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the outer margin and directed forwards and a little outwards (fig. 1c), while - 
there is no trace of any corresponding distal process or tubercle above near the 
inner margin. Third joint slightly longer than second; its dorsal keel only 
half as long as the joint, seen from above less sharp (fig. la) and seen from the 
side only moderately high (fig. 1b), very obliquely triangular, with the distal 
upper angle obtuse.— The antennal squama reaches nearly or not fully the middle 
of third antennular joint and is proportionately broader than in E. recurva or 
E. eximia; the spiniform process from the subbasal joint reaches the middle 
of the squama. 
The copulatory organs (figs. 1d-1g) are somewhat similar to those of £. 
eximia, but all three processes are proportionately shorter and show besides 
minor differences. The terminal process has its distal part shorter and much 
less curved (fig. 1g), with its spiniform appendage rather short. The proximal 
process is considerably shorter and proximally more inflated (fig. le) and beyond 
the middle more curved than in £. eximia; its distal fourth is an oblong, at the 
end, rounded plate (fig. 1f) bent considerably backwards, and at its base a nar- 
rowly triangular protuberance projects forwards; the real length of this plate 
is shown by fig. le, while fig. 1f exhibits the inner lobe with its two processes 
seen from the inner side, and owing to the very oblique direction of the terminal 
plate of the proximal process that plate looks in this figure much shorter than 
in the lateral view. The lateral process has its curved part shorter than in 
E. eximia, but as in this species without any dorsal teeth. The auxiliary lobe 
is moderately long; the obliquely triangular terminal part of the setiferous lobe 
is somewhat more produced than in E. eximia. 
Length of adult specimens 8.5-10 mm. 
Remarks.— E. brevis is easily distinguished from the other species of this 
group by its longer frontal plate with the rostrum short, by the shape of the 
lobe of first antennular joint and especially by having above on the second 
antennular joint a most conspicuous, slender process near the distal outer angle 
but no trace of any process or tubercle at the inner angle. 
Distribution.— The distribution of EF. brevis differs very little from that of 
E. mutica. Yn the tropical East Pacific it is confined to a still smaller southern 
area than 2. mutica as it was not found North of Lat. 15° 7’S., and the majority 
of the Stations are South of Lat. 20° S.—It is not known from near the Western 
coast of Europe, but the Prince of Monaco has captured it in the Sargasso Sea 
in Lat. 40}°—417° N., long. 40°-413° W., and several times in the triangle, the 
‘Bane de Goringe,” the Azores, and the Canary Islands; besides in the Medi- 
