On the British Pandalidge. 27 



Antcnnal acicle not reaching to the tip of the peduncle. Eyes 

 nearly reaching tip of rostrum. 



Chelipeds in the female (male unknown) not much less 

 than twice the length of the fully extended body, much 

 stouter than, and more than twice as long as, the legs ; 

 smooth, except for a hook-like spine on the ischium, a few 

 squamiform granules on the under surface of the base of the 

 merus, and a few inconspicuous denticles on the terminal 

 borders of the merus and carpus ; they gradually broaden to 

 the palm, which is the broadest joint and is more than twice 

 the length of the fingers ; the tips of the fingers are hidden 

 by some very long silky hairs. 



The first three pair of legs are short, slender, and smooth, 

 except for strong serrations on the posterior border of the 

 curved dactylus and of the propodite. The third pair are 

 very slightly the longest. 



A single egg- laden female from off the east coast of North 

 Andaman Island, 75-60 fathoms. 



The length of the fully extended body is 17 millim., of 

 the chelipeds 32 millim., of the longest (third) pair of legs 

 13'5 millim. 



II. — On the British Pandalidse. By W. T. Calman, 

 B.Sc, University College, Dundee. 



[Plates I.-IV.] 



In a paper " On Deep-sea Crustacea from the South-west of 

 Ireland " * I lately recorded the occurrence for the first time 

 in British waters of two species of Pandalus, referred to the 

 P.propinquus and P. leptorhynchus of G. O. Sars, in addition 

 to the two already known to occur in our seas — P. Montagui, 

 Leach, and P. brevirostrts, Rathke. In the present paper 

 brief descriptions and figures are given of the more important 

 diagnostic characters of these four species, some of which 

 characters have not hitherto been pointed out. 



In his account of the Crustacea dredged by the ' Caudan ' 

 in the Bay of Biscay M. Maurice Caullery has recently 

 described f a species of Pandalus differing from all the 

 members of the family hitherto described in possessing on 



* Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. xxxi. pt. 1, 1896 ; see p. 6. 



t " Resultats Scient. de la Campagne du ' Caudaii ' dans le Golfe de 

 Gascogne, 1895 : Crustaces Schizopodes et Decapodes,'' par M. Caullery, 

 ' Annales de l'Universite de Lyon,' 1896, pp. 377-381. 



