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merus and distal end of ischium are also faintly segmented. The last 

 three pairs of legs are very slender, and have slender, nearly cylindrical 

 dactyli, which have only a few small spinules beneath near the base, and 

 are contained between two and three times in their propodi. 



Abdomen more slender than in P. montagiii tridens. Otherwise as in 

 that species. 



Dhnensions. — Female (off Cape Ann, Massachusetts), length 98 mm., 

 carapace and rostrum 43.5 mm., rostrum 27.4 mm. 



Distribution. — Very common on the Atlantic coast of America from 

 Nova Scotia to Chesapeake Bay in 15 to 321 fathoms. 



One specimen only has been taken in the Pacific, by the Albatross, off 

 Shumagin Bank, Alaska, 138 fathoms, station 3339. 



PANDALUS PLATYCEROS Brandt. 



Pandalus platyceros Brandt, in Middendorff's Raise in den jiussersten Norden 

 und Osten Sibiriens, Band II, Zool., Theil I, 123, 1851.— Stimpson, 

 Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vl, 501 [61], 1857. 



Pandalus pubescentiilus Dana, Crust. U. S. Expl. Exped., I, 568, 1852; 

 pi. xxxvi, fig. 8, 1855.— Stimpson, Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vi, 

 501 [61], 1857. — KiNGSLEY, Bull. Essex Inst., x, 63, 1878. — Smith, 

 Rept. Prog. Geol. Survey Canada, 1878-79, B, p. 214. — HOLMES, 

 Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., vil, 210, 1900. 



Body stout. Carapace covered with a dense, short pubescence. 

 Rostrum one and a half to one and two thirds times the carapace, pro- 

 vided with a broad entire laminar crest on each side. Median crest 

 arising half-way back on the carapace, armed with 14 to 17 spines ex- 

 tending to middle of rostrum, the anterior i to 5 fixed, the rest movable ; 

 usually a solitary spine not far behind the acute tip ; lower limb armed 

 with 7 or 8 fixed spines, diminishing gradually in size ; the basal tooth 

 very large. Posterior part of rostrum deflexed, anterior half or two 

 thirds ascending, tip above level of carapace. Antennal spine very 

 strong ; pterygostomian small, but well marked. 



Eyes large, pyriform; cornea in alcohol light greenish; ocellus black. 



Antennular peduncle reaching two fifths the length of acicle, second 

 and third joints subequal ; outer flagellum one half longer than carapace, 

 its basal half thickened ; inner flagellum a httle longer ; outer basal scale 

 reaching nearly to end of first joint. 



Antennal scale four fifths to seven eighths as long as carapace, oblong, 

 extremity of blade subtruncate, slightly exceeded by the spine ; peduncle 

 reaching nearly to the middle of the third segment of antennular 

 peduncle ; flagellum stout at base, equaling or exceeding length of body. 



Maxillipeds stout, reaching nearly or about to end of antennal scale ; 

 first pair of feet to middle of terminal joint of maxillipeds. Right leg of 



