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not go out during the season of 1902-3, the principal ridge became more than a mile 
long, the ice being pressed up to a height of twenty or thirty feet at the point of 
greatest pressure. Considering that the mortality among the seals would be much 
increased during the breeding season, it occurred to me that the amphipods might have 
migrated close imshore, more especially to Pram Point, as an area where a super- 
abundant supply of food might be obtained. I went to investigate this matter, but the 
seals had made their holes among the irregular blocks of ice piled up in a confused 
manner. I found that the hole from the surface usually led on to a platform some 
two or three feet below ; the hole which completed the passage through the ice had no 
relation to the one above, and was generally at some distance from it, and quite 
invisible from my point of view. As it turned out, I could not get a trap down any of 
the holes, so that the presence of these amphipods on the breeding-grounds of the seals 
is uncertain, and no explanation of their desertion of the traps in deeper water is 
forthcoming.” 
TRYPHOSA MURRAYI. 
Tryphosa murrayi, A. O. Walker. 
T. adaret, A. O. Walker. 
This is another abundant species, though not nearly so much so as O. rossi. The 
largest female measured 30 mm. It appears to occur from Cape Adare to lat. 77° 50’, 
and was taken at the Winter Quarters throughout the year. 
The examination of a large number of specimens has convinced me that the 
characters relied upon for the separation of 7. murrayi and T. adarei, viz., the form of 
the hind margin of the third pleon segment and the carina on the first urus segment 
are very variable, and I have therefore united them. 
TRYPHOSA KERGUELENI. 
Lysvanassa kerguelent, Miers. 
Hippomedon kerguelent (Miers), Stebbing. 
Hoplonyx kergueleni (Miers), A. O. Walker. 
Cape Wadsworth, 8-15 fm., 15 Jan.,1902, one, small ; W.Q., 15 June, 1902, one, 
length 13 mm.; W.Q., 20 Sept., 1902, Castle Rock, 143 fm., three. 
URISTES GIGAS. 
Uristes gigas, Dana. 
Tryphosa antennipotens, Stebbing. 
Past Cape Adare, 11 Jan., 1902, one specimen. 
PODOPRIONIDES. 
Podoprionides, A. O. Walker, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. XVII. (1906), p. 457. 
Resembles Podoprionella, G. O. Sars, in the chelate first gnathopods and the 
deeply serrate first joints of the last three perzeopods, but differs in the less compact 
