294 BULLETIN 75, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Although these specimens vary in color from uniform very dark 

 brown, through yellow spotted with blackish, to uniform light gray 

 with the larger tubercles white, and in size from a disk diameter of 

 6 mm. to one of 65, I am utterly unable to differentiate them into 

 more than a single species. The specimen from station 4781 is only 

 6 mm. across the disk and is very dark purplish-brown; it is very 

 possibly not this species, but I know of no other to which it can be 

 referred. The specimen from station 3735, 11 mm. across the disk, 

 is undoubtedly pardalis as it answers to Doderlein's description in 

 every particular; the name is peculiarly appropriate to such a speci- 

 men. The specimen from station 4934 is similar but is much larger 

 (40 mm. disk diameter) and the colors are dimmer, so that the spotting 

 is much less noticeable. Moreover many, if not most, of the granules 

 have lost their acicular points and scattered all over the upper sur- 

 face of the arms are rounded, whitish tubercles; a few are present 

 also on the disk. The specimen from station 4875 (disk diameter, 

 21 mm.) differs only in that the ground color is gray, not at all 

 yellowish, with the spots dull purplish, and the granules are nearly 

 all rounded, very rarely with a point. The specimen from station 

 4877 (disk diameter, 53 mm.) is like the last mentioned, but there 

 are no spots or markings of any kind; the color is yellowish-gray, 

 with tubercles and large granules whitish. The specimen from Fusan 

 (65 mm.) is similar but the color is very pale brown. Finally,- the 

 specimen from station 5070 (53 mm.) is like the one from station 4877, 

 but is a little lighter gray and the granules are even more flat and 

 pavement-like; the white tubercles are still evident, however, par- 

 ticularly well out on the arms. The situation, therefore, is this : The 

 specimen from station 3735 is pardalis; the specimen from station 

 4934 is undoubtedly the adult of the same; but the specimen from 

 station 4877 can not be separated specifically from it; yet the speci- 

 men from station 5070, which appears to be A. globiferum, is un- 

 doubtedly conspecific with the one from station 4877. Therefore 

 globiferum appears to be a synonym of pardalis. 



EURYALE ANOPLA, new species.a 



Disk 34 mm. in diameter; arms about 170 mm. long, each with 

 eight or nine forks. Disk covered with a smooth skin. Radial shields 

 conspicuous, moderately broad and arched, meeting at center of disk 

 or nearly so ; each shield carries two to five low, blunt, inconspicuous 

 tubercles. Upper surface of arms, which are rather higher than 

 broad, covered with smooth, naked skin. Interbrachial spaces below 

 heavily granulated, except distally. Genital slits conspicuous. Sur- 



a " Avon hoc, signifying not heavy-armed, in reference to the absence of large conical 

 tubercles and spines on the disk. 



