6o PYCNOGONIDA. 



5. Colossendeis macerrima Wils. 



Colossendeis macerrima Wilson, Report Pycnog. Blake, 1881, p. 246. 

 PL I. Fig. 2. PI. III. Fig. 9 12. PI. V. Fig. 32. 



Occurrence. The Ingolf-stations n and 88 are in the Denmark Strait, partly midway 

 between Greenland and Iceland, partly in the mouth of Bredebugt in the latter island. The depths 

 were 1300 and 76 fath. Only two specimens were taken of which one, from Bredebugt, was a little 

 young (without chelifori). 



Distribution. The species had until then only been taken in one single specimen on 

 38 18' 40" Lat N. 73 18' 10" Long. W. at a depth of 922 fath. (Wilson). 



IV. Fam. Phoxichilidae. 



Corpus manifeste in segmenta partitum. 



Rostrum cylindricum vel conicum, inflexible, libratum vel nutans. 



Chelifori vel robustiores, vel graciliores, vel deficientes. 



Palpi deficientes. 



Pedes oviferi in femina deficientes. 



The trunk distinctly segmented. 



The proboscis cylindrical or conical, inflexible, horizontal or directed obliquely downward. 



The chelifori powerful, or slender, or wanting. 



Palps wanting. 



Ovigerous legs wanting in the female. 



2. Subfam. Pycnogonini. 



Chelifori deficientes. 



Chelifori wanting. 



Gen. Pycnogonum (Briinn. 1764). 

 Pycnogonum Wilson, Syn. Pycnog. New-Engl., 1878. 



