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S.R. 368— 11/8 /'06.— 51° 39' N., 12° 0' W. 450-608 fathoms. 

 Trawl — One, 98 mm., and fragments of a second 

 specimen. 



S.R. 447— 18/5 /'07.— 50° 20' N., 10° 57' W. 221-343 fathoms. 

 Trawl. Temperature at 300 fathoms 9-87° C, salinity 

 35 -48700— Two, 65 and 73 mm. 



S.R. 448— 18/5 /'07.— 50° 22' N., IP 0' W. 343-346 fathoms. 

 Trawl — Five, 93-107 mm. (several ovigerous females). 



S.R. 495— 8/9 /'07.— 52° 0' N., 13° 10' W. 346-400 fathoms. 

 Prawn trawl — One, 90 mm. 



S.R. 502— 11/9 /'07.— 50° 46' N., 11° 21' W. 447-515 fathoms. 

 Trawl. Temperature at 500 fathoms 8-8° C, salinity 

 35 -377 „^— One, 92 mm. 



S.R. 505— 12/9 /'07.— 50° 39' N., 11° 14' W. 464-627 fathoms. 

 Trawl — Eighteen, 60-108 mm. (several ovigerous females). 



Vertical range. — P. niartia has been found in the East 

 Atlantic between 218 and 666 fathoms (Milne-Edwards and 

 Caullery) ; in the Mediterranean it is known from 278 and 478 

 fathoms (Senna and Adensamer). In Indian waters it is re- 

 corded from 142 to 430 fathoms (Alcock) and in the Pacific 

 from 165 to 684 fathoms (Rathbun), while two specimens were 

 dredged by the Challenger in 1,200 fathoms, off Sydney 

 Harbour. 



Genus Pandalina, Caiman. 

 Pandalina brevirostris (Rathke). 



Hippolyte Thompsoni, Bell, 1853, fig., p. 290. 



Pandalina brevirostris, Caiman, 1899 {uhi syn.), Pis. i-iv, 

 fig. 4. 



Pandalina brevirostris , Hansen (1908). 



Pandalina brevirostris, WoUebaek (1908). 



Colour in life. — The carapace is thickly sprinkled with bright 

 red chromatophores ; the rostrum is sometimes colourless, some- 

 times with a patch of red pigment spots at about its middle. 

 Behind the rostrum a subquadrate whitish patch is often found. 

 The abdomen is semi-translucent, with minute yellow dots and 

 a few small red chromatophores on the sixth somite and on the 

 pleura of the fifth. A few yellow and several small red pig- 

 ment spots are present on the telson and uropods. The eyes 

 are greyish black ; the antennal scales and antennules are prac- 

 tically colourless. The outer maxillipedes and the first four 

 pereiopods are faintly blotched and banded w^th yellow ; the 



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