 61° 49' 30" S, 23° 28' 00" W. 95-0 m. Gear N 70 B. One specimen. 

 Gear N 100 B. One specimen. 



Remarks. Some of these Tomopterids are large and handsome creatures measuring 

 about 65 mm. by 25 mm. including the feet. They correspond in detail with Benham's 

 description of some examples which he attributes to Quatrefages' species: this last is 

 not identifiable with certainty from the scanty description. Eyes are invisible in the 

 larger of my examples and present as a pair of minute black dots in the smaller. There 

 is normally no median notch in the prostomium, but in a few of the smaller examples 

 there appears to be a very slight indentation, which may be an artefact. The hyaline 

 glands are marked by a conspicuous brown patch of colour, and both they and the large 

 ventral chromophil glands can be seen without removing the foot or staining. 



I believe that the T. planktonis of Apstein from northern waters is identical with this 

 species. The shape of the head and the position of the pedal glands is the same. The 

 only differences that I can discover are size — T. planktonis is recorded up to a length 

 of about 10 mm. only — and degree of pigmentation of the hyaline glands : in T. plank- 

 tonis the hyaline glands are described as transparent and little pigmented. If the two 

 species are identical, T. carpenteri has priority provided that we accept Benham's 

 interpretation of it. The specimens of T. carpenteri described by Mcintosh (1885) from 

 the neighbourhood of Kerguelen belong to the same species as those described by 

 Benham. 



