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Bavaria, on which is the impression of an Eryon; 
and a comparison of these specimens impresses one 
with their great resemblance. 
The macrurans, a group to which the crayfish 
Fie. 3.— NEMATOCARCINUS GRACILIPES TAKEN IN THE TRAWL AT A DEPTH OF 850 METRES. 
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belong, are abundant at all depths. At the Cape 
Verde Islands, at five hundred metres, a thousand 
individuals of a new species of Pendale were ob- 
tained. Among the most remarkable forms, I will 
mention a beautiful red Aristes, whose antennae are 
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five or six times as long as the body; Nematocar- 
cinus (fig. 3), whose claws are disproportionately 
long; Oplophorus; Notostomus, of a vivid red; Acan- 
tephyra; Pasiphae, sometimes brown, sometimes 
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rose-colored, often covered with red spots; and 
Glyphus, one species of which, Glyphus marsupialis, 
has a very strange arrangement, the lateral plates of 
the first abdominal segment being developed in ‘the 
female to form a pouch for the eggs. I will eall 
