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Farven var paa det friskt indfangede Exemplar blegt 
kjodrod, vaesentlig vel paa Qrund af de gjennemskinnende 
-Eg. 
Laengden af selve Kroppen er 8”™, af Snabelen 4 mm 
altsaa tilsammen 12'"’". 
Forekomst. Et enkelt Individ af denne characteri- 
stiske Parasit erholdtes under Expeditionens lste Togt i 
Havet mellem Norge og Island (Stat. 52) fra et Dyb af 
1861 Favne. Exemplaret var fastlieftet til Yentralsiden 
af lste Bagkropssegment bos et Individ af den-'-eiendomme- 
lige ovenfor beskrevne Dybvandscaride, Hymmodora glaci- 
ates (Buehholz). 
Colour of the fresh specimen a light-pink, produced, 
one would imagine, in greater part by the eggs shining' 
through the skin. 
Length of trunk 8 mm , of proboscis 4™”; hence, altogether 
2 mm 
Occurrence. — A sole example of this characteristic 
parasite came up, on the 1st cruise of the Expedition, hi 
the tract of ocean between Norway and Iceland (Stat. 52). 
from a depth ol 1861 fathoms. The animal was attached 
to the ventral side of the 1st abdominal segment of a 
specimen of the above-described peculiar deep-sea Caridian, 
Hymenodora glaciates (Buehholz). 
