282 DREDGING REPORT, 1862, 
base. At the origin of each leg on the dorsal aspect, is a 
large wart-like protuberance. 
One female of this species was taken near the Dogger Bank, 
in 25-30 fathoms water, on an oozy bottom. 
7. NYMPHON BREVIROSTRE, n. sp., Hodge. (Pl. XV., figs. 6-11). 
Rostrum short and stout; foot jaws thick, divergent, 
second joint or hand, nearly as long as first; palpi five 
jointed, brush like, first and second joints long and nearly 
of same length, each of which is equal to the three ter- 
minal, the last beimg the shortest. Thorax robust. 
Abdomen stout and conical. Oculiferous tubercle mid- 
way between first pair of legs. Legs stout, sparingly 
furnished with stout spine like hairs; first and third joints 
short, second slender at origin, but swelling upwards; 
fourth and fifth each as long as the three first; sixth much 
larger, slender; seventh short; eighth long, slightly bent, 
and furnished along its inner margin with a few short 
spines, and terminating in one moderately large claw, and 
two small ones. 
One female of this species was taken near the Dogger Bank 
under the same circumstances as the foregoing. 
Crass. CRUSTACEA. 
Sup-cLtass. ENTOMOSTRACA. 
OrpER. ARACHNOPODA OR PYCNOGONOIDEA. 
Famity. Pycnogonide. 
Males, Females, Hee Locality. 
Pycnogonum littorale, Strom. 8 38 25-35 Dogger Bank 
chiefly. 
Fauiry. Nymphide. 
Phoxichilidium coccineum, Johnston. ¢ ¢c 25-40 Everywhere. 
Pallene attenuata 2. sp., Hodge 1 _25-30 Dogger. 
Nymphon gracile, Leach. 8 25-45 Everywhere. 
grossipes, O. Fabr. 8 25-45 Do. 
femoratum, Leach. 1 5-45 Berwick Bay. 
giganteum, Johnston. 2 35-45 Do. 
hirtum, 0. abr. ool 25-35 Dogger. 
brevitarse, Kroyer i 25-35 Do. 
brevirostre, 1. sp., Hodge. «a 1 25-35 Do. 
