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'TERRA NOVA" EXPEDITION. 



and 2 ; Bouvior, 1913, p. G3, 



Station 314, McMurdo 

 •' Discovery." 



Colossendeis australis, Hodgson. 



C. australis, Hodgson, 1907, p. 59, PI. ix, fig. 1, PL x, figs. 1 

 text-figs. 20 and 21. 



Occurrence. — Station 294, Ross Sea, 158 fathoms; 1 $. 

 Sound, 222-241 fathoms ; 2 immature. 



Measurements' , in mm. — 



Length of proboscis 

 Greatest diameter of proboscis 

 Length of trunk .... 

 Width between first and second lateral 

 processes .... 

 Width across second lateral processes 

 Leno;th of abdomen 



Third right leg — 

 Coxge . 

 Femur . 

 First tibia 

 Second tibia 

 Tarsus . 

 Propodns 

 Claw 



Palp- 

 Second segment 

 Third 

 Fourth 

 Fifth 



Sixth ,, 



Seventh ,, 

 Eighth 

 Ninth 



Remarks. — The figure of this species in Hodgson's memoir (PI. IX., fig. 1) shows 

 the lateral processes much too near together. In reality the constricted bases of the 

 second and third pairs are separated by a space about equal to their own diameter. 

 Bouvier's figure of the lateral aspect . possibly errs somewhat in the opposite direction. 

 In the more slender terminal segments of the palp the adult male in the present 

 collection agrees better with the male upon which Hodgson's description was based 

 (and which may be regarded as the holotype) than with the female paratype. The 

 other diff'ereuces noticed by Hodgson between his two specimens do not seem to be 



