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its color in alcohol suggests that it lives also in shallow water, although now 

 found for the first time in 69 fathoms. 



Ophiobyrsa hystricis sp. nov. 



Plate VIII. Figs. 120-122. 



Special Marks. — At apex of mouth-angle two or three large, peg-like mouth- 

 papilla?; and two or three others much smaller, on either side, arranged in a 

 line which runs bigh up on the side of the angle. Five slim, glassy arm-spines 

 covered with skin. 



Description of an Individual. — Diameter of disk 20 mm. Length of arm 

 187 mm. Wdith of arm near disk 5.5 mm. Height of arm 3 mm. The 

 somewhat long and narrow mouth-angle bears at its end a pair of stout, peg- 

 like papillae, and sometimes a third standing above them; on either side of the 

 angle, considerably above its lower edge, is a line of three similar but much 

 smaller papilla?. Mouth-shields and side mouth-shields entirely hidden by 

 skin, as are the plates of the arm. On removing the skin, the under arm- 

 plates are seen to be about 1 mm. long and scpuarish, with outer corners cut off. 

 Side arm-plates like ridges, tapering at both ends, and with their lower end a 

 little inserted between the under plates. There is nothing to represent upper 

 arm-plates except two small nodules, one on each side of the median line. 

 These are homologous with the double row of spine-bearing tubercles found in 

 0. rudis. Disk thick and swollen, and covered by a tough skin; its upper 

 surface is sparsely set with very short spines, more numerous and longer over 

 the region of the radial shields, but all covered and obscured by the disk-skin. 

 Genital openings large, and nearly extending to margin of disk. Five slender, 

 slightly rough, glassy, nearly equal arm-spines, about as long as one and a half 

 arm-joints. They are covered by thick skin. Very large fleshy tentacles, but 

 no tentacle-scales. Color in alchol, pale straw, with yellow tentacles. 



" Porcupine" Expedition, 1869, Station 65, northwest of Shetland Islands, 

 345 fathoms, water 1°.7 Cent. 



This is the species mentioned by Sir Wyville Thomson mi page 123 of the 

 " Depths of the Sea." It comes from the " cold area," where the sea i- at or 

 below the freezing point of fresh water; whereas the three other species, 

 0. rudis, 0. serpens, and 0. Perrieri, from Australia and the West Indies, in- 

 habit much warmer water. By its small papillr on the sides of the mouth- 

 angles this sj.eries differs from the typical Ophiobyrsa and approaches Ophio- 

 scolex; the joints of the arm- bones are, however, essentially as in Ophiobyrsa. 



Ophiomyxa tumida sp. nov. 



Plate I. Figs. 1 3. 



Special Marks. — Four or live slender, tapering, Blightly rough arm-spines. 

 Only a trace of upper arm-plates. Radial shields small and not bedded in a 



duster of. -ale-;. A single marginal line of small plates round the disk. 



