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St. 45. 6. iv. 26. 2-7 miles S 85° E of Jason Light, South Georgia. 238-270 m. Gear OTL. 

 Bottom: grey mud. Eight specimens. 



St. 123. 15. xii. 26. Off mouth of Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. From 4-1 miles N 54° E 

 of Larsen Point to 1-2 miles S 62° W of Merton Rock. 230-250 m. Gear OTL. Bottom: grey 

 mud. Seven specimens. 



St. 170. 23. ii. 27. Off Cape Bowles, Clarence Island. 61° 25' 30" S, 53° 46' 00" W. 342 m. 

 Gear DLH. Bottom: rock. Twenty-eight specimens. 



St. 175. 2. iii. 27. Bransfield Strait, South Shetlands. 63° 17' 20" S, 59° 48' 15" W. 200 m. 

 Gear DLH. Bottom: mud, stones and gravel. Seven specimens. 



St. 182. 14. iii. 27. Schollaert Channel, Palmer Archipelago. 64° 21' 00" S, 62° 58' 00" W. 

 278-500 m. Gear OTL. One specimen. 



St. 190. 24. iii. 27. Bismarck Strait, Palmer Archipelago. 64° 50' 00" S, 65° 35' 00" W. 93-126 m. 

 Gear DLH and NRL. Bottom: stones, mud and rock. One specimen. 



St. WS 83. 24. iii. 27. 14 miles S 64° W of George Island, East Falkland Island. From 

 52° 28' 00" S, 60° 06' 00" W to 52° 30' 00" S, 60° 09' 30" W. 137-129 m. Gear OTC. Bottom: fine 

 green sand and shell. Six specimens. 



St. WS 93. 9. iv. 27. 7 miles S 80° W of Beaver Island, West Falkland Island. From 51° 51' 00" S, 

 61° 30' 00" W to 51° 54' 00" S, 61° 30' 00" W. 133-130 m. Gear OTC. Bottom: grey sand. Two 

 specimens. 



St. WS 97. 18. iv. 27. 49° 00' 30" S, 61° 58' 00" W. From 49° 00' 00" S, 62° 00' 00" W to 

 49° 01' 00" S, 61° 56' 00" W. 146-145 m. Gear OTC. Bottom: sand, gravel and stones. Seventeen 

 specimens. 



St. WS 99. 19. iv. 27. 49° 42' 00" S, 59" 14' 30" W. From 49° 41' 00" S, 59° 14' 00" W to 

 49° 43' 00" S, 1^9° 15' 00" W. 251-225 m. Gear OTC. Bottom: fine dark sand. Fifteen specimens. 



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Description. The largest specimen 

 measures 175 mm. by 8 mm. including 

 the feet. In spirit there are no colour 

 markings. The prostomium is as broad as 

 long with two pairs of large eyes. The 

 tentacles are about half the length of the 

 prostomium, and the palps are very broad 

 and massive with small conical styles. The 

 longest tentacular cirrus reaches back to 

 the 5th-i2th chaetiger. There are no 

 paragnaths. 



The first two feet are uniramous. 

 A normal anterior foot has two large 

 notopodial languets, the lower slightly 

 shorter and less pointed than the upper, 

 and between them in contact with the dorsal bristle bundle is a third and very much 

 smaller languet. The neuropodial chaeta sac has two unequal lips, the anterior 

 rounded and the posterior longer and conical. The ventral languet is broader and 

 blunter than those of the notopodium. The dorsal cirrus extends for about half its 



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Fig. 38. Leptonereis loxechini. Foot of epitocous 

 male. The bristles are omitted. 



