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the possession of two foliaceous tubercles on the inflected 

 portion of the carapace on each side, and in the form of the 

 orbits and postocular lobes ; but from which it differs in the 

 spines of the sides of the hepatic region being all but erect 

 and expanded at the base into huge pear-shaped tubercles, 

 which present themselves in an underview as two great 

 smooth and polished white hemispherical bosses at the antero- 

 lateral angles of the buccal frame ; also in its foliaceous) j- 

 carinated chelipeds and in the club-shaped setge with which 

 its ambulatory legs are garnished. 



Station 56, 240 to 220 fathoms. 



Length 15*5 millini. 



OXYPLEURODON, MicrS. 

 40. Oxypleurodon cuneus, sp. n., Wood-Mason. 



Allied both to Oxypleurodon Stimpsom, Miers, from 375 

 fathoms off the Philippines, and to Sphenocarcinus corrosus, 

 A. M.-Edw., from 100 fathoms off Barbadoes ; resembling tlie 

 former in the form, number, and distribution of the carapacial 

 prominences, and the latter in the form though not in the 

 structure of tlie rostrum. In Oxypleurodon Stimpsoni the 

 rostrum is formed by two horns wliich diverge widely from 

 the level of the anterior end of the orbit, in Sphenocarcinus 

 corrosus by two horns uniting together in the middle line to 

 form an apically bifid wedge-shaped mass, and in the new 

 sjjecies the carapace is produced into a long, slender, tapering- 

 rostrum, which is minutely bifid at the extremity. All the 

 joints, except the dactylopodites, of all the legs are strongly 

 crested dorsally. 



Length of carapace, from tip of rostrum to posterior margin, 

 18*7 millim. ; breadth between points of branchial eminences 

 13-7 millim. 



Two males and one ovigerous female from Station 56, 

 240 to 220 fathoms. 



DOCLEA, Leach. 



41. Doclea ovis (Herbst). 



One young specimen from Station 96, 98 to 102 fathoms. 



Family Cancridae. 

 42. Nectopanope rhodohapJies, gen. et sj). n., Wood-Mason. 

 Carapace about 1-^ times as broad as long. Frontal 



