96 A. R. S. Anderson — Beep Sea Crustacea. [No. 2, 



Tribe ASTACIDEA. 



Family Homaridse. 



Phoberus, a. Milne-Edwards. 



27. Phoherus csecus, A. Milne-Edw., var. suhlevis, W.-M. 



Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Na^t. Hist., Feb. 1891, p. 197; Alcock and Anderson, 

 J, A. S. B., Vol. LXIII., pt. ii., 1894, p. 21. 



The female, captured this year at Station 192, 912-931 fms., differs 

 both from the female taken last year and from the male previously 

 caught in possessing 2 spines on the upper margin of the rostrum. 



Length, from tip of rostrum to end of telson, 122 millims. 



Nephropsis, Wood-Mason. 



28. NepJiropsis Stewarti, Wood-Mason. 



Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B., 1873, Vol. LXIII., pt. 2, p. 39, pi. iv.; and Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., (4) XII., 1873, p. 59 ; A. Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., (5) XIX., 

 pi. XX., figs. 1-3 ; and Alcock and Anderson, J. A. S. B., Vol. LXIII., pt. ii.. 1894, 

 p. 161 ; Illustrations of the Zoology of the R. I. M. S. * Investigator,' Crustacea, 

 pt. iv., pi. xxvii., figs. 1, la. 



A male, measuring 141 millim, from tip of rostrum to end of telson, 

 was captured at Station 197 ; 406 fms. 



29. Nephropsis atlantica, N'orman. 



Norman, P. R. S., Edin., 1881-82, Vol. XI., p. 684 ; Wood-Mason and Alcock, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feb. 1891, p. 198, fig. 4 j and Alcock and Anderson, J. A. S. B.,- 

 Vol. LXIIL, pt. ii., 1894, p. 162. 

 Station 201 ; 320-296 fms. 



30. Nephropsis suJimi, Sp. Bate. 



Spence Bate, ' Challenger ' Macrura, pp. 181-183, pL xxiii., fig. 3, and pi. xxiv. 

 fig. 2. 



Seven specimens of this species, which is new to the Indian fauna, 

 varying from a male of 83 millims, and a female of 82'6 millims., to 

 32 millims. in length, were captured at 5 stations at depths between 

 890 and 947 fms. The teeth on the anterior margins of the pleura of 

 the first four abdominal somites vary both in size and numbers ; in some 

 case none in others one large and two smaller teeth are present. 



In a specimen 83 millims. in length the flagellum of the 1st antenna 

 measures 25 millims., that of the 2nd antenna 186 millims. 



The absence of a joint in the outer plate of the caudal swimmeret 

 was both noted and figured by Spence Bate ; but, owing to the small- 

 ness and immaturity of his single specimen, he seems to have been 

 doubtful of the permanence of this character. In none of these 



