﻿22 CRUSTACEA MALACOSTRACA. 



13. Lithodes Maja L. 



1758. Cancer Maja Linne, Systema Naturce, Ed. X, I, p. 629. 



! 1853. Lithodes Maja Bell, Brit. Stalk-e>ed Cru.st. p. 165, with fig. 



! 1894. — arctica E. L. Bouvier, Ann. Sc. Nat, Zool., Sen 7, T. XVIII. p. 181, PL X, fig. 7, PI. XII, 



figs. 5 a — 5 b. 

 1896. — Maja E. L. Bouvier, Ann. Sc. Nat, Zool., Sen 8, T. I, p. 24. 



Occurrence. The "lugolf has not brought home this specie.s, but it is to hand from several 

 other sources. 



Davis Straits: 65° 30' N. L., 55° 26' W. L., 289 fm., sand and stones, Wandel 1889; i spec. 



Denmark Straits: off Angmagsalik, at ca. 6^" N. L., 140 fm., stones, 2"^ Amdrup Exp. 1900; i spec. 



South of Iceland: Vestraanna Lslands, District-physician Thorstein Jonsson; i large spec. 



Faeroes: Agent Miiller; i spec. 



Distribution. The species extends from the Shetlands (Norman) and the Orkneys (Bell) 

 southwards, on tlie west side of Great Britain to the Isle of Man (Bell), in the North Sea to the coasts 

 of Belgium (v. Beneden) and Holland (Hoek). At Denmark it is only found in the more northerly 

 half of the Sound and has been noted by the fishermen from Anholt (Meinert); it is also known from 

 Bohuslan (Goes), along the Norwegian coast to Vadso at Varanger Fjord (M. Sars), lastly on the most 

 western part of the south coast of the Murman Sea, but not in the White Sea (Birula). A single 

 specimen is recorded from 74° 25' N. L., 17^ 36' E. L., nearly 100 fm. (Hartlaub, teste Birula); another from 

 West Spitzbergen (Doflein). On the east coast of America it has been taken at Nova Scotia, in the 

 Gulf of Maine and southward to4o°3'N. L. (S.I.Smith); the depths are given as "52 to 90" and down 

 to 291 fm. — The species is thus boreal and not arctic (as Doflein states); it has not been taken at 

 any place with temperature below zero. 



14. Paralomis spectabilis n. sp. 



I'l. I, figs 3a— 3d; PI. II, figs. I a— I b. 

 Occurrence. The "Ingolf has taken this large new species at four stations. 

 Between South Greenland and Iceland: St 92: 64°44'N. L., 32°52*W.L., 976fm., temp.i^"; 2 small spec. 



— — - _ . 95: 65° 14' — 30°39' — 752— - 2-1"^; I good-sized c?. 



— — . _ . 96:65°24' — 29°oo' — 735— — i-2=;2 — cfand?. 

 South of Iceland: St 64: 62" 06' N. L., 19° 00' W. L., 1041 fm., temp. 3-1°; i small d. 



Description. In appearance this species shows considerable resemblance to Neolithodcs 

 Agassizii Smith as figured in Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. \'ol. X, PI. I, but it is easily distinguished by the 

 development of the antennal squama and the abdomen. Within the genus Paralomis the new species 

 belongs to the division which lacks the protuberance on the under side of the rostrum (see Bouvier's 

 classification). 



The carapace, excluding the rostrum, is almost as long as broad; its posterior margin is con- 

 siderably incised in the centre, and an obvious curve is seen on each lateral margin at a distance from 

 the anterior corner of a little less than one-third of its length; the carapace is further provided with 

 ca. 30 long to fairly long spines (including the marginal spines), some smaller spines and numerous 



