34 A. 0. WALKEE. 



cient for the establishment of a new species. The hind margin of the third pleon 

 segment above the upturned angle is almost straight ; the whole lower margins of the 

 first side-plates are serrate ; the hand of the first gnathopods is considerably longer than 

 the wrist, in proportion of six to four, and the divisions of the telson are smooth and 

 rounded at the tips. 



FAM. ATYLIDiE, G. 0. Saes. 



Atylus walkeki, Stebbing. 



Atylus antarcticus, A. 0. Walker. 

 Atylus walheri, Stebbing. 



W.Q., 31 Jan., 1902, Hut Point, 3 fm., several; 18 Mar., 1902, 10 fm., four; 

 28 Nov., 1902, one. 

 Length, 15 mm. 



FAM. DEXAMINID^, Stebbing. 



POLYCHERIA ANTARCTICA. 



Dexamine antarctka, Stebbing, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. XV. (1875), p. 184. 

 Polycheria antarctka, Stebbing. 



W.Q., 30 Sept., 1903, Hole 12, D net, six ; length 6 mm. 



This species was described by Mr. Stebbing, in 1875, from three small specimens 

 found in a sponge dredged up by Sir J. Ross a few miles to the E. of the ' Discovery's ' 

 Winter Quarters. The specimens were not in good condition, or, probably, full-grown, 

 so that the description is not as satisfactory as it might otherwise have been. Mr. 

 Stebbing informs me that he has now united his Tritseta Kergueleni with this species. 

 The present specimens agree with the description of T. Kergueleni, except in the 

 following features : the side-plates of the first gnathopods are subquadrate, not 

 produced in front ; the posterior angle of the third pleon segment is produced, and 

 acute ; the margins of the telson are without spines ; and the inner plate of the first 

 maxillae has two setae. 



Polycheria tenuipes, Haswell, P. brevieornis, Haswell, and P. obtusa, Thomson, 

 have been referred to this species. The description and figure of the second gnathopod 

 of the first of these, and the description of the same limb in the second, are quite unlike 

 that of P. antarctica (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IV., 1880, pp. 345-6, PI. XXE., 

 fig. 8g.). 



Melphidippa maorura. 

 Mdphidippa macriira, G. 0. Sars. 



Jan. 27, 1902, 300 fm., one ; length to end of telson 25 mm. 



The specimen which, with the exception of the loss of the third uropods, was in 

 excellent preservation and was therefore not dissected, agrees with Sars' description 



