198 



Messrs. J. Wood-Mason and A. Alcock on 



The species is abundantly distinct from N . Agassizii 

 { = aculeatus), which, so far as the figure goes, is indistin- 

 guishable from A'^. Steioartii. 



¥\<x. 4, 



Nephropsis atlantica, Nonnan, (5, nat. size. 



Of onr specimens one has three pairs, one two and a half 

 pairs, three two pairs, and one a pair and a half of lateral 

 spines on the rostral margins. 



Colours in life pink, with a broad white longitudinal dorsal 

 stripe. 



Family Thalassinidae. 

 Callianassa, Leach. 

 25. CalUanassa^ sp. 

 Two specimens^ probably male and female, of a small 

 species from Station 76, 93 fathoms. 

 Colours in life deep-sea pink. 



