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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Four specimens come I'r Albatross station 1228, vicinity of Naha Bay, Behm Canal, Southeast 



Alaska, and one from iVlbatross station Hi)i), Queen Charlotte Sound, off Fori Rupert, Vancouver 

 I lanil, British Columbia, at depths of II to 107 fathoms. The type specimen is in the I'. S. National 

 Museum (Cal No 29247). The following note by Mr, Harold Heath accompanies the Fori Rupert 

 specimen: " Kyes black. Rusty brown spots on dorsal Burface. Vermilion colored ovary (V) shows 

 i hrough i ran lucenl cul it Ic 



iinl\ two other Hpocies of K'gn are known in the Pacific coasl fauna, Ega leconth (Dana*) and 

 Ega m jihthaliiid l)ana|\ The presenl species differs from /Ega lecontii (1) in the greater length of 



Fig. i. -.Km symmetrica Richardson, now species, o, General view, i b, maxfllipcd, > II; c, maxilliped, • 77; il, leg >>l 

 third pair, 18J; ■ last three segments of abdomen with uropoda, B 



both pairs of antennse; those of the first pair reach to the posterior margin of the first thoracic segment, 



instead of to the end of the peduncle of the second pair or al st to tin- posterior margin of tin' head, 



an. I those of the second pair reach to the middle of the third thoracic segment instead of almost to 

 tin' posterior margin of the first; (2) in having neither tin- basal joint of tin' peduncle of the firsi pair 

 of ahtennn? greatlj dilated nor the second joinl with a process at the apex extending nearly the length 

 oi tin' third joint; i -I 1 in the much shorter body, as compared with the width; (4) in having the ter 



i r. S, Nat Mu Bum XXI, 1899, pp 



., Proe lead. Nat. Sci. Phil., VII, 1854, p. 176. 



