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Dr. W. T. Caiman on a neto 



"From stomaclis of fish. South Shetlands. 5. 1. 14/* 

 Many specimens (dried). 



" From stomachs of Kock Cod. Outside Deception Island, 

 Bransfield Straits. 18. 12. 13." Many specimens. 



(Collected by Mr. A. G. Bennett. In each case the speci- 

 metis were accompanied by numbers of S. poUta, Pfeflfer. 



Description. — Closely resembling S. latifrons, Miers, but 

 with the dorsal surface strongly sculptured. The body is 



Fig. 1. 



SeroUs beddardi, sp. n., female. X 3. 



less convex and, as a rule, somewhat nnrrower. Dorsal 

 surface of head, terga of thoracic and abdominal somites, 

 and, to a less extent, the coxal plates rugose or vermiculate 

 with a more or less symmetrical pattern. The coxal plates, 

 especially those of the last three complete thoracic somites, 

 much less produced backwards and less acute than in S. lati- 

 frons, although with some variation in both species. The 

 pit on the under surface of each side-plate of the second 

 thoracic somite (Grube's "sense-organ") is deep and sharply 



