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the fingers. The second pair exceed the acicle. The last 3 pairs are very 

 slender and about the same length, the tip of the last pair reaching the 

 terminal third of the rostrum ; the extremity of the propodi is fringed with 

 bristles ; the dactyli are slender ; the proximal half of their concave mar- 

 gin is furnished with 5 or 6 spinules so closely appressed that to the 

 naked eye the dactylus appears unarmed; the distal spinule is long, 

 and with the slender tip of the dactylus gives the appearance of a minute 

 chela. 



The abdomen is non-carinated ; the fourth segment is unarmed ; the 

 sixth segment is one and a half times the fifth ; the seventh is a little 

 longer than the sixth and armed with 5 or 6 spinules on each side. 



Dimensions. Length of egg-laden $ 83 mm., length of carapace and 

 rostrum 37.6 mm., of rostrum 23.2 mm. 



Distribution. From Bering Sea (off Pribilof Islands) to Oregon, 109- 

 987 fathoms. 



Dredged by the Albatross : 



Off Pribilof Islands, 184-688 fathoms, stations 3489, 3501, 3502, 3608. 

 North of Aleutian Islands (178 31' oo" E.), 850 fathoms, station 3784. 

 North of Rat Islands, 270 fathoms, station 3785. 

 North of Unalaska, 225-987 fathoms, stations 3227, 3316, 3329-3332, 



3607. 



West of Unalaska, 576 fathoms, station 3326. 



Chernofski Harbor, Unalaska, 109-284 fathoms, stations 3324, 3325. 

 Off Shumagin Bank, 625 fathoms, station 3338. 

 Southeast of Chirikof Island, Alaska, 695 fathoms, station 3340. 

 Off Cape St. James, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, 876 



fathoms, station 2860 (type locality). 

 Off Sea Lion Rock, Washington, 636-877 fathoms, stations 3069-3071, 



3074, 3075. 



Off Cape Elizabeth, Washington, 831 fathoms, station 3344. 

 Off Grays Harbor, Washington, 559 fathoms, station 2871. 

 Off Tillamook Bay, Oregon, 786 fathoms, station 3346. 



SPIRONTOCARIS PALPATOR (Owen). 



Hippolyte palpator OWEN, in Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage [in the 



Blossom}, Crustacea, p. 89, pi. xxvill, fig. 3, 1839. 

 Heptacarpus palpator HOLMES, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., vii, 196, 



pi. ill, figs. 48, 49, 1900, and synonymy. 



Distribution. San Francisco Bay, California (Stimpson), to Magda- 

 lena Bay, Lower California (Lockington). Monterey (Owen). The 

 specimen from Kadiak referred by Brandt to this species is probably S. 

 brevirostris, as stated by Dr. Holmes. 



Specimens in the National Museum are from Pacific Grove, California 

 (John C. Brown) ; San Diego (H. Hemphill, C. R. Orcutt) ; San Diego 



