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from the antero-lateral angle with a small triangular spine, 

 the point of which is opposite the chink-like interval between 

 the eyes and the antennal bases ; the antero-lateral angle is 

 slightly produced, and the interval between it and the supra- 

 antennal spine is roundly emarginate ; the lateral margin is 

 divided by two notches into two lobes, the anterior and shorter 

 of which, answering to the interval between the two divisions 

 of the cervical groove, is vertically compressed, somewhat 

 expanded laterally, subacute at the edge, and produced ante- 

 riorly into a blunt tooth ; the peduncles of the eyes are indis- 

 tinguishably ankylosed together and immovably united with 

 the rostrum and antennulary sternum, and give off from their 

 inner side a long spine, which, being applied by its base to 

 the under surface of the rostrum, presents the appearance of 

 an orbital eave terminating anteriorly in a preocular spine, 

 wliile the cornea on its outer side looks like an eye retracted 

 into its orbit. The chelipeds and legs are short and stout ; 

 the ischiopodites of the former are armed at the apex above 

 and below with one spine, the meropodites with four along 

 their posterior angles (two on their inner and two on their 

 outer apices), the carpopodites with one on the inner side j 

 while the second, third, and fourth pairs of legs are armed on 

 the upper margin of the meropodites with increasing series of 

 seven, six, and five spines respectively, and on the upper 

 margin of the carpopodites with three. 



One male from Station 97, 1310 fathoms, the colour in the 

 fresh state being milk-white, including the corneaj. In spirit 

 the cornese are yellow. 



Total length 45 millira. ; length of carapace 24 millim., of 

 rostrum, from rostro-ocular suture to apex, 6 millim. ; breadth 

 of carapace across anterior lobes 15"4, of chelipeds 24 millim. 



It is a remarkable circumstance that no specimens of the 

 genera Galailiea^ Munida^ and Eumunida were obtained during 

 the past season, although in previous seasons specimens of one 

 or other of them have not been uncommon in the trawl and 

 on the tangles. 



[To be continued.] 



