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pycnogonids. Should later discoveries show these forms to belong 

 properly in the same genus, the name Parazetes will take pre- 

 cedence over Barana. 



As Sars ('91, p. 133) remarks, the genus Ascorhynchus is cer- 

 tainly very close to Barana, but Eurycyde appears to be well 

 characterized. It seems to me doubtful that Nymphopsis ^ Has- 

 well ('85) and Alcinous O. Costa ('61) belong in this family (Eury- 

 cydidae) . 



Barana latipes sp. nov. 

 PI. l,Figs. 1-4; PI. 2, Figs. 5-11 



Type: Adult ?, Museum of Comparative Zoology, no. 6947, 

 Crustacea. Collected by Owen Bryant, from rocky shore. Sweet- 

 ing's Village, Great Abaco, Bahamas, 22 July, 1904. 



Trunk broad, compact, tapering somewhat posteriorly; seg- 

 mentation well marked, the first three segments conspicuously 

 enlarged dorsally and ventrally at their posterior ends, this en- 

 largement forming almost a knob on the dorsal side. I^ateral 

 processes stout, about as broad as long, closely approximated but 

 without touching, and each with a conical protuberance dorsally 

 near its distal end. First trunk segment extending anteriorly 

 from the eye tubercle in an elongate, cylindrical neck, which has 

 distinct processes for the articulation of the palpi and the ovigera, 

 the former at the anterior end, the latter immediately anterior to 

 the processes of the first legs. The neck is prolonged at its ante- 

 rior end into two sharp conical processes, beneath which the 

 chelifori arise. Trunk and all its processes almost smooth and 



Caudal segment (PI. 2, Fig. 7) elongate, horizontal, enlarged 

 distally, and sparsely armed with a few scattered small spines; 

 about as long as neck anterior to tlie pr(.ccss(>s for the ovigera. 



Eye tu))ercl.' sit,iate.l at th.> ba.c <.f \hr neck and midway in 

 the length of the WvM tnuik .scmuhmiI ; rather hiiili and j)()inted 



rior face of a larger conical elevation (see PI. 1, Fig. 2). Eyes 

 dark; in the smaller dome. 



'More fully characterized by Schimkewitsch ('87, p. 128). 



