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station 152, the females of which have very large eggs. (v.) 
Hymenodora duplex, Sp. Bate, of the family Troprocarrm.», was taken 
at station 147, and (vi.) H. mollicutis, Sp. Bate, at stations 156 and 
157, and in many places further north. Other Macrurous species 
were dredged in the region, but from shallow depths. 
ANOMURA. Two divisions of ANoMURA, the PAGURIDEA and the 
GALATHEIDEA, are true bottom forms, and are numerously represented 
in the abysses of the ocean. The Paguridea, according to the Challenger 
Report on the Anomura, yield the following four species in our area :— 
(vii.) Lithodes murrayi, Hend., belonging to the family ZLrraoors, 
was taken at station 145a off Marion Island. Depth 85-310 fathoms, 
bottom volcanic sand. (vill.) Paralomis aculeatus, Hend., belongs to 
the same family, and was taken at the same locality as the preceding. 
(ix.) Parapagurus dimorphus, Studer, belonging to the family 
Parapacuripa, was dredged at the same time and spot, but only one 
specimen. This species was also taken further north, living in the 
shells of Murex (Pseudomurex) aédonius and Pleurotoma (Mangelia) 
acanthodes. It has also been found off the Cape of Good Hope in the 
shells of Buccinum porcatum. (x.) Pagurodes inarmatus, Hend., of 
the same family, was taken at station 146, from 1375 fathoms, and 
again off New Zealand, where it lived in shells of Plewrotoma and 
Nassa. 
The remaining three species belong to the division Galatheidea 
and to the family Gazarnemw.s (xi.) Munida spinosa, Hend., taken at 
station 1454, is a strongly spiny form, a common characteristic of 
deep-sea Crustacea. This species was also taken off Rio de la Plata. 
(xii.) Munidopsis subsquamosa, Hend., taken at station 146, was also 
dredged west of Patagonia and off Yokohama. (xiii) Uroptychus 
insignis, Hend., was dredged at station 145. 
Bracuyura. The only Brachyurous Decapod peculiar to the 
Antarctic area, as defined by Dana, is Halicarcinus planatus 
(Fabricius), belonging to the family Piwvorgeriox, It occurs very 
widely throughout the Antarctic, and was taken near Marion Island 
at_a depth of 50-75 fathoms, off Prince Edward Island at a depth 
of 85-150 fathoms, and in rock-pools at Kerguelen. It extends a 
good deal further north. It is not a deep-sea form, but is mentioned 
because it is confined to our area. 
Order [X.—AMPHIPODA. 
The number of deep-sea Amphipods is not great. Mr. Stebbing 
states that there is little doubt the Lanceola pacifica, Stebb., was 
taken at the depth of 2300 fathoms, which was assigned to it by the 
