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Messrs. J. Wood-Mason nncl A, Alcock on 



1^1 1. — Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marine 

 ISwrvey ISteamer ^Investigator,^ Commander R, F. Hoslcyn, 

 R.N., covimanding. — Scries II., No. 1. On the Results of 

 Deep-sea Dredging during the Season 1890-91. By J. 

 "VYood-Mason, Siipcriiiteiitkiit of tlie Indian Museum, and 

 Proi'cssor of Con)])arative Anatomy in the Medical Colle,2;e 

 of Bengal, and A. Alcock, M.B., Surgeon I. M.S., Sur- 

 geon-Naturalist to the Survey. 



[CoiUinuetl from p. 275.] 



Family Acanthephyridae. 

 AcANTHEniYiJA, A. Milnc-P]d\vards. 



37. Acanthei)hyra sanguinea, sp. n. 



$ . Closely allied to A. Agassizii, S. I. Smith, ^ {A. 

 jnnjjurea, A. M.-Kd\v., $), from which it differs in the 

 minute size of the spines of the anterior margin of the cara- 

 })ace, which are so small as to Le scarcely discernible by the 

 unaided eye; (?) in the armature of the telson, which bears 

 only five pairs of dorsal spinules besides three longer and 

 subcqual terminal ones; in its longer and slenderer rostrum, 

 which is fully twice the hiigth of the antcnnal scale; and in 

 its k'ps clongalcd abdomen. 



Colour in lil'e deep crimson. 



Fijr. 1. 



AinnllupJii/ra miKjiiitWd, y , nat. size. 



