328 Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. [sess. 
Gnathojphausia gigas , Willemoes Suhm. — "While in the hands of 
Professor Sars a very little hit may be expected to yield very clear 
indications, yet we may note that the only record of this species 
from the Southern Hemisphere is based upon “the recently 
moulted skin of the outer part of the tail of another specimen 
apparently belonging to the same species. This skin was brought 
up along with specimens of Boreomysis scyphojps in the Southern 
Ocean between Kerguelen and Australia.” 
Glyphocrangon rimapes , Spence Bate. — Under this species Mr 
Spence Bate groups a specimen from 1875 fathoms off Yokohama, 
one from 1715 fathoms in the South Atlantic between Buenos 
Ayres and Tristan d’Acunha, and two from 1375 fathoms near 
Juan Fernandez. The genus is a typical deep-sea one, and other 
species come from many localities in the North Atlantic, West 
Indies, Indian Ocean, and North and South Pacific. 
Lithodes Murrayi , Henderson. — This species is referred to by 
Murray (lx., pp. 406 and 456) as the southern representative of 
L. maia, to which, according to Henderson, it is apparently most 
closely allied. Ortmann ( Zool . Jalirb ., 1896, p. 584) deals at 
length with this case, and, in part following Faxon (“ Albatross ” 
Crust., p. 51), brings L. Murrayi into closer relation with L. 
turritus, Ortmann, from Japan, and L. panamensis, Faxon, from 
the west coast of America. “Zum mindesten geht hinaus hervor 
dass die Gruppe des L. Maia und Murrrayi sowohl in Japan als 
auch an der Westkuste Amerikas Yertreter besitzt, und hierzu 
kommt noch eine verwandte Art an der Siidspitze Amerikas der L. 
antarcticus , Jacq. et Luc. Durch diese Daten wird eine continir- 
liche Yerbreitung langs der amerikanischen Westkuste fur die 
Gattung wahrscheinlich gemacht, und dazu kommt noch, dass fur 
die ganze Familie der Lithodidce es langst bekannt ist, dass ihre 
Hauptverbreitung im nordlichen Pacific liegt und von dort langs 
der Westkuste Amerikas bis zur Antarktischen Zone geht.” 
M. Bouvier, in his recent monograph of the Lithodidse (Ann. Sci. 
Nat., Zool. (8), v. 1896), likewise gives no support to the view 
that L. Maia is the nearest ally of L. Murrayi. He, on the other 
hand, brings into close relation with the latter, two species, L. 
tropicalis, A.M.E., and L.ferox , A.M.E., both from deep water off 
the west coast of Africa ; and we seem accordingly to have in the 
