50 Mr. E. J. Miers on Franz-Josef-Land 



Anomorhynchus, gen. nov. 



Body robust, with the segments coalescent and the leg- 

 bearing processes nearly in contact with one another. Ros- 

 trum greatly developed, constricted at the proximal end, and 

 hence flask-shaped — that is, provided with a distinct neck. 

 First pair of appendages (antenna or mandibles) wanting; 

 second pair 9-jointed, with the second and fourth joints 

 elongated ; third pair (the so-called ovigerous legs) 10- 

 jointed, the fourth and sixth joints elongated, the tenth joint 

 bearing a small terminal claw. Claws of the legs simple. 

 Abdomen about half as long as the body, very slender, uni- 

 articulate. 



This new genus must be placed in the family Pycnogonidse 

 as characterized by Dr. Semper in his arrangement of the 

 group (Verb, physik.-medicin. Gesellschaft Wiirzburg, vii. 

 p. 274, 1874) ; but it is not to be confounded with any of the 

 genera therein enumerated. Structurally it is most nearly 

 allied to the Rhopalorhynclms Kroyeri of Wood-Mason 

 (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1873, xlii. pt. 2, p. 172, pi. xiii. 

 tigs. 1-5, and Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1873, ser. 4, xii. 

 p. 342), from the Andamans ; but in this genus tlie neck 

 and distinctly- segmented body are very slender, the leg- 

 bearing processes being separated by wide intervals, and the 

 abdomen is rudimentary. 



From Pasttlwe, Goodsir {Endeis, Philippi), with which 

 Oiceobathes, Hesse, is perhaps identical, this genus is distin- 

 guished by the more numerous articulations of the appen- 

 dages, the great development and basal constriction of the 

 rostrum, and the simple claws. 



Anomorhynchus Smitlin, sp. n. 

 (PI. VII. figs. 6-8.) 



The body and its appendages are robust and apparently 

 naked, but clothed with very minute, stiiF, sparse hairs, 

 which render the surface scabrous to the touch. The head is 

 very robust, in the larger specimen nearly once and a half 

 the length of the body with the abdomen; its constricted 

 proximal portion or neck widens somewhat suddenly, and is 

 about one fourth the length of the head, which is nearly 

 cylindrical ; the oral aperture large and triangulate. The 

 segments of the body are coalescent, and scarcely any traces of 

 them distinguishable. The abdomen is very slender, much 

 narrower than, and half as long as, the body ; the ophthalmic 

 process elevated, conical, and acute. The first and second 



