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border-line of the British area as regarded by myself, but the bottom 

 temperature being only 30° Fahr. at a depth o£ 345 fathoms, it more properly 

 belongs to the cold area. ' Triton,' Stat. 9, Faroe Channel, 608 fathoms ; 

 Varanger Fiord, East Finmark, in 125 fathoms (A. M. N.). Mus. Nor. 



Wellington Channel (Bell) ; Kara Sea ; N.W. of Spitsbergen ; near 

 Iceland^ 260-649 fathoms (Sars) ; Barents Sea (Hoek) ; Franz Josef Land 

 {Heller) ; Konig Karls Land (Mohius) ; Denmark Strait (Meinert) ; East 

 Greenland {Lonnherg) ; West Greenland (Hodge?'). 



Genus 4. Paeanymphon, Caullery, 1896. 

 Caullery, (7) p. 363, and Meinert, (37) p. 46. 



The only character which Caullery gave for his new genus was that the 

 palpi were composed of six joints. Meinert has already shown that the 

 statement was not correct, for they are really composed of seven joints. 

 Other characters were added by this latter author, namely, that the processes 

 of the trunk are very long ; the chelfe bent backwards, with few and weak 

 teeth ; the ovigerous legs eight-jointed and furnished with claws : and the 

 ambulatory legs without auxiliary claws. 



Paranymphon spinosum, Caullery. (PI. 30. figs. 10-14.) 



Paranym^Tion spinosum, Caullery, (7) p. 361, pi. xii. figs. 1-6. 

 „ „ Meinert, (37) p. 46, pi. iv. figs. 20-28. 



The description of Caullery was very brief. Meinert has extended it. 

 The following note will add some particulars. 



The body is moderately robust, with unusually long lateral processes ; these 

 processes are distally furnished with a remarkable long fleshy lobe, which 

 is beset with minute tubercles ; these lobes are so long that if extended along 

 the limb they reach the middle of the second coxal joint (fig. 10). The 

 ■oculiferous tubercle is in the form of a greatly produced cone, the height of 

 which is equal to the length from its own base to the end of the proboscis; no 

 vestige of eyes is to be seen. The abdomen, like the oculiferous tubercles, is 

 pyramidal in form and carried directly upwards ; it is of remarkable length, 

 equalling in fact that of the rest of the body exclusive of the proboscis 

 (fig. 10). The proboscis is short and broad, the width at the base being sub- 

 equal to its length, it does not reach the end of the scape of the chelifori. 

 The chelifori (fig. 13) have the hand much shorter than the scape ; the palm 

 not longer than broad, the chela is gaping; the movable finger longer than 

 the thumb, the former with some teeth mostly at the base, the latter with 

 teeth most developed in the middle portion ; the extremities of both acute. 

 The palpi are seven-jointed, the distal joints are represented in Meiuert's fig. 24. 

 The false legs consist of nine joints (counting the terminal nail as one) ; and 

 Meinert's fig. 2Q fairly represents the distal portion ; there is an entire 



