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than in N. ovifcr^ and the anterior margin (against which the dactylus 

 fits) in consequence more longitudinal. 



The first and second abdominal segments are without a 

 carina ; that on the third and fourth segments is rather feebly 

 developed. 



Dimensions, — INIale, length 31 mm., length of carapace 

 8.6 mm. 



Type locality 

 fathoms [Albatross station 3664). 



Additional localities. — O^ Santa Cruz Island, California, 155 fathoms, 

 station 2949 ; south of Santa Catalina Island, 59 fathoms, station 3665 

 (specimen 39 mm. long). 



Fig. 81. Nec- 

 tocrangon cali- 

 yorniensis ( X 



Off Santa Catalina Island, California, 80 sJ)- station 



3664. a. Acicle. 

 b. Chela. 



NECTOCRANGON ALASKENSIS Kingsley. 

 Nectocrangon alaskensis KiNGSLEY, Bull. Essex Inst., xiv, 128, 1882. 



Female.— "Vm^^ equidistant spines on the median carina, and between 

 these and the spine on the anterior margin there is usually a small spinei 

 Lateral carina scarcely traceable. Antennal spine large. Spine of an- 



FiG. 82. Nectocrangon alaskensis. ? (X ij). «. Dorsal view of carapace and 

 abdomen. Station 2869. b. Side view. Station 2868. 



tennal scale overreaching the blade. Hands of first pair of feet about 

 four and a half times as long as wide, anterior margin longitudinally 

 oblique. Sternal crest in the male armed with slender spines. First to 

 fourth abdominal segments smoothly rounded ; fifth having a 

 sharp median crest ending posteriorly in a sharp spine, and a 

 spine at the postero-inferior angles ; sixth segment with two sharp 

 crests terminating in small spines; the posterior margin has 

 Necfocran ^'^^ ^ large supcro-lateral spine, and a small infero-lateral 



gonalasken- gpinC. 

 SIS. S (X ^ 



i|). Station J/rt/^.— Smaller than the female. The spine at the antero- 



2869. a. Act- '^ 



cie.^. Chela. lateral angle is much longer than in the female, considerably 

 overlapping the antennal scale. The scale is a Httle longer also. The 



