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All the mesenteries are unusually muscular ; the primary mesenteries are sterile, 

 and reach to the stomatodseum, while the secondaries are incomplete but bear generative 

 organs. I observed a few acontia ; cinclides, on the other hand, are wanting. 



In conclusion, I might refer to the possibility that Phellia spinifera may be only a 

 variety oi Phellia pectinata. In the sole example from Station 320, the spinose knobs 

 were developed only on the upper part of the bark-like body-wall, and even here not 

 abundantly ; so that its appearance is intermedi ite between the characters of Phellia 

 pectinata and Phellia spinifera. In spite of this, I have retained the separation of the 

 two species, because the musculature of the oral disc of Phellia pectinata does not yield, 

 on further study, the characteristic appearance drawn in PL II. fig. 8. In this respect, 

 the transitional form agrees with the type of Phellia spinifera. 



Family 8, Amphianthid^, E. Hertwig. 

 Genus Amphianthus, R. Hertwig. 



Amphianthus ornatum* n. sp. (PL I. fig. 8). 



Body-wall beset with numerous (about 26) longitudinal rows of papillae ; the latter 

 are for the most part recognisable by the naked eye, and are not arranged in transverse 

 series. 



Habitat. — (a) Station 56, May 29, 1873 ; depth, 1075 fathoms. One specimen. 

 (6) Station 241, June 23, 1875 ; depth, 2300 fathoms. Three specimens, (c) Station 

 244, June 28, 1875 ; depth, 2900 fathoms. One specimen. 



Dimensioris. — Height, 0'2-0'5 cm. ; length of the pedal disc, 0'3-2 cm. 



The five specimens which I describe under the name of Amphianthus ornatum 

 have on the one hand many points of resemblance to Aviphianthus bathyhiwn, on the 

 other to Cylista (Bunodes) minuta ; with the latter they agree in the form of the 

 papillae, but differ from it in the divergent shape of the body and in characteristics of the 

 family Amphianthidas, as also in the absence of acontia ; with the former, on the other 

 hand, they tally in general habits, but exhibit a divergent condition of the body-walL 

 Amphianthus hathybium possesses small papillae, recognisable only with the aid of a 

 lens, and arranged in small groups, with a tendency to transverse series. In Aonphian- 

 thus ornatum, however, they are large, and comparatively isolated in position ; they 

 form about 20-30 longitudinal rows, which die out sooner or later at some distance 

 from the lower end of the body-walL The papillae are not all of one size ; indeed, it 

 even happens that rows of larger and smaller alternate. 



In the very young specimen from Station 244, only twelve rows of papillae were 

 present, all most regularly distributed on the periphery of the body, and all of essentially 

 similar structure, since both in the size and number of the papillae the individual 



