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HARVARD    UNIVERSITY. 


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MUSEUM  OF  COMPARATIVE  ZOOLOGY 


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AT  HARVARD  COLLEGE 
Vol.  XXXV.      No.  4. 


REPORTS  ON  THE  SCIENTIFIC  RESULTS  OF  THE  EXPHtllTOi-i  TO  THE 
TROPICAL  PACIFIC,  IN  CHARGE  OF  ALEXANDER  Af.  \SSTZ  !?Y  THE 
U.  S.  FISH  COMMISSION  STEAMER  "ALBATROSS,"  FROM  AUGUST, 
1899,  TO  MARCH,  1900,  COMMANDER  JEFFERSON  F.  MOSER,  U.  S.  N., 
COMMANDING. 

XVI. 

REPORTS  ON  THE  SCIENTIFIC  RESULTS  OF  THE  EXPEDITION  TO  THE 
EASTERN  TROPICAL  PACIFIC,  IN  CHARGE  OF  ALEXANDER  AGASSIZ, 
BY  THE  U.  S.  FISH  COMMISSION  STEAMER  "ALBATROSS,"  FROM 
OCTOBER,  1904,  TO  MARCH,  1905,  LIEUT.  COMMANDER  L.  M.  GARRETT, 
U.  S.  N.,  COMMANDING. 

XXVII. 


THE  SCHIZOPODA. 


By  H.  J.  HANSEN. 


WITH  TWELVE  PLATES. 


IPubllshed  by  permission  of  GRonoE  M.  Bowkrs,  t(.  S.  Commissioner  of  Fish  and  Fisheries.] 


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July,  1912. 


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AT  JIARVARD  COLLEGE 
Vol.  XXXV.      No.  4. 


REPORTS  ON  THE  SCIENTIFIC  RESULTS  OF  THE  EXPEDITION  TO  THE 
TROPICAL  PACIFIC,  IN  CHARGE  OF  ALEXANDER  AGASSIZ,  BY  THE 
U.  S.  FISH  COMMISSION  STEAMER  "ALBATROSS,"  FROM  AUGUST, 
L899,  TO  INIARCH,  1900,  COMMANDER  JEFFERSON  F.  MOSER,  U.  S.  N., 
COMMANDING. 

XVI. 

REPORTS  ON  THE  SCIENTIFIC  RESULTS  OF  THE  EXPEDITION  TO  THE 
EASTERN  TROPICAL  PACIFIC,  IN  CHARGE  OF  ALEXANDER  AGASSIZ, 
BY  THE  U.  S.  FISH  COMMISSION  STEAMER  "ALBATROSS,"  FRO.M 
OCTOBER,  1904,  TO  MARCH,  1905,  LIEUT.  COMMANDER  L.  M.  GARRETT, 
U.  S.  N.,  COMMANDING. 

XXVII. 


THE  SCHIZOPODA. 


By  H.  J.  HANSEN. 


WITH  TWELVE  PLATES. 


(Published  by  permission  of  Georoe  M.  Bowers.  U.  S.  Commissioner  of  Fisb  and  Fislieries.l 


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printe&  for  tF)e  /Duseuin. 

July,  1912. 


TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 


Page 

Introductory  Ueiuarks        177 

Mysidacea 

Lophogastrida 

Chalaraspis  Willemoiis  Suhm.       .     .     .  181 

Chalaraspis    alata  G.    O.   Sars,   PI.    1, 

figs,  la-11 1S2 

Gnathophausia  Willemoes-Suhm       .     .  184 
Gnathophausia  ingens  (Dohrn)    .     .     .  184 
Gnathophausia        gracilis    Willemoes- 
Suhm        185 

Gnathophausia  zorea  Willemoes-Suhm  186 

Eucopia  Dana        187 

Eucopia  unguiculata  Willemoes-Suhm  187 

Eucopia  major  H.  J.  Hansen    ....  188 

Eucopia  sculpticauda  Faxon  .     .     ."    .  189 

Mysida 

Boreomysis  G.  O.  Sars 

Boreomysis  media,  sp.  nov.,  PI.  1,  figs. 

2a-2b        190 

Boreomysis  fragilis,  sp.  nov.,  PI.  1,  fig. 

3a;  PI.  2,  fig.  la 191 

Siriella  Dana 192 

Siriella  thompsonii  (H.  Milne  Edwards)  192 

Siriella  gracilis  Dana 193 

Siriella  media  H.  J.  Hansen     ....  194 

Siriella  aequiremis  H.  J.  Hansen        .     .  194 
Hemisiriella  H.  J.  Hansen 
Hemisiriella  abbreviata,   sp.   nov.,   PI. 

2,  figs.  2a-2c 195 

Anchialina  Norman 196 

Anchialina  typica  (Kroyer)      ....  196 

Anchialina  grossa  H.  J.  Hansen    .     .     .  196 
Anchialina  obtusifrons,  sp.  nov.,  PI.  2, 

figs.  4a-4c 197 

Gastrosaccus  Norman 198 

Gastrosaccus  pacificus,  sp.  nov.,  PI.  2, 

figs.  3a-3g 198 

Euchaetomera  G.  O.  Sars    '     .     .     .     .  199 
Euchaetomera  typicus  G.  O.  S.,  PI.  2, 

figs.  5a-5c 199 


Page 
Euchaetomera  tenuis  G.  0.  Sars  .  .  201 
Euchaetomera  plebeja,  sp.  nov.,  PI.  3, 

figs,  la-lb 202 

Cryptomysis,  gen.  nov 203 

Cryptomysis  lamellicauda,     sp.     nov., 

PI.  3,  figs.  2a-2m 204 

Doxomysis,  gen.  nov 205 

Doxomysis    pelagica,  sp.  nov.,   PI.  3, 

figs.  3a-3g 205 

Euphausiacea 206 

Bentheuphausia  G.  O.  Sars      ....     20(3 
Bentheuphausia  amblyops  G.  O.  Sars     20 
Thysanopoda  H.  Milne  Edwards      .     .     207 
Thysanopoda    tricuspidata    H.    Milne 

Edwards,  PI.  4,  fig.  2a 208 

Thysanopoda  cristata  G.  O.  Sars,  Pi.  3, 

figs.  4a^c;   PI.  4,  figs,  la-lh        .     .     209 
Thysanopoda    monacantha    Ortmann, 

PI.  4,  figs.  3a-3c 212 

Thysanopoda  aequalis  H.  J.   Hansen, 

PI.  4,  fig.  4a 214 

Thysanopoda  obtusifrons  G.   0.  Sars, 

PI.  4,  figs.  5a-5f 215 

Thysanopoda  pectinata  Ortmaim,   PI. 

5,  figs,  la-lm 218 

Thysanopoda  orientalis  H.  .1.  Hansen, 

PI.  5,  figs.  2a-2i 222 

Thysanopoda  cornuta  Illig      ....     223 
Thysanopoda?  cornuta  Illig.,  .luv.,  PI. 

6,  figs,  la-le 224 

Thysanopoda   egregia    H.    J.    Hansen     225 

Nyctiphanes  G.  O.  Sars 226 

Nyctiphanes    simplex    H.    J.    Hansen, 

PI.  6,  figs.  2a-2i;  PI.  7,  figs,  la-lb    .     227 

Euphausia  Dana        230 

Euphausia  eximia  H.  .T.  Hanson,  PI.  7, 

figs.  2a-2g 230 

Euphausia  recur\  u  II.  .1.  Hansen,  PI.  7, 

figs.  3a-3n 233 


176 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


Page 
Euphausia  diomedea  Ortmann,   PI.  7, 

fig.  4a        235 

Euphausia  mutica  H.  J.  Hansen  .  .  .  237 
Euphausia  brevis  H.  J.  Hansen,  PL  S, 

figs,  la-lg 239 

Euphausia  pacifica  H.  .1.  Hansen,  PI.  7, 

figs.  5a-5b 241 

Euphausia  tenera  H.  J.  Hansen  .  .  .  242 
Euphausia  gibba  G.  O.  Sars,  PI.  8,  figs. 

2a-2b 244 

Euphausia  paragibba  H.  J.  Hansen  .  .  24G 
Euphausia  pseudogibba  Ortmann  .  .  247 
Euphausia  distinguenda  H.  J.  Hansen, 

PI.  8,  figs.  3a-3f 248 

Euphausia  lamellifera  H.  J.  Hansen,  PI. 

8,  figs.  4a-4e;  PL  9,  fig.  la       ...     2.50 
Euphausia  gibboides  Ortmann,   PL  9, 

figs.  2a-2h 252 

Euphausia  mucronata  G.  O.  Sars,  PI. 

9,  figs.  3a-3g 255 

Pseudeupliausia  H.  .1.  Hansen  .  .  .  257 
Pseudeuphausia  Litifrons  G.  O.  Sars     .     257 

Nematoscclis  G.  O.  Sars 258 

Nematoscelis  microps  G.  O.  Sars,  PI.  9, 

figs.  4a-4d;  PL  10,  figs,  la-lb     .     .     259 
Nematoscelis  gracilis  H.  J.  Hansen,  PL 

10,  fig.  2a 261 

Nematoscelis  tenella  G.  O.  Sars,  PI.  10, 

figs.  3a-3c 2G3 

Neniatobrachion  Caiman 264 

Nematobrachion    boopis    Caiman,    PI. 

10,  figs.  4a-4d        267 


Paqb 
Nematobrachion  flcxipes  Ortmann,  PL 

10,  figs.  5a-5m       269 

Nematobrachion  scxspinosus  H.  J.  Han- 
sen, PL  10,  fig.  6a;    PI.  11,  figs,  la-li     272 

Stylocheiron  G.  O.  Sars 273 

Stylocheiron  carinatum  G.  O.  Sars,  PI. 

11,  figs.  2a-2b 274 

Stylocheiron  microphthalma  H.  .1.  Hun- 
sen       277 

Stylocheiron  suhmii  G.  O.  Sars,  PI.  11, 

figs.  3a-3b 277 

Stylocheiron  alfine  H.  J.  Hansen  .  .  278 
Stylocheiron  longicorne  G.  O.  Sars,  PI. 

11,  figs.  4a-4b 279 

Stylocheiron  elongatum  G.  O.  Sars  .  .  280 
Stylocheiron  abbreviatum  G.  O.  Sars, 

PL  11,  figs.  5a-5f 280 

Stylocheiron  maximum  H.  J.  Hansen  283 
Larval  stages  of  Euphausiaea,  PI.  12  283 
Thysanopoda  sp.  (T.  monacantha  aff.) 

PI.  12,  figs,  la-lg        284 

Euphausia  distinguenda  H.  J.  Hansen, 

PL  12,  figs.  2a-2c        287 

Nyctiphanes  simplex  H.  .1.  Hansen,  PL 

12,  figs.  3a-3f 288 

Pseudeuphausia  latifrons   G.   O.   Sars, 

PI.  12,  figs.  4a-4b        290 

Nematoscelis  microps  G.  0.  Sars,  PI. 

12,  figs.  5a-5c 291 

Stylocheiron  carinatum  G.  O.  Sars,  PL 

12,  figs.  0a-6d 293 

The  distribution  of  the  Euphausiacca  .  295 
Explanation  of  the  Plates 


INTRODUCTORY  REMARKS. 

The  collection  dealt  with  in  the  present  paper  is  extremely  large,  both 
as  to  the  number  of  species,  sixty-three,  and  especially  as  to  the  numbers  of 
the  specimens  of  the  major  part  of  the  forms.  A  small  portion  of  the  material 
was  captured  by  the  late  Alexander  Agassiz  near  the  Fiji  Islands  in  1897,  a  still 
smaller  lot  was  secured  during  the  trip  of  the  "Albatross"  in  1899-1900,  but 
the  vast  majority  has  been  collected  by  Dr.  Agassiz  in  1904-1905  in  the  Eastern 
Pacific.  When  we  wish  to  get  a  closer  insight  into  the  whole  topic  it  is,  how- 
ever, necessary  to  consider  separately  the  two  orders  still  not  infrequently 
united  under  the  name  Schizopoda,  viz.  Mj'^sidacea  and  Euphausiacea.  And  a 
comparison  with  the  results  of  the  exploration  of  the  Dutch  "Siboga"  Expedi- 
tion in  the  Indian  Archipelago  is  interesting. 

Of  the  order  Mysidacea  only  twenty-three  species  are  at  hand,  fifteen  of 
which  were  secured  in  1904-1905,  while  the  remaining  eight  forms  were  exclu- 
sively gathered  during  the  earlier  trips  just  mentioned.  Fifteen  species  in  all 
from  the  Expedition  in  1904-1905  is  in  reality  a  small  number  as  compared  with 
the  number  of  species  already  known  of  this  order.  But  the  explanation  of  this 
fact  is  given  below,  and  when  we  consider  the  order  Euphausiacea  the  aspect 
is  quite  different.  Of  the  last-named  order  the  collection  contains  forty  species, 
all  with  a  single  exception  taken  in  1904-1905  (some  among  them  besides  in 
1899-1900  or  off  the  Fiji  Islands),  but  as  only  seventy-three  species  of  this  order 
are  known  from  all  seas,  it  will  be  seen  that  Dr.  Agassiz  during  that  single 
Expedition  captured  more  than  half  of  the  world's  fauna.  The  "Siboga" 
gathered  only  twenty-five  species  of  Euphausiacea  but  no  less  than  forty-seven 
species  of  Mysidacea.  The  explanation  of  this  startling  difference  between  the 
results  of  the  Agassiz  Expedition  of  1904-1905  and  the  "Siboga"  Cruise  is  that 
the  Euphausiacea  are  nearly  all  true  oceanic  forms,  while  the  majority  of  the 
My.sidacea  either  inhabit  shallow  water,  or  live  pelagically,  or  not  far  from  the 
bottom  to  a  few  hundred  fathoms  and  within  no  very  great  distance  from  land. 
And  while  the  "Siboga"  in  the  main  explored  the  straits  and  comparatively 


178  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

smaller  seas  between  the  innumerable  islands  in  the  Indian  Archipelago,  the 
Agassiz  Expedition  of  1904-1905  had  the  great  majority  of  its  Stations  in  the 
open  ocean  and  far  from  any  coast. 

On  the  Mysidacea  at  hand  some  remarks  may  be  added.  The  eight  species 
not  captured  in  1904-1905  are  small,  pelagic  forms  taken  near,  or  at  most  only 
some  miles  from  the  coast;  four  among  them  are  new,  and  one  of  these  differs 
so  much  from  earlier  known  forms  that  it  was  necessary  to  establish  a  new  genus 
for  its  reception.  Of  the  fifteen  species  taken  in  1904-1905  four  are  new;  three 
of  these  belong  to  well-known  genera,  while  a  new  genus  is  established  for  the 
fourth.  But  by  far  the  most  important  gain  was  the  capture  of  Chalaraspis 
alata  (Will.-Suhm,  MS.)  Ci.  0.  Sars.  This  genus  as  defined  by  Sars  with  its 
single  species  has  been  described  by  him  from  a  couple  of  sketches  drawn  by 
Willemoes-Suhm  during  the  "Challenger"  Expedition,  as  the  single  specimen 
had  been  lost.  The  genus  belongs  to  the  interesting  suborder  Lophogastrida, 
comprising  in  all  only  six  genera;  the  Agassiz  Expedition  secured  some  speci- 
mens of  Chalaraspis,  and  among  them  an  adult  male,  thus  rendering  it  possible 
to  give  a  detailed  account  of  this  hitherto  rather  enigmatic  type. 

The  material  of  Euphausiacea  is,  as  already  stated,  very  rich,  and  besides 
it  is  important  in  various  respects.  Among  its  forty  species  six  could  not  be 
referred  to  earlier  established  forms,  but  in  a  paper  published  in  May,  1911, 
I  have  given  preliminary  descriptions  of  these,  and  other,  new  species.  Perhaps 
one  might  expect  that  the  number  of  undescribed  species  had  been  considerably 
higher,  but  in  the  years  1905-1910  I  had  established  a  comparatively  large 
number  of  species  of  this  order  on  animals  from  the  Atlantic  or  the  Indian 
Archipelago;  the  major  part  of  the  species  of  the  order  have  a  very  large  or 
frequently  even  vast  distribution,  and  consequently  more  than  three  fourths 
of  the  Euphausiacea  from  the  East  Pacific  were  known  before  from  the  Indian 
Archipelago  ("Siboga")  or  from  the  Atlantic,  or  from  both  Oceans.  But  the 
collection  made  it  possible  to  extend  our  knowledge  of  the  distribution  of  the 
major  part  of  the  species  very  much;  furthermore,  as  the  material,  of  nearly 
all  the  new  species,  and  besides  of  several  earlier  established  but  hitherto  imper- 
fectly known  species,  is  rich  and  generally  well  preserved,  it  was  possible  to  give 
a  full  account  of  these  forms.  And  without  entering  into  other  points  eluci- 
dated by  the  collection,  for  instance,  the  distribution  of  many  of  the  species 
within  the  area  explored,  geographical  variation  of  some  forms,  etc.,  another 

'H.J.  Hansen:  The  Genera  and  Species  of  the  Order  Euphausiacea,  with  Account  of  remarkable 
Variation.     Bull.  Mus.  Ociaa.  Monaco,  No.  210. 


INTRODUCTORY  REMARKS.  179 

consideration  ought  to  be  pointed  out.  In  the  Syn()p.sis  inoiitioiieci  (1!)11) 
I  set  forth  several  reasons  for  the  belief  "that  comparatively  few,  probably 
not  a  dozen,  species  in  the  oceans  of  the  globe  are  still  undiscovered."  And  if 
that  view  be  correct  it  must  be  admitted  that  the  results  of  the  Agassiz  explora- 
tion in  1904-1905  are  as  to  this  order  of  Crustacea  wonderfully  rich,  because 
during  that  trip  thirty-nine  species  were  collected,  thus  a  little  more  than  half 
of  the  species  hitherto  known  —  and  not  far  from  half  of  the  species  really 
existing!— The  collection  contains  besides  a  large  number  of  larvae,  of  Euphau- 
siacea,  but  on  this  topic  it  may  be  sufficient  to  refer  to  my  remarks  in  the 
chapter  on  the  larval  stages  (p.  283-294). 

As  to  the  classification  of  the  Mysidacea  and  some  characters  in  the  Euphau- 
siacea  —  especially  the  important  copulatory  organs  of  first  pair  of  pleopods 
in  the  male  —  I  may  refer  to  the  account  in  my  paper  on  the  "Siboga"  Schizo- 
poda  frequently  quoted  on  the  following  pages.  Only  a  few  points  may  be 
added.  Recently  I  found  that  in  some  genera  (Thysanopoda,  Nematoscelis, 
and  Nematobrachion)  the  maxillulae  afford  valuable  specific  characters  or 
characters  for  groups  of  species  belonging  to  the  same  genus,  furthermore  that 
in  a  few  genera  the  maxillae  show  specific  differences  of  some  interest,  finally 
that  in  the  genus  Nematoscelis  the  thoracic  legs  afford  excellent  characters  for 
dividing  the  genus  into  two  natural  groups. —  The  nomenclature  of  the  cepha- 
lothoracic  appendages  in  the  two  orders  is  identical  with  that  applied  in  the 
"Siboga"  paper. 

The  geographical  distribution  of  each  species  is  mentioned.  I  have  at- 
tempted in  all  cases  to  give  a  full  abstract  of  all  trustworthy  statements  in  the 
literature,  but  as  to  several  species  of  various  genera  (Euphausia,  Nematoscehs, 
Stylocheiron)  most  of  the  earlier  statements  had  to  be  discarded  as  the  species 
in  question  were  "collective."  I  have  added  a  good  many  statements  based 
on  the  material  of  the  Copenhagen  Museum,  but  do  not  think  it  well  to  insert 
still  unpublished  results  based  on  collections  to  be  reported  on  in  the  near 
future,  namely  those  from  the  Swedish  Antarctic  Expedition,  from  the  U.  S. 
National  Museum,  etc. 

And  now  I  may  express  my  deep  regret  that  Dr.  A.  Agassiz  did  not  li\-e 
to  see  the  publication  of  this  paper,  because  it  would  certainly  have  been  a 
satisfaction  for  that  great  explorer  to  see  how  rich  his  collection  of  these  groups 
of  Crustacea  and  especially  of  the  oceanic  Euphausiacea  in  reality  was  and 
how  important  it  proved  for  the  advancement  of  this  branch  of  zoological 
science. 


180  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Finally  I  desire  to  render  my  sincere  thanks  to  the  authorities  of  the  Museum 
of  Comparative  Zoology  for  their  friendliness,  and  especially  for  allowing  me 
to  employ  my  two  very  able  countrymen,  Mr.  T.  N.  Moller,  the  engraver,  and 
Mr.  J.  Bech,  the  copper-plate  printer,  for  the  reproduction  of  my  drawings. 

Copenhagen,  Sept.  18,  1911. 


THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

I.  The  Order  MYSIDACEA. 
A.  Suborder  LOPHOGASTRIDA. 
CHALARASPIS  Willemoes-Suhm  (1875). 

Description. —  Integument  soft.  Carapace  thin,  submembranaceous,  with- 
out processes,  anteriorly  produced  as  a  very  broad  but  somewhat  short  frontal 
plate  (Plate  1,  fig.  la),  and  with  the  postero-lateral  rounded  wings  reaching 
to  the  end  of  the  thorax  or  a  little  more  backwards;  the  cervical  groove  very 
strong. 

Eyes  small,  light  reddish.  Antennular  peduncles  (figs,  la-lb)  short  and 
extremely  thick;  inner  flagellum  thin,  about  as  long  as  the  peduncle. —  Antennal 
squama  not  jointed,  with  the  outer  margin  serrate  beyond  the  middle  (fig.  Ic). — 
Maxillulae  (fig.  le)  without  palp  and  without  setae  or  spines  on  the  inner  lobe. — 
Maxillae  (fig.  If)  somewhat  reduced;  the  lobe  from  second  (1'')  and  third  (P) 
joint  distally  rounded,  undivided;  the  palp  (p)  very  short,  unjointed,  and  scarcely 
marked  off;  the  exopod  strongly  developed,  very  broad. —  Maxillipeds  (fig.  Ig) 
with  the  exopod  about  as  long  as  the  endopod,  which  distally  is  a  little  broader 
than  in  Lophogaster. 

Gnathopods  slightly  shorter  than  the  following  pair  of  legs,  shaped  as  in 
Lophogaster,  with  the  seventh  joint  somewhat  thick,  a  little  curved,  distally 
rounded,  and  strongly  setose. —  Legs  somewhat  slender,  and  the  last  pair  (fig.  li) 
considerably  thinner  than  the  first  (fig.  Ih)  or  second  pair;  claw  long  or  very 
long,  thin;  exopod  well  developed  in  all  pairs  (the  ovigerous  female  is  unknown). 

Sixth  abdominal  segment  with  two  pairs  of  acute  teeth  from  the  lateral 
margin  (fig.  Ik),  but  the  segment  is  not  divided  into  two  sections  by  any  suture. 
Uropods  with  the  endopod  slightly  overreaching  the  telson  and  a  little  longer 
than  the  exopod,  which  is  not  jointed  towards  the  end  (fig.  11).  Telson  (fig.  11) 
oblong-triangular,  with  the  narrow  end  truncate,  with  lateral  spines,  and  a 
couple  of  dorsal  keels. 

Remarks. —  This  genus  is  perhaps  more  allied  and  similar  to  Lophogaster 
M.  Sars  than  to  any  other  genus  of  the  suborder;  from  the  genus  named  it  is, 
however,  easily  distinguished  by  the  shape  of  the  frontal  plate,  the  reduced 
eyes,  the  less  developed  maxillae,  the  long  uropods,  etc.     As  to  the  use  of  the 


182  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

name  Chalaraspis  I  follow  Sars  (Challenger  Rept.,  p.  51).  Willemoes-Suhm 
left  two  figures  of  a  species  to  which  he  had  given  the  name  Chalaraspis  alata. 
The  only  specimen  obtained  by  the  "Challenger"  had  been  lost,  and  therefore 
Sars  described  the  genus  and  the  species  from  the  drawings  made  by  Suhm. 
The  drawings  have  been  rendered  as  woodcuts  by  Sars;  they  were  evidently 
somewhat  imperfect  or  inaccurate  in  several  particulars.  The  figures  show  the 
animal  as  having  the  carapace  exceedingly  large,  covering  the  two  anterior 
abdominal  segments  and  the  lateral  part  of  third  segment.  Among  the  ' '  Alba- 
tross" material  I  found  specimens  agreeing  tolerably  with  Suhm's  figures  in 
all  main  features  excepting  the  relative  length  of  the  carapace,  but  as  specimens 
of  allied  genera,  Gnathophausia  and  Eucopia,  sometimes  are  contracted  to  such 
a  degree  that  the  carapace  covers  two  segments  of  the  abdomen,  no  stress  can 
be  laid  on  the  apparently  very  long  carapace  shown  by  Suhm's  drawings,  as 
his  specimen  in  all  probability  has  been  very  much  contracted.  And  Sars's 
diagnosis  of  the  genus  agrees,  so  far  as  it  goes,  in  the  main  with  the  description 
founded  on  my  specimens. 

1.    Chalaraspis  alata  Willemoes-Suhm,  MS.  G.  O.  Sars. 
Plate  1,  figs,  la-ll. 

1885.     Chalaraspis  alata  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  51.     (Two  text-figures). 

Sta.4665.     Nov.  17, 1904.     Lat.  11°  45'  S.,  long.  86°  5.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  very  young 

specimen. 
Sta.  4672.     Nov.  21, 1904.     Lat.  13°  11.6' S.,  long.  78°  18.3' W.     Top  of  Tanner  net,  400  fms.  to  surface. 

2  immature  specimens  (bad). 
Sta.  4675.     Nov.  22,  1904.     Lat.  12°  54' S.,  long.  78°  33' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  immature  specimen. 
Sta.  4719.     Jan.  14,  1905.     Lat.  6°  29.8'  S.,  long.  101°  16.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  male. 

Description. —  General  aspect  somewhat  similar  to  that  of  Lophogaster. — 
The  frontal  plate  somewhat  short  but  very  broad,  with  the  anterior  transverse 
margin  straight  or  even  slightly  emarginate  and  the  lateral  angles  broadly 
rounded  (figs,  la-lb).  The  carapace  has  the  cervical  groove  not  only  deep 
but  very  curiously  shaped;  seen  from  the  side  (fig.  lb)  the  groove  seems  to  be 
formed  by  two  transverse  furrows  which  unite  laterally,  while  the  anterior 
furrow  is  again  dorsally  bifid;  on  the  side  the  furrow  is  bent  and  is  far  from 
reaching  the  lower  margin  of  the  carapace.  A  little  more  than  the  anterior 
fourth  of  the  lateral  margin  of  the  carapace  is  hollowed  in  a  peculiar  way,  and 
somewhat  above  the  whole  lateral  margin  a  furrow  runs  from  near  the  front 
to  the  hind  margin.  Between  the  antero-lateral  rounded  angles  of  the  frontal 
plate  and  the  cervical  groove  a  pair  of  feeble  longitudinal  keels  are  seen  (fig.  la), 
and  the  area  between  these  keels  is  feebly  concave ;  a  branchial  groove  is  feebly 
developed,  and  rarely  the  posterior  third  of  the  carapace  has  the  middle  line 


CHALARASPIS  ALATA.  183 

distinctly  keeled.     The  i)c)stero-lateral  part  of  the  carapace  at  each  side  is  some- 
what produced  backwards  and  rounded  as  in  Eucopia. 

The  eyes  (fig.  lb,  o.)  are  small,  a  little  compressed,  seen  from  above  (fig.  la) 
oblique-ovate,  light  reddish. —  The  antennular  peduncles  short  and  extremely 
thick;  second  joint  with  an  oblong,  slender,  moderately  short  process  on  the 
outer  side;  third  joint  with  the  front  margin  projecting  in  an  oblong,  very  acute 
process  above  the  insertion  of  the  upper  flagellum  and  a  somewhat  similar 
process  more  downwards  on  the  inner  side  of  the  joint;  the  upper  flagellum 
thin,  with  numerous  joints  and  about  as  long  as  the  peduncle;  lower  flagellum 
very  strong. —  Last  joint  of  the  antennal  peduncle  with  a  small  process  on  the 
outer  side  just  below  the  insertion  of  the  squama;  the  squama  itself  is  a  thin 
plate  reaching  somewhat  beyond  the  end  of  the  antennular  peduncle,  it  is  some- 
what more  than  twice  as  long  as  broad  (fig.  Ic)  with  the  inner  margin  very 
convex  and  setose,  the  outer  margin  a  little  bent  angularly  near  or  a  Httle  beyond 
the  middle  and  its  proximal  part  glabrous,  the  distal  part  serrate  with  9-12 
acute  saw-teeth  somewhat  different  in  size. 

The  five  anterior  abdominal  segments  somewhat  thick,  dorsally  flatly 
convex,  and  some  among  them  even  with  a  small,  a  little  excavated  dorsal 
area;  lateral  plates  of  the  anterior  segments  rounded,  on  fifth,  and  sometimes 
on  fourth,  segment  the  postero-lateral  angle  is  produced  in  a  tiny  or  small, 
acute  tooth.  Sixth  segment  about  as  long  as  the  fifth,  with  two  pairs  of  obliquely 
transverse,  somewhat  short  and  shallow  furrows;  the  two  pairs  of  lateral  teeth 
very  acute.  The  uropods  (fig.  11)  with  the  endopods  slightly  overreaching 
the  telson  and  a  little  longer  than  the  exopod,  which  has  the  end  truncate  and 
three  or  four  faint  serrations  along  the  outer  margin.  Telson  (fig.  11)  very 
oblong-triangular,  scarcely  three  times  as  long  as  broad,  above  with  a  pair 
of  high,  longitudinal,  very  feebly  serrate  keels  a  little  from  the  lateral  margins, 
and  the  area  between  these  keels  excavated  longitudinally;  the  distal  half  of 
each  lateral  margin  with  5  or  6  spines;  the  end  of  the  telson  truncate,  but  hairs 
or  spines  wanting  —  perhaps  lost? —  in  the  specimens. 

Length  of  the  largest  specimen,  a  probably  adult  male,  35  mm. 

Remarks. —  I  do  not  entertain  the  slightest  doubt  that  the  species  described 
here  is  C.  alata.  And  I  think  it  very  important  that  it  has  been  possible  to  fill 
the  gap  in  our  knowledge  of  the  only  hitherto  imperfectly  studied  genus  of  the 
small  but  highly  interesting  suborder  Lophogastrida. 

Distribution. —  The  "Challenger"  specimen  was  taken  in  the  South  Pacific: 
"lat.  50°  1'  S.,  long.  123°  4'  E.;  depth,  1800  fathoms."  It  is  certainly  a  bathy- 
pelagic  form. 


184  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

GNATHOPHAUSIA  Willemobs-Suhm  (1875). 

The  material  is  scanty,  consisting  of  seven  specimens  belonging  to  three 
well-known  species. 

2.     Gnathophausia  ingens  (Dohrn). 

1870.     Lophogaslcr  ingens  Dohrn,  Zeilschr.  wiss.  ZooL,  20,  p.  GIO;  taf.  31,  figs.  12-14. 
1885.     Gnathophausia  ingens  G.  O.  Saus,  Challenger  Rcpt.,  13,  p.  30,  pi.  2. 

Gnathophausia  calcarata  G.  O.  Sars,  Clmllcnger  Rept.,  13,  p.  35,  pi.  4. 

1891.     Gnathophausia  hengalensis  Wood-Mason,  Ann.  Mag.  Nat.  Hist.,  ser.  6,  8,  p.  269. 
1906.     Gnathophausia  ingens  Ortmann,  Proc.  U.  S.  Nat.  Mus.,  31,  p.  28. 

Gnathophausia  calcarata  Ortmann,  Pi'oc.  U.  S.  Nat.  Mus.,  31,  p.  30,  i)l.  1,  figs.  2a,  2b. 

Sta.  36,81.     Aug.  27,  1899.     Lat.  28°  23' N.,  long.  120°  57' W.     3.50  fnis.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  The  specimen,  which  measures  about  68  mm.,  agrees  well  with 
Ortmann's  description  of  G.  calcarata  G.  O.  S.  Dr.  A.  Alcock  kindly  sent  me 
Wood-Mason's  type  of  G.  hengalensis  and  I  can  confirm  Ortmann's  interpreta- 
tion that  it  is  identical  with  G.  calcarata.  Wood-Mason  said  that  "the  upper 
lateral  keels  are  strongly  roof-shaped,"  but  Ortmann  was  unable  to  understand 
the  meaning  of  this  sentence;  I  suppose,  however,  that  Wood-Mason  intended 
to  say  that  the  keels  in  question  protrude  laterally  as  eaves  above  the  vertical 
sides  of  the  carapace,  when  this  is  seen  from  behind  or  in  an  optic  transverse 
section. 

Ortmann  (1.  c,  p.  28-30  and  p.  34)  was  of  the  opinion  that  G.  ingens 
(Dohrn)  G.  0.  Sars,  is  the  full-grown  female  of  G.  calcarata  (Will.-Suhm,  MS.)  G. 
0.  S.,  and  I  am  able  to  add  three  points  corroborating  his  view.  I  examined 
Sars's  "  Challenger  "  specimens  of  G.  ingens  (Dohrn)  in  the  British  Museum  and 
found  that  it  possessed  the  two  pairs  of  oblique  keels  on  the  upper  surface  of  the 
carapace,  these  keels  being  even  well  developed  and  completely  similar  to  those 
on  the  type  of  G.  calcarata ;  Ortmann  rightly  supposed  that  these  keels  had  been 
overlooked  by  Dohrn  and  Sars.  Furthermore  Sars's  figure  of  the  ventral  epi- 
meral  plates  of  the  sixth  abdominal  segment  in  G.  ingens  is  incorrect;  the  sUt 
between  the  two  posterior  lobes  of  the  plate  is  longer  and  narrower  in  proportion 
to  the  breadth  of  the  lobes  than  in  his  fig.  G  (PI.  II),  and,  what  is  of  more 
importance,  each  lobe  has  its  outer  terminal  angle  produced  into  a  somewhat 
short,  pointed  tip,  while  the  inner  terminal  angle  at  the  slit  is  acute  but  very 
slightly  produced,  thus  situated  somewhat  in  front  of  the  outer  tip  and  shaped 
about  as  in  G.  calcarata,  but  differing  notably  from  Sars's  fig.  6  of  G.  ingens. 
Finally  Sars  says  in  the  diagnosis  of  G.  ingens:  " branchiostegal  spines  ob.solete," 
but  he  overlooked  that  these  spines  liad  been  broken  off  in  his  specimen.  I 
think  one  is  now  justified  in  adopting  Ortmann's  supposition  and  may  safely 
take  the  step  to  jvithdraw  G.  calcarata,  considering  it  only  as  a  synonym. 


GXATIIOPHAUSIA  GRACILIS.  185 

Distribuiion. —  Accordini;-  to  the  literature  this  species  is  known  IVoin  ofT 
the  West  coast  of  Africa,  "Laos,"  fioiu  llu-  (lulf  of  Mexico,  the  Bay  of  Bengal, 
the  Arafura  Sea,  South  of  Mindanao,  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  and  is  coinmon  in 
the  California  iv^ion  in  the  East  Pacific. 

3.     Gnathophausia  gracilis  WiixEMoijs-SiriiM. 

1875.  Gnalhoplianxid  (jracilis  Willemoes-Suhm,  Trans.  Linn.Soi'.  Ijomloii,  scr.  2,  1,  p.  3.'!,  j)!.  9,  fiK-  I. 

1885.  Gnathop)i(iu.iiii  gracilU  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  48,  pi.  7,  figs.  6-10. 

1891.  Gnalhophiiiisin  hrevispinis  Wood-Ma.son  &  Alcock,  Ann.  Mag.  Nat.  Ili.st.,  ser.  (J,  7,  p.  269. 

1895.  Gnalhophiiusia  hrcritspinis  Faxon,  Mem.  Mus.  Comp.  ZoiJl.,  18,  p.  21(1,  pi.  .1. 

190().  Gnalhophtnisid  (jrarUis  Oktmann,  Proc.  U.  S.  Nat.  Mus.,  31,  p.  39. 

Sta.  4651.  Nov.  11.  1904.  Lat.  5°  47.1'  S.,  long.  82°  59.7'  W.     2222  fnis.,  trawl.     1  specimen. 

8ta.  4652.  Nov.  11,  1904.  Lat.  5°  44.7' S.,  long.  82°  39.5' W.     400  fms.  to  surface.     1  small  specimen. 

Sta.  4656.  Nov.  13,  1904.  Lat.  6°  54.6' S.,  long.  83°  34.3' W.     2222  fms.,  trawl.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  40.8'  W.     2035  fms.,  trawl.     1  specimen. 

Sta  4715.  Jan.    2,1905.  Lat.  2°  40.4' S.,  long.  90°  19.3' W.     On  way  up  from  1743  fms.     1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  The  largest  specimen,  a  male  from  Sta.  4709,  is  G9  mm.  long; 
a  female  with  the  marsupium  well  developed  (from  Sta.  4656)  is  65  mm.  long, 
and  another  female  with  marsupium  (from  Sta.  4715)  is  62  mm.  These  three 
large  specimens  have  on  the  gastric  area  an  oblong,  rather  high,  lamellar,  sub- 
triangular,  dentate  crest  terminating  in  a  spiniform  process;  besides  they  have 
the  lateral  plates  of  the  five  anterior  abdominal  segments  expanded  posteriorly; 
the  expansion  of  the  plates  of  first  segment  is  small  in  the  two  females,  moder- 
ately large  in  the  male,  antl  the  expansions  increase  in  all  three  specimens 
gradually  and  considerably  in  size  from  first  to  fourth  segment,  while  those  of 
the  fifth  segment  are  somewhat  smaller.  In  the  smallest  specimen,  measuring 
25  mm.,  the  anterior  dorsal  spine  on  first  abdominal  segment  is  extremely  small, 
the  lateral  plates  of  the  abdominal  segments  are  not  expanded  posteriorly, 
and  the  lamellar  crest  on  the  gastric  area  is  rudimentary  with  a  small  spine 
above;  in  the  fifth  specimen,  which  is  37  mm.  long,  the  last-named  lamellar 
crest  is  developed  nearly  as  in  the  large  specimens,  but  the  lateral  plates  of  the 
second  to  the  fifth  abdominal  segments  are  very  feebly  expanded. 

I  have  examined  the  type-specimen  of  Willemoes-Suhm  and  G.  O.  Sars; 
it  measures  41  mm.  and  is  preserved  in  the  British  Museum.  It  has  on  the 
gastric  region  a  small,  oblong,  triangular,  lamellar  plate  with  a  spine  on  the 
vertex  and  a  little  farther  behind  there  are  four  small  saw-like  teeth  in  a  longi- 
tudinal row;  furthermore  the  lateral  plates  of  the  abdominal  segments  are 
feebly  expanded  nearly  as  in  the  above  mentioned  specimen  measuring  37  mm. 
Dr.  Alcock  loaned  me  the  type  of  G.  brevispinis,  and  an  examination  gave  the 


186  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

result  that  it  is  identical  with  G.  gracilis  Will.-Suhm,  as  already  pointed  out  by 
Ortmann. 

Ortmann's  elaborate  account  of  this  characteristic  species  is  very  good; 
my  own  examination  of  the  types  corroborates  his  statements  and  critical 
remarks.  The  study  of  the  five  specimens  from  the  Agassiz  collection  and  the 
two  types  mentioned  shows  that  the  lamellar  crest  is  well  developed  both  in 
full-grown  and  a  little  more  than  half-grown  specimens,  but  rudimentary  in  a 
much  smaller  specimen,  while  the  expansion  of  the  lateral  plates  of  the  five 
abdominal  segments  is  well  developed  only  in  full-grown  specimens  and  feebly 
developed  in  specimens  measuring  37-41  mm.  in  length.  It  may  be  added  that 
the  anterior  dorsal  sj^iniform  process  on  first  abdominal  segment  is  always 
much  smaller  than  the  posterior,  but  proportionately  considerably  longer  in 
large  than  in  small  specimens.  The  character  pointed  out  by  Ortmann  that 
"there  are  two  triangular,  pointed  epimeral  lappets  on  each  side  of  the  anterior 
part  of  the  sixth  segment ' '  is  very  interesting. 

Distribution. —  According  to  the  literature  this  species  has  a  wide  distribu- 
tion:— Atlantic  at  Lat.  1°  22'  N.,  long.  26°  3G'  W.,  Bay  of  Bengal,  off  Galapagos, 
ofif  Panama,  and  off  Central  California.  It  is  a  bathypelagic  species,  taken  in 
depths  from  more  than  600  to  more  than  2000  fathoms  to  surface,  the  only 
exception  being  the  small,  not  half  grown  specimen  from  Sta.  4652  taken  in  400 
fathoms  to  surface. 

4.     Gnathophausia  zoea  Willemoes-Suhm. 

1875.  Gnathophausia  zoeo  Willemoes-Suhm,  Trans.  Linn.  Soc.  London,  ser.  2,  1,  p.  32,  pi.  9,  figs.  2-15; 

pi.  10,  fig.  4. 

1885.  Gnathophausia  zoea  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  44,  pi.  6,  figs.  6-10. 

Gnathophausia  willemnesii  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  38,  pi.  5,  figs.  1-6. 

1S91.  Gnathophausia  sarsi  Wood-Mason  and  Alcock,  Ann.  ISIag.  Nat.  Hist.,  ser.  6,  7,  p.  187. 

1906.  Gnathophausia  zoea  Ortmann,  Proc.  U.  S.  Nat.  Mus.,  21,  p.  42. 

1908.  Gnathophausia  zoea  H.  J.  Hansen,  The  Danish  Ingolf-Exp.,  3,  2,  p.  93,  pi.  4,  figs.  3a-3c. 

1910.  Gnathophausia  zoea  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  17. 

Sta.  4641.     Nov.  7,  1904.     Lat.  1°  34.4'  S.,  long.  89°  30.2'  W.     633  fms.,  trawl.     1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  As  to  variation,  size,  etc.,  of  this  species  I  refer  to  Ortmann's 
paper  and  to  the  remarks  in  my  two  recent  treatises.  The  specimen  from  the 
Agassiz  Expedition  is  about  half  grown  and  shows  nothing  of  interest. 

Distribution. —  This  species  is  common  in  the  tropical  and  northern  tem- 
perate Atlantic,  where  it  is  found  northwards  even  to  West  of  Iceland :  Lat.  64° 
45'  N.,  long.  29°  06'  W.  (Ingolf-Exp.);  it  has  been  taken  in  the  Bay  of  Bengal, 
in  the  Indian  Archipelago,  and  is  widely  distributed  in  the  tropical  and  northern 
temperate  Pacific.  Detailed  statements  on  the  geographical  and  bathymetrical 
occurrence  are  found  in  Ortmann's  paper  and  in  my  two  recent  reports. 


EUCOl'lA   UNGridLATA.  187 


EUCOPIA  Dana  (1852). 

The  genus  comprises  four  species,  three  of  which  are  represented  in  this  col- 
lection. In  the  account  t)f  the  "Siboga"  Schizopoda  I  have  given  an  analytical 
key  to  the  species  and  have  dealt  with  the  synonymy. 

5.    Eucopia  unguiculata  (Willemoes-Suhm). 

1S75.     Chalamspis  unguinilald  Willemoes-Suhm,  Trans.  Linn.  Soc.  London,  ser.  2,  1,  p.  37-40,  pi.  8 

(partim). 
1905.     Eucopia  unguicukda  H.  J.  Han.sen,  Bull.  Mus.  Ocean.  Monaco,  no.  42,  p.  3. 
1910.     Eucopia  unguiculata  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  20,  pi.  I,  fig.  3a. 

In  this  list  I  do  not  include  Sars's  account  of  his  Eucopia  auslralis  Dana 
in  the  "Challenger"  Rept.,  p.  55,  pis.  9-10,  because  he,  as  pointed  out  in  the 
"Siboga"  paper,  has  confused  three  species,  viz.  E.  auslralis  Dana  with  figs. 
1-2  on  his  pi.  9,  E.  sculpiicauda  Faxon,  to  which  his  figures  13-17  on  pi.  10 
belong,  and  E.  unguiculata  Will.-Suhm,  to  which  at  least  the  majority  of  his 
other  figures  belong. 

Sta.  4646.  Nov.    S,  1904.  Lat.  4°  1.6' S.,  long.  89°  16.3' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4650.  Nov.  10,  1904.  Lat.  5°  22'  S.,  long.  84°  39'  W.     300  fni.s.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4652.  Nov.  U,  1904.  Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  82°  39.5'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4655.  Nov.  12,  1904.  Lat.  5°  57.5'  S.,  long.  80°  50'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4664.  Nov.  17,  1904.  Lat.  11°  30.3' S.,  long.  87°  19' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4667.  Nov.  18,  1904.  Lat.  11°  59.5' S.,  long.  83°  40.4' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4668.  Nov.  19,  1904.  Lat.  12°  9.3'  S.,  long.  81°  45.2'  W.     Bottom  of  Tanner  net,  300  fms.     1 

specimen. 

Sta.  4669.  Nov.  19,  1904.  Lat.  12°  12.7' S.,  long.  80°  25.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4671.  Nov.  20,  1904.  Lat.  12°  6.9'  S.,  long.  78°  28.2'  \V.     300  fms.  to  surface.     8  specimens. 

Sta.  4672.  Nov.  21,  1904.  Lat.  13°  11.6'  S.,  long.  78°  18.3'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface,  Tanner  net, 

closed  bottom.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4676.  Dec.     5,  1904.  Lat.  14°  28.9'  S.,  long.  81°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4679.  Dec.     7,1904.  Lat.  17°  26.4' S.,  long.  86°  46.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4716.  Jan.     2,  1905.  Lat.  2°  18.5'  S.,  long.  90°  2.6'  W.     600  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  The  largest  specimen,  an  adult  male  from  Sta.  4676,  measures 
33  mm.  in  length,  and  is  thus  uncommonly  large;  the  largest  female  with  marsu- 
pium,  from  Sta.  4655,  is  32  mm.  long. 

Distribution. —  The  species  is  common  in  the  Western  Mediterranean  and 
the  northern  temperate  Atlantic  and  extends  far  northwards,  as  it  has  been  taken 
in  the  Davis  Straits  at  Lat.  61°  50'  N.  and  West  of  Iceland  at  Lat.  64°  38'  N., 
long.  32°  37'  W.  (Ingolf-Exp.).  It  is  known  from  some  localities  in  the  Indian 
Archipelago;  as  shown  above,  it  is  not  uncommon  in  a  good  portion  South  of 
Lat.  4°  S.  of  the  area  explored  in  1904-1905,  and  it  is  probably  widely  distributed 
in  the  tropical  and  temperate  Pacific;  Ortmann  (1906)  records  a  specimen  from 


188  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

North  Coronado  Island,  California.  Its  distribution  southward  in  the  three 
large  Oceans  is  still  unknown.  The  majority  of  the  localities  enumerated 
in  the  literature  by  the  authors  until  July  1905  for  E.  australis  Dana  certainly 
belong  to  E.  unguiculata,  but  some  among  them  to  E.  7najor  or  E.  australis, 
and  all  specimens  referred  before  July  1895  to  E.  australis  should  be  reexamined. 
The  real  E.  australis  Dana  is  a  very  large  i^ntarctic  species.  The  species  has, 
as  far  as  I  know,  never  been  taken  near  the  surface. 

6.    Eucopia  major  H.  J.  Hansen. 

1910.     Eucopia  major  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  [i.  21,  pi.  1,  fig.s.  4a-4b. 

Sta.  4645.     Nov.    8,  1904.  Lat.  3  °.37.G'  S.,  long.  89°  43.1'  W.  1955  fms.,  trawl.  1  .specimen  (only  a 

fragment). 

Sta.  4651.     Nov.  11,  1904.  Lat.  5°  41.7' S.,  long.  82°  59.7' W.  2222  fms.,  trawl.  2  specimens. 

Sta.  4742.     Feb.  1.5,  1905.  Lat.  0°  3.4' N.,  long.  117°  15.8' W.  2320  fms.,  trawl.  1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  This  species  was  estabhshed  on  a  badly  preserved  female  with 
marsupium  secured  by  the  "Siboga"  and  measuring  42  mm.  in  length.  The 
specimens  from  the  Pacific  are  also  badly  preserved;  a  male,  from  Sta.  4651, 
is  58  mm.  long,  and  a  female,  from  Sta.  4742,  with  the  marsupial  plates  perhaps 
not  fully  developed  is  even,  about  60.5  mm.  But  I  am  inclined  to  think  that 
these  specimens  had  been  a  little  shorter  in  the  living  state  than  in  their  present 
bad  and  seeiningly  extended  condition. 

The  species  is  easily  separated  from  E.  unguiculata  by  its  much  larger  size, 
the  largest  specimen  recorded  of  the  last-named  species  was  only  38  mm.,  and 
especially  by  having  its  short  eyes  looking  forwards,  occupying  less  than  one 
fourth  of  the  outer  margin  of  the  whole  appendage  (stalk  +  cornea),  while  in 
E.  unguiculata  the  cornea  looks  in  the  main  outwards  and  occupies  more  than 
one  third,  frequently  about  two  fifths,  of  the  same  outer  margin.  E.  major 
is  readily  distinguished  from  E.  australis  Dana  by  having  the  terminal  joint 
of  the  exopod  of  the  uropods  distinctly  broader  than  long,  while  in  E.  australis 
it  is  longer  than  broad ;  besides  the  eye-stalks  are  projjortionately  longer  and 
narrower  in  E.  australis  than  in  E.  major. 

Distribution. —  A  single  specimen  was  captured  in  the  Indian  Archipelago 
by  the  "Siboga,"  and  in  1910  some  specimens  were  secured  by  the  Prince 
of  Monaco  in  the  Atlantic  West  of  Southern  Spain.  In  1906  Ortmann  enumer- 
ated six  localities  in  the  North  Pacific  northwards  to  Lat.  56°  12'  N.  and  one 
locality  in  the  West  Indies  for  E.  australis,  but  as  E.  australis  Dana  is  an  Ant- 
arctic species  his  determinations  cannot  he  correct.  As  he  had  separated  E. 
unguiculata  from  his  E.  australis  I  think  that  the  specimens  from  his  seven 


EUCOPIA  SCULPTICAUDA.  189 

localities  belong  either  all  to  E.  major  or  some  to  E.  major  and  others  either  to  a 
hitherto  undescribed  species  or  that  they  are  young  specimens  of  E.  sculplicauda 
Faxon. 

7.    Eucopia  sculpticauda  Faxon. 

1893.    Eucopia  sculpticauda  Faxon,  Hull.  Mus.  Cornp.  ZoOl.,  24,  p.  218. 

1895.     Eucopia  sculplicauda  Faxon,  Mom.  Mils.  Comp.  Zool.,  18,  p.  219,  pi.  K,  figs.  2,  2il;  pi.  53,  figs. 

1-ld. 
1905.     Eucopia  inlermedia  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc&n.  Monaco,  no.  30,  p.  5,  figs.  2-3.     (Young). 
1905.     Eucopia  sculpticauda  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc6:in.  Monaco,  no.  30,  p.  G-7;  fig.  4. 

Sta.  4645.  Nov.    8,  1904.  Lat..  3°  37.6'  S.,  long.  89°  43.1'  W.     1955  fms.,  trawl.     1  adult  female. 

Sta.  4648.  Nov.    9,  1904.  Lat.  4°  43'  S.,  long.  87°  7.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  young  specimen. 

Sta.  4652.  Nov.  11,  1904.  Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.   82°  39.5'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens 

(1  female  with  marsupium,  3  young  specimens). 

Sta.  4657.  Nov.  13,  1904.  Lat.  7°  12.5'  S.,  long.  84°  9'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  young  specimens. 

Sta.  4664.  Nov.  17,  1904.  Lat.  11°  30.3'  S.,  long.  87°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  young  specimens. 

Sta.  4667.  Nov.  18,  1904.  Lat.  11°  59.5' S.,  long.  83°  40.4' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.    1  young  specimen. 

Sta.  4676.  Dec.     5,  1904.  Lat.  14°  28.9'  S.,  long.  81°  24'  W.    300  fms.  to  surface.     1  young  specimen. 

Sta.  4715.  Jan.     2,1905.  Lat.  2°  20.4' S.,  long.  90°  19.3' W.     300fms.  to  surface.     1  young  specimen. 

Sta.  4721.  Jan.    1.5,  1905.  Lat.  8°  7.5' S.,  long.  104°  10.5' W.     2084  fms.,  trawl.     2  adult  females. 

Sta.  4724.  Jan.    17,1905.  Lat.  11°  13.4' S.,  long.  109°  39' \V.     1841  fms.,  trawl.     1  adult  female. 

Remarks. —  As  already  mentioned  in  the  "Siboga"  paper  E.  intermedia 
is  only  the  young,  differing  from  large  or  adult  specimens  in  having  the  telson 
scarcely  or  not  at  all  constricted  a  little  before  the  tip  and  without  any  network 
of  ridges  on  a  portion  of  its  surface,  furthermore  by  having  the  first  pair  of 
thoracic  legs  somewhat  less  thick  than  in  the  adult,  but  yet  much  thicker  than 
in  the  three  other  species  of  the  genus. 

As  seen  in  the  list,  five  females  with  marsupium  have  been  captured.  The 
smallest  female  (from  Sta.  4652)  is  only  30  mm.  long,  the  largest  (from  Sta.  4724) 
is  49  mm.,  the  three  other  respectively  31.6  mm.,  34.5  mm.  and  36.5  mm.  Faxon 
has  mentioned  a  female  measuring  66  mm.  in  length. 

Distribution. —  Faxon  established  E.  sculplicauda  on  some  specimens  from 
the  tropical  Pacific  (the  Galapagos,  the  Gulf  of  Panama,  off  Central  America) ; 
Ortmann  (1905)  enumerated  two  specimens  from  the  Hawaiian  Islands.  It  has 
been  taken  by  the  "Investigator"  in  the  Bay  of  Bengal,  by  the  Prince  of  Monaco 
in  various  places  within  the  triangular  area  between  Gibraltar,  the  Azores,  and 
the  Canary  Islands;  finally  West  of  the  Hebrides  and  Southwest  of  Iceland 
at  Lat.  62°  25'  N.,  long.  28°  30'  W.  (Ingolf-Exp.). 

It  is  interesting  that  all  the  specimens  captured  by  the  ".Albatross"  at 
the  six  Stations  in  depths  from  300  fms.  to  surface  are  not  full  grown,  while 
one  adult  female  is  from  400  fms.  to  surface  and  the  four  other  adult  females 
from  much  greater  depths  to  surface.     This  seems  to  confirm  my  observations 


190  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

as  to  GnatJiophausia  zoea  Will.-Suhm,  Sergestes  ardicus  Kr.,  and  Sergestes  robustus 
Smith,  "that  small  specimens  are  often  at  least  found  nearer  the  surface  than 
the  larger  and  that  the  wholly  developed  specimens  are  always  only  met  with 
in  deeper  layers." 

B.    Suborder  MYSIDA. 

BOREOMYSIS  G.  O.  Sara  (1869). 
S.    Boreomysis  media,  sp.  nov. 

Plate  1,  figs.  2a-2b. 

Sta.  4652.     Nov.  11,  1904.  Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  82°  39.5'  W.     400  fnis.  to  surface.     1  adult  female 

(Type). 

Sta.  4655.     Nov.  12,  1904.  Lat.  5°  57.5'  S.,  long.  80°  50'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface.     1  adult  female. 

Sta.  4675.     Nov.  22,  1904.  Lat.  12°  54'  S.,  long.  78°  33'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  adult  female. 

Description. —  Frontal  plate  very  considerably  produced  (fig.  2a),  with 
the  transition  between  the  front  margin  and  the  oblique  lateral  margin  consid- 
erably curved;  the  front  margin  is  produced  in  a  conspicuous,  triangular,  acute 
rostrum.  Eyes  of  very  moderate  size,  brownish,  somewhat  depressed,  scarcely 
as  broad  as  the  end  of  the  stalk,  which  is  a  little  broader  than  long  and  with 
a  triangular  process  of  moderate  size  on  the  upper  surface.  The  antennal 
scjuama  somewhat  short,  only  three  times  as  long  as  broad,  with  the  outer 
margin  nearly  straight,  the  inner  considerably  convex  and  the  end  scarcely  more 
than  half  as  broad  as  the  squama  a  little  behind  the  middle;  the  terminal  margin 
somewhat  oblique  and  the  outer  tooth  very  distinct. 

Exopod  of  uropods  (fig.  2b)  eight  times  as  long  as  broad,  with  a  couple 
of  spines  placed  a  little  beyond  the  end  of  the  proximal  sixth  of  the  outer  margin. 
Telson  scarcely  three  times  as  long  as  broad,  because  its  proximal  third  is  very 
broad;  from  the  end  of  that  third  the  telson  tapers  strongly  to  the  beginning 
of  the  distal  fourth,  where  it  is  narrow,  only  two  fifths  as  broad  as  at  the  base; 
its  terminal  fourth  widens  feebly  to  the  end;  the  incision,  which  occupies  one 
fifth  or  one  sixth  of  the  whole  length,  has  no  angles  on  its  margins  and  its  proxi- 
mal part  is  shaped  as  a  triangle  with  its  two  sides  a  little  convex.  •  Each  lateral 
margin  from  the  end  of  the  proximal  third  to  near  the  distal  end  is  furnished 
with  about  10-11  moderately  small  spines  and  18-20  very  small  spines,  the 
latter  regularly  arranged  between  the  former  and  generally  two  small  spines 
in  each  interval  (fig.  2b,  a) ;  along  the  distal  part  of  the  margin  the  spines  are 
more  equal  in  size,  small. 

Length  of  a  female  with  marsupium  (from  Sta.  4652)  19.5  mm. 


Sta. 

4650. 

Nov. 

10, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4652. 

Nov. 

11, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4655. 

Nov. 

12, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4671. 

Nov. 

20, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4676. 

Dec. 

5, 

1004. 

Sta. 

4679. 

Dec. 

7. 

1904. 

BOREOMVSIS   FRAGILIS.  191 

Remarks. —  This  species  is  allietl  to  B.  sibogae  H.  J.  H.,  Ijut  differs  especially 
in  having  the  antenna!  squama  conspicuously  broader  with  the  end  obhque 
and  the  inner  margin  more  convex;  furthermore,  the  telson  is  distally  much 
narrower  and  the  incision  conspicuously  shorter  than  in  B.  sibogae. 

9.     Boreomysis  fragilis,  sp.  nov. 

Plate  1,  fig.  3a;    Plate  2,  fig.  la. 

Lat.  5°  22'  S.,  long.  84°  39'  W.     300  fm.s.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 
Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  82'  39.5'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat .  5°  57.5'  S.,  long.  80°  50'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface.     1  adult  female. 
Lat.  12°  6.9'  S.,  long.  78°  28.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  14°  28.9'  S.,  long.  81°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  adult  speci- 
mens, male  (Type)  and  female. 

Description. —  Frontal  plate  considerably  produced,  subtriangular  (fig.  3a), 
with  the  lateral  margins  very  feebly  convex  and  a  little  concave  in  front  at  the 
rostral  process,  which  is  triangular,  acute,  and  bent  a  little  upwards.  Eyes  very 
small,  reddish  brown,  looking  forwards  and  especially  downwards,  only  a  narrow 
strip  being  visible  from  above;  the  eye-stalks  increase  somewhat  in  breadth 
from  the  base  outwards  and  are  somewhat  longer,  measured  from  the  middle 
of  the  terminal  margin,  than  broad;  at  the  upper  inner  angle  produced  into  an 
oblong-triangular  process  reaching  considerably  beyond  the  cornea. 

The  antennal  squama  is  somewhat  less  than  four  times  as  long  as  broad, 
broadest  somewhat  before  the  middle  and  there  almost  twice  as  broad  as  at  the 
end;  the  outer  margin  is  feebly  concave,  the  terminal  margin  oblique,  and  the 
outer  tooth  very  distinct. 

Exopod  of  the  uropods  (fig.  la)  seven  times  as  long  as  broad,  with  a  couple 
of  fine  spines  on  the  outer  margin  at  the  end  of  its  naked  basal  fifth.  Telson 
proportionately  broad,  scarcely  more  than  three  times  as  long  as  broad,  but  at 
the  beginning  of  its  terminal  fourth  only  about  two  fifths  as  broad  at  a  little 
from  the  base;  the  terminal  incision,  which  occupies  about  one  fifth  of  the  total 
length,  has  its  proximal  portion  triangular  and  a  little  acuminate,  while  the  major 
part  of  the  lateral  margins  of  the  incision  are  more  or  less  distinctly  diverging. 
The  lateral  margins  of  the  telson  are  furnished  with  a  moderately  small  number 
of  spines;  seven  or  eight  at  each  side  are  somewhat  small  but  yet  considerably 
or  much  longer  than  the  others  which  are  very  or  extremely  small. 

In  the  adult  male  the  exopod  of  third  pair  of  pleopods  is  about  half  as 
long  again,  the  exopod  of  second  pair  about  one  third  as  long  again,  as  the 
endopod. 


192  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Length  of  the  male  12  mm.,  of  a  female  with  marsupium  13  mm. 

Remarks. —  This  small  species  is  allied  to  B.  rtiicrops  G.  0.  Sars,  but  differs 
especially  in  having  the  process  at  the  end  of  the  eye-stalks  very  much  larger 
and  the  longer  lateral  spines  on  the  telson  much  shorter  than  in  the  last-named 
species.  The  integuments  are  thin;  not  a  single  specimen  is  really  well  pre- 
served, and  the  majority  a  good  deal  mutilated  and  somewhat  shrivelled;  most 
of  them  are  besides  immature  or  small. 

It  may  be  mentioned  that  a  small,  oblong  ganglion  is  found  at  the  base 
of  the  process  on  the  eye-stalks;  this  ganglion  is  connected  with  the  large  optic 
ganglion  by  a  couple  of  nerve  fibres,  and  from  it  a  fibre  runs  towards  the  end 
of  the  process,  which  probably  may  have  some  sensory  function. 

SIRIELLA  Dana  (1850). 

Of  this  very  large  genus  four  species  are  at  hand,  three  of  which  were  taken 
in  1904-1905,  and  a  fourth  in  1900. 

10.    Siriella  thompsonii  (II.  Milne  Edwards). 

1837.  Cynthia  thompsonii  H.  Milne  Edwards,  Hist.  Nat.  Crust.,  2,  p.  402. 

1852.  fSiriella  vilrea  Dana,  U.  S.  Expl.  Exp.  Crust.,  1,  p.  656,  pi.  43,  figs.  0a-6m. 

?Siriella  breoipes  Dana,  U.  S.  Expl.  Exp.  Crust.,  1,  p.  658,  pi.  44,  figs,  la-lq. 

1861.  Cynthia  incrinis  Kroyer,  Nat.  Tidsskr.,  3,  R.  1,  p.  44,  tab.  2,  fig.  6,  a-g. 

1868.  Siriella  edwardsii  Claus,  Zeitsphr.  wiss.  Zoo!.,  17,  p.  271,  taf.  18. 

1882.  SirieUides  indica  Czerniav.sky,  Mon.  Mj-sid.,  1,  p.  103,  tab.  31,  figs.  1-6. 

1885.  Siriella  thnmpsoni  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Kept.,  13,  p.  205,  pi.  36,  figs.  1-24. 

1910.  Siriella  thompsonii  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  31  (with  further  notes  on  synonymy). 

Sta.  4571.  Oct.     7,1904.  Lat.  33°  40' N.,  long.  119°  35' W.     4  fms.,  surface  net.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4576.  Oct.     8,  1904.  Lat.  29°  52'  N.,  long.  116°  56'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4611.  Oct.    18,  1904.  Lat.  10°  33' N.,  long.  88°  30' W.     Surface.     More  than  30  specimens 

Sta.  4615.  Oct.   19,  1904.  Lat.  9°  7'  N.,  long.  85°  11'  W.     Sm-face.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4617.  Oct.  20,  1904.  Lat.  7°  45'  N.,  long.  82°  25'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4619.  Oct.  20,  1904.  Lat.  7°  15'  N.,  long.  82°  8'  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4635.  Nov.    4,  1904.  Lat.  3°  52.5'  N.,  long.  84°  14.3'  W.     Surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4640.  Nov.    6,1904.  Lat.  0°  39.4' S.,  long.  88°  11' W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4646.  Nov.    8,1904.  Lat.  4°  1.6' S.,  long.  89°  16.3' W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4648.  Nov.    9,  1904.  Lat.  4°  43'  S.,  long.  87°  7.5'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4667.  Nov.  IS,  1904.  Lat.  11°  59.5'  S.,  long.  83°  40.4'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4071.  Nov.  20,  1904.  Lat.  12°  6.9' S.,  long.  78°  28.2' W.     Surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4677.  Dec.    5,  1904.  Lat.  14°  37.5'  S.,  long.  81°  41'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4678.  Dec,     6,  1904.  Lat.  16°  31.2'  S.,  long.  85°  3.8'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4680.  Dec.    7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  55'  S.,  long.  87°  42'  W.     Surface.     13  specimens. 

Sta.  4682.  Dec.    8,1904.  Lat.  19°  7.6' S.,  long.  90°  10.6' W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4683.  Dec.    9,1904.  Lat.  20°  2.4' S.,  long.  91°  52.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4685.  Dec.  10,  1904.  Lat.  21°  36.2'  S.,  long.  94°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4086.  Dec.  10,  1904.  Lat.  22°  2.2'  S.,  long.  95°  52'  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4688.  Dec.  11,  1904.  Lat.  23°  17.2' S.,  long.  98°  37.5' W.     Surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4092.  Dec.  13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  40.4'  S.,  long.  104°  1.3'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4094.  Dec.  22,  1904.  Lat.  20°  34'  S.,  long.  108°  57.3'  W.     Surface.     4  specimens. 


siRTF.i.T.A  r.n.vriLTs.  193 

Sta.  4695.  Dec.  23,  1904.  Lat .  2,')°  22.4'  S.,  long.  107°  4,5'  W.     300  fiiLS.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4696.  Dec.  23,  1904.  Lat.  24°  40.3'  S.,  long.  107°  5.3'  W.     Suiface.     7  .specimens. 

Sta.  4698.  Dec.  24,  1904.  Lat.  22°  50.4' S.,  long.  105°  31.7' W.     .Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4700.  Dec.  25,  1904.  Lat.  20°  2S.8' S.,  long.  103°  2G.3' W.     Surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4702.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  18°  39.5' S.,  l<mg.  102°  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4704.  Dec.  27,  1904.  Lat.  16°  55.3'  S.,  long.  100°  24.fi'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4706.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  14°  18.7'  S.,  long.  98°  45.8'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  10°  15.2' S.,  long.  95°  40.8' \V.     300  fius.  to  surface.     I  specimen. 

Sta.  4710.  Dec.  30, 1904.  Lat.  9°  30.5'  S.,  long.  95°  8.3'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4712.  Dec.  31, 1904.  L.at.  7°  5'  S.,  long.  93°  35.5'  W.     Surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4718.  Jan.  13,  1905.  Lat.  5°  32.4'  S.,  long.  90°  32.2'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4720.  Jan.  14,  1905.  Lat.  7°  13.3' S.,  long.  102°  31.5' W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4723.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  10°  14.3'  S.,  long.  107°  45.5'  W.     Surface.     14  specimens. 

Sta.  4725.  Jan.  17,  1905.  Lat.  11°  38.3'  S.,  long.  110°  5'  W.     Surface.     7  specimen.s. 

Sta.  4727.  Jan.  18,  1905.  Lat.  13°  03'  S.,  long.  112°  44.9'  W.     Surface.     12  .specimens. 

Sta.  4729.  Jan.  19, 1905.  Lat.  14°  15' S.,  long.  115°  13' W.     Surface.     6  specimens. - 

Sta.  4741.  Feb.  11,1905.  Lat.  8°  29.7' S.,  long.  122°  .56' W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  Adult  specimens  of  both  sexes  vary  extremely  in  length.  The 
smallest  female  with  marsupium  (from  Sta.  4702)  is  4.4  mm.  long,  another 
female  (from  Sta.  4696)  scarcely  4.5  mm.,  while  the  large.st  female  (from  Sta. 
4680)  is  9.6  mm.  from  the  end  of  the  frontal  plate  to  the  tip  of  the  telson.  One 
of  the  smallest  males  (from  Sta.  4678)  is  6.6  mm.,  and  the  largest  male  (from 
Sta.  4677)  is  9.8  mm.  The  number  of  spines  on  the  distal  part  of  the  outer 
margin  of  first  joint  of  the  exopod  of  the  uropods  varies  from  3  to  6. 

Three  females  from  Sta.  4727,  two  from  Sta.  4680,  and  one  female  from 
Sta.  4611  and  from  Sta.  4671,  have  an  Epicarid,  probably  Dajus  siriellae  G.  O. 
Sars,  in  the  marsupium. 

Distribution. —  According  to  the  literature  and  the  collections  seen  by  me 
this  species  is  widely  distributed  in  the  tropical  and  warmer  temperate  areas  of 
the  Atlantic,  the  Indian  Ocean,  and  the  Pacific;  the  Copenhagen  Museum 
possesses  specimens  from  about  fifty  places  in  these  Oceans.  In  the  Atlantic 
it  has  been  taken  northwards  to  Lat.  42°  N.,  long.  44°  W.,  southwards  to  Lat. 
40°  32'  S.,  long.  52°  2'  W.,  in  the  Indian  Ocean  southwards  to  Lat.  40°  4'  S., 
long.  53°  25'  E.  (specimens  from  these  three  localities  in  the  Copenhagen  Mu- 
seum) ;  in  the  Pacific  it  was  taken  at  Lat.  33°  40'  N.  in  1904,  and  southwards 
it  is  known  from  a  point  between  Sidney  and  Wellington  (G.  O.  Sars).  It 
has  generally  been  captured  at  the  surface;  I  am  even  inclined  to  think  that 
the  specimens  from  the  three  Stations  named  above  from  "300  fms.  to  surface" 
were  taken  near  the  surface. 

11.    Siriella  gracilis  D.\n.\. 

1852.  Siriella  gracilis  D.\na,  U.  S.  Expl.  Exp.  Crust.,  1.  p.  65S,  pi.  44,  figs,  la-lg. 
1885.  Siriella  gracilis  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Kept.,  13,  p.  209,  pi.  36,  figs.  25-28. 
X910.    Siriella  gracilis  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  31. 


194  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Sta.  4592.  Oct.  13,  1904.  Lat.  18°  20'  N.,  long.  103°  40'  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4607.  Oct.  17,  1904.  Lat.  12°  00'  N.,  long.  91°  30'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4611.  Oct.  18;  1904.  Lat.  10°  33' N.,  long.  88°  30' W.     Surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4619.  Oct.  20,  1904.  Lat.  7°  15'  N.,  long.  82°  8'  W.     Surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4640.  Nov.  6,  1904.  Lat.  0°  39.4'  S.,  long.  88°  11'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4712.  Dec.  31,  1904.  Lat.  7°  5'  S.,  long.  93°  35.5'  W.     Surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4716.  Jan.    2,  1905.  Lat.  2°  18.5'  S.,  long.  90°  2.6'  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4720.  Jan.  14,  1905.  Lat.  7°  13.3' S.,  long.  102°  31.5' W.     Siu-face.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4723.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  10°  14.3'  S.,  long.  107°  45.5'  S.     Surface.     About  30  specimens. 

Sta.  4725.  Jan.  17,  1905.  Lat.  11°  38.3' S.,  long.  110°  5' W.     Surface.     8  specimens. 

Sta.  4729.  Jan.  19,  1905.  Lat.  14°  15'  S.,  long.  115°  13'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4733.  Jan.  21,  1905.  Lat.  16°  57.4'  S.,  long.  120°  48'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Besides  this  species  was  talven  by  the  "Albatross  "  in  1899  at  a  single  place :  — 
Hyd.  Sta.  3789.  Sept.  9,  1899.  Lat.  2°  38'  N.,  long.  137°  22'  W.  Surface. 
3  specimens.     "Albatross." 

Distribution. —  This  slender  and  small  species,  which  has  only  been  taken 
at  the  surface,  is  known  from  the  Bay  of  Bengal  (the  author),  is  common  in  the 
Indian  Archipelago  ("Siboga"),  and  from  here  it  is,  according  to  the  literature, 
distributed  across  the  Pacific  in  its  tropical  area;  Sars  has  mentioned  it  from 
the  North  Pacific.     It  has  never  been  taken  in  the  Atlantic. 

12.    Siriella  media  H.  J.  Hansen. 

1910.     Siriella  media  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  38,  pi.  4,  figs.  3a-3k. 

Butaritari,  Gilbert  Islands,  Jan.  6,   1900.     Lagoon.     Surface.     Light.     9  specimens  (1  adult  male, 
8  immature  specimens).     "Albatross." 

Remarks. —  The  presence  of  an  adult  male  rendered  it  possible  to  determine 
the  species.  The  strong  setae  of  both  rami  of  fourth  pair  of  pleopods  agree  in 
every  main  point  and  even  in  most  of  minute  particulars  with  my  drawings 
(figs.  3e  and  3f)  in  the  paper  quoted.  The  proximal  joint  of  each  exopod  of 
the  uropods  with  only  13  spines.     The  male  is  9.5  mm.  long. 

Distribution. —  S.  media  was  hitherto  known  only  from  seven  places  in 
the  Indian  Archipelago  ("Siboga"). 

13.    Siriella  aequiremis  H.  J.  Hansen. 

1910.     Siriella  aequiremis  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  40,  pi.  3,  figs.  4a-4c;  pi.  4,  figs,  la-11. 

Sta.  4592.  Oct.  13,  1904.     Lat.  18°  20'  N.,  long.  103°  40'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4619.  Oct.  20,  1904.     Lat.  7°  15'  N.,  long.  82°  8'  W.     Surface.     7  specimens. 

Hyd.  Sta.  3789.     Sept.  19, 1899.     Lat.  2°  38'  N.,  long.  137°  22'  W.     Surface.     1  adult  female. 

Remarks. —  A  couple  of  specimens  are  adult  males,  and  the  largest  is  10.4 
mm.  The  sexual  setae  on  the  endopod  of  fourth  pleopods  nearly  as  on  fig.  Ih 
in  the  "Siboga"  paper,  but  the  longest  inner  seta  slightly  overreaches  the 
terminal,  consequently  intermediate  between  fig.  Ih  and  fig.  If. 


HEMISIIIIELLA  AHHREVIATA.  l'J5 

Distribution. —  S.  aequiremis  was  established  on  specimens  from  the  Indian 
Archipelago,  where  it  was  taken  at  ten  places;  furthermore  it  is  known  from 
the  Arabian  Sea,  the  Bay  of  Bengal,  the  Indian  Ocean  Lat  at.  3°  9'  N.,  long. 
84°  44'  E.,  and  the  China  Sea  (the  author). 

HEMISIRIELLA  II.  J.  Hansen  (1910). 

14.    Hemisiriella  abbreviata,  sp.  nov. 

■       Plate  2,  figs.  2a-2c. 

Butaritari,  Gilbert  Islands.     Jan.  6,  1900.     Lagoon.     Surface.     Light.     1  female  with  young.     "Al- 
batross." 

Description. —  Slender. —  Carapace  extremely  short,  leaving  along  the 
middle  line  nearly  more  than  three  segments  uncovered;  the  frontal  plate  (fig.  2a) 
somewhat  feebly  produced,  constituting  a  low  triangle  with  the  vertex  acute. 
Eyes  moderately  large,  very  light  brownish;  the  stalks  somewhat  broader  than 
long  and  broader  than  the  retina.  The  antennulae  with  the  third  peduncular 
joint  distinctly  less  than  twice  as  long  as  broad.  The  antennal  squama  short, 
about  two  and  a  half  times  as  long  as  broad,  with  the  terminal  lobe  beyond  the 
base  of  the  marginal  tooth  twice  as  broad  as  long. 

Uropods  (fig.  2b)  with  the  endopod  not  overreaching  the  exopod,  with  five 
marginal  spines  occupying  only  about  one  fifth  of  the  outer  margin  of  the  proxi- 
mal joint  of  the  exopod,  and  the  distal  joint  somewhat  less  than  twice  as  long  as 
broad.  Telson  (figs.  2b  and  2c)  proportionately  short,  not  reaching  the  articu- 
lation of  the  exopod,  distinctly  less  than  twice  as  long  as  broad,  with  two  pairs 
of  spines  at  the  end  of  the  broad  proximal  part,  while  its  longer  distal  part  is 
linguiform,  with  the  proximal  third  of  its  lateral  margins  conspicuously  concave 
and  the  end  broadly  rounded ;  the  lateral  margins  of  a  little  less  than  the  distal 
half  of  the  telson  only  with  4-5  spines  irregular  as  to  size  and  intervals,  while 
the  terminal  margin  has  three  extremely  small  spines  in  the  interval  between 
three  pairs  of  long  spines,  the  inner  pair  of  which  are  slightly  shorter  than 
the  most  lateral  pair,  while  the  intermediate  pair  are  considerably  longer 
than  the  others;  terminal  feathered  setae  not  observed. 

Length  of  the  single  adult  female  5.5  mm. 

Remarks. —  This  species  is  alUed  to  H.  pulchra  H.  J.  H.,  but  is  smaller 
with  the  eyes  larger,  the  third  joint  of  the  antennular  peduncle  shorter  in  pro- 
portion to  breadth,  and  the  telson  broader  with  a  small  number  of  lateral  spines 
and  three  pairs  of  long  terminal  spines.     Though  the  elongate  endopod  of  the 


196  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

first  pair  of  legs  is  lost  I  refer  this  species  to  Hemisiriella,  because  the  preserved 
second  joint  of  these  legs  is  thicker  than  that  of  second  pair,  because  the  cara- 
pace is  extremely  short,  etc. 

ANCHIALINA  Norman  (1906). 

No  specimen  of  this  very  characteristic  genus  was  taken  by  Dr.  Agassiz 
in  1904-1905,  but  three  species  were  secured  by  the  "Albatross"  in  1900  at 
Butaritari,  Gilbert  Islands,  and  one  of  these  species  is  new  to  science.  The 
genus  has  been  revised  in  my  "Siboga"  paper. 

15.    Anchialina  typica  (Kroter). 

1861.     Anchialus  lypicus  Kroyer,  Nat.  Tidssla-.,  3  R.,  1,  p.  53,  tab.  2,  fig.  7,  a-1. 
1910.     Anchialina  typica  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  52,  pi.  7,  figs.  2a-2k. 

Butaritari,  Gilbert  Islands.     Jan.  6,   1900.     Lagoon.     Surface.     Light.     7  specimens.     "Albatross." 

Remarks. —  The  specimens  are  all  adult  males.  They  are  somewhat 
small,  measuring  about  5.5  imn.  in  length,  but  they  agree  closely  with  smaller 
"Siboga"  specimens  in  all  particulars.  The  exopod  of  the  third  pair  of 
pleopods  has  not  four  but  only  three  long,  slender  processes,  each  with  a 
terminal  seta;  these  processes  are  found  on  the  fifth,  sixth,  and  seventh  joint 
counted  from  the  distal  end,  while  in  the  "Siboga"  specimen  figured  (fig. 
2i)  such  processes  are  found  on  the  fifth  to  the  eighth  joint;  in  small  "Si- 
boga" specimens  such  processes  are  wanting  on  the  eighth  joint  or  even  on  the 
seventh  and  the  eighth  joints,  as  already  stated  in  my  paper. 

Distribution. —  A.  typica  has  a  very  wide  distribution,  and  it  may  be  suffi- 
cient to  give  an  abstract  of  the  statements  in  the  "Siboga"  paper.  The  species 
is  known  from  tropical  Atlantic  (Kroyer),  the  West  Indies,  the  Gulf  of  Siam, 
several  places  in  the  Indian  .\i-chipelago,  and  probably  the  Hawaiian  Islands. 

16.    Anchialina  grossa  H.  J.  Hansen. 

1910.     Anchialina  grossa  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  54,  pi.  7,  figs.  3a-3n;  pi.  8,  figs.  la-Id. 
Butaritari,  Gilbert  Islands.     Jan.  6,  1900.     Lagoon.     Surface.     Light.     1  specimen.     "Albatross." 

Remarks. —  The  specimen  is  an  innuature  female.  In  the  shape  of  the 
frontal  plate  with  rostrum,  the  size  of  the  eyes  and  the  shape  of  the  exopod  of 
the  uropods  it  agrees  perfectly  with  females  of  A.  grossa  from  the  Indian  Archi- 
pelago. 

Distribution. —  A.  grossa  was  taken  at  several  places  in  the  Indian  Archi- 
pelago, and  besides  it  is  known  from  the  Gulf  of  Siam  and  the  Bay  of  Bengal 
(the  author). 


ANCHIALINA  OBTUSIFRONS.  197 

17.    Anchialina  obtusifrons,  sp.  nov. 
Plate  2,  figs.  4a-4c. 
Butaritari,  Gilbert  Islands.    Jan.  6,  1900.     Lagoon.     Surface.     Light.     2  adult  males.     "Albatross." 

Description . —  This  species  is  in  most  particulars  closely  allied  and  similar 
to  A.  grossa.  Frontal  plate  in  the  male  (fig.  4a)  less  broad  than  in  A.  grossa 
and  produced  in  a  long  rostrum  reaching  slightly  beyond  the  eyes;  this  rostrum 
has  the  lateral  margins  a  little  concave,  these  being  proximally  somewhat  con- 
verging forward  and  distally  parallel,  while  the  end  of  the  rostrum  looks  nearly 
truncate,  but  its  terminal,  obtusely  triangular  portion  is  in  reality  bent  down- 
wards and  backwards  below  the  apparently  terminal  part.  The  eyes  are  brown 
and  slightly  larger  than  in  A.  grossa,  broader  than  the  end  of  the  stalk  which 
widens  considerably  from  the  base  outwards. 

Third  joint  of  the  antennular  peduncle  less  thick  and  con.spicuously  longer 
than  in  A .  grossa,  being  half  as  long  again  as  broad.  Antennal  squama  about  as 
in  A.  grossa. 

Gnathopods  (fig.  4b)  nearly  as  in  A.  grossa;  second  joint  very  large  and 
much  longer  than  broad;  fifth  joint  strongly  expanded,  and  from  the  inner  side 
with  a  very  large,  lamellar,  oblong-triangular,  distally  blunt  process  directed 
inwards  and  much  forwards;  sixth  joint  broad.  First  jjair  of  thoracic  legs  as 
the  following  pair,  with  sixth  joint  divided  into  three  subjoints. 

Exopod  of  third  male  pleopods  (fig.  4c)  in  the  main  as  in  A.  grossa,  with 
the  distal  joints  much  altered  and  furnished  with  several  processes  which 
constitute  a  most  complex  organ,  though  different  in  several  minor  particulars 
from  that  in  A.  grossa.  The  gigantic  lamellar  process  (a.)  on  the  posterior 
outer  side  is  much  narrowed  somewhat  before  the  end  and  its  most  distal  part 
is  also  a  little  widened;  the  joint  (b.)  bearing  the  terminal  processes  is  much 
longer  than  in  A.  grossa,  with  a  terminal,  lamellar  expansion  covering  in  front 
the  insertion  of  these  processes  (c,  d.,  and  e.);  finally,  the  inner  process  (e.)  has 
more  than  its  distal  half  very  slender,  the  ramification  of  the  median  process 
(d.)  is  somewhat  different  from  that  in  A.  grossa,  and  the  very  long  outer  process 
(c.)  has  its  secondary  branch  (c.  )  adorned  with  a  few  low  saw-like  teeth. 

Uropods  with  the  endopod  reaching  about  the  end  of  the  telson  and  some- 
what longer  than  the  exopod,  which  has  the  end  broadly  rounded,  nearly  trun- 
cate, and  15-17  spines  along  the  outer  margin. —  Telson  nearly  as  in  A.  grossa, 
but  the  proximal  part  of  the  terminal  incision  is  narrower. 

Length  7.5  mm. 


198  .  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Remarks. —  As  already  stated,  this  species  is  on  the  whole  allied  and  similar 
to  A.  grossa,  but  the  male  is  easily  distinguished  by  the  quite  different  shape  of 
the  rostrum,  by  having  the  third  antennular  joint  conspicuously  longer  in  pro- 
portion to  its  breadth,  and  by  the  above-mentioned  differences  in  the  sexual 
organ  terminating  the  exopod  of  third  pair  of  pleopods. 

GASTROSACCUS  Norman  (1869). 

The  "Albatross"  secured  several  specimens  in  1900,  but  none  were  found 
among  the  material  of  1904-1905. 

18.     Gastrosaccus  pacificus,  sp.  nov. 

Plate  2,  figs.  3a-3g. 

Butaritari,  Gilbert  Islands.     Jan.  6,  1900.     Lagoon.     Surface.     Light.   8  .specimens  (3  (1  Type)  adult 
males,  5  females  with  marsupium,  1  immature  female).     "Albatross." 

Description. —  Frontal  plate,  eyes,  antennulae,  and  antennal  squama  (fig.  3a) 
nearly  as  in  G.  indicus  H.  J.  H.  (1910). —  Male  pleopods  in  the  main  as  in  G. 
indicus,  but  differing  in  some  particulars.  First  pair  (fig.  3b)  with  the  endopod 
very  slender,  not  one  third  as  long  as  the  exopod,  which  has  the  distal  third 
divided  into  four  joints.  Second  pair  (fig.  3c)  only  a  little  more  than  half  as 
long  again  as  the  first;  the  peduncle  with  second  joint  almost  four  times  as  long 
as  broad;  the  endopod  more  than  half  as  long  as  the  exopod,  with  the  distal 
major  part  of  the  proximal  half  considerably  expanded  on  the  outer  side  and 
the  expansion  distally  terminating  in  a  .sharp,  somewhat  acute  angle,  while 
the  distal  part  of  the  endopod  is  slender  with  a  single  articulation;  the  exopod 
is  about  as  in  G.  indicus.  Third  pair  (fig.  3d)  with  the  endopod  not  distinguish- 
able; the  exopod  is  extremely  elongate,  but  its  distal  portion  is  lost  in  all  the 
specimens;  the  most  proximal  part  of  the  exopod  is  strongly  thickened,  twice 
as  long  as  broad  and  on  the  outer  side  distally  produced  into  a  rather  short 
triangular  process  directed  strongly  outwards;  somewhat  beyond  that  thick- 
ened part  three  small  spines  are  found.  Fourth  (fig.  3e)  and  fifth  (fig.  3f) 
pairs  nearly  as  in  G.  indicus;  both  rami  unjointed,  the  exopod  considerably 
more  slender  and  on  fourth  pair  slightly,  on  fifth  pair  considerably,  longer  than 
the  endopod. 

Uropods  (fig.  3g)  nearly  as  in  G.  indicus;  the  exopod  with  11  or  12  marginal 
spines,  most  of  them  long,  longer  than  in  G.  indicus.  Telson  nearly  two  and  a 
half  times  as  long  as  broad,  with  10-12  spines  along  each  margin,  the  terminal 


EUCHAETOIMERA   TYPICA.  191) 

spine  included;  the  penultimate  pair  of  spines  considerably  longer  than  the 
terminal  pair,  twice  as  long  as  the  antepenultimate  pair  and  nearly  as  long  as 
the  breadth  of  the  telson  at  their  insertion. 

Length  of  both  sexes  6.4  mm. 

Remarks. —  This  species  is  a  little  smaller  than  G.  indicus,  but  so  closely 
allied  that  it  might  be  considered  a  variety  if  it  did  not  show  the  very  marked 
difference  in  the  third  pair  of  male  pleopods;  the  rather  short,  triangular  process 
turning  essentially  outwards  from  the  thick  basal  part  twice  as  long  as  broad 
seems  to  be  an  excellent  specific  character,  as  this  part  differs  very  much  in 
aspect  from  the  corresponding  portion  in  G.  indicus,  in  which  the  thickened 
part  is  much  shorter  and  the  process  much  longer  and  directed  much  backwards 
or  parallel  with  the  exopod  (Siboga-Exp.,  PI.  8,  figs.  2k  and  21) ;  unfortunately 
the  distal  part  of  that  exopod  is  wanting.  The  peduncles  of  the  three  anterior 
pairs  of  pleopods  are  more  slender  than  in  G.  indicus. 

All  five  adult  females  have  a  parasitic  Isopod  in  the  marsupium,  probably 
a  species  of  Prodajus,  and  allied  to_  P.  ostendensis  Gilson  which  inhabits  the 
marsupium  of  the  European  Gastrosaccus  spinifer  Goes. 

EUCHAETOMERA  G.  O.  Sars  (1883). 

To  this  genus  Brutomysis  Chun  and  Mastigophthalmus  lUig  ought  to  be 
referred.  That  Brutomysis  must  disappear  is  certain,  as  its  single  species, 
B.  vogtii  Chun,  is  without  doubt  a  synonym  to  E.  typica  G.  O.  S.  And  Mastigoph- 
thalmus does  not  show  any  difference  from  Euchaetomera  of  real  generic  value, 
as  the  appendix  at  the  eye-stalks  is  rather  developed  in  E.  typica,  and  the  spinu- 
lation,  length  of  flagella,  etc.,  are  only  specific  characters. 

Three  species,  all  captured  in  1904-1905,  are  represented  in  the  collection, 
and  one  among  them  is  new. 

19.    Euchaetomera  typica  G.  O.  Sars. 

Plate  2,  figs.  5a-5e. 

1883.  Euchaeiomera  typica  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Sekk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  42. 

1885.  Euchaeloniera  typica  G.  O.  Saks,  Challenger  Kept.,  13,  p.  211,  pi.  37,  figs.  1-20. 

1896.  Brutomysis  Vogtii  ChuN,  Bibl.  Zool.,  7,  heft.  19,  p.  179,  taf.  15. 

1906.  ^Euchaetomera  limbata  Illig,  Zool.  Anz.,  30,  p.  203,  fig.  10,  A-D. 

Sta.  4734.     Jan.  22,  1905.     Lat.  17°  36'  S.,  long.  122°  35.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

As  the  two  specimens,  a  female  with  marsupium  and  an  immature  female 
(together  with  a  third  specimen  from  the  Atlantic)  differ  considerably  in  a 


2nn  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

number  of  features  from  the  description  and  figures  published  by  Sars,  I  asked 
my  friend  the  excellent  carcinologist  Dr.  W.  T.  Caiman  to  examine  the  type 
preserved  in  tlie  British  Museum.  I  sent  him  tracings  of  my  figures  published 
in  this  paper  of  my  specimen,  together  with  a  number  of  questions  on  particular 
features.  Dr.  Caiman  answered  that  the  tyjje  "agrees  better  with  your  descrip- 
tion and  figures  than  with  those  of  Sars  in  all  the  points  you  mention,"  and  he 
added  some  notes  and  sketches  which  agree  well  with  the  features  observed  in 
my  specimens.  Therefore  I  will  now  give  the  following  additions  to  the  descrip- 
tion of  Sars. 

The  front  margin  of  the  carajDace  (fig.  5a)  is  furnished  with  spiniform 
processes  or  denticles,  those  on  the  most  lateral  foiu'th  of  each  half  of  the  margin 
are  long  and  slender,  and  from  here  they  decrease  \'ery  much  in  size,  being 
quite  minute  along  a  part  of  the  margin  towards  the  proportionately  narrow 
and  very  short  frontal  plate  which  is  produced  into  a  rather  slender  and  some- 
what long,  acute  rostrum.  The  posterior  mai-gin  of  the  carapace  has  a  number 
of  small  or  very  small  denticles,  while  the  posterior  margin  of  its  lateral  wings 
and  the  lateral  margins  are  unarmed. 

The  eyes  (fig.  5b)  show  peculiar  features.  The  postero-lateral  area  of 
ocelli  is,  seen  from  above,  a  little  more  than  half  as  long  again  as  broad;  there 
is  no  inter\-al  between  the  anterior  and  the  postero-lateral  area;  the  most  pos- 
terior row  of  facets  of  the  anterior  area  is  of  normal  aspect,  while  each  facet 
in  the  four  following  transverse  rows  of  the  anterior  area  is  produced  into  a 
somewhat  small,  acute  denticle;  all  other  facets  on  the  upper  surface  of  the 
eye  are  simple,  rounded.  From  the  inner  margin  of  the  eye-stalks  a  little  before 
the  ocelli  a  very  oblong,  weak  process  or  appendix  projects  forwards;  in  the 
adult  female  it  is  about  as  long  as  the  part  with  spine-bearing  ocelli  on  the 
opposite  lateral  margin. —  The  antennal  squama  (fig.  5c)  is  three  times  or  a 
little  more  as  long  as  broad,  with  the  outer  margin  scarcely  concave,  the  terminal 
lobe  slightly  broader  than  long  and  the  outer  distal  process  as  long  as,  or  a  little 
shorter  than,  the  terminal  lobe  and  bent  slightly  outwards. —  The  thoracic 
legs  (fig.  5d)  on  the  outer  side  with  a  good  number  of  moderately  long  setae; 
the  distal  half  or  one  third  of  each  of  these  setae  is  quite  naked,  while  the  re- 
mainder is  very  closely  plumose;  along  the  inner  side  of  the  legs  the  setae  are 
less  numerous,  but  several  among  them  are  very  long,  and  all  are  naked  or  with 
extremely  short  hairs  along  the  distal  side. 

First  to  third  abdominal  segment  without  denticles  along  the  margins; 
fourth  segment  with  very  small  denticles  along  the  posterior  and  the  lateral 


EUCHAETOMERA  TENUIS.  201 

margin,  fifth  and  sixth  segments  witli  spinifonn  denticles  along  the  same  mar- 
gins; most  of  these  denticles  are  rather  large  though  some  small  ones  are  inter- 
spersed.—  The  uropods  (fig.  5e)  have  both  rami  much  slenderer  than  shown  in 
Sars's  fig.  19  (whicli  in  this  respect  differs  materially  from  his  fig.  1). —  Telson 
(fig.  5e)  considerably  broader  than  long,  in  the  adult  female  with  6-7  spines 
along  each  lateral  margin,  while  in  the  immature  specimen  only  4  and  6  spines 
were  observed. 

Length  of  the  adult  female  9  mm. 

Remarks. —  It  will  be  seen  that  the  additions  and  corrections  to  Sard's 
description  and  figures  are  rather  numerous.  I  think  that  Brutomysis  vogtii 
Chun,  taken  at  Madeira,  is  the  young  male  of  the  same  species.  The  author 
states  that  the  five  anterior  abdominal  segments  have  a  lateral  armature,  viz. 
4  spiniform  denticles  at  the  postero-lateral  angle  of  each  segment,  while  the 
sixth  segment  has  spines  along  the  whole  posterior  margin.  It  is  far  from  im- 
probable that  the  lateral  armature  of  the  anterior  abdominal  segments  is  found 
only  in  the  males,  and  if  this  supposition  be  correct,  I  think  that  the  other 
differences  between  the  specimens  studied  and  Chun's  description  and  figures 
are  due  to  imperfections  in  the  latter. —  E.  Umbata  Illig  is  possibly  another 
species,  because  its  squama,  according  to  Illig's  figure,  has  a  shape  somewhat 
different  from  that  in  E.  tijpica  and  the  carapace  is,  at  least  in  the  male,  spini- 
ferous  around  the  whole  margin. 

Distribution. —  Sars  enumerated  three  localities  in  the  Northern  Pacific 
between  Lat.  35°  22'  and  37°  52'  N.,  long.  169°  53'  E.  and  160°  17'  W.;  his  speci- 
mens were  from  the  surface  of  the  sea.  Ortmann  recorded  it  from  off  Galera 
Point  in  the  tropical  East  Pacific  antl  from  the  Sargasso  Sea  and  the  Southern 
equatorial  current  in  the  Atlantic.  Dr.  J.  Schmidt  captured  a  single  specimen 
West  of  Gibraltar  at  Lat.  3G°  13'  N.,  long.  9°  44'  W.—  Chun's  Brutomysis  vogtii 
was  captured  at  Madeira,  and  Illig's  E.  limbata  at  two  Stations  in  the  Atlantic. 

20.     Euchaetomera  tenuis  G.  O.  Sars. 

1883.     Euchaetomera  leniiis  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  188.3,  no.  7,  p.  42. 

1885.     Euchaelomcra  lenuis  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  214,  pi.  37,  figs.  21-24. 

190.5.     B«c/iaetomera/o«i/frt  Holt  &  T.\TTERSALL.  Fisheries  Ireland.     Sei.  Invest.,  1902-3,  (1905),  p.  123 

and  144;   pi.  24,  figs.  1-3. 
1910.     Euchaetomera  tenuis  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Ex]).,  37,  p.  OG,  pi.  10,  fig.  3a. 

Sta.  4717.  Jan.  13,  190.5.  Lat.  5°  10' S,,  long.  98°  .56' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  immature  fem.ale. 

Sta.  4719.  Jan.  U,  100.5.  Lat.  6°  29.8' S.,  long.  101°  16.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  adult  female. 

Sta.  4721.  Jan.  15,  1905.  Lat.  8°  7.5' S.,  long.  104°  10..5' W      300  fms.  to  surface.     1  male. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  9°  31' S.,  long.  106°  30.5' \V.     3U0  fms.  to  surface.     1  adult  female. 


202  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Remarks. —  lUig  states  (Zool.  Anz.,  30,  1906,  p.  202)  that  the  endopod  of 
first  pair  of  thoracic  legs  is  wanting  in  E.  fowleri  and  in  his  two  new  species 
of  Euchaetomera,  among  which  is  the  above-named  E.  limbata.  As  to  E.  tenuis 
Sars  =  E.  fowleri  Holt  and  Tatt.  his  statement  is  incorrect;  the  endopod  is 
well  developed  both  in  the  maxillipeds,  the  gnathopods,  and  in  all  six  pairs  of 
real  legs;  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  the  same  is  the  case  in  his  two  other  species. 

Distribution. —  Sars's  type  was  captured  in  the  South  Pacific  off  the  coast 
of  Chile.  The  "Siboga"  secured  it  at  two  places  in  the  Indian  Archipelago. 
According  to  several  authors  (Ortmann,  Tattersall,  Holt  and  Tattersall,  and 
myself)  the  species  is  widely  distributed  in  the  tropical  and  northern  temperate 
Atlantic,  in  its  eastern  part  going  northwards  to  West  of  Ireland;  and  it  has 
been  taken  in  the  Western  Mediterranean  also. 

21.    Euchaetomera  plebeja,  sp.  nov. 
Plate  3,  figs,  la-lb. 

Sta.  4583.  Oct.  11,  1904.  Lat.  22°  45'  N.,  long.  110°  5'  W.  300  fms.  to  surface.  1  immature  speci- 
men. 

Sta.  4676.  Dec.  5,  1904.  Lat.  14°  28.9'  S.,  long.  81°  24'  W.  300  fms.  to  surface.  1  male,  (Type), 
perhaps  not  quite  adult. 

Description. —  Allied  to  E.  tenuis  G.  O.  S.  and  E.  oculata  H.  J.  H. —  The 
frontal  plate  (fig.  la)  shaped  as  a  low,  broad  triangle  with  the  two  sides  a  little 
concave  and  the  vertex  moderately  broadly  rounded. —  The  eyes  about  as  thick 
as  in  E.  tenuis,  but  the  posterior  area  with  acting  facets  is  much  larger,  being 
longer  than  broad  and  the  distance  between  the  anterior  and  the  posterior 
area  at  the  outer  margin  distinctly  less  than  half  as  long  as  the  outer  margin 
of  the  posterior  area,  while  in  E.  tenuis  that  distance  is  about  as  long  as  the 
whole  outer  margin  of  the  posterior  area  which  is  shorter  than  broad. —  The 
antennal  squama  is  five  times  as  long  as  broad,  with  the  outer  margin  almost 
or  quite  straight,  no  external  tooth  and  the  terminal  lobe  beyond  the  most 
proximal  outer  seta  a  little  longer  than  broad. —  The  rami  of  the  uropods  (fig. 
lb)  broader  in  proportion  to  length  than  in  E.  tenuis. —  Telson  somewhat  broader 
than  long,  otherwise  as  in  E.  tenuis. 

Length  of  the  male  5  mm.,  but  the  specimen  is  perhaps  not  quite  full  grown. 

Remarks. —  E.  plebeja  is  instantly  separated  from  E.  tenuis  by  the  much 
longer  posterior  dark  area  of  the  eyes  and  by  the  at  least  nearly  straight  outer 
margin  of  the  antennal  squama.  E.  oculata  differs  from  E.  plebeja  by  having 
a  very  conspicuous,  somewhat  narrow  frontal  plate,  by  considerablj^  thicker 
eyes  and  by  having  the  antennal  squama  only  three  and  a  half  times  as  long 
as  broad. 


CRYPTOMYSIS.  203 

CRYPTOMYSIS,  gen.  nov. 

Description  (based  on  the  female). —  Body  somewhat  slender. —  Carapace 
produced  into  a  moderately  large,  triangular  frontal  plate  (Plate  3,  fig.  2a)  and 
posteriorly  not  covering  the  entire  cephalothorax. 

Eyes  very  large,  with  short  stalks.  Antennal  squama  (fig.  2b)  somewhat 
elongate,  lanceolate,  narrow,  with  a  transverse  suture  and  setose  along  both 
margins. —  Labrum  obtuse  in  front,  without  process. —  Left  mandible  (figs. 
2c-2e)  has  the  incisive  part  well  developed,  a  moderately  strong,  movable  lobe, 
a  couple  of  thick,  digitate  setae  and  the  molar  process  somewhat  long  and  thick; 
the  palp  is  proportionately  slender,  its  second  joint  (fig.  2e)  somewhat  curved, 
with  its  inner  margin  adorned  with  a  row  of  regularly  arranged,  spiniform 
processes,  each  of  which  has  a  seta  at  the  middle  of  its  front  margin;  third 
joint  of  the  palp  rather  short. —  Maxillulae  (fig.  2f)  with  the  outer  joint  somewhat 
slender  and  a  little  angular  at  the  middle  of  its  exterior  margin. —  Maxillae 
(fig.  2g)  somewhat  elongate  and  narrow,  with  the  exopod  small  and  very  narrow 
and  the  terminal  joint  not  expanded  distally  and  more  than  twice  as  long  as 
broad. —  Maxillipeds  (fig.  2h)  with  first  and  second  joints  very  long  and  moder- 
ately slender,  first  joint  terminating  in  a  free,  minute  lobe  and  second  joint 
with  a  small  lobe;  third,  fourth,  and  fifth  joints  each  not  longer  than  broad 
and  without  appreciable  lobes;  terminal  joint  small,  triangular;  claw  well 
developed. 

Gnathopods  (fig.  2i)  with  second  joint  long  and  thick,  without  any  real 
lobe;  third  and  fourth  joints  somewhat  small,  transverse;  fifth  and  sixth  joints 
rather  long,  very  slender  and  the  fifth  nearly  naked;  the  claw  somewhat  long 
and  strong. —  The  thoracic  legs  wanting  excepting  some  exopods  and  a  single 
endopod;  the  latter  (fig.  2k)  is  slender,  with  fourth  joint  a  little  shorter  than 
the  fifth  and  a  little  longer  than  the  sixth,  which  is  divided  by  a  transverse  articu- 
lation near  its  end ;  only  a  few  rather  long  setae  on  the  endopod. 

Uropods  (fig.  21)  slender,  with  both  rami  setose  along  both  margins  as  in 
the  subfamily  Mysinae;  the  otocyst  well  developed. —  Telson  (figs.  21  and  2m) 
quite  aberrant;  it  is  somewhat  short,  tapering  considerably  from  the  broad 
base  to  a  little  beyond  the  proximal  two  thirds  of  its  length  and  then  widening 
again,  the  terminal  part  being  much  broader  than  long,  with  the  terminal  margin 
nearly  straight  at  the  middle  and  broadly  rounded  at  the  sides;  the  whole 
margin  of  the  terminal  transverse  part  of  the  telson  and  the  distal  part  of  the 
lateral  margins  in  front  of  that  terminal  part  furnished  with  thick  spines. 


204  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Remarks. —  This  new  genus  belongs  to  the  subfamily  Mysinae  and  is  easily 
distinguished  from  all  other  genera  by  the  shape  of  the  telson.  The  male  being 
unknown,  I  am  unable  to  decide  with  any  certainty  whether  the  genus  ought 
to  be  referred  to  the  tribe  Leptomysini  or  to  the  real  Mysini.  The  shape  of 
the  antennal  squama,  of  the  maxillae  and  their  palp,  and  the  absence  of  lobes  on 
the  third  and  fovu-th  joints  of  the  maxillipeds  seem  to  indicate  relationship  to 
the  Leptomysini,  while  the  shape  of  the  telson  resembles  feebly  that  in  Anisomy- 
sis  laticauda  H.  J.  H.,  which  belongs  to  the  tribe  Mysini.  The  armature  of 
the  second  joint  of  the  mandibular  palps  bears  a  superficial  similarity  to  the 
structure  found  in  Lycomysis  spinicauda  H.  J.  H. 

22.     Cryptomysis  lamellicauda,  sp.  no  v. 
Plate  3,  figs.  2a-2m. 
Fiji  Islands.     Off  Vatu.     Dec.  9,  1S97.     Plankton,  30  fms.     1  adult  female.     A.  Agassiz. 

Description. —  Frontal  plate  (fig.  2a)  about  twice  as  broad  as  long,  with 
the  end  very  acute  and  distinctly  acuminate. —  Eyes  very  large,  black. —  An- 
tennal squama  (fig.  2b)  between  seven  and  eight  times  as  long  as  broad,  tapering 
from  the  middle,  with  the  narrow  end  transverse  and  with  the  suture  from  the 
insertion  of  the  penultimate  lateral  inner  seta  to  the  corresponding  incision  on 
the  outer  margin;  the  terminal  joint  not  fully  twice  as  long  as  broad. —  Second 
joint  of  the  mandibular  palp  (fig.  2e)  with  about  thirteen  teeth  along  the  inner 
margin,  those  near  the  middle  much  longer  than  the  most  proximal  or  the«most 
distal. 

Sixth  abdominal  segment  considerably  longer  than  the  fifth. —  The  rami 
of  the  uropods  slender;  the  exopod  almost  seven  times  as  long  as  broad,  and 
considerably  longer  than  the  endopod. —  Telson  scarcely  half  as  long  as  the 
endopod  of  the  lu'opods,  not  fully  half  as  long  again  as  broad;  the  proximal  part 
about  as  long  as  broad,  with  four  somewhat  strong  spines  towards  the  end 
of  each  margin;  the  distal  portion  a  little  more  than  half  as  broad  again  as  long, 
with  twenty  spines,  the  lateral  ones  smaller  and  regularly  tapering  to  the  acute 
end,  while  the  sj^incs  along  the  transverse  and  nearly  straight  posterior  margin 
are  longer,  stronger,  and  taper  only  from  beyond  the  middle  to  the  acute  end. 

Length  of  the  single  specimen,  a  female  with  marsupium,  5.8  mm. 

Rernarks. —  The  specimen  is  dark  coloured,  but  being  far  from  well  pre- 
served and  somewhat  shrivelled  in  front  it  is  not  impossible  that  the  dark  colour 
may  be  due  to  the  state  of  preservation. 


DOXOMYSIS  PELAGICA.  205 

DOXOMYSIS,  gon.  nov. 

Description  (based  on  a  nuitilated  adult  female). —  Body  moderately 
slender. —  Carapace  anteriorly  produced  into  a  rather  short,  triangular,  frontal 
plate  terminating  in  a  rostrum,  posteriori}'  not  covering  the  entire  cephalothorax. 

Eyes  large,  with  short  stalks. —  Antennal  squama  (Plate  3,  fig.  3a)  scarcely 
elongate,  setose  along  both  margins  and  with  the  end  very  obtuse. —  Labrum 
obtuse  in  front,  without  process. —  Left  mandible  (figs.  3b  and  3c)  with  the 
incisive  part,  movable  lobe,  setae,  and  molar  process  well  developed;  the  palp 
about  as  in  the  genera  allied  to  Mysis. —  The  maxillae  (fig.  3d)  shaped  nearly  as 
in  Michtheimysis  Norm.,  with  the  terminal  joint  of  the  palp  very  large,  much 
expanded  and  broader  than  long,  but  the  exopod  with  only  a  few  short  setae. 
Maxillipeds  (fig.  3e)  with  second  joint  long  and  terminating  in  a  broad,  well- 
developed,  setose  lobe;  thirtl  and  fourth  joints  very  broad  with  broad,  setose 
lobes;  fifth  and  sixth  joints  broad;  seventh  joint  triangular  with  its  claw  shaped 
as  a  thick  seta. 

(Gnathopods  wanting). —  The  endopod  of  a  single  thoracic  leg  was  pre- 
served; it  is  very  slender,  its  fifth  joint  somewhat  longer  than  the  fourth  and  a 
little  shorter  than  the  sixth;  sixth  joint  divided  into  three  subjoints  by  two 
transverse  articulations,  the  first  a  little  before,  the  second  a  little  beyond  the 
middle. 

Uropods  slender,  both  rami-shaped  and  setose  as  in  the  Mysini;  the  endo- 
pod below  near  the  inner  margin  with  a  number  of  spiniform  processes  directed 
'n wards  and  downwards. —  Telson  (figs.  3f  and  3g)  about  half  as  long  as  the 
uropods,  distally  deeply  cleft  with  minute  spines  along  the  margins  of  the  tri- 
angular incision;  the  terminal  lobes  have  the  end  broad  and  furnished  with 
some  spines. 

Remarks. —  The  shape  of  the  maxillipeds  and  of  the  terminal  joint  of  the 
maxillae  seems  to  prove  that  the  genus  belongs  to  the  tribe  Mysini,  while  the 
telson  differs  somewhat  from  that  in  genera  hitherto  known. 

23.     Doxomysis  pelagica,  sp.  nov. 

r 

Plate  3,  figs.  3a-3g. 
Sta.  4640.     Nov.  6,  1904.     Lat.  0°  39.4' S.,  long.  SS°  11' W.     Surface.     1  mutilated  adult  female. 

Description. —  Frontal  plate  a  little  more  than  twice  as  broad  as  long, 
terminating  in  a  slender  rostrum  unfortunately  broken  off  at  some  distance  from 
its  origin. —  Ej'es  large,  but  in  very  damaged  condition. —  Antennal  squama 


206  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

(fig.  3a)  between  five  and  sL\  times  as  long  as  broad,  with  the  outer  margin  a 
Uttle  concave  and  the  inner  convex,  somewhat  tapering  from  near  the  base 
to  the  broad,  almost  transverse  end;  the  terminal  joint  somewhat  longer  than 
broad. 

The  abdominal  segments  furnished  above  and  on  the  sides  with  a  very  large 
number  of  quite  minute,  mostly  very  slender  denticles. —  The  exopod  of  the 
uropods  nearly  eleven  times  as  long  as  broad. —  Telson  (figs.  3f  and  3g)  slightly 
more  than  half  as  long  as  the  exopod  of  the  uropods,  almost  twice  as  long  as 
broad,  with  the  outer  margin  somewhat  concave;  the  terminal  incision  is  deep, 
one  third  as  deep  as  the  length  of  the  telson,  oblong-triangular,  somewhat 
rounded  at  the  bottom  and  there  with  a  couple  of  setae  almost  as  long  as  the 
incision,  while  each  of  its  lateral  margins  is  furnished  with  13-14  very  small 
spines;  slightly  more  than  the  distal  half  of  each  lateral  margin  of  the  telson 
is  spiniferous,  the  proximal  spines  widely  separated  from  each  other,  the  more 
distal  spines  moderately  close;  the  terminal  lobes  taper  somewhat  from  the 
base  of  the  incision  to  near  the  end,  where  they  are  feebly  widened  inwards; 
this  end  is  broad  and  rounded,  with  four  spines  distinctly  a  little  longer  than 
the  more  distal  lateral  spines. 

Remarks. —  This  species  is  easilj-  distinguished  by  the  shape  and  armatiu-e 
of  the  telson.  The  presence  of  a  very  large  number  of  tiny  denticles  on  the 
abdominal  segments  is  interesting. 


II.     The  Order  EUPHAUSIACEA. 

The  collection  contains  representatives  of  eight  genera.  Only  three  genera 
hitherto  known  are  wanting,  viz.  Meganyctiphanes  Holt  and  Tatt.,  Thysanoessa 
Kroyer  (with  Rhoda  Sim  or  Boreophausia  G.  O.  S.^),  and  Tessarabrachion 
H.  J.  H.,  but  these  are  exclusively  confined  to  the  temperate  and  cold  seas. 

BENTHEUPHAUSIA  G.  O.  Sars  (1885). 

Only  a  single  species  is  known. 

1.    Bentheuphausia  amblyops  (G.  O.  Sars). 

1883.     Thjsanopoda  (?)  amhlyops  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  23. 
1885.     Bentheuphausia  amblyops  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  109,  pi.  19;   text-fig.  4. 

'  This  topic  has  been  dealt  with  in  my  paper  on  the  genera  and  species  of  the  order  Euphausiacea 
(Bull.  Mus.  Oeeap.  Monaco,  no.  210,  1911). 


THYSANOPODA.  207 

Sta.  4676.  Dec.    5,  1904.  Lat.  14°  28.0'  S.,  long.  81°  24'  W.  .WO  fms.  to  surface.  1  specimen. 

Sta.  4679.  Dec.    7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  20.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46..5'  \V.     :i()()  fnis.  to  suifacc.  1  specimen. 

Sta.  4681.  Dec.    8,1904.  Lat.  18°  47.1' S.,  long.  89°  26' W.  ;i()()  fms.  to  .surface.  2  specimens. 

Sta.  4683.  Dec.    9,1904.  Lat.  20°  2.4' S.,  long.  91°  52.5' W.  300  fms.  to  surface.  2  specimens. 

Sta.  4707.  Dec.  29,  1904.  Lat.  12°  33.2'  S.,  long.  97°  42'  W.  300  fms.  to  surface.  1  specimen. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  9°  31' S.,  long.  106°  30.5' W.  300  fms.  to  surface.  1  specimen. 

Sta.  4740.  Feb.  11,  1905.  Lat.  9°  2.1' S.,  long.  123°  20.1' W.  300  fms.  to  surface.  3  specimens. 

Distribution. —  According  to  the  literature  this  species  is  known  from  the 
Atlantic,  where  it  extends  northwards  to  Lat.  46°  15'  N.  and  southwards  to  a 
place  off  Tristan  da  Cunha;  also  from  the  Bay  of  Bengal,  the  Indian  Archi- 
pelago, and  South  of  Australia. 

It  is  a  true  bathypelagic  species  and  this  explains  perhaps  that  among  the 
twelve  specimens  from  seven  Stations  in  the  East  Pacific  only  a  single  specimen 
(from  Sta.  4707)  seems  to  be  really  adult. 

THYSANOPODA  H.  Milne  Edwards  (1830). 

The  material  of  this  large  and  somewhat  difficult  genus  is  very  rich,  com- 
prising nine  species;  a  young  specimen,  wliich  is  very  far  from  adult  though  not 
small,  I  have  with  some  doubt  referred  to  T.  cornuta  lUig,  of  which  a  much 
larger  specimen  is  at  hand.  Only  two  valid  species  of  this  genus  are  not  found 
in  the  collection,  but  both  are  known  only  from  the  North  Atlantic' 

The  maxillulae  differ  much  from  each  other  in  various  species,  affording 
•excellent  specific  characters,  especially  characters  for  quite  small  groups  of 
species.  In  a  couple  of  species  the  outer  lamella  from  their  first  lobe,  the 
"pseudexopod,"  is  somewhat  small,  at  most  shghtly  overreaching  the  outer 
margin  of  third  joint,  while  in  most  species  the  pseudexopod  is  of  moderate 
size  or  ^'ery  large,  with  its  greater  part  reaching  beyond  the  outer  margin  of 
third  joint;  fm'thermore  the  fourth  joint,  the  palp,  differs  extremely  as  to 
length  and  breadth  in  various  species.  For  these  reasons  I  have  given  figures 
of  the  maxillulae  of  most  species. —  The  maxillae  of  various  species  differ 
generally  but  little  in  shape,  and  therefore  it  has  been  deemed  unnecessary  to 
figure  more  than  the  maxilla  of  a  single  species. 

Group  a.  Carapace  without  any  distinct  cervical  groove.  Maxillulae  with 
the  pseudexopod  from  moderately  large  to  very  large,  with  at  least  almost  their  half 
situated  beyond  the  outer  margin  of  third  Joint,  and  with  the  palp  at  most  moder- 
ately long  and  somewhat  overreaching  the  third  joint.  Sixth  abdominal  segment 
longer  than  the  fifth. 

'  ThysanOpoda  megaloips  lUig  as  re-established  by  that  author  in  .luly,  1911,  on  a  specimen  from 
the  Indian  Ocean  is  certainly  a  young  and  most  probablj-  the  young  of  T.  egrerjUi  H.  J.  H. 


208  THE  SCHIZOPODA.  ^ 

a.  Carapace  in  the  adults  imth  a  denticle  on  or  near  the  lower  margins  near 
their  posterior  end. 

2.    Thysanopoda  tricuspidata  H.  Milne  Edwards. 

Plate  4,  fig.  2a. 

1830.     Thysanopode  tricuspide  H.  Milne  Edwards,  Ann.  Sc.  Nat.,  19,  p.  454,  pi.  19. 

18.37.     Thysanopoda  tricuspidata  H.  Milne  Edwards,  Hist.  Nat.  Crust.,  2,  p.  460,  pi.  26,  figs.  1-6. 

1885.     Thysanopoda  tricuspidata  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Kept.,  13,  p.  98,  pi.  17,  p.  165,  pi.  31,  figs.  1-22 

(larval  stages). 
1910.     Thysanopoda  tricuspidata  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  82,  pi.  12,  figs.  3a-3b. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28, 1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3' S.,  long.  99°  19' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4721.  Jan.  15,  1905.  Lat.  8°  7.5'  S.,  long.  104°  10.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4725.  Jan.  17,  1905.  Lat.  11°  38.3'  S.,  long,  110°  5'  W.     Surface.     3  older  larvae. 

Sta.  4728.  Jan.  19,  1905.  Lat.  13°  47.5' S.,  long.  114°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4729.  Jan.  19,  1905.  Lat.  14°  15' S.,  long.  11.5°  13' W.     Surface.     1  very  young  specimen. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.  20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4734.  Jan.  22,  1905.  Lat.  17°  36'  S.,  long.  122°  35.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4740.  Feb.  11, 1905.  Lat.  9°  2.1' S.,  long.  123°  20.1' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

To  the  description  given  by  Sars  and  that  in  the  "Siboga"  Report  some 
remarks  on  the  maxillulae  may  be  added  for  comparison  with  the  same  organs 
in  the  following  forms.  The  lobe  of  first  lobe,  the  proximal  lobe  (fig.  2a,  1  .) 
is  somewhat  broad,  with  the  end  nearly  regularly  rounded;  the  lobe  from  third 
joint  (1  .)  is  moderately  broad,  not  widened  towards  the  end,  about  as  broad  as 
the  terminal  part  of  the  proximal  lobe  and  considerably  narrower  than  in  the 
following  species;  the  fourth  joint  (4.),  the  palp,  is  comparatively  large,  somewhat 
longer  than  the  lobe  of  third  joint,  widening  much  from  the  base  to  beyond  the 
middle,  more  than  half  as  broad  as  long,  with  the  end  almost  cut  obliquely, 
setose  both  along  the  long  and  the  little  convex  terminal  margin,  and  on  the 
outer  margin.  The  pseudexopod  (px)  is  only  moderately  large,  not  larger  than 
the  inner  distal,  transverse  portion  of  the  proximal  lobe,  very  oblong,  with 
about  its  half  situated  outside  the  outer  margin  of  the  third  joint  and  co\'ering 
only  a  verj^  small  part  of  the  fourth  joint. 

Distrihulion. —  According  to  the  literature  (Sars,  Ortmann,  Hansen)  and 
to  the  material  at  hand  this  characteristic  species  is  common  in  the  tropical 
Atlantic,  ranging  northwards  to  the  Sargasso  Sea  (Ortmann) ;  it  occm's  also 
in  the  Indian  .Ai-chipelago  and  adjacent  areas,  and  it  has  been  taken  at  \-arious 
places  in  the  tropical  Pacific  and  even  more  to  the  southwards  in  that  Ocean 
(Sars).  The  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  specimens  from  more  than  thirty 
locaHties,  the  majority  from  the  Atlantic  between  Lat.  28°  12'  N.  and  22°  S., 
but  eight  among  the  Stations  from  the  seas  around  Southeastern  Asia,  f.  inst, 
Lat.  13°  S.,  long.  103°  20'  E.;   Lat.  16°  8'  S.,  long.  111°  50'  E.;  Lat.  10°  N., 


THYSAN'OPODA  (  HISTATA.  209 

long.  115°  20'  E.     Probably  all  the  specimens  in  the  Copenhagen  INIusoum  were 
taken  at  the  surface  of  the  sea  during  night. 

3.     Tbysanopoda  cristata  G.  O.  Sars. 

Plate  3,  figs.  4a^c;    Plate  4,  figs,  la-lh. 

1883.     Thysanopoda  cristata  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  22. 

1885.     Thysanopoda  cristala,  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  104,  pi.  18,  figs.  15-20. 

1893.     Thysanopoda  biproducta  Ortmann,  Ergebn.  der  Plankton-Exped.,  2,  G.  b.  p.  8,  taf.  I,  fig.  1. 

Sta.  4699.  Dec.  25,  1904.  Lat.  21°  39.5' S.,  long.  104°  29.8' W.  300  fms.  to  surface.  1  young  .speci- 
men. 

Sta.  4728.     Jan.  19,  1905.     Lat.  13°  47.5' S.,  long.  114°  21.6' VV.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  adult  male. 

Sta.  4736.  Jan.  23,  1905.  Lat.  19°  0.4'  S,,  long.  125°  5.4'  \V.  300  fms.  to  surface.  1  immature 
specimen. 

Description. —  The  frontal  plate  (Plate  3,  fig.  4b)  long,  only  a  little  broader 
than  long  with  the  lateral  margins  considerably  concave,  strongly  tapering 
forwards  and  narrow  in  front,  where  it  terminates  in  a  moderately  short,  slender 
rostrum  which  at  its  base  is  distinctly  narrower  than  the  end  of  the  plate;  in 
the  adult  specimen  (and  in  Sars's  type)  the  rostrum  seems  to  be  articulated  to 
the  end  of  the  plate,  but  whether  this  is  the  normal  state  or  is  due  to  injury 
I  cannot  decide.  In  the  two  much  smaller  specimens  the  rostrum  is  broader 
at  the  base  and  not  well-marked  off.  At  the  anterior  end  of  the  frontal  plate 
a  very  conspicuous,  somewhat  high,  sharp  dorsal  keel  is  suddenly  raised  (Plate  3, 
figs.  4a  and  4c),  the  front  end  of  which  is  even  emarginate  and  terminates  above 
in  a  point;  the  keel  goes  backwards  to  near  the  iniddle  of  the  carapace,  and 
about  at  the  middle  of  its  length,  where  the  dorsal  organ  is  found,  it  is  rather 
suddenly  somewhat  higher,  while  it  is  rounded  downwards  towards  its  posterior 
end;  in  the  smallest  specimen  the  keel  has  no  angle  or  incision  at  its  front  end, 
and  its  anterior  half  decreases  in  height  towards  the  rostrum  where  it  disappears. 
The  carapace  has  no  cer\'ical  suture,  but  two  obhque,  moderately  short  impres- 
sions on  each  side  at  a  distance  from  the  front  lateral  margin  of  about  one  third 
of  the  length  of  the  carapace ;  the  upper  of  these  impressions  is  nearly  horizontal, 
the  lower  very  oblique  and  below  limited  by  a  low  narrow  ridge.  The  lateral 
part  of  the  front  margin  of  the  carapace  below  the  eye  is  produced  in  a  triangular, 
acute,  somewhat  small  plate;  at  a  considerable  distance  from  the  lower  margin 
a  deep  furrow  is  seen,  beginning  above  the  insertion  of  the  maxilla  and  reaching 
to  near  the  hind  margin  of  the  carapace,  where  it  bends  upwards  and  terminates 
at  the  middle  of  the  side.  A  smaH  tooth  (omitted  in  fig.  4a  by  the  engraver) 
is  found  above  the  lateral  margin  —  in  the  small  specimen  on  the  margin  —  of 
the  carapace  somewhat  before  its  posterior  end;  the  tooth  is  acute,  directed 
outwards,   forwards,   and  downwards. 


210  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

The  eyes  are  of  moderate  size,  with  the  eye-stalks  short. —  The  antennular 
peduncles  are  somewhat  short  and  in  adults  very  thick  (Plate  4,  figs,  la  and  lb); 
in  a  little  more  than  half-grown  specimen  much  more  slender  (fig.  Ic).  Seen 
from  the  side  (fig.  la)  the  distal  upper  part  of  the  first  joint  is  raised  as  a  high 
and  thick,  vaulted,  setose  roof  above  the  insertion  of  the  second  joint;  seen 
from  above  (fig.  lb)  the  same  distal  part  is  produced  forwards  as  a  short  triangle 
with  the  inner  angle  acute,  but  without  any  process  or  armatm'e;  on  the  outer 
margin  of  the  joint  a  somewhat  small,  oblong  process  is  seen.  The  second 
joint  in  the  adult  has,  seen  from  the  side  (fig.  la),  its  distal  half  considerably 
vaulted  above;  seen  from  above  (fig.  lb)  its  breadth  is  as  long  as  its  inner  margin, 
while  distally  and  a  little  nearer  the  outer  than  the  inner  margin  it  is  produced 
forwards  in  a  triangular,  acute  lobe  considerably  broader  than  long  and  with 
its  end  pointing  outwards  and  especially  forwards.  Third  joint  in  the  adult 
with  the  distal  part  of  the  upper  margin  considerably  arched,  rounded,  but 
the  dorsal  crest  is  not  well  defined.  In  considerably  smaller  specimens  the 
vaulting  of  the  distal  parts  of  the  joints  is  much  less  developed  (fig.  Ic). —  The 
antennal  squama  reaches  the  middle  of  third  antennular  joint  and  has  a  distinct 
triangular  tooth  at  the  outer  distal  angle;  the  spiniform  process  from  the  outer 
end  of  the  peduncle  is  scarcely  one  fourth  as  long  as  the  squama. 

The  maxillulae  (Plate  4,  fig.  Id)  are  in  the  main  intermediate  between  those 
in  T.  {ricuspidata  and  in  the  following  forms.  The  proximal  lobe  is  consider- 
ably smaller  than  in  T.  tricuspidata  and  somewhat  angular  at  the  inner  distal  end; 
the  distal  lobe  is  much  broader  than  the  proximal,  a  little  widened  towards  the 
terminal  margin  which  is  shghtly  convex ;  the  palp  is  somewhat  longer  than  the 
distal  lobe,  narrow,  between  three  and  four  times  as  long  as  broad  and  tapering 
beyond  the  middle.  The  pseudexopod  is  a  little  broader  and  distinctly  longer 
than  in  T.  tricuspidata,  but  not  reaching  much  beyond  the  proximal  angle  of 
the  insertion  of  the  palp. 

The  lateral  plates  of  the  five  anterior  abdominal  segments  are  broad  and 
deep;  those  of  second  to  fourth  segments  with  the  lower  margin  a  little  irregu- 
larly emarginate;  fourth  and  fifth  segments  each  with  a  dorsal  spiniform  den- 
ticle; sixth  segment  uncommonly  short  and  deep.  The  inner  ramus  of  the 
uropods  conspicuously  shorter  than  the  outer  which  reaches  a  little  beyond 
the  tip  of  the  telson. —  Telson  has  in  Sars's  type  seven  pairs  of  dorsal  spines 
(it  is  mutilated  in  my  adult  specimen). 

The  copulatory  organs  (Plate  4,  figs,  le-lh)  show  some  peculiarities.  The 
spine-shaped  process  (p^)  is  moderately  curved.     The  terminal  process  (p'.) 


THYSANOrODA   CRIST  ATA.  211 

is  medium  sized,  seen  from  behind  (fig.  If)  considerably  curved  at  the  middle, 
with  the  convex  margin  outwards  and  with  the  end  compressed;  seen  from  the 
inner  side  (fig.  Ig)  the  proximal  lialf  is  besides  a  little  curved,  while  a  somewhat 
short  terminal  part  of  the  distal  half  is  a  little  widened,  very  oblong,  subacute 
and  bent  to  the  left.  The  proximal  process  (p^.)  overreaches  considerably  the 
terminal;  it  is  proportionately  not  thick  at  the  base  and  tapers  gradually  towards 
the  other  obtuse  end;  its  distal  third  is  very  slender;  it  is  curved  somewhat 
inwards  at  the  end  of  its  proximal  fourth,  while  its  distal  half  constitutes  a 
portion  of  a  circle  with  the  convex  margin  inwards.  The  median  lobe  (Im.) 
is  long  and  about  its  distal  fourth  is  nearly  lamellar;  this  lobe  is  produced  dis- 
tally  with  the  tip  rounded,  and  the  lamellar  part  is  bent  inwards,  covering, 
seen  from  behind,  the  distal  part  of  the  lateral  process.  This  process  (p^.)  is 
very  long,  a  little  curved  to  the  beginning  of  its  terminal  fifth,  which  is  much 
curved  inwards  and  especially  forwards  and  in  reality  considerably  longer  than 
seen  on  the  figures  (figs,  le  and  Ih)  as  the.se  do  not  exhibit  the  process  from  the 
inner  side.  The  additional  process  (fig.  Ih,  which  shows  both  the  lateral  and 
the  additional  process  seen  from  in  front)  is  situated  at  the  base  of  the  lamellar 
part  mentioned;  it  is  short,  somewhat  oblong,  very  thick  to  near  the  end  which 
is  acuminate,  acute,  and  somewhat  curved.  The  auxihary  lobe  (lu.)  is  somewhat 
short.  The  setiferous  lobe  (Is.)  is  nearly  lanceolate  with  the  end  rounded  and 
with  setae  along  both  margins  to  their  base. 

Length  of  the  adult  male  38  mm.,  of  the  two  other  specimens  respectively 
23  mm.  and  18  mm.     Sars's  type  measures  48  mm.  in  length. 

Remarks. —  In  1907  I  compared  the  largest  specimen  in  the  Agassiz  col- 
lection directly  with  Sars's  type  in  the  British  Museum  and  found  that  they 
agree  perfectly  with  each  other.  Consequently  Sars's  figs.  15-16  are  inaccurate 
in  various  particulars  of  the  carapace  and  the  antennular  peduncles.  Sars 
figured  the  rostrum  bent  downwards,  but  this  is  quite  accidental,  as  the  ros- 
trimi  is  articulated  to  the  frontal  plate  or  broken  at  the  base  (see  above). 
Furthermore  his  fig.  15  exhibits  a  cervical  groove  and  other  furrows  on  the 
anterior  half  of  the  carapace,  but  they  do  not  exist,  while  he  did  not  draw  the 
two  short  lateral  impressions  really  existing  and  shown  in  my  figures.  He 
figured  the  dorsal  keel  a  little  higher  than  in  his  specimen,  and  he  overlooked 
the  denticle  above  the  lateral  margin  somewhat  from  its  posterior  end.  The 
antennular  peduncles  are  not  well  di-awn  in  his  figures.  Finally,  his  statement 
on  the  length  of  his  specimen  (he  states  it  to  be  55  mm.)  indicates  that  he  here, 
and  probably  elsewhere  in  his  work,  measured  the  animal  from  the  end  of  the 


212  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

antennal  squama  instead  of  from  the  tip  of  the  rostrum. —  Ortmann's  descrip- 
tion is  incomplete  and  his  figure  not  very  good,  but  I  have  no  doubt  that  he 
examined  a  young  specimen  of  this  species. 

It  may  be  added  that  the  postero-lateral  denticle  on  the  carapace  changes 
its  place.  In  the  smallest  specimen  it  protrudes  from  the  lateral  margin  itself, 
in  the  somewhat  larger  specimen  a  little  above  that  margin,  and  in  the  adult 
male  still  a  little  higher,  but  yet  slightly  nearer  to  the  lower  margin  than  to  the 
longitudinal  furrow. 

Distribution.  This  species  has  a  very  extensive  distribution  but  seems  to 
be  rare,  only  two  specimens  being  mentioned  in  the  hteratm-e.  The  type  of 
Sars  was  taken  at  Lat.  5°  47'  N.,  long.  124°  1'  E.,  South  of  Mindanao,  Philippine 
Islands;  Ortmann's  specimen  was  captured  in  the  Sargasso  Sea,  North  Atlantic. 
For  various  reasons  I  think  that  adult  specimens  generally  live  in  very  consid- 
erable depths. 

4.     Thysanopoda  monacantha  Ortmann. 

Plate  4,  figs.  3a-3c. 

1S93.  Thysanopoda  monocanllia  Ohtmann,  Ergebn.  du  Plankton-Exped.,  2,  G.  b.  p.  9,  taf.  1,  fig.  2. 

1894.  Thysanopoda  agassizii  Ortmann,  Bull.  Mus.  Comp.  Zool.,  25,  p.  09,  plate,  tigs.  1-2. 

190.5.  Thysanopoda  lateralis  H.  J.  Han.sen,  Bull.  Mus.  Ocean.  Monaco,  no.  30,  p.  18. 

1908.  Thysanopoda  ctenophora  Illig,  Zool.  Anz.,  23,  p.  112. 

1910.  Thysanopoda  agassizii  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  87,  pi.  13,  figs.  3a-3g. 

Sta.  4634.  Nov.  4,  1904.  Lat.  4°  35.4'  N.,  long.  83°  32.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  very  young 

specimen. 

Sta.  4663.  Nov.  16,  1904.  Lat.  11°  20.3' S.,  long.  88°  5.5.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4679.  Dec.    7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     18  specimens. 

Sta.  4681.  Dec.    8,1904.  Lat.  18°  47.1' S.,  long.  89°  26' W.     .300  fms.  to  surface.     17  specimens. 

Sta.  46S3.  Dec.    9,1904.  Lat.  20°  2.4' S.,  long.  91°  52.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     8  specimens. 

Sta.  4685.  Dec.  10,  1904.  Lat.  21°  36.2'  S.,  long.  94°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4701.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5'  S.,  long.  102°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3'  S.,  long.  99°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     16  specimens. 

Sta.  4707.  Dec.  29,  1904.  Lat.  12°  33.2'  8.,  long.  97°  42'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  40.8'  \V.     300  fms  to  surf.ace.     13  specimens. 

Sta.  4711.  Dec.  31,  1904.  Lat.  7°  47.5' S.,  long.  94°  5.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4719.  Jan.  14,  1905.  Lat.  6°  29.8'  S.,  long.  101°  16.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4721.  Jan.   15,  1905.  Lat.  8°  7.5' S.,  long.  104°  10.5  '  W.     300  fms.  to  .surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  9°  31'  S.,  long.  106°  30.5'  W.     300  fms.   to  surface.     7  specimens. 

(1  very  small). 

Sta.  4724.  Jan.  17,  1905.  Lat.  11°  13.4' S.,  long.  109°  .39' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  small  specimen. 

Sta.  4728.  Jan.  19,  1905.  Lat.  13°  47.5'  S.,  long.  114°  21.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens, 

very  small. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.  20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4740.  Feb.  11,  1905.  Lat.  9°  2.1' S.,  long.  123°  20.1' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  Both  subadult  specimens,  very  young  specimens,  and  older 
larvae  have  been  described  and  figured  in  the  "Siboga"  paper  quoted.  Here 
a  few  remarks  are  sufficient. 


THYSANOPODA  MONACANTHA.  213 

The  maxilliilae  (fig.  3a)  are  still  more  developed  in  the  directions  already 
indicated  in  T.  crislala.  The  proximal  lobe  (1  .)  is  a  little  larger  than  in  that 
species;  the  distal  lobe  (l .)  expands  considerably  in  breadth  from  the  insertion 
of  the  palp  to  the  very  broad  end,  the  margin  of  which  is  feebly  convex  with 
the  angles  rounded,  and  the  lobe  is  more  than  half  as  broad  again  as  the  proxi- 
mal and  considerably  broader  than  long,  the  length  measured  to  the  distal  part 
of  the  insertion  of  the  palp.  The  palp  (4.)  is  rather  short,  not  reaching  the  end 
of  the  distal  lobe,  slender  and  tapering  to  the  transversely  cut  end.  The  pseu- 
dexopod  (px.)  is  extremely  large,  twice  as  long  as  broad  and  reaches  even  a 
little  beyond  the  end  of  the  distal  lobe. 

Ortmann  has  seen  a  specimen  32  mm.  long.  The  largest  specimen  in  the 
Agassiz  collection  is  a  female  measuring  27  mm.,  but  among  the  males,  measur- 
ing about  22-24  mm.,  not  a  single  specimen  seems  to  be  adult,  as  may  be  judged 
from  the  stage  of  development  of  the  lobes  and  especially  of  the  processes  of  the 
copulatory  organs.  Fig.  3b  and  fig.  3c  exliibit  the  two  lobes  of  two  males; 
the  spine-shaped  process  is,  as  usual  in  immature  specimens,  well  developed, 
but  the  terminal  and  the  lateral  processes  are  simple  and  slender  conical,  and 
the  proximal  process  is  nearly  similar,  yet  a  little  or  somewhat  curved  at  the 
middle.  The  additional  process  on  fig.  3b  is  also  slender  conical,  while  fig.  3c 
exhibits  a  most  interesting  feature,  viz.  three  additional  processes  (p  .)  of  the 
same  undeveloped  character.  I  suppose  that  the  existence  of  three  additional 
processes  is  a  casual  anomaly,  but  the  question  ought  to  be  studied  by  a  future 
investigator  who  has  a  number  of  adult  males  at  his  disposal. 

Distribution. —  This  species  was  established  on  a  specimen  taken  in  the 
Guinea  current  in  the  tropical  Atlantic;  the  Monaco  specimen  described  as  T. 
lateralis  is  from  Lat.  27°  43'  N.,  long.  18°  28'  W.;  T.  denophora  Illig  from  the 
Gulf  of  Guinea.  T.  agassizii  Ortm.  which,  according  to  my  opinion,  cannot  be 
separated  from  T.  monacantha,  was  described  from  specimens  taken  in  the 
Gulf  of  Panama  and  between  the  Galapagos  and  Acapulco;  a  specimen  was 
captured  in  the  waters  of  the  Hawaiian  Islands  (Ortmann)  and  several  speci- 
mens were  secured  by  the  "Siboga"  in  the  Indian  Archipelago.  In  the  area 
explored  in  1904-1905  the  species  was  not  taken  in  the  two  most  southern  dis- 
tricts or  in  a  broad  belt  along  the  coast  of  South  America.  I  suppose  that 
adult  specimens  live  in  considerable  depths,  at  least  generally  in  more  than 
300  fms.  from  the  surface. 


214  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

6.    Thysanopoda  aequalis  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Plate  4,  fig.  4a. 

1905.      Thysanopoda  aequalis  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Ocean  Mon.,  no.  42,  p.  19. 

1910.     Thysanopoda  aequalis  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  84,  pi.  12,  figs.  4a-4c;  pi.  13,  fig.  la. 

Sta.  46S1.     Dec.    8,  1904.'   Lat.  18°  47.1'  S.,  long.  89°  26'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4683.     Dec.    9,1904.     Lat.  20°  2.4' S.,  long.  91°  52.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     9  specimens. 

Sta.  4685.     Dec.  10,  1904.     Lat.  21°  36.2' S.,  long.  94°  56' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

.„„_      -r^       ..    .^„.      T        ,,„  ,„.,r.    ,         „-o  .1., .,« ,,T     ^  300  fms.  to  surface.     8  .specimens. 
Sta.  4687.     Dec.  11,  1904.     Lat.  22°  49.5' S.,  long.  97°  30.6' W.  -^  „,,,,  ^        ,  ,  .^      . 

{  2125  tms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4689.  Dec.  12,  1904.  Lat.  24°  5' S.,  long.  100°  20' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4691.  Dec.  13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  27.3'  S.,  long.  103°  29.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     9  specimens. 

Sta.  4695.  Dec.  23,  1904.  Lat.  25°  22.4' S.,  long.  107°  45' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4701.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5' S.,  long.  102°  24' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4703.  Dec.  27,  1904.  Lat.  17°  18.6'  S.,  long.  100°  52.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3'  S.,  long.  99°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     20  specimens. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  9°  31'  S.,  long.  106°  30.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4724.  Jan.  17,  1905.  Lat.  11°  13.4'  S.,  long.  109°  39'  VV.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4728.  Jan.  19,  1905.  Lat.  13°  47.5'  S.,  long.  1 14°  21.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  .surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.  20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4732.  Jan.  21,  1905.  Lat.  16°  32.5'  S.,  long.  119°  59'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4740.  Feb.  11,  1905.  Lat.  9°  2.1'  S.,  long.  123°  20.1'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  To  my  earlier  descriptions  of  this  characteristic  species  some 
notes  on  the  maxilkilae  (fig.  4a)  may  be  added.  They  differ  in  some  features 
from  those  in  T.  monacanlha.  The  proximal  lobe  is  medium  sized,  with  the 
terminal,  somewhat  convex  margin  rather  oblique;  the  distal  lobe  expands 
somewhat  towards  the  feebly  convex  terminal  margin,  is  somewhat  broader  than 
long  and  more  than  half  as  broad  again  as  the  proximal;  the  palp  is  very  oblong- 
oval  with  the  end  very  obtuse,  besides  nearly  two  and  a  half  times  as  long  as 
broad  and  reaches  the  end  of  the  distal  lobe.  The  pseudexopod  is  large,  yet  a 
good  deal  smaller  than  in  T.  monacantha,  twice  as  long  as  broad  and  reaches  con- 
siderably beyond  the  insertion  of  the  palp. 

Length  of  one  of  the  largest  specimens,  an  adult  male,  17.5  mm. 

Young  Specimens. —  Specimens  measuring  6.5-8  mm.  differ  in  two  imjDortant 
particulars  from  subadults  and  adults.  The  frontal  plate  is  proportionately 
larger,  flatter,  and  the  rostrum  is  a  minute,  quite  horizontal  denticle.  The  eyes 
are  much  higher  than  broad,  with  the  upper  half  yellowish  or  light  brownish 
and  marked  off  from  the  distinctly  or  much  darker  lower  half.  The  lobe  from 
the  first  antennular  joint  has  not  acquired  its  full  size,  but  its  shape  shows  that 
the  specimens  belong  to  this  species. —  Specimens  measuring  about  10  mm.  are 
intei-mediate  between  the  adults  and  the  young  as  to  the  organs  mentioned. 

Distribution. —  The  species  is  common  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  Atlantic 
from  Lat.  30°  17'  N.  to  Lat.  28°  N.  (Monaco  collection),  and  it  has  been  taken  in 
the  Mediterranean   (Tattersall).     The  Copenhagen   Museum   possesses   speci- 


THYSANOPODA  OBTUSIFRONS.  215 

mens  from  four  localities  in  the  Eastern  Atlantic  between  Lat.  28°  N.  and  Lat. 
23°  N.,  besides  from  the  Central  Atlantic  at  Lat.  5°-7°  15'  N.,  long.  30°  W.,  from 
Southern  Atlantic  at  Lat.  30^°  S.,  long.  22?°  W.,  finally  from  five  Stations  in  an 
area  across  the  more  southeastern  part  of  the  Indian  Ocean,  viz.  between  Lat. 
22^°  S.  and  27^°  S.,  long.  80°  E.  and  103°  E.  From  the  Hawaiian  waters  (the 
label  has  Sta.  3808.  From  between  Erben  Bank  to  Kaiwi  Channel)  I  have  seen 
nine  specimens  belonging  to  this  species  but  referred  by  Ortmann  (1905)  to  T. 
ohtusifrons  G.  O.  S.  In  the  area  explored  in  1904-1905  this  species  is  confined 
to  the  southern  part,  not  going  North  of  Lat.  92°  S. —  The  specimens  in  the 
Copenhagen  Museum  have  certainly  all  been  taken  at  the  surface  during  night. 

6.    Thysanopoda  obtusifrons  G.  O.  Sars. 
Plate  4,  figs.  5a-5f. 

1883.  Thysanopoda  obtusifrons  G.  O.  Sahs,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  21. 

1885.  Thysanopoda  obtusifrons  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  102,  pi.  12,  figs.  1-14. 

1905.  Thysanopoda  vulgaris  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc6an.  Monaco,  no.  30,  p.  15. 

1905.  Thysanopoda  vulgaris  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc6an.  Monaco,  no.  42,  p.  20. 

1910.  Thysanopoda  obtusifrons  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  81. 

Sta.  4683.     Dec.    9,  1904.     Lat.  20°  2.4'  S.,  long.  91°  52.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 

Sta.  4685.     Dec.  10,  1904.     Lat.  21°  36.2'  S.,  long.  94°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

^         .    .„„.      T       „„o  .„  ,,  o,    ,         ^.to  n/^ /./ TTT    ^  300  fms.  to  .surface.     6  specimens. 
Sta.  4687.     Dec.  11,  1904.     Lat.  22°  49.5' S.,  long.  97°  30.6' W.  ^  „,,,.  ,       .         ,  .,         • 

'  •       o  (  2125  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4689.  Dec.  12,  1904.  Lat.  24°  5' S.,  long.  100°  20' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4691.  Dec.  13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  27.3'  S.,  long.  103°  29.3'  W.  300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4695.  Dec.  23,  1904.  Lat.  25°  22.4'  S.,  long.  107°  45'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4701.  Deo.  26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5'  S.,  long.  102°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.  20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4732.  Jan.  21,  1905.  Lat.  16°  32.5'  S.,  long.  119°  59'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4740.  Feb.  11 ,  1905.  Lat.  9°  2.1'  S.,  long.  123°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Description. —  The  frontal  plate  (figs.  5a-5b)  is  considerably  produced, 
about  twice  as  broad  as  long,  broadly  obtuse,  with  the  front  margin  rounded 
or  a  little  angular  at  the  middle  and  somewhat  shorter  than  one  of  its  oblique 
lateral  margins;  on  its  end  is  seen  the  rostrum  transformed  as  a  small,  vertical, 
conical  tooth  or  at  least  a  vestige  of  such  a  tooth;  the  plate  is  thick,  longitudi- 
nally concave  at  the  middle,  so  that  a  pair  of  submedian  obtuse  keels,  united 
in  front  at  the  rostrum  mentioned,  is  formed,  and  a  little  behind  the  rostrum 
begins  a  rather  low  median  keel  which  is  highest  considerably  behind  the  end 
of  the  submedian  keels  and  occupies  about  two  fifths  of  the  length  of  the  cara- 
pace. The  carapace  has  a  minute,  but  distinct,  denticle  on  the  outer  side  of 
the  lateral  margin  somewhat  before  its  posterior  end,  while  the  produced  part 
of  the  anterior  margin  above  the  antennae  is  only  a  minute  tooth;  a  furrow 
runs  close  to  the  lateral  margin  along  its  entire  length  and  bends  upwards  along 
a  portion  of  the  posterior  margin,  but  the  carapace  has  no  other  grooves. 


216  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

The  eyes  are  somewhat  small,  dark  brownish  or  nearly  black. —  The  an- 
tennulae  have  the  first  joint  of  the  peduncle  short  and  very  broad,  with  a  mod- 
erately short,  spiniform  process  from  the  distal  outer  angle;  above  the  joint 
is  distally  strongly  raised  as  an  obliquely  transverse,  vaulted  part,  from  which 
a  subquadrangular  lobe  projects  forwards,  closely  covering  not  quite  the  inner 
half  of  the  proximal  part  of  second  joint;  this  lobe  is  moderately  thick,  with 
the  outer  margin  nearly  straight  or  a  little  convex,  the  distal  margin  not  longer 
than  the  base  and  the  outer  distal  angle  either  simple  or  produced  in  a  small 
tooth;  the  upper  surface  of  the  lobe  is  set  with  somewhat  short,  stifT  setae.  The 
second  antennular  joint  is  produced  anteriorly  above  into  a  kind  of  short,  broad, 
distally  rounded  lobe,  the  front  margin  of  which  begins  at  a  point  somewhat 
removed  from  the  outer  angle  of  the  joint  and  goes  inwards  and  considerably 
forwards  to  the  inner  margin  of  third  joint.  Third  joint  with  the  dorsal  keel 
well  defined,  but  low. —  The  antennal  squama  reaches  at  least  to  the  distal  end 
of  second  antennular  joint;  it  is  broad,  with  the  end  nearly  truncate  and  with- 
out any  outer  distal  tooth.  The  .spiniform  process  from  the  peduncle  about  one 
third  as  long  as  the  squama  (fig.  5b) . —  The  maxillulae  (fig.  5c)  essentially  as  in 
T.  aequalis,  but  the  proximal  lobe  has  the  end  nearly  obliquely  cut  off,  the  distal 
lobe  is  considerable  widened  towards  the  end  and  much  broader  than  long;  the 
palp  is  slender,  about  four  times  as  long  as  broad,  reaching  the  end  of  the  distal 
lobe;  the  pseudexopod  is  extremely  large,  twice  as  long  as  broad  and  reaches 
about  the  end  of  the  palp. 

The  abdominal  segments  are  without  any  dorsal  denticle;  the  side-plates 
of  second  to  fourth  segment  with  the  lower  margin  a  little  emarginate.  The 
preanal  spine  middle  sized,  simple,  curved,  and  acute. —  The  uropods  about 
as  long  as  the  telson,  with  the  endopod  a  little  shorter  than  the  exopod. —  The 
telson  with  six  or  seven  pairs  of  dorsal  saw-teeth. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  5d-5f)  show  several  distinguishing  features. 
The  spine-shaped  process  (p'.)  is  well  developed,  placed  at  the  inner  margin  of 
the  inner  lobe  not  far  from  its  end.  The  terminal  process  (p-.)  of  moderate  length 
and  thickness,  slightly  curved,  seen  from  behind  (fig.  5d)  with  the  distal  third 
tapering  to  the  obtuse  end;  seen  from  the  inner  side  (fig.  5e)  the  distal  part 
is  compressed  with  the  outer  margin  somewhat  serrate,  the  other  margin  some- 
what convex.  The  proximal  process  (p^.)  with  the  basal  portion  very  thick  and 
directed  much  outwards;  then  it  bends  abruptly  forwards  and  at  the  bend  a 
kind  of  heel-shaped  process  is  directed  outwards;  the  major  distal  part  is,  seen 
from  behind  (fig.  5d),  feebly  curved,  seen  from  the  inner  side  (figs.  5e  and  5f) 
considerably  curved  beyond  the  middle  and  somewhat  expanded  but  tapering 


TIIYSANOPODA  OBTUSIFRONS.  217 

again  to  the  end,  whicli  is  truncate  and  at  the  posterior  margin  produced  into  a 
tooth.  The  median  lobe  has  the  basal  part  somewhat  broad,  and  the  lateral 
process  (p''.)  is  inserted  a  little  before  its  middle;  this  process  has  the  basal  part 
thickened  and  the  distal  fourth  bent  inwards  and  forwards;  the  additional 
process  (p^.)  is  long,  only  a  little  shorter  than  the  lateral,  moderately  robust, 
somewhat  curved  and  overreaching  the  lol)e;  the  distal  part  of  this  lobe  is  an 
oblong  and  obliquely  triangular  lamella  which,  seen  from  behind,  is  bent  in- 
wards, covering  the  proximal  half  of  the  additional  process.  The  auxiliary 
lobe  is  rather  long  and  thick.  The  setiferous  lobe  is  moderately  broad,  with 
setae  along  the  major  part  of  both  margins,  there  being  a  naked  interval  on  tlie 
subdistal  part  of  the  outer  margin. 

Length  of  the  largest  specimens  of  both  sexes  20  mm. 

Youug  Specimens. —  In  specimens  measuring  only  8-10.5  mm.  the  rostrum 
is  a  horizontal  denticle  and  the  eyes  are  oblong,  yellowish  brown,  but  at  least 
generally  without  any  difference  in  colour  between  their  upper  and  lower  half; 
the  shape  of  the  small  lobe  from  the  first  antennular  joint  shows  that  such 
specimens  belong  to  this  and  not  to  the  preceding  species. 

Re7narks. —  This  species  is  closely  allied  to  T.  aequalis  H.  J.  H.,  but  the  lobe 
from  first  joint  of  the  antennular  peduncle  is  quite  different  in  the  two  species, 
and  the  male  copulatory  organs  are  sharply  distinguished  especially  by  the 
feature  that  the  spine-shaped  process  is  well  developed  in  T.  obtusifrons  and 
wanting  in  T.  aequalis. 

Errors  and  deficiencies  in  Sars's  figures  have  been  pointed  out  in  the  "Si- 
boga ' '  Report ;  besides  Sars  states  that  the  lateral  margins  of  the  carapace  have 
no  denticle,  but  a  minute  denticle  is  always  present. 

Distribution. —  Sars's  type  was  captured  in  the  South  Pacific  at  Lat.  32°  36' 
S.,  long.  137°  43'  W.,  l)ut  the  specimens  from  the  Hawaiian  Islands  mentioned  by 
Ortmann  (1905)  belong  to  T.  aequalis.  A  good  many  specimens  were  captured 
by  the  Prince  of  Monaco  in  the  Eastern  Atlantic  between  Lat.  36°  46'  N.  and  lat. 
27°  43'  N.  The  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  a  specimen  from  Lat.  27°  30'  S., 
long.  98°-99°  10'  E. 

The  distribution  in  the  area  explored  in  1904-1905  is  nearly  the  same  as  that 
of  T.  aequalis,  but  less  common.  Curiously  enough,  it  has  not  been  taken  by 
the  "Siboga"  and  is  not  found  among  the  rather  rich  Copenhagen  material 
from  the  Chinese  and  Japanese  seas. 

/8.  Carapace  in  the  adults  without  denticles  on  the  lateral  margins  near  their 
posterior  end. 


218  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

7.     Thysanopoda  pectinata  Ortmann. 

Plate  5,  figs,  la-lm. 

1893.      Thysanopoda  pectinata  Ortm.\nn,  Ergebn.  der  Plankton-Exped.,  2,  G.,  b.,  p.  10,  taf.  1,  fig.  4. 
1905.      Thysanopoda  pectinata  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mils.  Ocean.  Monaco,  no.  42,  p.  25. 
1909.     Parathysanopoda  Joliijera  Illig,  ZooI.  Anz.,  35,  p.  225  (young). 

Sta.  4681.  Dec.    8,1904.  Lat.  18°  47.1' S.,  long.  89°  26' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4687.  Dec.  11,  1904.  Lat.  22°  49.5' S.,  long.  97°  30.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4?589.  Dec.  12,  1904.  Lat.  24°  5'  S.,  long.  100°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4701.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5' S.,  long.  102°  24' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3' S.,  long.  99°  19' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     14  specimens. 

Sta.  4719.  Jan.  14,  1905.  Lat.  6°  29.8'  S.,  long.  101°  16.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  9°  31' S.,  long.  106°  30.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.  20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7'  S.,  long.  117°  1.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5   specimens  (1 

among  them  very  young). 

Sta.  4732.  Jan.  21,  1905.  Lat.  16°  32.5'  S.,  long.  119°   50'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 

Sta.  4734.  Jan.  22,  1905.  Lat.  17°  36' S.,  long.  122°  35.6' W.    300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen,  young. 

Sta.  4740.  Feb.  11,  1905.  Lat.  9°  2.1' S.,  long.  123°  20.1' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Description. —  The  frontal  plate  is  produced,  in  the  Pacific  specimens  fre- 
quently nearly  triangular,  with  the  lateral  margins  feebly  convex  towards  the 
acute  end  (fig.  la),  but  sometimes  the  margins  are  distally  more  convex  and  the 
end  broadly  rounded,  a  little  angular  at  the  middle  (fig.  Ic);  in  specimens  from 
the  North  Atlantic  the  anterior  part  of  the  frontal  plate  is  much  broader  with  a 
somewhat  long  and  feebly  curved  transverse  margin  in  front;  on  the  end  or 
slightly  behind  the  end  of  the  frontal  plate  a  minute  vertical  tooth  —  the  re- 
mainder of  the  rostrum  in  the  young  —  is  seen ;  the  plate  is  very  thick  and  longi- 
tudinally concave  at  the  middle  so  that  a  pair  of  submedian  keels  are  formed 
uniting  at  the  tooth  mentioned,  and  a  little  or  somewhat  behind  the  tooth  begins 
in  the  bottom  of  the  median  excavation  the  median  keel,  which  is  rounded, 
rather  low,  increases  in  height  at  the  dorsal  organ  and  disappears  somewhat 
before  the  place  where  the  non-existent  cervical  groove  is  to  be  looked  for;  the 
lateral  edges  of  the  frontal  plate  are  bent  a  little  upwards,  so  that  the  surface 
becomes  a  little  excavated  along  each  margin.  The  carapace  has  a  longitudinal 
furrow  close  at  the  lateral  margin  almost  from  its  anterior  end,  and  posteriorly 
this  furrow  is  curved  upwards  along  the  lower  half  of  the  posterior  margin; 
the  surface  of  the  carapace  without  any  other  groove  or  impression;  the  pro- 
duced part  of  the  anterior  margin  above  the  antennae  is  a  small,  short,  acute 
triangle. 

The  eyes  are  somewhat  small,  black. —  The  antennulae  (figs,  la-lb)  are 
very  characteristic.  The  basal  joint  is  somewhat  short  and  very  broad,  with  a 
moderately  short,  spiniform  process  at  the  distal  outer  angle;  the  joint  is  dis- 
tally strongly  raised  as  an  obliquely  transverse,  vaulted  part  with  a  number 


THYSANOrODA  PECTIN  AT  A.  219 

of  strong,  partly  long  setae,  and  from  that  part  a  quite  peculiar  lobe  projects 
forwards,  closely  covering  the  major  part  of  the  proximal  half  of  the  second 
joint;  the  lobe  is  at  its  origin  about  half  as  broad  as  the  base  of  second  joint, 
but  it  is  rapidly  strongly  expanded  outwards,  thus  furnished  with  a  kind  of 
triangular  lateral  wing  projecting  outwards  and  somewhat  downwards  above 
the  upper  lateral  surface  of  second  joint;  the  anterior  margin  of  the  lobe,  the 
wing  included,  is  straight  or  a  little  concave,  nearly  transverse  and  produced 
in  a  row  of  8  to  13  thin,  spiniforni  processes  which  increase  in  length  from  the 
inner  to  the  outer,  the  inner  being  short  and  directed  forwards,  the  outer  rather 
long  and  directed  outwards  to  a  great  degree.  The  second  joint  is  above  and 
inwards  produced  in  a  lobe  which,  seen  from  above,  covers  closely  the  proximal 
thn-d  or  rather  two  fifths  of  the  inner  half  of  the  upper  surface  and  the  inner 
margin  itself  of  third  joint;  seen  from  above  the  outer  angle  of  this  lobe  is  con- 
vex, subangular,  or  rounded,  while  the  front  margin  of  the  second  joint  is  some- 
what hollowed  outside  the  base  of  the  lobe.  The  third  joint  with  the  dorsal 
keel  well  defined,  scarcely  half  as  long  as  the  joint  and  rather  low. —  The  anten- 
nal  squama  reaches  the  middle  of  third  antennular  joint,  it  is  broad,  distally 
subtruncate  with  the  outer  corner  subrectangular  and  without  denticle;  the 
spiniforni  outer  process  from  the  subbasal  joint  is  conspicuously  or  even  consid- 
erably shorter  than  the  breadth  of  the  squama. —  The  maxillulae  (fig.  Id)  are 
quite  peculiar;  the  proximal  lobe  has  the  end  nearly  regularly  rounded;  the 
distal  lobe  is  extremely  broad,  distally  strongly  expanded,  broader  than  long 
and  twice  as  broad  as  the  proximal  lobe;  the  palp  (4.)  is  very  small,  ovate, 
not  one  third  as  long  as  the  distal  lobe,  completely  covered  by  the  pseudexopod, 
which  is  very  large,  twice  as  long  as  broad. 

The  abdominal  segments  are  without  any  trace  of  dorsal  denticles.  The 
lateral  plates  of  second  to  fourth  segments  with  the  lower  margin  a  little 
emarginate.  The  preanal  spine  well  developed,  simple  in  the  male,  more  rarely 
simple,  but  generally  bifid  in  the  female. —  The  uropods  with  the  endopod 
slightly  or  somewhat  longer  than  the  telson  and  somewhat  shorter  than  the 
exopod. —  The  telson  with  two  pairs  of  dorsal  denticles  and  no  serration;  the 
subterminal  spines   extremely  long. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs,  le-li)  afford  excellent  characters.  The  spine- 
shaped  process  (p'.)  is  rather  long,  thin,  bent  strongly  inwards  near  the  end  of 
its  first  third  and  with  the  distal  part  somewhat  curved.  The  terminal  process 
(p-.)  with  its  proximal  third  thick  and  subcylindrical ;  then  it  is  curved  shghtly 
inwards  and  gradually  widened  and  flattened  to  the  end,  which  is  conspicu- 


220  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

ously  broader  or  even  nearly  twice  as  broad  as  the  basal  part  and  very  broadly 
rounded  with  the  terminal  margin  somewhat  or  feebly  convex;  besides  the  process 
is  a  little  excavated  on  the  anterior  surface  along  the  terminal  margin,  which 
consequently  is  a  Uttle  raised  (fig.  If).  The  proximal  process  (p^.)  far  from  reach- 
ing the  end  of  the  terminal;  the  basal  part  is  thick,  and  then  the  process  is 
abruptly  bent  considerably  inwards  and  its  terminal  third  curved  again  in  the 
opposite  direction;  at  the  proximal  bend  a  short  or  rather  long  "heel"  projects 
on  the  outer  side;  the  distal  third  is  somewhat  compressed  with  a  couple  of 
irregular  teeth  on  the  very  oblique  terminal  margin  (fig.  Ig,  which  shows  the 
distal  part  seen  from  the  outer  side).  The  median  lobe  with  the  proximal  half 
broad;  the  lateral  process  (p^.),  which  is  inserted  at  the  middle  of  the  inner  mar- 
gin of  the  lobe,  is  rather  long,  moderately  slender,  with  the  most  distal  part 
bent  strongly  inwards  and  forwards.  The  additional  process  (p^.  and  fig.  Ih) 
is  a  strong  hook,  the  major,  proximal  part  being  oblong,  a  little  curved  and 
strongly  vaulted  on  one  side,  and  the  distal  part  is  somewhat  slender,  acute, 
and  curved  strongly  outwards;  when  the  organ  is  seen  from  behind  (fig.  le) 
the  major  part  of  the  process  is  covered  by  the  distal  part  of  the  lobe,  the  end 
of  which  is  broadly  rounded.  A  little  beyond  the  insertion  of  the  lateral  process 
a  secondary  additional  process  (p".)  is  observed  on  the  posterior  surface  of  the 
lobe;  this  process  is  quite  small  and  shaped  as  a  straight  needle.  The  auxiliary 
lobe  of  moderate  size.  The  setiferous  lobe  is  moderately  broad,  with  setae  along 
nearly  the  whole  inner  margin,  the  oblique  distal  end  and  the  proximal  half  of 
the  outer  margin,  while  most  of  the  distal  part  of  this  margin  is  naked. 

Length  of  the  largest  female  from  the  Pacific  29  mm.,  of  adult  males  24- 
29.5  mm.  Specimens  from  the  Atlantic  are  much  larger;  the  Monaco  collec- 
tion contains  a  female  40.5  mm.  long  and  a  male  40  mm.  long,  while  Ortmann 
stated  that  his  single  specimen  measured  44  mm.  in  length. 

Very  young  Specimens. —  Figs.  Ik-lm  show  parts  of  a  young  specimen 
measuring  11  mm.  in  length.  The  frontal  plate  is  long,  much  longer  than  in 
the  adult,  somewhat  shorter  than  broad,  with  the  distal  third  of  the  lateral 
margins  somewhat  convex,  and  terminating  in  a  small,  nearly  spiniform,  hori- 
zontal rostrum ;  the  upper  side  of  the  plate  longitudinally  concave,  without  sub- 
median  keels,  and  the  median  keel  begins  somewhat  behind  the  frontal  end, 
increasing  conspicuously  and  regularly  in  height  to  the  dorsal  organ.  The  cara- 
pace has  a  very  distinct  tooth  on  the  lateral  margins  a  little  from  their  posterior 
end.  The  eyes  differ  much  from  those  in  the  adults;  seen  from  above  (fig.  Ik) 
the  stalk  is  much  thickened;   seen  from  the  side  (fig.  11)  the  eye  is  much  higher 


THYSANOPODA  PECTIN  ATA.  221 

than  broad  and  distinctly  divided  by  a  constriction  into  an  upper  somewhat 
small  and  a  lower,  conspicuously  broader  and  much  higher  area;  the  colour  is 
dark  brown.  The  antennulae  have  the  process  from  the  outer  distal  angle  of 
first  joint  proportionately  longer  than  in  the  adults;  the  lobe  from  the  same 
joint  is  only  a  little  expanded  towards  the  end,  with  about  six  terminal  teeth 
which  are  shorter  than  in  the  adults;  the  lobe  from  second  joint  is  also  shorter 
than  in  the  adults. —  Two  such  specimens  are  at  hand. 

Re7narks. —  This  species  is  easily  distinguished  from  all  other  forms  of  the 
genus  by  the  terminal  row  of  spiniform  teeth  on  the  lobe  from  first  antennular 
joint. 

During  a  long  time  I  considered  the  specimens  from  the  Pacific  as  belong- 
ing to  a  separate  and  new  species,  because  the  shape  of  their  frontal  plate  differs 
materially  from  that  of  my  single  female  specimen  of  T.  pectinata  from  the 
Atlantic,  and  this  specimen  and  that  recorded  by  Ortmann  are  much  larger 
than  any  specimen  in  the  rich  Agassiz  material.  But  in  the  winter  1910-1911 
I  obtained  from  Monaco  several  recently  captured  specimens  of  T.  pectinata, 
among  them  two  adult  males;  the  examination  of  the  copulatory  organs  of 
these  specimens  did  not  reveal  any  difference  from  those  from  the  Pacific,  and 
I  was  unable  to  detect  any  other  difference  between  the  animals  from  the  North 
Atlantic  and  those  from  the  Pacific  than  the  anteriorly  broader  and  much  more 
obtuse  frontal  plate  in  the  former  together  with  their  much  larger  size.  The 
result  of  study  was  that  I  must  consider  the  Pacific  specimens  as  a  smaller 
local  form  or  variety  of  T.  pectinata. —  Nemaioscelis  microps  G.  0.  S.  shows  also 
local  variation  in  the  shape  of  the  rostrum  in  both  sexes  and  especially  in  the 
males,  as  is  seen  by  comparison  of  specimens  from  the  Atlantic,  the  Indian 
Archipelago,  and  the  East  Pacific  (comp.  the  "Siboga"  Report  and  my  notes 
on  N.  microps  in  the  present  paper). 

The  young  specimen  just  described  is  interesting.  I  have  stages  inter- 
mediate in  size  and  development  between  that  small  specimen  and  the  adults, 
and  that  it  belongs  to  this  species  is  easily  seen  from  its  lobe  of  first  antennular 
joint.  The  oblong,  divided  eye,  the  shape  of  the  frontal  plate  and  the  existence 
of  a  denticle  on  the  lateral  margins  of  the  carapace  agree  completely  with  the 
features  found  in  very  young  specimens  of  T.  orientalis  H.  J.  H.  belonging  to 
the  same  group  of  the  genus.  That  Illig's  Parathysanopoda  foliifera  has  been 
founded  on  a  young  specimen  of  T.  pectinata  is  easily  seen  from  his  description 
and  figures;  the  specimen,  which  measured  15  mm.,  was  captured  in  the  Atlantic, 
and  as  the  adults  from  this  Ocean  are  as  a  rule  much  larger  than  those  from  the 


222  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

East  Pacific,  I  think  it  natural  that  young  in  the  same  stage  of  development 
from  the  two  Oceans  differ  also  somewhat  in  size. 

Distribution. —  The  Monaco  specimens  were  captured  in  the  Eastern  Atlantic 
more  or  less  remote  from  Southern  Spain;  Ortmann's  specimen  was  taken  in 
the  Northern  equatorial  current,  and  Illig's  young  was  from  the  Benguela  cur- 
rent, West  of  Angra  Pequena.  The  list  above  shows  that  the  distribution  in 
the  East  Pacific  is  similar  to  that  of  T.  aequalis  or  T.  obtusifrons. 

8.    Thysanopoda  orientalis  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Plate  5,  figs.  2a-2i. 

1910.     Thysanopoda  orientalis  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  85,  pi.  13,  figs.  2a-2i. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  10°  15.2' S.,  long.  95°  40.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4717.  Jan.  13,  1905.  Lat.  5°  10'  S.,  long.  98°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4721.  Jan.  15,  1905.  Lat.  8°  7.5' S.,  long.  104°  10.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  9°  31' S.,  long.  106°  30.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4740.  Feb.  11,  1905.  Lat.  9°  2.1'  S.,  long.  123°  20.1'  VV.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

A  description  is  found  in  the  paper  quoted,  but  notes  on  the  maxillulae, 
maxillae,  and  copulatory  organs  may  be  added  here. 

The  maxillulae  (figs.  2a-2b)  are  quite  similar  to  those  in  T.  obtusifrons 
G.  O.  S.,  but  differ  in  minor  particulars.  The  proximal  lobe  is  distally  a  little 
more  rounded;  the  distal  lobe,  though  increasing  strongly  in  breadth  towards 
the  end,  is  almost  as  long  as  broad  or  a  little  broader  than  long;  the  palp  is 
somewhat  or  considerably  shorter  than  the  distal  lobe,  slender;  the  pseudexopod 
is  very  large,  yet  smaller  than  in  T.  obtusifrons,  rather  far  from  reaching  the  end 
of  the  distal  lobe. —  The  maxillae  (fig.  2c)  are  somewhat  elongate,  with  the 
terminal  —  the  fourth  —  joint  considerably  longer  than  the  third  and  more 
than  half  as  long  again  as  broad.  Fig.  2c  shows  besides  the  morphological 
composition  of  a  maxilla  in  the  present  order  of  Crustacea. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  2d-2i)  show  various  fine  features.  The  spine- 
shaped  process  is  somewhat  or  considerably  curved,  of  the  normal  shape.  The 
terminal  process  is  somewhat  long,  moderately  strong,  feebly  curved,  tapering, 
seen  from  behind  (fig.  2d),  from  the  base  to  rather  near  the  end  where  it  widens 
feebly  and  has  the  end  itself  rounded,  but  seen  in  the  main  from  in  front  (fig.  2e) 
the  terminal  part  is  perceived  to  be  somewhat  widened  and  excavated,  spoon 
shaped.  The  proximal  process  is  very  long,  much  longer  than  the  terminal; 
its  short  proximal  part  is  rather  thick,  then  it  is  curved  nearly  abruptly  inwards, 
but  no  "heel"  is  developed,  and  the  process  forms  now  nearly  half  of  a  circle, 
with  the  convex  side  turning  inwards;   from  the  proximal  bend  to  a  little  from 


THYSAXOPODA  CORNUTA.  223 

the  end  the  process  is  slender  and  nearly  equally  thick,  but  the  rather  short 
distal  portion  is  conspicuously  thickened  and  furnished  with  niinute  teeth  along 
one  margin  and  with  2-4  longer  teeth  from  the  margins  just  before  the  incurved, 
tooth-shaped  end.  Fig.  2f  gives  the  distal  part  of  this  process  seen  from  behind 
and  fig.  2g  the  same  part  of  the  same  specimen  seen  from  in  front ;  fig.  2h  repre- 
sents the  same  part,  seen  from  behind,  of  another  specimen  in  oi-dcr  to  show 
variation  of  the  armature.  The  median  lobe  has  its  proximal  part,  from  its 
origin  to  the  insertion  of  the  lateral  process  (p''.),  long  and  proportionately  rather 
narrow,  longer  than  the  distal  part;  the  terminal  portion  beyond  the  insertion 
of  the  usual  additional  process  (p^.)  is  an  oblong,  distally  produced,  acuminate 
and  acute  lobe  (fig.  2d  and  fig.  2i).  The  lateral  process  (p^.)  is  slender,  somewhat 
long,  curved,  and  with  the  short  terminal,  acute  part  bent  inwards  and  forwards. 
The  additional  process  (p^.)  is  an  oblong-oval,  rather  thick,  yet  somewhat 
obliquely  vaulted  body  with  the  distal  end  produced  into  a  small,  conical, 
oblique,  acute  tooth.  But  a  little  beyond  the  lateral  process  there  originates  a 
small,  very  slender  secondary  additional  process  (p".)  shaped  nearly  as  a  spine 
with  the  terminal  portion  bent  inwards  (overlooked  by  me  in  the  "Siboga" 
material) .  The  auxiliary  lobe  is  of  moderate  size  and  the  setiferous  lobe  moder- 
ately broad;  the  latter  is  furnished  with  setae  quite  as  in  T.  pedinata. 

Length  of  adult  males  from  23  to  27.5  mm.,  of  the  largest  female  from  the 
East  Pacific  24.5  mm.,  while  a  large  female  from  the  "Siboga"  measured  38  mm. 
in  length. 

Distribution. —  Some  specimens  were  taken  at  four  localities  in  the  Indian 
Archipelago  by  the  "Siboga."  In  1910  the  Prince  of  Monaco  captured  several 
fine  specimens  at  three  localities  in  the  North  Atlantic  West  of  Southern  Spain. 

Group  b.  Carapace  with  a  well-developed  cervical  groove.  Ma.xillulac  with  the 
pseudexopod  somewhat  small,  scarcely  or  not  at  all  overreaching  the  outer  margin 
of  third  joint  and  with  the  palp  very  long.  Sixth  abdominal  segment  shorter  than 
the  fifth. 

9.     Thysanopoda  cornuta  Illig. 

1905,  March  28.  Thysanopoda  cornuta  Illig,  Zool.  Anz.,  28,  p.  663  (with  three  figures  in  the  text). 
1905,  April  1.  Thysanopoda   insignis  H.  J.  Hansen,    Bull.   Mus.  Ocean.    Monaco,    no.  30,  p.   19 

(with  three  text-figures). 

Sta.  4670.     Nov.  20,  1904.     Lat.  12°  8.7'  S.,  long.  79°  2.4'  W.     Trawl,  3209  fnis.     1  specimen. 

The  single  specimen  is  an  extremely  large  female  measuring  75  ram.  in  length, 
but  unfortunately  considerably  damaged.  It  agrees  excellently  with  my  pre- 
liminary description  and  figures  in  the  paper  quoted. 


224  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Distribution. —  lUig's  type  was  taken  in  the  tropical  Atlantic,  in  the  Ben- 
guela  current  off  Angra  Pequena,  in  a  vertical  haul  from  4000  m.  to  surface. 
The  Monaco  specimens  were  captured  at  Lat.  27°  43'  N.,  long.  18°  28'  W.,  3000 
to  0  m.,  and  the  depth  of  the  Station  was  3817  m. —  This  gigantic  species  is 
certainly  bathypelagic. 

(?)  Thysanopoda  cornuta  Illig.    Juv. 
Plate  G,  figs,  la-le. 
Sta.  4679.     Dec.  7,  1904.     Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

The  specimen  measures  14.5  mm.  in  length.  The  thoracic  legs,  which  are 
well  developed,  shows  that  it  belongs  to  the  genus  Thysanopoda;  the  shape  or 
rather  the  stage  of  development  of  the  maxillulae  (fig.  Ic)  and  the  maxillae 
(fig.  Id)  together  with  the  fact  that  the  uropods  are  very  short  in  comparison 
with  the  telson  (fig.  le)  proves  with  absolute  certainty  that  the  specimen  is  very 
young.  The  sixth  abdominal  segment  is  shorter  than  the  fifth,  which  shows 
that  the  specimen  belong  to  Group  b  of  this  genus.  And  with  little  doubt 
I  consider  it  to  be  a  specimen  of  T.  cornuta  near  the  end  of  its  larval  life. 

Description. —  The  frontal  plate  is  very  large  (fig.  la)  with  a  considerable 
portion  of  the  lateral  margin,  subparallel,  the  distal  outer  angles  rounded,  the 
front  margin  very  long,  in  the  main  transverse,  being  a  little  produced  at  the 
middle  as  a  small  very  low  triangle  and  the  part  of  the  margin  outside  this 
triangle  distinctly  concave.  The  median  keel  between  the  cer\'ical  groove  and 
the  front  end  is  well  developed.  The  integument  of  the  carapace  is  somewhat 
thin,  but  the  cervical  groove  and  the  lateral  grooves  connected  with  it  seem  to 
agree  with  my  figures  of  the  adult,  while  the  longitudinal  lateral  furrows  cannot 
be  discerned;  the  lateral  margins  seem  to  have  no  real  denticle. 

The  eyes  are  of  moderate  size,  nearly  black;  the  small  process  found  in 
the  adul  t  on  the  outer  distal  angle  of  the  eye-stalks  has  not  yet  been  developed. — 
The  antennulae  (fig.  lb)  show  considerable  similarity  with  those  in  the  adult, 
but  the  basal  joint  is  still  without  its  upper  distal  lobe,  and  the  process  fromtlie 
outer  distal  angle  is  long,  as  might  be  expected. —  The  antennal  squama  with  a 
distinct  tooth  from  the  outer  distal  angle. —  The  maxillulae  (fig.  Ic)  show  larval 
characters ;  the  small  exopod  (ex)  is  present,  while  a  vestige  of  a  pseudexopod  is 
rudimentary;  the  palp  (4)  has  certainly  not  yet  obtained  its  final  length  and 
only  very  few  of  its  setae. —  The  maxillae  (fig.  Id)  show  the  aspect  as  in  older 
larvae. 


THYSANOPODA  EGREGIA.  225 

The  upper  surface  of  the  fourth  and  fiftli  abdominal  segments  show  quite, 
as  in  the  adults,  feeble  rudiments  of  three  longitudinal  keels,  while  the  sixth 
segment  has  not  yet  obtained  the  flat  dorsal  excavation  limited  by  feeble  lateral 
carinae  found  in  the  adult. —  The  m-opods  are  much  shorter  than  the  telson,  a 
feature  due  to  the  young  age  of  the  specimen. 

Remarks. —  That  the  specimen  is  a  young  of  one  of  the  species  of  Group  b 
is  certain.  This  group  comprises  hitherto  only  two  species;  judging  from  vari- 
ous particulars  I  think  the  specimen  studied  belongs  to  T.  cornuta,  not  to  T. 
egregia.  It  is,  of  course,  possible,  but  in  my  opinion  very  improbable,  that  it 
belongs  to  an  otherwise  liitherto  unknown  species. 

10.     Thysanopoda  egregia  H.  J.  Hansen. 

1905.     Thysanopoda  egregia  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Ocdan.  Monaco,  no.  30,  p.  22  (with  two  figures 
in  the  text). 

Sta.  4722.     Jan.  16,  1905.     Lat.  9°  31' S.,  long.  106°  30.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  The  single  specimen  measures  27  mm.  in  length;  it  is  a  female 
and,  judging  from  its  size,  probably  immatm^e,  as  the  single  other  specimen 
hitherto  known,  the  male  in  the  Monaco  collection,  is  44  mm.  long.  It  agrees 
on  the  whole  with  the  description  in  the  Monaco  paper,  excepting  that  the  third 
antennular  joint  i.s  slightly  tapering  in  breadth  towards  the  end  and  the  lower 
flagellum  simple,  while  in  the  male  figured  that  peduncular  joint  is  slightly 
thickened  towards  the  end  and  the  basal  part  of  the  lower  flagellum  much 
thickened  and  furnished  with  a  thick  tuft  of  thin  setae.  Seen  from  the  side, 
the  upper  margin  of  the  carapace  between  the  dorsal  organ  and  the  front  end 
is  more  convex,  being  towards  the  front  end  curved  more  downwards,  than  in 
the  Monaco  specimen. 

Two  other  points  may  be  mentioned.  In  the  Monaco  specimen  a  straight 
furrow  runs  along  the  side  of  the  carapace  considerably  above  the  margin  from 
the  posterior  margin  to  a  little  behind  the  cervical  groove,  and  the  upper  margin 
of  that  furrow  is  raised  and  thickened  so  much  that  it  looks  Uke  as  a  keel;  in 
the  smaller  Agas.siz  specimen  the  furrow  is  scarcely  distinct  but  the  keel  very 
conspicuous.  In  the  description  of  the  Monaco  specimen  I  stated  that  the 
fourth  to  sixth  abdominal  segments  have  a  dorsal  keel  along  the  posterior  part 
of  the  median  line  of  each,  but  there  is  no  median  keel  on  the  sixth  segment; 
the  passage  alUided  to  is  correct  as  to  the  other  particulars. 

Distribution. —  The  single  specimen  previously  known  was  captured  at 
Lat.  30°  41'  N.,  long.  17°  46'  W.,  2500  to  0  m. 


226  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

NYCTIPHANES  G.  O.  Sars  (1883). 

As  the  endopod  of  the  penultimate  pair  of  thoracic  legs  is  long,  but  only 
two-jointed,  this  genus  ought  to  find  its  place  between  Thysanopoda  and  Eu- 
phausia,  as  already  stated  by  Ortmann  in  1894.  G.  O.  Sars  established  the 
genus  on  a  species,  N.  ausiralis  G.  0.  S.,  from  the  Southeastern  and  Eastern  coasts 
of  Australia,  and  referred  Thysanopoda  norvegica  M.  Sars  to  the  same  genus, 
believing  that  T.  couchi  Bell  possibly  might  be  identical  with  the  latter  form. 
In  1905  Holt  and  Tattersall  estabhshed  the  genus  Meganyctiphanes  on  T. 
norvegica,  pointing  out  that  it  differed  from  Nyctiphanes  G.  0.  S.,  comprising 
N.  couchi  Bell  and  N.  ausiralis  G.  O.  S.,  in  the  following  particulars: —  fifth  and 
sixth  pairs  of  thoracic  legs  with  an  endopod  in  both  sexes,  while  an  endopod 
on  these  legs  is  present  in  the  male  and  wanting  in  the  female;  furthermore,  in 
Nyctiphanes  the  antennular  peduncle  is  "considerably  stouter  in  the  adult  male 
than  in  the  female",  but  in  Meganyctiphanes  the  same  peduncle  is  "scarcely, 
if  at  all"  stouter  in  the  male  than  in  the  other  sex;  finally,  the  females  of  Nycti- 
phanes carry  their  eggs  "in  paired  pyriform  masses,"  but  on  Meganyctiphanes 
ovisacs  have  never  been  found.  I  may  add  that  the  male  copulatory  organs 
on  the  first  pleopods  afford  excellent  generic  characters;  in  Meganyctiphanes 
the  organs  are  nearly  as  in  Thysanopoda  and  the  inner  lobe  short  with  its  three 
processes  well  developed  as  in  that  genus;  in  Nyctiphanes  (Plate  6,  fig.  2h  and 
fig.  3e)  the  inner  lobe  is  quite  peculiar,  being  extremely  produced  as  an  oblong, 
more  or  less  triangular  plate  with  the  outer  margin  sinuate  and  partly  serrate, 
and  this  lobe  has  the  spine-shaped  process  well  developed  as  in  Meganyctiphanes, 
while  the  terminal  and  the  proximal  processes  are  quite  wanting. 

The  genus  Nyctiphanes  comprises  four  species.  Two  species,  A'',  ausiralis 
G.  O.  S.  and  A'^.  couchi  Bell,  were  established  in  the  earlier  hterature;  in  1911 
I  published  preliminary  descriptions  of  the  two  additional  species,  A'',  simplex 
H.  J.  H.  and  A'',  capensis  H.  J.  H.  and  besides  I  pointed  out  that  A'',  lalifrons 
lUig  (1908)  taken  West  of  Northern  Africa  was  established  on  very  young  speci- 
mens of  A'",  couchii  Bell. 

The  Agassiz  collection  contains  specimens  of  A'',  simplex  H.  J.  H.,  but  for 
various  reasons,  and  especially  as  Ortmann  has  referred  specimens  taken  by 
Agassiz  in  the  Pacific  to  A'^.  ausiralis,  I  redescribe  also  this  species  for  com- 
parison with  N.  simplex.  « 


NYCTIPHANES  SIMPLEX.  227 

11.    Nyctiphanes  simplex  IF.  J.  Hansen, 
Plate  6,  figs.  2a-2i  (adult  and  subadult);     Plate  7,  figs,  la-lb  (Young). 

1911.     Nyctiphanes  simplex  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc6an.  Monaco,  no.  210,  p.  20. 

Sta.  4576.     Oct.     8,  1904.     Lat.  29°  52'  N.,  long.  116°  56'  W.     Surface.     3  specimens. 
Sta.  4644.     Nov.    7,  1904.     Lat.  2°  13.3' S.,  long.  89°  42.2' W.    Surface.     1  ovigerous  female  and  1  young. 

Surface.     7  innnature  or  young  speci- 

Sta.  4652.     Nov.  11,  1904.     Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  82°  39.5'  \V.        specimens. 

100  fms.  to  surface.     2  innnature  or 
young  specimens. 
Sta.  4655.     Nov.  12,  1904.     Lat.  5°  57.5' S.,  long.  80°  50' W.     Surface.     43  specimens  (18  young). 
Sta.  4715.     Jan.      2,  1905.     Lat.  2°  40.4'  S.,  long.  90°  19.3'  W.    300  fms.  to  surface.     2  adult  specimens 
{&  Type,  and   9). 

Description. —  The  frontal  plate  moderately  long,  triangular,  subacute, 
with  its  margin  considerably  raised;  and  the  median  keel  begins  a  little  behind 
the  tip  (fig.  2a)  and  reaches  the  distinct  cervical  groove;  the  median  area  be- 
tween the  frontal  plate  and  that,  groove  is  considerably  vaulted.  As  in  the  other 
forms  of  the  genus,  the  carapace  of  the  adult  and  subadult  has  no  denticle  or 
angle  on  the  lateral  margin. 

Eyes  moderately  large. —  The  antennular  peduncles  very  characteristic;  in 
both  sexes  the  first  joint  is,  at  the  outer  distal  corner,  produced  in  a  very  conspicu- 
ous protuberance  which,  seen  from  above  (figs.  2c  and  2e)  is  directed  forwards  and 
somewhat  outwards,  is  subconical,  very  thick  at  the  base  and  acuminate  at  the 
end;  the  upper  terminal  leaflet  is  very  large,  directed  somewhat  or  much  back- 
wards and  considerably  or  a  little  upwards;  considerably  longer  than  broad 
at  the  base;  scarcely  twice  as  broad  at  the  base  as  at  the  end,  which  is  broadly 
rounded  or  nearly  truncate  with  the  terminal  outer  angle  produced  into  a  small 
triangle  and  frequently  curved  considerably  upwards  and  forwards  (fig.  2d); 
the  upper  surface  of  the  leaflet  is  excavated,  especially  near  the  base;  finally, 
outwards  below  the  base  of  the  leaflet  a  transverse,  vaulted  part  is  seen.  The 
second  joint  in  the  female  (figs.  2d  and  2e)  is  very  long,  somewhat  slender,  with 
an  oblique,  subacute  tooth  at  the  upper  distal  inner  angle;  in  the  male  (fig.  2b 
and  2c)  this  joint  is  a  little  shorter  and  conspicuously,  even  considerably  thicker 
than  in  the  female,  and  the  upper  distal  tooth  is  much  broader,  subvertical, 
triangular,  or  somewhat  bifid.  Third  joint  in  both  sexes  much  shorter  than 
second,  in  the  female  slender,  somewhat  keeled  above  towards  the  end  and  the 
keel  terminating  in  a  short,  acute  tooth  (fig.  2d) ;  in  the  male  (figs.  2b  and  2c) 
this  joint  is  much  thicker,  without  any  tooth,  but,  seen  from  above,  conspicu- 
ously curved,  with  the  outer  margin  very  convex,  the  inner  somewhat  concave 
and  near  its  middle  adorned  with  a  bundle  of  three  short  and  very  strong  setae. 


228  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

In  more  than  half-grown,  but  immature,  specimens  the  leaflet  of  first  joint  is 
more  rapidly  and  evenly  narrowed,  not  truncate,  but  with  the  terminal  portion 
produced  ranch  upwards  and  considerably  outwards  (fig.  2f),  the  inner  margin 
being  very  convex  towards  the  acute  tip  and  tlie  outer  considerably  concave; 
the  tooth  at  the  end  of  second  joint  is  much  longer  and  the  acuminate  part  of 
the  outer  distal  protuberance  of  the  first  joint  considerably  longer  than  in  the 
adults. —  The  antennal  squama  does  not  reach  the  end  of  second  antennular 
joint  (fig.  2a) ;  its  terminal  margin  is  transverse  or  a  little  oblique,  with  the  outer 
denticle  very  distinct;  the  two  distal  joints  of  the  stalk  of  the  endopod  are 
similar  in  both  sexes. 

Sixth  abdominal  segment  with  a  distinct  dorsal  spiniform  tooth  at  the  end. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  2h-2i)  afford  some  specific  characters.  The 
distal  half  of  the  inner  lobe  (li.)  is  subtriangular,  rounded  at  the  end;  the  distal 
two  thirds  of  the  free  outer  margin  of  this  lobe  is  serrate,  and  its  proximal  half 
shows  two  obtuse  protuberances  between  which  the  margin  is  rather  concave. 
The  median  lobe  (Im.)  is  extremely  short,  cut  off  transversely,  and  from  the 
inner  part  of  the  terminal  margin  the  somewhat  long  lateral  process  (p^.)  pro- 
jects; this  process  is  bent  a  little  outwards  at  the  acute  end. 

Length  of  the  largest  male  11.5  mm.,  of  the  largest  female  14  mm.  One  of 
Ortmann's  males  from  the  Gulf  of  Panama  is  13.2  mm.  long. 

Very  young  Specimens^  (Plate  7,  figs,  la-lb). —  The  specimen  figured 
measures  7  mm. ;  other  somewhat  smaller  specimens  are  at  hand. —  The  frontal 
plate  is  at  the  base  as  broad  as  the  carapace ;  it  is  much  produced,  longitudinally 
concave,  its  lateral  margins  are  sinuate,  being  proximally  convex  and  distally 
concave,  and  the  plate  is  distally  truncate,  even  flatly  emarginate,  each  angle 
being  produced  in  an  acute  tooth;  at  the  end  the  plate  is  about  one  tliird  as 
broad  as  at  the  base.  In  the  largest  specimen  the  carapace  has  scarcely  any 
angle  on  the  lateral  margin  somewhat  before  the  hind  margin,  but  in  the  other 
specimens  an  angle  or  generally  a  small  denticle  is  distinct.  The  eyes  are 
extremely  large.  The  leaflet  of  first  antennular  joint  in  the  largest  specimen 
directed  upwards  and  somewhat  backwards,  somewhat  excavated  above  beyond 
the  base,  a  little  longer  than  broad,  nearly  oblong-triangular,  with  the  inner 
margin  straight,  the  outer  somewhat  convex,  and  the  distal  part  produced  in 
an  acute  tip  bent  upwards  and  somewhat  forwards  but  not  outwards;  in  some- 
what smaller  specimens  the  leaflet  is  proportionately  smaller  and  less  developed; 
the  process  from  the  outer  distal  angle  of  fu-st  joint  very  long.  Second  and 
third  antennular  joints  in  the  main  as  in  the  subadult. 

'  The  larvae  of  this  species  are  dealt  with,  p.  288-290. 


NYCTIPHANES  SIMPLEX.  229 

Remarks. —  Tliis  species  is  allied  to  N.  ausiralis  G.  0.  S.,  but  differs  in  several 
features.  In  order  to  point  out  and  illustrate  these  differences  I  have  given  on 
Plate  6  figures  of  the  antennular  peduncles  of  both  sexes  and  of  the  copulatory 
organs  of  N.  australis;    the  figures  were  drawn  from  two  cotypes  of  Sars. 

The  leaflet  from  first  joint  is  much  smaller  than  in  N.  simplex  and  consider- 
ably broader  than  long  (figs.  3a-3d),  subtriangular,  with  the  outer  margin  convex 
and  very  oblique,  and  it  terminates  in  a  more  or  less  acute  tip  bent  upwards  and, 
in  one  of  the  specimens  drawn,  somewhat  forwards  and  placed  almost  above  the 
inner  margin  of  the  joint,  furthermore  no  transverse,  vaulted  part  is  seen  at  the 
outer  side  below  the  base  of  the  leaflet.  The  antennular  peduncles  in  the  male 
are  still  somewhat  tliicker,  those  of  the  female  still  more  slender  than  in  N.  simplex. 
In  the  male  (fig.  3a  and  3b)  a  high,  compressed,  keel-shaped  protuberance  is  seen 
near  the  end  of  second  peduncular  joint,  and  the  third  joint  is  .somewhat  thicker 
than  in  A'',  simplex,  with  about  six  minute  hairs,  but  no  stiff  setae,  on  the  inner 
side.  The  copulatory  organs  (fig.  3e)  have  the  most  distal  part  of  the  inner 
lobe  considerably  broader  than  in  N.  simplex,  the  proximal  half  of  the  outer 
margin  of  this  lobe  differs  in  the  shape  of  the  protuberances  from  that  species, 
but  the  most  important  difference  is  shown  by  the  median  lobe  (Im.),  which  in 
A'',  australis  has  the  lateral  process  placed  as  in  N.  simplex,  but  the  lobe  itself 
projects  along  that  process  to  its  end;  if  this  lobe  had  been  cut  off  opposite 
the  insertion  of  the  process  we  would  have  the  structure  found  in  N.  simplex. 
The  female  examined  of  N.  ausiralis  is  13.5  mm.,  the  male  15  mm. 

Distribution. —  In  1894  Ortmann  (Bull.  Mus.  Comp.  Zool.,  25,  p.  100)  enum- 
erated nine  localities  ior  Nyctiphanes  australis:  —  Gulf  of  Panama,  Galapagos, 
Gulf  of  California,  and  some  Stations  in  the  Northern  Pacific  between  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  the  Hawaiian  Islands.  From  the  U.  S.  National  Museum  I  have 
received  specimens  from  these  Stations  and  an  examination  gave  the  result, 
that  the  two  specimens  from  "Survey"  Sta.  54  and  "Sui'vey"  Sta.  74,  both 
Stations  in  the  North  Pacific  between  San  Francisco  and  the  Hawaiian  Islands, 
are  males  of  Euphausia  recurva  H.  J.  H.,  while  the  specimens  from  the  seven 
other  Stations  belong  to  N.  simplex  and  not  to  N.  australis.  The  latter  species 
is  hitherto  only  known  from  the  sea  around  the  Southeastern  part  of  Australia; 
in  1911  I  established  A^.  capensis  on  the  specimens  mentioned  by  Stebbing  in 
1905  and  1910  as  taken  off  Cape  St.  Blaize,  South  coast  of  Africa,  and  by  him 
referred  to  A'',  australis. 


230  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 


EUPHAUSIA  Dana  (1852). 

Some  statements  on  thq  copulatory  organs  of  the  male  first  pleopods  in 
this  genus  may  be  given  here.  The  spine-shaped  process  is  wanting  (yet  I 
found  this  process  developed  in  the  normal  way  in  one  of  the  specimens  exam- 
ined of  E.  lucens  H.  J.  H.);  the  terminal  and  the  proximal  processes  are  well 
developed.  The  median  lobe  is,  as  in  Thysanopoda,  separated  from  the  inner 
lobe  and  has  the  lateral  process  strong  and  inserted  at  a  considerable  distance 
from  its  base,  but  it  has  generally  no  additional  process,  though  this  process 
is  present  as  a  small  spine  in  E.  mucronata  G.  O.  S.  and  as  a  mere  rudiment  in 
E.  gibboides  Ortm.  The  auxiliary  lobe  is  well  developed,  oblong;  the  setiferous 
lobe  is  normal,  with  the  pouch  on  the  posterior  surface  very  conspicuous. 

The  genus  comprises  twenty-seven  species,  fourteen  of  which  are  represented 
in  the  material  from  the  East  Pacific.  These  species  belong  to  tliree  of  the  four 
groups  into  which  I  divide  the  genus. 

Group  a.  Species  with  two  pairs  of  lateral  denticles  on  the  carapace.  No 
dorsal  process  on  third  to  fifth  abdominal  segment. 

12.    Euphausia  eximia  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Plate  7,  figs.  2a-2g. 

1911.     Euphausia  eximia  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc6an.  Monaco,  No.  210,  p.  23. 

Sta.  4580.     Oct.  10,  1904.  Lat.  24°  55' N.,  long.  112°  45' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4598.     Oct.  15,  1904.  Lat.  15°5S' N.,  long.  98°  13' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4605.     Oct.  17,  1904.  Lat.  12°  21' N.,  long.  92°  13' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  young, specimens. 

Sta.  4611.     Oct.  18,  1904.  Lat.  10°  33' N.,  long.  88°  30' W.     Surface.     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4615.     Oct.  19,  1904.  Lat.9°7'N.,long.85°  ll'W.     Surface.     5  specimens  (1  large,  3  quite  small). 

Sta.  4619.     Oct.  20,  1904.  Lat.  7°  15'  N.,  long.  82°  8'  W.     Surface.     9  specimens  (1  large,  S  small). 

Sta.  4644.     Nov.    7,   1904.  Lat.  2°  13.3'  S.,  long.  89°  42.2'  W.     Surface.     29  specimens  (several  of 

which  adult). 

Sta.  4649.     Nov.  10,  1904.  Lat.  5°  17'  S.,  long.  85°  19.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4650.     Nov.  10,  1904.  Lat.  5°  22'  S.,  long.  84°  39'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     14  specimens. 

f  Surface.     74  specimens. 

Sta.  4652.     Nov.  11,  1904.     Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  82°  39.5'  W.  J  ^^^  ["^^-  *"  ^"'"f'^'^^-     ^^  specimens. 

200  fms.  to  surface.     45  specimens. 

400  fms.  to  surface.     45  specimens. 

Sta.  4655.     Nov.  12,  1904.     Lat.  5°  57.5'  S.,  long.  80°  50'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface.     18  specimens. 

Sta.  4657.     Nov.  13,  1904.     Lat.  7°  12.5'  S.,  long.  84°  9'  W.  ]  ^^^'t"^'   /  ^P''^™^"- 

(  300  fms.  to  surface.     42  specimens. 

Sta.  4659.     Nov.  14,  1904.     Lat.  8°  54.5'  S.,  long.  86°  5.5'  W.  \  ^^^T^'    7  «P««"««'''^- 

(  300  fms.  to  surface.     80  specimens. 

Sta.  4661.     Nov.  15,  1904.     Lat.  10°  17' S.,  long.  88°  2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     19  specimens. 

Sta.  4663.     Nov.  16,  1904.     Lat.  11°  20.3' S.,  long.  88°  55.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4664.     Nov.  17,  1904.     Lat.  11°  30.3'  S.,  long.  87°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4665.     Nov.  17,  1904.     Lat.  11°  45'  S.,  long.  S6°5.2'  W.  \  '^"f^^''''-  ^^  ^V<^f'^<^^^- 

(  300  fms.  to  surface.     46  specimens. 


EUPHAUSIA  EXIMIA.  231 

„,„,„  ,,  ,,,    (Surface.     1  specimen. 
Sta.  4667.     Nov.  18,  190-1.     Lat.  11°  59,5'  S.,  long.  83°  40.4'  W.  -j  y^,^  ^^^^^    ,^  [^^^^^^     ^j  specimens. 

Sta.  4668.     Nov.  19,   1904.     Lat.  12°  9.3'  S.,  long.  81°  45.2'  W.   Open  part  of  Tanner  net,  300  fnis.  to 
surface.     28  specimens.     (Type,  1  cf). 

Sta.  4669.     Nov.  19,  1904.     Lat.  12°  12.7'  S.,  long,  80°  25.0'  W.  -J  f^'f^^    //PjJ™^"'  ,3  ^^^^..^^^^^ 

...     ,         _„n,o.^,,,r      (Surface.     1  specimen. 
Sta.  4671.     Nov.  20,  1904.     Lat.  12°  G.9' S.,  long.  78°  28.2' W.    |  ;^oO  fms.  to  sirfaee.     46  specimens. 

Sta.  4673.     Nov.  21,  1904.     Lat.  12° 30.5' S.,  long.  77°  49,4' W.      300  fms,  to  surface.     13  specimens. 
Sta.  4676.     Dec.     5,1904.     Lat.  14°  28.9' S.,  long.  81°  24' W.        300  fms.  to  surface.     8  specimens. 
Sta.  4711.     Dec.  31,  1904.     Lat.    7°  47.5' S.,  long.  94°  5.5' W.        300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Sta.  4715.     Jan.     2,1905.     Lat.    2°  40.4' S.,  long.  90°  19.3' W.      300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

,„    ,  „„    ,„,        (Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4716.     Jan.     2,1905.     Lat.    2°  18,5' S„long.90°2.6'W.       j  coO  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4719.     Jan.   14,1905.     Lat.    6°  29.8'  S.,  long.  101°  16.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Sta.  4742.     Feb.   15,  1905.     Lat.    0°  3.4'  N.,  long.  117°  15.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     9  specimens. 

Description. —  The  frontal  plate  (fig.  2a)  is  a  very  short  triangle  with  the 
margins  somewhat  sinuate;  it  terminates  in  a  well-developed,  slender  rostrum 
which  is  considerably  or  much  longer  than  the  breadth  of  second  antennular 
joint.  The  oblong  dorsal  area  behind  the  frontal  plate  is  considerably  vaulted 
and  the  keel  along  this  area  and  forward  to  near  the  middle  of  the  rostrum, 
is  high;  seen  from  the  side  with  its  upper  margin  above  the  area  mentioned  it  is 
considerably  curved  and  even  sometimes  feebly  angular. 

Eyes  moderately  large,  black. —  Antennular  peduncles  similar  in  both  sexes, 
moderately  robust;  first  joint  nearly  as  long  as  the  sum  of  theitwo  others,  seen 
from  above  (fig.  2a)  a  little  more  than  twice  as  long  as  broad ;  the  terminal  lobe 
is  a  transverse  plate  directed  forwards  and  upwards,  at  the  base  half  as  broad  or 
more  than  half  as  broad  as  the  end  of  the  joint,  its  outer  margin  is  directed  con- 
siderably outwards,  so  that  the  terminal  margin  is  longer  than  the  base  (fig.  2c) 
and  this  margin  bears  a  row  of  9-10  spiniform  processes,  the  inner  short,  from 
there  increasing  in  length  outwards  with  those  at  the  outer  margin  long  and 
directed  forwards  and  outwards.  The  second  joint  shghtly  longer  than  the 
third,  its  upper  distal  margin  distinctly  oblique,  from  near  the  outer  side  directed 
somewhat  forwards,  at  a  short  distance  from  the  outer  margin  with  a  rather  long, 
a  httle  curved,  spiniform  process  directed  essentially  forwards;  a  little  behind 
the  terminal  margin  and  rather  near  the  inner  margin  projects  another  process 
as  long  as,  or  longer  than,  the  first  named,  and  it  is  either  simple  (fig.  2c)  or 
bifurcate  (fig.  2d),  in  the  latter  case  terminating  in  two  spines.  Tliird  joint 
with  the  dorsal  keel  occupying  nearly  two  thirds  of  the  upper  margin;  seen 
from  the  side  (fig.  2b)  high  and,  if  fully  developed  and  preserved,  with  the  upper- 
most part  projecting  forwards  as  a  small  triangle,  just  below  which  the  front 
margin  of  the  keel  is  considerably  concave. —  The  antennal  squama  reaches  the 


232  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

middle  of  the  third  joint  of  the  antennular  peduncles  and  is  of  very  moderate 
breadth;  the  spiniform  outer  process  from  the  second  peduncular  joint  is  very 
long,  half,  or  more  than  half,  as  long  as  the  squama. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  2e-2g)  afford  good  characters.  The  terminal 
process  (p%)  is  somewhat  long,  with  the  foot  well  developed  and  the  heel  short; 
somewhat  more  than  its  proximal  half  moderately  tliick  and  straight,  while  its 
distal  portion  is  evenly  curved,  gradually  tapering  to  the  acute  end  and  curved 
forwards,  so  that  its  curvature  must  be  seen  from  the  inner  side  (fig.  2f);  a 
slender,  spiniform,  nearly  straight,  acute,  very  thin-walled  process  originates 
where  the  cm'vature  begins  and  does  not  reach  the  end  of  the  main  process. 
The  proximal  process  (p^)  is  rather  long,  considerably  bent  somewhat  from  the 
base  and  a  little  curved  slightly  beyond  the  middle;  its  basal  part  is  somewhat 
thickened  on  the  outer  side,  the  remainder  moderately  slender,  the  distal  portion 
much  flattened,  seen  from  behind  (fig.  2e)  very  tlun  towards  the  end;  seen  from 
the  inner  side  (fig.  2f)  with  the  rather  short  distal  part  somewhat  expanded, 
forming  a  very  oblique,  distally  rounded  plate  with  the  posterior  margin  concave, 
and  the  anterior  margin  very  convex  with  a  small  protuberance  about  where 
the  curvature  begins.  The  median  lobe  with  the  proximal  portion  somewhat 
less  than  twice  as  broad  as  the  part  beyond  the  insertion  of  the  lateral  process; 
the  most  distal  part  of  the  lobe  suddenly  strongly  expanded  backwards,  seen 
from  behind  (fig.  2e)  therefore  this  expansion  mainly  turns  its  posterior  edge 
towards  the  observer,  while  seen  from  the  inner  side  (fig.  2g)  the  expanded  part 
shows  its  form  to  be  a  broad  triangle;  the  lateral  process  (p''.)  is  moderately 
large,  with  the  base  thick  and  the  distal  part  slender  and  broadly  curved,  with- 
out any  dorsal  tooth.  The  auxiliary  lobe  is  long.  The  setiferous  lobe  has  the 
same  breadth  from  before  the  insertion  of  the  auxiliary  lobe  to  rather  near  the 
end  which  is  partly  truncate,  partly  somewhat  triangularly  produced,  with  about 
seven  setae,  while  the  parallel  lateral  margins  of  the  lobe  are  naked. 

Length  of  one  of  the  largest  specimens  20  imn.,  but  most  adult  specimens 
are  somewhat  smaller,  about  16-17  mm. 

Remarks.—  This  species  is  allied  to  the  two  Atlantic  species  E.  krohnii 
Brandt  and  E.  americana  H.  J.  H.,  but  it  differs  from  both  in  some  good  char- 
acters, derived  from  the  antennulae  and  the  shape  of  the  two  processes  on  the 
inner  lobe  of  the  copulatory  organs.  In  Bull.  Mus.  Ocean.  Monaco,  no.  210, 
I  have  pointed  out  the  main  differences  between  these  three  species,  with  out- 
lines of  the  two  important  processes  on  their  copulatory  organs. 

Distribution. —  The  long  list  of  locaUties  with  the  number  of  specimens 


EUPHAUSIA  RECURVA.  233 

enumerated  above  proves  that  E.  eximia  must  be  extremely  common  in  the  ma- 
jor part  of  the  area  of  tlie  East  Pacific  investigated  by  Dr.  Agassiz  in  190-4-1905, 
but  yet  not  found  South  of  Lat.  14?°  S.,  in  the  whole  southwestern  part  South  of 
the  Une,  towards  Manga  Reva,  nor  in  the  inner  part  of  the  Gulf  of  Panama; 
and  not  a  specimen  has  been  taken  near  the  Fiji  Islands,  nor,  so  far  as  I  know 
at  present,  in  the  tropical  West  Pacific.^  The  list  shows  that  the  species  was 
rather  frequently  taken  at  the  surface. 

13.    Euphausia  recurva  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Plate  7,  figs.  3a-3n. 

1905.     Euphausia  recurva  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc(^an.  Monaco,  no.  42,  p.  13. 

Sta.  4576.     Oct.  8,  1904.     Lat.  29°  52' N.,  long.  116°  56' \V.     Surface.     24  cf ,  1  d"  juv.,  1  9  • 

Description. —  The  frontal  plate  (fig.  3a)  very  short  and  shaped  as  in  E. 
eximia;  the  rostrum  is  very  acute,  shaped  as  a  rather  narrow  or  very  narrow 
triangle,  from  a  little  to  considerably  longer  than  the  breadth  of  second  antennu- 
lar  joint;  the  keel  from  the  basal  part  of  the  rostrum  to  the  posterior  end  of  the 
oblong  dorsal  area  nearly  as  in  E.  eximia. 

The  eyes  are  medium  sized,  a  little  smaller  than  in  E.  eximia. —  The  anten- 
nular  peduncles  show  interesting  features.  The  basal  joint  is  slightly  more  than 
twice  as  long  as  broad,  as  long  as  the  sum  of  the  two  other  joints,  and  the  upper 
distal  lobe  differs  extremely  in  the  two  sexes.  In  the  male  (figs.  3b  and  3c) 
it  is  a  very  oblong-triangular  plate  much  longer  than  broad,  longitudinally  some- 
what curved  so  that  it  is  less  or  more  hollowed,  at  the  base  from  a  little  less  to  a 
little  more  than  half  as  broad  as  the  end  of  the  joint,  at  the  end  acute  or  even 
acuminate,  directed  upwards  and  somewhat  backwards.  In  the  female  the 
lobe  is  vertical  or  a  little  recurved  (figs.  3d  and  3e),  somewhat  more  than  half 
as  broad  as  the  end  of  the  joint,  with  the  lateral  margins  subparallel,  while  the 
distal  margin  is  deeply  and  more  or  less  obliquely  concave;  the  distal  part  of 
the  lobe  is  therefore  shaped  as  two  triangular,  acute  processes  either  nearly 
equal  in  length  or  the  inner  somewhat  or  much  longer  than  the  outer,  which 
sometimes  is  short.  The  two  distal  antennular  joints  are  thicker  in  the  male 
than  in  the  female.  Second  joint  increases  somewhat  in  breadth  from  the  base 
to  considerably  beyond  the  middle;  its  terminal  upper  margin  is  somewhat 
obUque;  a  little  inside  and  beliind  the  distal  outer  angle  a  thick,  angular  pro- 
tuberance or  short,  obliquely  conical  tubercle  is  seen,  wliile  a  little  inside  and 
behind  the  distal  inner  angle  a  slender,  spiniform,  acute  process  projects  forwards 


234  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

and  a  little  upwards,  and  this  process  is  sometimes  even  proportionately  long 
and  at  least  considerably  longer  than  the  outer  dorsal  tubercle.  Third  joint  a 
little  shorter  than  the  second;  its  dorsal  keel  is  very  high,  shaped  nearly  as  in 
E.  eximia,  with  the  triangular,  acute  tooth  beyond  the  middle  and  the  rounded 
incision  below  that  tooth  well  developed.—  The  antennal  squama  shghtly  broader 
than  in  E.  eximia,  reaching  the  middle  of  third  antennular  joint;  the  spiniform 
process  from  the  antennal  peduncle  reaches  the  middle  of  the  squama. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  3f-3n)  show  some  minor  differences  from  those 
in  E.  eximia.  The  terminal  process  (figs.  3f-3h)  in  the  main  as  in  that  species, 
being  a  little  shorter  and  thicker,  with  the  heel  somewhat  longer  and  the  distal 
secondary  process  shorter,  thicker,  and  obtuse.  The  proximal  process  is  shorter 
and  thicker  than  in  E.  eximia,  with  the  basal  third  somewhat  inflated  on  the 
outer  side;  about  at  the  beginning  of  the  distal  third  it  is  bent  somewhat  inwards, 
and  its  terminal  part  is,  seen  from  behind,  a  flattened  plate  somewhat  expanded 
on  the  outer  (distal)  side,  but  the  end  of  the  plate  varies  much  in  shape,  even 
in  specimens  from  the  same  locaUty,  as  is  shown  by  four  figures  (figs.  3i-3n); 
sometimes  the  end  is  nearly  cut  ofT  obliquely  with  the  inner  angle  acute  and  feebly 
produced  (figs.  3i  and  3k),  sometimes  the  end  is  deeply  incised  and  the  inner 
corner  produced  into  an  acute  (fig.  31)  or  obtuse  (fig.  3n),  narrow  process  much 
longer  than  broad,  while  the  most  distal  angle  formed  by  the  terminal  and  the 
outer  margin  is  always  rounded,  but  sometimes  nearly  rectangular  (figs.  3m  and 
3n),  sometimes  very  obtuse  (figs.  3k  and  3i).  The  median  lobe  with  its  lateral 
process  and  the  setiferous  lobe  nearly  as  in  E.  eximia;  the  auxiliary  lobe  is  very 
long. 

The  specimens  taken  at  Sta.  4576  are  somewhat  small,  11-12  mm.,  long, 
but  the  species  varies  much  in  size,  and  a  female  from  Lat.  34°  50'  S.,  long.  25° 
30'  E.  measures  even  18  nun.  in  length. 

Remarks. —  The  male  of  tliis  species  is  easily  distinguished  from  all  other 
forms  of  the  genus  by  the  shape  and  direction  of  the  lobe  from  first  antennular 
joint.  In  the  female  the  shape  of  this  lobe  is  to  some  degree  similar  to  that 
in  the  three  following  species,  l^ut  the  female  of  E.  rccurva  is  easily  separated 
from  the  other  forms  by  the  acute,  slender,  and  spiniform  process  above  near 
the  distal  inner  angle  of  second  antennular  joint;  in  E.  diomedeae  Ortm.  this 
process  is  replaced  by  a  triangular  protuberance,  while  in  E.  mutica  H.  J.  H. 
and  E.  brevis  H.  J.  H.  there  is  no  armature  at  the  upper  inner  angle  of  second 
joint;  finally  in  E.  diomedeae  and  E.  mutica  the  lobe  from  first  joint  is  directed 
upwards  and  considerably  forwards. 


EliPHAUSIA  DIOMKDEAE.  235 

Distribidion. —  Of  this  species  the  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  a  large 
mass  of  material  from  twenty-eight  localities;  eleven  of  these  Stations  are  in 
the  Southern  Atlantic  between  Lat.  18°  S.  and  Lat.  3G°  10'  S.,  sixteen  Stations 
are  situated  in  a  transverse  belt  across  the  southern  part  of  the  Indian  Ocean 
between  Lat.  25°  40'  S.  and  Lat.  40°  4'  S.,  and  from  near  the  southern  end  of 
Africa  to  about  Long.  100°  E. ;  finally  one  Station  near  Japan,  viz.  Lat.  31°  20'  N., 
long.  132°  29'  E. —  It  has  been  stated  above  that  the  specimens  from  "Survey" 
Sta.  54  (Lat.  35°  3.5'  N.,  long.  129°  5'  W.)  and  "Survey"  Sta.  74  (Lat.  30°  4.5'  N., 
long.  133°  56.5'  W.)  referred  by  Ortmann  to  Nyctiphanes  australis  are  males 
of  E.  recurra,  finally  it  may  be  stated  that  Ortmann's  Euphausia  pellucida  Dana 
comprises  specimens  of  several  species,  among  which  there  are  also  specimens 
of  E.  recurra,  but  a  revision  of  this  material  is  postponed  for  a  future  paper 
on  the  Euphausiacea  in  the  U.  S.  National  Museum. 

14.    Euphausia  diomedeae  Ortmann. 
Plate  7,  fig.  4a. 

1894.     Euphausia  diomedeae  Ohtmann,  Bull.  Mus.  Comp.  Zool.,  25,  p.  102,  plate,  fig.  3. 
1910.     Euphausia  diomedeae  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  91,  pi.  13,  figs.  4a-4e. 

Sta.  4574.  Oct.    8,1904.  Lat.  30°  35' N.,      long.  117°  15' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4587.  Oct.  12,  1904.  Lat.  20°  40' N.,      long.  107°  25' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4.588.  Oct.  12,  1904.  Lat.  19°  52' N.,     long.  106° 22' W.     Surface.    74 specimens  (includ.  larvae). 

Sta.  4594.  Oct.  14,  1904.  Lat.  17°  20' N.,     long.  101°  32' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4596.  Oct.  14,  1904.  Lat.  16°  47' N.,     long.  100°  27' W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4598.  Oct.  15,  1904.  Lat.  15°  58'  N.,     long.  98°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4605.  Oct.  17,  1904.  Lat.  12°  21' N.,     long.  92°  13' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4607.  Oct.  17,  1904.  Lat.  12°  00' N.,      long.  91°  30' W.     Surface.     32  specimens. 

Sta.  4609.  Oct.  18,  1904.  Lat.  11°  05' N.,     long.  89°  35' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4611.  Oct.  18,  1904.  Lat.  10°  33' N.,     long.  88°  30' W.     Surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4613.  Oct.  19,  1904.  Lat.    9°  45'  N.,     long.  86°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4615.  Oct.  19,  1904.  Lat.    9°    7'  N.,     long.  85°  11'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4619.  Oct.  20,  1904.  Lat.    7°  15'  N.,     long.  82°  8'  W.     Surface.     Several  hundred  specimens. 

Sta.  4634.  Nov.  4,  1904.  Lat.    4°  35.4'  N.,  long.  83°  32.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     20  specimens 

(2  of  which  .are  larvae). 

Sta.  4635.  Nov.  4,  1904.  Lat.  3°  52.5' N.,  long.  84°  14.3' W.     Surf.ace.     106 specimens  plus  112  young 

and  larvae. 

Sta.  4637.  Nov.  5,  1904.  Lat.  1°  31' N.,  long.  86°  32' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     55specimens. 

Sta.  4638.  Nov.  6,  1904.  Lat.  0°  27'  N.,  long.  87°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4640.  Nov.   6,  1904.  Lat.  0°  39.4' S.,  long.  88°  U'W.     Surface.     More  than  a  hundred  specimens. 

Sta.  4644.  Nov.  7,  1904.  Lat.  2°  13.3'  S.,  long.  89°  42.2'  W.     Surface.     63  specimens. 

f  Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4646.  Nov.  8,  1904.  Lat.  4°  1.0'  S.,  long.  89°  16.3'  W.  \  300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens  (2  of 

which  are  Larvae). 

Sta.  4648.  Nov.   9,  1904.  Lat.  4°  43' S.,  long.  87°  7.5' W      Surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4649.  Nov.  10,  1904.  Lat.  5°  17'  S.,  long.  85°  19.5  'W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4652.  Nov.  11,  1904.  Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  82°  39.5'  W.     100  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4659.     Nov.  14, 1904.     Lat.  8°  54.5'  S.,  lat.  86°  5.5'  W.  |  ^-^-^    ^^^P™'   ^  ^^^^.^^^ 

Sta.  4665.     Nov.l7,  1904.     Lat.  11°  45' S.,  long.  80°  5.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 


Sta. 

470S. 

Dec. 

29,  1904, 

Sta. 

4709. 

Dec. 

30,  1904, 

Sta. 

4710. 

Dec. 

30,  1904, 

are  pulli  or  larvae). 

Sta. 

4712. 

Dec. 

31,  1904. 

Sta. 

4713. 

Jan. 

1,  1905. 

Sta. 

4714. 

Jan. 

1,  1905. 

Sta. 

4716. 

Jan. 

2,  1905. 

Sta. 

4717. 

Jan. 

13,  1905. 

Sta. 

4720. 

Jan. 

14,  1905. 

Sta. 

4721. 

Jan. 

15,  1905. 

Sta. 

4722. 

Jan. 

16,  1905. 

Sta. 

4732. 

Jan. 

21,  1905. 

Sta. 

4742. 

Feb. 

15,  1905. 

Sta. 

4743. 

Feb. 

15,  1905. 

236  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Sta.  4706.     Dec.  28,  1904.     Lat.  14°  18.7'  S.,  long.  98°  45.8'  W.     Surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4707.     Dec.  29,  1904.     Lat.  12°  33.2' S.,  long.  97°  42' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

Lat.  11°  40'  S.,  long.  96°  55'  W.     Surface.     13  specimens. 

Lat.  10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  40.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     25  specimens. 

Lat.  9°  30.5'  S.,  long.  95°  8.3'  W.     Surface.     119  specimens  (107  of  which 

Lat.  7°  5'  S.,  long.  93°  35.5'  W.     Surface.     7  specimens. 

Lat.  5°  35.3' S.,  long.  92°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Lat.  4°  19'  S.,  long.  91°  28.5'  W.     Surface.     5  specimens. 

Lat.  2°  18.5'  S.,  long.  90°  2.6'  W.     Surface.     4  specimens. 

Lat.  5°  10'  S.,  long.  98°  56'  \V.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Lat.  7°  13.3'  S.,  long.  102°  31.5'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Lat.  S°  7.5' S.,  long.  104°  10.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     17  specimens. 

Lat.  9°  31'  S.,  long.  106°  30.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

Lat.  16°  32.5' S.,  long.  119°  59' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Lat.  0°  3.4'  N.,  long.  117°  15.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     12  specimens. 

Lat.  0°  21.3'  N.,  long.  117°  2.6'  W.     Surface.     8  specimens. 

Furthermore  the  species  was  taken  by  two  earher  expeditions. 

Fiji  Isl.     Dec.  11,  1897.  6  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     3  specimens.     A.  Agassiz. 

Fiji  Isl.     Dec.  11,  1897.  3  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     2  specimens.     A.  Agassiz. 

Hyd.    Sta.    3789.     Sept.  9,    1899.     Lat.    2°   38'   N.,    long.    137°   22'   W.     Surface.     39   specimens. 
"Albatross." 

It  may  be  added  that  specimens  with  the  frontal  plate  more  or  less  expanded, 
thus  the  typical  E.  diomedeae  sens.  Ortmann,  were  found  among  the  material 
from  the  following  Stations:  —  4619,  4635,  4721,  and  4742. 

To  the  description  given  in  the  "Siboga"  Report  a  few  notes  may  be  added. 
The  figure  of  the  anterior  part  of  an  animal  of  the  typical  E.  diomedeae  Ortmann 
exhibits  the  enormous  expansion  of  the  frontal  plate  with  the  reduced  rostrum. 
The  great  majority  of  the  "Albatross"  specimens  agree  completely  with  the 
"Siboga"  specimens  in  having  the  short  frontal  plate  developed  nearly  as  in 
E.  recurva,  and  the  rostrimi  slender  and  about  as  long  as  the  distal  joint  of  the 
eye-stalks,  but  in  some  few  specimens,  most  of  them  males,  the  frontal  plate  is 
quite  enormous,  very  long  and  extremely  broad,  covering  almost  totally  the 
eye-stalks ;  while  the  rostrum  is  very  short,  the  plate  has  the  front  margin  semi- 
circular, and  its  surface  is  somewhat  vaulted  above  each  eye-stalk.  Some  other 
specimens  show  the  frontal  plate  and  the  rostrum  intermediate  in  size  and  shape 
between  the  two  kinds  of  specimens  mentioned;  among  the  large  number  of 
specimens  from  Sta.  4619  I  have  found  scarcely  half  a  score  showing  every  stage 
between  the  common  form  with  the  short  and  small  fiontal  plate  and  a  form 
similar  to  that  exhibited  in  fig.  4a.  In  all  other  features  and  in  the  structure  of 
the  copulatory  organs  the  specimens  with  the  greatly  expanded  frontal  plate 
agree  completely  with  the  common  form.  Ortmann  estabhshed  his  E.  diomedeae 
on  a  couple  of  specimens  with  the  frontal  plate  exceedingly  large,  but  according 
to  my  experience  I  must  consider  this  development  as  an  anomaly,  taking 


EUPHAUSIA  MTTTCA.  237 

the  oonnnon  form  as  the  nonuaL  And  a  simihir  instance  in  another  species 
may  be  mentioned  for  comparison.  Among  a  good  luinihrr  of  Euphausia 
triacaniha  Holt  and  Tattersall  secured  by  the  Swedish  Antarctic  Expedition  I 
have  found  a  single  specimen,  an  adult  female,  ha\'ing  the  frontal  plate  much 
longer  and  very  considerably  broader  and  the  rostrum  muc  h  shorter  than  in  the 
other  specimens,  excepting  one  which  shows  in  a  feeble  degree  the  development 
mentioned. 

The  keel  on  the  upper  side  of  third  antennular  joint  is  moderately  high, 
rounded  above  on  the  highest  point  towards  the  distal  end,  and  rarely  with  a 
trace  of  the  anterior  incision  found  in  the  two  preceding  species. 

A  single  specimen  (from  Sta.  4713)  is  somewhat  larger  than  all  others, 

18  mm.  long;  many  specimens  measure  13-14  mm.  in  length,  but  the  majority 

of  the  adults  only  10-12  mm. 

* 

Distribution. —  The  species  is  unknown  from  the  Atlantic.  The  Copen- 
hagen Museum  possesses  specimens  from  a  dozen  locahties,  viz. :  —  The  Red  Sea, 
from  Lat.  8°  1'  S.,  long.  83°  51'  E.;  West  of  Cape  Comorin;  the  Bay  of  Bengal, 
and  in  the  South  Chinese  Sea  eastwards  and  northwards  to  Lat.  19°  14'  N., 
long.  116°  IG'  E.;  it  is  common  in  the  East  Indian  .Archipelago  ("Siboga"). 
Ortmann's  tjrpes  were  taken  at  the  Bindloe  Island,  Galapagos.  The  list  shows 
that  the  species  is  very  common  in  the  area  explored  in  1904-1905  excepting  in 
the  southeastern  part  (from  Sta.  4666  to  Sta.  4705)  and  the  southwestern  part 
(from  Sta.  4733  to  Sta.  4741)  where  it  was  entirely  absent. 

The  very  long  list  of  localities  from  the  Agassiz  Expedition  shows  that  this 
species  has  frequently  been  taken  at  the  sm-face,  sometimes  even  in  large  num- 
bers.    The  Copenhagen  material  has  certainly  all  been  taken  near  the  surface. 

15.    Euphausia  mutica  H.  J.  Hansen. 

1905.     Euphausia  mulica  H.  J.  Han.sen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc^an.  Monaco,  no.  42,  p.  14  (partim). 
1910.     Euphausia  mutica  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  93,  pi.  19,  figs.  la-Id. 

Sta.  4678.  Dec.    6,  1904.  Lat.  16°  31.2'  S.,  long.  85°  3.8'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4679.  Dec.    7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4681.  Dec.    8,1904.  Lat.  18°  47.1' S.,  long.  89°  26' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     21  specimens. 

Sta.  4682.  Dec.    8,1904.  Lat.  19°  7.6' S.,  long.  90°  10.6' W.     Surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4683.  Dec.    9,  1904.  Lat.  20°  2.4'  S.,  long.  91°  52.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4700.  Dec.  25,  1904.  Lat.  20°  28.8'  S.,  long.  103°  26.3'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4701.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5'  S.,  long.  102°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4702.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  18°  39.5'  S.,  long.  102°  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4703.  Dec.  27,  1904.  Lat.  17°  18.6'  S.,  long.  100°  52.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4704.  Dec.  27,  1904.  Lat.  16°  55.3' S.,  long.  100°  24.6' W.     Surface.     28  specimens. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3' S.,  long.  99°  19' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     8  specimens. 

Sta.  4706.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  14°  18.7'  S.,  long.  98°  45.8'  W.     Surface.     13  specimens. 

Sta.  4723.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  10°  14.3'  S.,  long.  107°  45.5'  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 


Sta. 

4724. 

Jan. 

IS, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4725. 

Jan. 

17, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4727. 

Jan. 

IS, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4728. 

Jan. 

19, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4729. 

Jan. 

19, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4730. 

Jan. 

20, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4731. 

Jan. 

20, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4732. 

Jan. 

21, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4733. 

Jan. 

21, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4734. 

Jan. 

22 

1905. 

Sta. 

4735. 

Jan. 

22 

1905. 

Sta. 

4736. 

Jan. 

23,' 

1905. 

238  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Lat.  11°  13.4'  S.,  long.  109°  39'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     13  specimens. 

Lat.  11°  38.3'  S.,  long.  110°  5'  W.     Surface.     4  specimens. 

Lat.  13°  3'  S.,  long.  112°  44.9'  W.     Surface.     10  specimens. 

Lat.  13°  47.5' S.,  long.  114°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     27  specimens. 

Lat.  14°  15' S.,  long.  115°  13' W.     Surface.     13  specimens. 

Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     19  specimens. 

Lat.  15°  47.2'  S.,  long.  118°  22.5'  W.     Surface.     4  specimens. 

Lat.  16°  32.5'  S.,  long.  119°  59'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Lat.  16°  57.4'  S.,  long.  120°  48'  W.     Surface.     7  specimens. 

Lat.  17°  36'  S.,  long.  122°  35.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Lat.  18°  16' S.,  long.  123°  34.4' W.     Surface.     6  specimens. 

Lat.  19°  0.4'  S.,  long.  125°  5.4'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Finally  from  the  following  Station :  — 

Hyd.  Sta.  3998  (236).     Jan.  28,  1900.     Lat.  6°  34'  N.,  long.  170°  59  E.     Surface.     Electric  light.     6 
specimens.     "  Albatross." 

Remarks. —  To  the  description  in  the  "Siboga"  paper  may  be  added,  that 
the  dorsal  keel  on  the  tliird  antennular  joint  is  inedium  sized,  with  its  feebly 
rounded  distal  angle  about  100°  and  the  front  margin  subvertical  or  distinctly 
oblique. 

One  of  the  largest  specimens  measm-es  13  mm.  in  length;  most  of  the  adults 
are  about  10-12  mm.,  sometimes  even  only  S-9  mm. 

Distribution. —  This  species  is  more  widely  distributed  than  the  allied  E. 
diomedeae,  but  the  number  of  specimens  seen  by  me  of  E.  mutica  is  yet  much 
smaller  than  the  number  of  the  other  species.  In  the  tropical  East  Pacific 
the  two  species  were  seldom  taken  together  or  at  localities  near  each  other, 
E.  mutica  being  restricted  to  the  southern  part  of  the  area  explored,  not  being 
found  North  of  Lat.  10°  14'  S.,  while  in  the  major  portion  of  this  southern 
part  E.  diomedeae  was  entirely  wanting. —  E.  mutica  has  been  taken  by  the 
Prince  of  Monaco  in  the  Sargasso  Sea  at  Sta.  137  and  Sta.  142  (West  of  Long. 
40°  W.,  South  of  Lat.  42°  N.)  and  the  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  speci- 
mens from  the  following  places  in  the  Atlantic:  —  Lat.  39°  30'  N.,  long.  50° 
W.;  Lat.  33°  N.,  long.  47°  W.;  Lat.  24°  N.,  long.  22°  W.;  the  West  Indies; 
the  Guinea  current,  finally  Lat.  38°  S.,  long.  12°  E.  Furthermore  the  Copenhagen 
Museum  possesses  specimens  from  the  Indian  Ocean  about  at  Lat.  23°  S.,  long. 
8l5°  E.,  from  the  South  Cliinese  Sea:  Lat.  19°  14'  N.,  long.  116°  6'  E.,  and  from 
Japan:  Lat.  31°  20'  N.,  long.  132°  29'  E.  The  "Siboga"  captured  some  speci- 
mens at  two  Stations  in  the  Indian  Archipelago. —  The  species  has  very 
freciuently  been  taken  at  the  surface. 


EUPHAUSIA  BREVIS.  239 

16.    Euphausia  brevis  11.  J.  H.\n.skn. 
Plate  8,  figs,   lii-lfj. 

1905.     Euphausia  brevis  H.  J.  Hansen,  IJull.  Mus.  Oc(5an.  Monaco,  no,  42,  p.  15. 

Sta.  4685.     Dec.  10,  1004.     Lat.  21°  36.2'  S.,  long.  94°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     13  specimens. 
Sta.  4686.     Dec.  10,  1904.     Lat.  22°  2' S.,  long.  95°  52' W.     Surface.     31  specimens. 

Sta.  4687.     Dec.  11,  1904.     Lat.  22°  49.5'  S.,  long.  97°  30.6'  W.  \  1'^JT}°  """"^'T     ^t  'P"''™™'- 

(  2125  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 

Sta.  4688.  Dec.  11,  1904.  Lat.  23°  17.2' S.,  long.  98°  37.5' \V.     Surface.     7  .specimens. 

Sta.  4689.  Dec.  12,  1904.  Lat.  24°  5'  S.,  long.  100°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     21  specimens. 

Sta.  4690.  Dec.  12,  1904.  Lat.  24°  45'  S.,  long.  101°  45'  W.     Surface.     11  spe('imens. 

Sta.  4691.  Dec.  13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  27.3' S.,  long.  103°  29.3' \V.     300  fms.  to  surface.     17  specimens. 

Sta.  4692.  Dec.  13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  40.4'  S.,  long.  104°  1.3'  VV.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4694.  Dec.  22,  1904.  Lat.  26°  34'  S.,  long.  108°  57.3'  W.     Surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4695.  Dec.  23,  1904.  Lat.  25°  22.4' S.,  long.  107°  45' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4696.  Dec.  23,  1904.  Lat.  24°  40.3'  S.,  long.  107°  5.3'  W.     Surface.     1  .specimen. 

Sta.  4698.  Dec.  24,  1904.  Lat.  22°  50.4' S.,  long.  105°  31.7' W.     Surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4699.  Dec.  25,  1904.  Lat.  21°  39.5' S.,  long.  104°  29.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4700.  Dec.  25,  1904.  Lat.  20°  28.8'  S.,  long.  103°  26.3'  W.     Surface.     9  specimens. 

Sta.  4701.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5' S.,  long.  102°  24' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4702.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  18°  39.5' S.,  long.  102°  W.     Sui'face.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.  20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4734.  Jan.  22,  1905.  Lat.  17°  36'  S.,  long.  122°  35.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4735.  Jan.  22,  1905.  Lat.  18°  16'  S.,  long.  123°  34.4'  W.     Surface.     33  specimens. 

Sta.  4736.  Jan.  23,  1905.  Lat.  19°  04'  S.,  long.  125°  5.4'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4738.  Jan.  24,  1905.  Lat.  20°  26.5'  S.,  long.  128°  30.2'  W.     Surface.     21  specimens. 

Description. —  The  frontal  plate  is  broad  and  moderately  long  (fig.  la), 
proportionately  broader  and  conspicuously  longer  than  in  the  four  preceding 
species,  with  the  lateral  margins  nearly  straight  or  feebly  sinuate,  terminating 
in  a  small  or  very  small,  very  oblong-triangular  rostrum  somewhat  or  much 
shorter  than  the  breadth  of  second  antennular  joint.  The  median  area  behind 
the  frontal  plate  is  much  vaulted;  the  keel  from  the  basal  part  of  the  rostrum 
to  the  hind  margin  of  the  area  named  is  well  developed. 

Eyes  very  distinctly  smaller  than  in  E.  eximia,  brown  or  blackish  brown, 
thus  lighter  than  in  the  four  preceding  species. —  The  antennular  peduncles 
comparatively  thick,  similar  in*  both  sexes.  The  first  joint  distinctly  less  than 
twice  as  long  as  broad ;  its  terminal  lobe  is  directed  vertically  upwards  or  upwards 
and  somewhat  forwards,  it  is  about  half  as  broad  as  the  end  of  the  joint,  broader 
than  high,  with  the  terminal  margin  more  or  less  deeply  and  obliquely  concave, 
the  distal  inner  part  being  triangular,  somewhat  produced  and  its  angle  terminat- 
ing in  an  acute  point  or  short,  spiniform  process,  while  its  outer  distal  angle  is 
produced  into  a  somewhat  longer,  subspiniform  process  (fig.  Ic) ;  frequently 
the  concave  distal  margin  shows  a  tiny,  angular  projection  usually  terminating 
in  a  short  seta.  Second  peduncular  joint  with  a  proportionately  rather  long, 
spiniform  process  originating  above  from  the  distal   margin  somewhat    inside 


240  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

the  outer  margin  and  directed  forwards  and  a  little  outwards  (fig.  Ic),  wkile 
there  is  no  trace  of  any  corresponding  distal  process  or  tubercle  above  near  the 
inner  margin.  Third  joint  slightly  longer  than  second;  its  dorsal  keel  only 
half  as  long  as  the  joint,  seen  from  above  less  sharp  (fig.  la)  and  seen  from  the 
side  only  moderately  high  (fig.  lb),  very  obliquely  triangular,  with  the  distal 
upper  angle  obtuse. —  The  antennal  squama  reaches  nearly  or  not  fully  the  middle 
of  third  antennular  joint  and  is  proportionately  broader  than  in  E.  recurva  or 
E.  eximia;  the  spiniform  process  from  the  subbasal  joint  reaches  the  middle 
of  the  squama. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  Id-lg)  are  somewhat  similar  to  those  of  E. 
eximia,  but  all  three  processes  are  proportionately  shorter  and  show  besides 
minor  differences.  The  terminal  process  has  its  distal  part  shorter  and  much 
less  cur\-ed  (fig.  Ig),  with  its  spiniform  appendage  rather  short.  The  proximal 
process  is  considerably  shorter  and  proximally  more  inflated  (fig.  le)  and  beyond 
the  middle  more  curved  than  in  E.  eximia;  its  distal  fourth  is  an  oblong,  at  the 
end,  rounded  plate  (fig.  If)  bent  considerably  backwards,  and  at  its  base  a  nar- 
rowly triangular  protuberance  projects  forwards;  the  real  length  of  this  plate 
is  shown  by  fig.  le,  while  fig.  If  exliibits  the  inner  lobe  with  its  two  processes 
seen  from  the  inner  side,  and  owing  to  the  very  oblique  direction  of  the  terminal 
plate  of  the  proximal  process  that  plate  looks  in  this  figure  much  shorter  than 
in  the  lateral  view.  The  lateral  process  has  its  curved  part  shorter  than  in 
E.  eximia,  but  as  in  this  species  without  any  dorsal  teeth.  The  auxiliary  lobe 
is  moderately  long;  the  obliquely  triangular  terminal  part  of  the  setiferous  lobe 
is  somewhat  more  produced  than  in  E.  eximia. 

Length  of  adult  specimens  8.5-10  mm. 

Remarks. —  E.  brevis  is  easily  distinguished  from  the  other  species  of  this 
group  by  its  longer  frontal  plate  with  the  rostrum  short,  by  the  shape  of  the 
lobe  of  first  antennular  joint  and  especially  by  having  above  on  the  second 
antennular  joint  a  most  conspicuous,  slender  process  near  the  distal  outer  angle 
but  no  trace  of  any  process  or  tubercle  at  the  inner  angle. 

Distribution. —  The  distribution  of  E.  brcms  differs  very  little  from  that  of 
E.  mutica.  In  the  tropical  East  Pacific  it  is  confined  to  a  still  smaller  southern 
area  than  E.  mutica  as  it  was  not  found  North  of  Lat.  15°  7'  S.,  and  the  majority 
of  the  Stations  are  South  of  Lat.  20°  S. —  It  is  not  known  from  near  the  Western 
coast  of  Europe,  but  the  Prince  of  Monaco  has  captured  it  in  the  Sargasso  Sea 
in  Lat.  40|°— 4li°  N.,  long.  40°-4lf°  W.,  and  several  times  in  the  triangle,  the 
"Banc  de  Goringe,"  the  Azores,  and  the  Canary  Islands;  besides  in  the  Medi- 


EUPHAUSIA   PACIFIC  A.  241 

terranean.  The  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  specimens  from  four  locahties 
in  the  North  Atlantic:  — Lat.  37°  N.,  long.  41°  W.;  Lat.  33°  N.,  long.  47°  W.; 
Lat.  24°  N.,  long.  22°  W.,  and  Lat.  23°  31'  N.,  long.  22°  4'  W.;  furthermore 
from  one  place  in  the  South  Atlantic:  —  Lat.  22^°  S.,  long.  29^°  W.,  from  one  in 
the  Southern  part  of  the  Indian  Ocean  about  at  Lat.  23°  S.,  long.  81i°E., 
finally  from  a  place  at  Japan:  — Lat.  31°  20'  S.,  long.  132°  29'  E.— Most  of  the 
specimens  recorded  have  been  taken  at  the  surface. 

Group  b.     Species  ivith  a  single  pair  of  lateral  denticles  on  the  carapace.     No 
dorsal  process  on  third  to  fifth  abdominal  segment. 

17.    £uphausia  pacifica  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Plate  7,  figs.  5a-5b. 

1911.     Euphausia  pacifica  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Ocdan.  Monaco,  no.  210,  p.  2S  (with  two  figures 
in  the  text). 

4  fms.,  surface  net.     1  immature  speci- 

Sta.  4571.     Oct.  7,  1904.     Lat.  33°  40'  N.,  long.  119°  35'  W.  ■ 


men. 
300  fms.  to  surface.     28  immature  speci- 
mens. 


Description. —  The  frontal  plate  is  extremely  short,  without  any  real  rostral 
process,  but  at  the  middle  feebly  produced  as  a  triangle  several  times  broader 
than  long,  with  the  vertex  in  the  adults  generally  rounded,  rarely  acute,  in 
immature  specimens  rounded  or  acute. 

The  eyes  are  extremely  large;  the  distal  joint  of  the  stalks  short. —  The 
antennular  peduncles  are  somewhat  long,  more  slender  in  immature  specimens 
(fig.  5a)  than  in  adults;  lobe  of  first  joint  is  in  the  adults  a  small,  oblong-triangu- 
lar, acuminate,  and  acute  process;  in  specimens  a  little  more  than  half  grown 
it  is  somewhat  shorter  in  proportion  to  breadth  (fig.  5b).  Second  joint  is  dis- 
tinctly longer  than  the  third,  with  the  inner  distal  angle  on  the  upper  surface  a 
little  produced,  acute. 

The  copulatory  organs  afford  excellent  specific  characters,  but  as  all  speci- 
mens in  the  Agassiz  collection  are  far  from  adult  I  have  not  figured  these  organs ; 
in  the  recently  published  description  of  this  species,  quoted  above,  1  have  given 
a  preUminary  representation  of  the  organs  and  may  now  refer  to  that  paper. 

One  of  the  largest  specimens  in  the  Agassiz  collection  is  only  a  little  more 
than  half-grown  and  measures  11  mm.  in  length,  while  adults  are  generally 
18-22  mm.  long. 

Remarks. —  This  species  is  closely  allied  and  similar  to  E.  luccns  H.  J.  H. 
( =  E.  splendens  sens.  G.  0.  S.),  but  it  is  well  distinguished  by  a  few  small  char- 


242  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

acters  and  especially  by  the  copulatory  organs.  The  antennular  peduncles 
are  a  little  longer  and  distinctly  more  slender  than  in  E.  lucens,  with  the  second 
joint  longer  than  the  third,  while  in  E.  lucens  it  is  not  longer  than  the  third; 
finally  the  lobe  of  first  joint  is  a  little  less  conspicuous  than  in  E.  lucens  and  differs 
slightly  in  shape.  The  rostrmn,  \'iz.  the  triangle  at  the  middle  of  the  front 
margin  of  the  carapace,  is  generally  more  pronounced  and  more  produced  in 
E.  lucens  than  in  E.  pacifica.  And  the  copulatory  organs  afford  excellent  char- 
acters, but  here  I  will  only  refer  to  the  brief  descriptions  with  figures  of  the  most 
important  parts  of  the  copulatory  organs  of  E.  pacifica,  E.  lucens,  and  a  third 
closely  allied  species,  E.frigida  H.  J.  H.,  found  in  my  above-mentioned  paper. 
Distribulion. —  The  species  is  distributed  in  the  temperate  and  boreal 
North  Pacific;  it  is  very  common  at  Japan.  The  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses 
considerable  material  from  seven  localities  at  Formosa  and  especially  from  near 
Japan  and  Corea  northwards  to  Lat.  39°  N.;  a  future  report  on  the  fine  material 
belonging  to  the  U.  S.  Nat.  Museum  will  contain  a  fuller  account  of  its  distribu- 
tion. But  here  it  may  be  stated  that  the  specimens  from  four  localities  in  the 
North  Pacific  — between  Lat.  35°  19§'  N.  and  Lat.  35°  36|'  N.,  long.  125°  211'  W. 
and  124°  45V  W. —  referred  by  Ortmann  (in  his  paper  in  1894)  to  Euphausia 
splendens  Dana  belong  to  E.  pacifica. 

18.    Euphausia  tenera  II.  J.  Hansen. 

1885.     Euphausia  gracilis  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  89,  pi.  15,  figs.  12-23  (not  E.  gracilis  Dana). 
190.5.     Euphausia  tenera  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Miis.  Oc&in.  Monaco,  no.  42,  p.  9. 
1910.     Euphausia  tenera  H.  J.  Hansen,  Sibo'ga-Exp.,  37,  p.  9.5,  pi.  14,  figs.  3a-3e. 

Sta.  4.587.  Oct.    12,1904.  Lat.  20°  42' N.,  long.  107°  25' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 

Sta.  4588.  Oct.    12,  1904.  Lat.  19°  52'  N.,  long.  106°  22'  W.     Surface.     59  specimens. 

Sta.  4596.  Oct.    14,  1904.  Lat.  16°  47'  N.,  long.  100°  27'  W.     Surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4598.  Oct.    15,  1904.  Lat.  15°  58'  N.,  long.  98°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4619.  Oct.    20,  1904.  Lat.  7°  15'  N.,  long.  82°  8'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4634.  Nov.    4,1904.  Lat.  4°  35.4' N.,  long.  83°  32.3' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4635.  Nov.    4,  1904.  Lat.  3°  52.5'  N.,  long.  84°  14.3'  W.     Surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4637.  Nov.    5,  1904.  Lat.  1°  31'  N.,  long.  86°  32'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     27  specimens. 

Sta.  4638.  Nov.    6,  1904.  Lat.  0°  27'  N.,  long.  87°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     21  specimens. 

Sta.  4640.  Nov.    6,1904.  Lat.  0°  39.4' S.,  long.  88°  11' W.     Surface.     134  specimens. 

Sta.  4644.  Nov.    7,  1904.  Lat.  2°  13.3'  S.,  long.  89°  42.2'  W.     Surface.     22  specimens. 

Sta.  4646.     Nov.    8,  1904.     Lat.  4°  1.6'  S.,  long.  89°  16.3'  W.  \  '^"^^f  *"■  f  specimens. 

(  300  fms.  to  surface.     14  specimens. 

Sta.  4648.     Nov.    9,1904.     Lat.  4°  43' S.,  long.  87°  7.5' W.     Surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4649.     Nov.  10,  1904.     L.at.  5°  17'  S.,  long.  85°  19.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4650.     Nov.  10,  1904.     Lat.  5°  22'  S.,  long.  84°  39'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4652,     Nov.  11,  1904.     Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  82°  39.5'  W.  \  ^^^^f^'   ^  ^^Pecimens 

(  200  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4657.     Nov.  13,  1904.     Lat.  7°  12.5'  S.,  long.  84°  9'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  46.59.     Nov.  14,  1904.     Lat.  8°  54.5'  S.,  long.  86°  5.5'  W.  I  '^"li^f  ®-    ^  specimens. 

(  300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 


ErrilAlSlA  TEXKHA.  243 

Sta.  4661.     Nov.  15,  1904.     Lat.  10°  17'  S.,  long.  SS°  2'  W.  \  ^.Z^'f'^'     '  **''"■""''"■ 

(  .JOO  fnl^^.  to  surface.     '■)  specimens. 

Sta.  4663.     Nov.  16,  1904.     Lat.  11°  20.3'  S.,  long.  SS°  55.2'  \V.     300  fm.s.  to  .surface.     14  specimens. 

Sta.  4664.     Nov.  17,  1904.     Lat.  11°  30.3' S.,  long.  S7°  19' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4665.     Nov.  17,  1904.     Lat.  11°  45'  S.,  long.  86°  5.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     64  specimens. 

Sta.  4667.     Nov.  IS,  1904.     Lat.  11°  59.5'  S.,  long.  83°  40.4'  W.  \  t^^'f^'  ,  ^  ^P'^f'"^"- 

(  300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4668.     Nov.  19,  1904.     Lat.  12°  9.3'  S.,  long.  81°  45.2'  W.     Open  part  of  Tanner  net :  300  fms.  to 

surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4669.     Nov.  19,  1904.     Lat.  12°  12.7'  S.,  long.  80°  25.6'  W.  \  ^'fJf"'  }  ^'"'"'"^"'  o- 

(  300  fms.  to  surface.     2o  specimens. 

Sta.  4671.  Nov.  20,  1904.  Lat.  12°  6.9' S.,  long.  78°  28.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4673.  Nov.  21,  1904.  Lat.  12°  30.5' S.,  long.  77°  49.4' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4676.  Dec.     5,1904.  Lat.  14°  28.9' S.,  long.  81°  24' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  .specimens. 

Sta.  4678.  Dec.     6,1904.  Lat.  16°  31.2' S.,  long.  85°  3.8' W.     Surface.     20  specimens. 

Sta.  4679.  Dec.     7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4680.  Dec.     7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  55'  S.,  long.  87°  42'  VV.     Surface.     8  specimens. 

Sta.  4081.  Dec.     8,1904.  Lat.  18°  47.1' S.,  long.  89°  26' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     13  specimens. 

Sta.  4683.  Dec.     9,1904.  Lat.  20°  2.4' S.,  long.  91°  52.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimeas. 

Sta.  4701.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5' S.,  long.  102°  24' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4702.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  18°  39.5'  S.,  long.  102°  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3'  S.,  long.  99°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4706.  Deo.  28,  1904.  Lat.  14°  18.7'  S.,  long.  98°  45.8'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4707.  Dec.  29,  1904.  Lat.  12°  33.2' S.,  long.  97°  42' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4708.  Dec.  29,  1904.  Lat.  11°  40' S.,  long.  96°  55' W.     Surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  45.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4710.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  9°  30.5'  S.,  long.  95°  8.3'  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4712.  Dec.  31,  1904.  Lat.  7°  5'  S.,  long.  93°  35.5'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4713.  Jan.      1,1905.  Lat.  5°  35.3' S.,  long.  92°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4714.  Jan.      1,  1905.  Lat.  4°  19'S,,  long.  91°  28.5'  W.     Surface.     23  specimens. 

Sta.  4716.  Jan.     2,  1905.  Lat.  2°  18.5'  S.,  long.  90°  2.6'  W.     Surface.     25  specimens. 

Sta.  4717.  Jan.    13,  1905.  Lat.  5°  10'  S.,  long.  98°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4721.  Jan.    15,1905.  Lat.  8°  7.5' S.,  long.  104°  10.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.    16,1905.  Lat.  9°  31' S.,  long.  106°  30.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4723.  Jan.    16,  1905.  Lat.  10°  14.3'  S.,  long.  107°  45.5'  W.     Surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4724.  Jan.    17,  1905.  Lat.  11°  13.4'  S.,  long.  109°  39'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     103  specimens. 

Sta.  4725.  Jan.    17,1905.  Lat.  11°  38.3' S.,  long.  110°  5' W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4728.  Jan.    19,1905.  Lat.  13°  47.5' S.,  long.  114°  26.1' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.    20,1905.  Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 

Sta.  4732.  Jan.   21,  1905.  Lat.  16°  32.5' S.,  long.  119°  59' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4733.  Jan.   21,1905.  Lat.  16°  57.4' S.,  long,  120°  48' W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4734.  Jan.    22,1905.  Lat.  17°  36' S.,  long.  122°  35.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     52  specimens. 

Sta.  4735.  Jan.   22,  1905.  Lat.  18°  16'  S.,  long.  123°  34.4'  W.     Surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4736.  Jan.   23,  1905.  Lat.  19°  0.4'  S.,  long.  125°  5.4'  VV.     300  fms.  to  surface.     20  specimens. 

Sta.  4740.  Feb.    11,  1905.  Lat.  9°  2.1'  S.,  long.  123°  20.1'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     12  specimens 

(7  of  which  are  larvae). 

Sta.  4741.  Feb.    11,1905.  Lat.  8°  29.7' S.,  long.  122°  56' W.     Surface.     12  specimens. 

Sta.  4743.  Feb.    20,  1905.  Lat.  8°  52.2'  N.,  long.  108°  54'  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Furthermore  the  species  was  taken  by  an  earher  expedition  at  two  places :  — 

Hyd.  Sta.  3789.     Sept.  9, 1899.     Lat.  2°  38' N.,  long.  137°  22' W.     Surface.     4  specimens.     "Albatross." 
Hyd.  Sta.  3998  (236).     Jan.  28,   1900.     Lat.  6°  34'  N.,  long.   170°  59'  E.     Surface.     Electric  light. 
2  specimens.     "  Albatross." 

The  representation  given  by  Sars  together  with  the  additional  notes  and 
figures  in  the  "Siboga"  Report  may  convey  a  sufficient  idea  of  this  small  and 
very  slender  species. 


244  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Distribution. —  The  long  list  of  Stations  shows  that  this  species  is  extremely- 
common  in  the  major  part  of  the  area  investigated,  viz.  in  its  most  tropical  belt, 
being  entirely  wanting  in  the  portions  South  of  Lat.  20°  S.  and  North  of  Lat. 
20°  42'  N.  According  to  Sars  it  has  once  been  taken  rather  southwards,  viz. 
off  Port  Jackson,  about  at  Lat.  33h°  S.  It  is  common  in  the  Indian  Ai'chipelago 
("Challenger,"  "Siboga")  and  the  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  a  specimen 
from  the  Southern  Chinese  Sea  at  Lat.  19°  14'  N.,  long.  116°  16'  E.  Finally 
it  is  common  in  the  tropical  Atlantic,  going  northwards  at  least  to  Lat.  24°  N. 
(Ortmann,  and  specimens  in  the  Copenhagen  Museum  from  almost  twenty 
locahties). 

The  species  has  frequently  been  taken  at  the  surface.  But  it  may  be  men- 
tioned that  according  to  Ortmann  the  German  Plankton-Expedition  has  captured 
the  species  twice  in  the  closing  net  from  1200  to  1000  m.  and  from  700  to  500  m., 
thus  proving  that  at  least  sometimes  it  goes  down  to  a  very  considerable  depth. 

Group  c.  Species  with  a  single  pair  of  lateral  denticles  on  the  carapace.  A  pro- 
truding, acute  dorsal  process  on  third  abdominal  segment  but  without  any 
dorsal  process  —  at  most  with  a  minute  denticle  {E.  mucronata)  —  on  fourth 
and  fifth  abdominal  segments. 

19.    Euphausia  gibba  G.  O.  Sars. 

Plate  8,  figs.  2a-2b. 

1883.     Euphausia  gibba  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Cliristiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  17. 

1885.     Euphausia  gibba  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  91,  pi.  16,  figs.  1-8. 

1911.     Euphausia  gibba  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc(San.  Monaco,  no.  210,  p.  31.     (With  figure). 

Lat.  20°  2.4'  S.,  long.  91°  52..5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 
Lat.  21°  36.2'  S.,  long.  94°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
Lat.  22°  2.2'  S.,  long.  95°  52'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Lat.  22°  49.5'  S.,  long.  97°  30.6'  W.  ■!  ^^^  f">«-  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

(  2125  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  25°  22.4'  S.,  long.  107°  45'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  24°  40.3'  S.,  long.  107°  5.3'  W.     Surface.     5  specimens. 
Lat.  22°  50.4'  S.,  long.  105°  31.7'  W.     Surface.     14  specimens. 
Lat.  20°  28.8'  S.,  long.  103°  26.3'  \Y.     Surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  19°  11.5'  S.,  long.  102°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     12  specimens. 
Lat.  18°  39.5'  S.,  long.  102°  W.     Surface.     7  specimens. 
Lat.  16°  55.3'  S.,  long.  100°  24.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
Lat.  16°  32.5'  S.,  long.  1 19°  59'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  18°  16'  S.,  long.  123°  34.4'  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Description. —  Body  slender. —  Frontal  plate  very  short,  rostrum  oblong- 
triangular,  somewhat  acuminate  and  very  acute,  about  as  long  as,  or  a  little 
longer  than,  the  breadth  of  the  second  antennular  joint  and  not  quite  or  about 


Sta. 

4683. 

Dec. 

9, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4685. 

Dec. 

10, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4686. 

Dec. 

10, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4687. 

Dec. 

11, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4695. 

Dec. 

23, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4696. 

Dec. 

23, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4698. 

Dec. 

24, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4700. 

Dec. 

25, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4701. 

Dec. 

26, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4702. 

Dec. 

26, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4704. 

Dec. 

27, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4732. 

Jan. 

21, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4735. 

Jan. 

22, 

1905. 

EUPHAUSIA  G1I3UA.  245 

as  long  as  tlio  diamct(>r  of  the  small  oyes;   the  gastric  area,  seen  from  the  side, 
somewhat  feebly  vaulted,  and  the  median  keel  is  well  developed. 

Lobe  from  first  antennular  joint  not  half  as  broad  as  the  end  of  the  joint, 
directed  obliquely  forwards,  upwards,  and  somewhat  outwards;  not  quite  as 
long  as  broad,  somewhat  obhque-triangular  with  the  inner  margin  feebly  convex; 
the  end  very  acute,  and  besides  frequently  with  an  extremely  low  tooth  or 
feebly  produced,  sharp  angle  near  the  base  of  the  outer  side.  Second  antennu- 
lar joint  abo\'e  with  the  distal  inner  angle  showing  an  extremely  small,  sharp 
tooth;  while  at  the  outer  side  the  lateral  corner  itself  is  rounded.  Third  joint, 
seen  from  the  outer  side  (fig.  2a),  with  the  dorsal  keel  decreasing  gradually  in 
height  from  the  middle  to  its  proximal  end  which  is  situated  at  some  distance 
from  the  end  of  second  joint,  thus  nearly  as  in  E.  paragibba  H.  J.  H.,  but  the 
distal  part  of  the  keel  is  a  little  higher  than  in  the  latter  species. 

Dorsal  process  of  third  abdominal  segment,  seen  from  above,  shaped  as  an 
oblong-triangular,  distally  acuminate  and  acute  plate,  very  far  from  half  as  long 
as  the  fourth  segment.     Sixth  abdominal  segment  as  in  E.  paragibba. 

The  copulatory  organs  (fig.  2b)  differ  extremely  from  those  in  all  other 
species  of  the  genus.  The  terminal  process  (p'.)  is  unusually  small,  subcorneal, 
thick  at  the  base,  and  with  the  distal  third  slender,  acute  and  suddenly  bent 
obliquely  forwards  and  outwards;  the  heel  is  proportionately  long  and  very 
slender.  The  proximal  process  (p^)  is  very  long  and  strong,  thickened  at  the 
base  and  then  tapering  nearly  evenly  to  the  acute  end;  somewhat  before  its 
middle  it  is  curved  somewhat  inwards;  and  somewhat  beyond  the  middle  it  is 
bent  considerably  outwards  and  besides  forwards,  its  distal  third  being  almost 
straight.  The  lateral  process  (p''.)  is  bent  strongly  inwards  a  httle  before  the 
middle;  its  proximal  part  is  thick,  its  distal  part  slender,  and  it  has  no  dorsal 
tooth.  The  median  lobe  is  very  curious;  its  proximal  third,  to  the  insertion  of 
the  lateral  process,  is  extremely  broad,  its  middle  third  is  considerably  narrower, 
yet  broader  than  long;  the  distal  third  originates  from  the  outer  distal  angle  of 
the  preceding  part  as  a  kind  of  thin-skinned,  very  slender  finger  with  the  proximal 
half  directed  considerably  outwards  and  the  distal  part  bent  conspicuously 
inwards.  The  auxiliary  lobe  of  moderate  length ;  the  setiferous  lobe  as  in  allied 
species,  with  seven  setae  along  its  triangularly  produced  terminal  margin. 

Length  of  adults  of  both  sexes  11-15  mm.,  most  frequently  12-13.5  mm. 

Remarks. —  E.  gibba  G.  O.  S.  is  closely  allied  and  very  similar  to  E.  pseudo- 
gibba  Ortm.,  E.  hemigibba  H.  J.  H.,  and  E.  paragibba  H.  J.  H.  These  four  species 
are  in  reality  so  similar  in  general  aspect,  in  shape  of  rostrum,  size  of  eyes,  lobe 


246  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

of  first  antennular  joint,  etc.,  that  a  close  examination  is  necessary  in  order  to 
separate  them  with  certainty.  As  pointed  out  in  the  "Siboga"  Report,  the  male 
copulatory  organs  of  first  pleopods  afford  excellent  specific  characters,  and  it 
may  be  added  that  these  organs  in  E.  gibba  differ  strongly  from  those  in  the  three 
species  mentioned  by  the  very  short  and  curiously  shaped  terminal  process, 
the  very  long  and  strong  proximal  process  and  the  finger-shaped,  very  slender 
and  feebly  chitinized  terminal  part  of  the  median  lobe.  The  female  is  very 
similar  to  that  of  E.  paragibba,  the  only  difference  being  that  the  distal  part  of 
the  keel  on  the  third  antennular  joint  is  a  little  higher  and  less  rounded  than  in 
the  latter  species.  Furthermore  E.  gibba  is  generally  smaller  than  E.  paragibba 
and  differs  in  all  probability  in  the  living  state  by  the  colour  of  the  body;  the 
Agassiz  collection  contains  specimens  of  both  species  from  a  good  number  of 
locahties,  and  while  the  specimens  of  E.  paragibba  are  whitish  or  a  little  yellow- 
ish, those  of  E.  gibba  are  less  or  more  yellowish  or  sometimes  light  brownish  or 
even  somewhat  saffron  coloured. 

It  is  seen  from  the  "Challenger"  localities  that  Sars  has  confused  at  least 
two  species,  because  E.  gibba  does  not  occur  in  the  Atlantic.  He  has  marked  a 
specimen  from  the  West  Pacific,  between  Api  and  Cape  York,  as  type,  and  his 
fi^.  6  on  PI.  XVI  shows  that  he  has  examined  and  figured  a  male  of  the  species 
described  here  as  E.  gibba. 

Distribution. —  The  list  of  localities  shows  that  E.  gibba  was  taken  only  in 
the  southern  parts  of  the  area  investigated,  viz.  only  South  of  Lat.  16°  32'  S. 
The  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  two  specimens  from  the  South  Pacific  at 
Lat.  27°  11'  S.,  long.  88°  52'  W.  ("Galathea"  Exp.),  and  the  type  of  Sars  was,  as 
already  stated,  taken  between  Api  and  Cape  York.  Sars  states  that  he  has  seen 
specimens  of  E.  gibba  taken  off  Kandavu,  Fiji  Islands,  and  during  my  visit  to 
London  in  1907,  I  separated  three  of  his  thirteen  specimens  as  being  E.  tenera, 
but  not  having  at  that  time  discovered  the  importance  of  the  copulatory  organs, 
and  that  therefore  new  species  ought  to  be  separated  from  the  original  E.  gibba 
material,  I  cannot  state  anything  concerning  the  remaining  ten  specimens. 

But  all  statements  in  the  literature  as  to  the  occurrence  oi'  E.  gibba  in  the 
Atlantic  and  the  Indian  Ocean  are  to  be  cancelled,  as  all  the  specimens  re-exam- 
ined by  me  belong  to  E.  hemigibba  H.  J.  H.,  E.  pseudogibba  Ortm.,  or  E. 
paragibba  H.  J.  H. 

20.    Euphausia  paragibba  II.  J.  Hansen. 
1910.     Euphausia  paragibba  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  100,  pi.  14,  figs.  6a-6d. 

Sta.  4679.     Dee.    7,  1904.     Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 
Sta.  4681.     Dec.    8,1904.     Lat.  18°  47.1' S.,  long.  89°  26' \V.     300  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 


Sta. 

4705. 

Doe. 

2S, 

1904. 

St  a. 

4707. 

Dec. 

29, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4709. 

Dec. 

30, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4721. 

Jan. 

1.-), 

1905. 

Sta. 

4722. 

Jan. 

16, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4730. 

Jan. 

20, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4740. 

Feb. 

11, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4742. 

Feb. 

15, 

1905. 

ETTHAUSIA  PSEUDOGIBRA.  247 

Lat.  15°  5.3'  S.,  long.  99°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     17  specimens. 
Lat.  12°  32.2'  S.,  long.  97°  42'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
I.at.  10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  40.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 
Lat.  8°  7.5'  S.,  long.  104°  10.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  9°  31'  S.,  long.  106°  30.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     8  specimens. 
Lat.  15°  7'  S.,  long.  117°  1.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  fiin-face.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  9°  2.1'  S.,  long.  123°  20.1'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
Lat.  0°  3.4'  N.,  long.  117°  15.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

One  of  the  largest  specimens,  a  female,  measures  17  mm.,  a  very  small 
adult  male  is  scarcely  12  mm.  long,  but  the  most  common  size  is  15-15.5  mm. 

Distribution. —  This  species  has  been  established  on  a  few  specimens  taken 
in  the  Indian  .Irchipelago,  at  Lat.  0°  17.6'  S.,  long.  129°  14.5'  E.  The  Copen- 
hagen Museum  possesses  males  from  two  localities,  viz.  Lat.  13°  S.,  long.  103°  20' 
E.  (Capt.  Andrea)  and  Lat.  34°  30'  S.,  long.  27°  40'  E.  (Capt.  Hartmann),  the 
latter  being  in  the  most  western  part  of  the  Indian  Ocean,  East  of  Port  Elizabeth. 
The  list  above  shows  that  the  species  has  been  taken  ten  times  in  a  transverse 
belt  about  between  the  line  and  Lat.  19°  S.  in  the  area  explored  by  Agassiz 
1904-1905,  while  it  was  not  met  with  in  the  larger  northern  and  smaller  southern 
part.  Furthermore  the  list  seems  to  show  that  the  species  at  least  as  a  rule  does 
not  live  at  the  surface,  but  the  specimens  in  the  Copenhagen  Museum  have 
certainly  been  taken  near  the  surface  and  probably  during  night. 

21.    Euphausia  pseudogibba  Ortmann. 

1893.     Euphausia  pseudogibba  Ortmann,  Ergebn.  der  Plankton-Exped.,  2,  G.,  b.,  p.  12,  taf.  I,  fig.  6. 
1910.     Euphausia  pseudogibba  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  97;  pi.  14,  figs.  4a-4e. 

Sta.  4728.     Jan.  19,  1905.     Lat.  13°  47.5' S.,  long.  114°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Sta.  4732.     Jan.  21,  1905.     Lat.  16°  32.5'  S.,  long.  119°  59'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

I  have  nothing  to  add  to  the  description  in  the  "Siboga"  paper. 

Distribution. —  Only  the  two  specimens  recorded  from  the  Pacific  are  known 
hitherto;  Ortmann's  specimens  from  the  Hawaiian  Islands  referred  (1905)  to 
E.  pseudogibba  belong  to  E.  hemigibba  H.  J.  H.  The  Copenhagen  Museum  and 
the  Monaco  collection  contain  numerous  specimens  from  several  localities  from 
the  eastern  warmer  temperate  and  tropical  Atlantic  North  of  the  line;  further- 
more I  have  seen  specimens  from  the  Bay  of  Bengal  ("Galathea"  Exp.)  and 
from  Lat.  11°  16'  S.,  long.  103°  50'  E.  (Capt.  Andrea).— The  specimens  from 
twelve  locahties  in  all  in  the  Copenhagen  Museum  are  nearly  all  males  and 
have  certainly  been  taken  at  the  surface  during  the  night. 

(The  fourth  .species  of  the  gibba-group  sens,  strict.,  E.  hemigibba  H.  J.  H. 
(see  the  "Siboga"  paper)  is  very  common  in  the  Atlantic  from  Lat.  42°  N.  to 
southwest  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and  in  the  Indian  Ocean  from  Port  Eliza- 


248  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

beth  to  Long.  103°  E.  (the  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  specimens  from  no 
less  than  forty-two  localities  in  these  Oceans),  but  it  was  taken  only  at  a  single 
Station  in  the  Indian  Archipelago  by  the  ''Siboga",  and  from  the  Pacific  at  the 
Hawaiian  Islands,  viz.  the  above-mentioned  specimens  referred  by  Ortmann  to 
E.  pseudogibba) . 

22.    Euphausia  distinguenda  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Plate  8,  figs.  3a-3f. 

1911.     Euphausia  distinguenda  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc&n.  Monaco,  no.  210,  p.  32. 

Sta.  4583.  Oct.  11,  1904.  Lat.  22°  45' N.,  long.  110°  5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimen.s. 

Sta.  4587.  Oct.  12,  1904.  I.at.  20°  42'  N.,  long.  107°  25'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4588.  Oct.   12,  1904.  Lat.  19°  52'  N.,  long.  106°  22'  W.     Surface.     12  specimens,  all  immature, 

the  majority  small  or  very  small. 

Sta.  4590.  Oct.  12,  1904.  Lat.  18°  50'  N.,  long.  104°  50'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 

Sta.  4592.  Oct.  13,  1904.  Lat.  18°  20'  N.,  long.  103°  40'  W.     Surface.     1  small  specimen. 

Sta.  4594.  Oct.  14,  1904.  Lat.  17°  20'  N.,  long.  101°  32'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  specimens. 

Sta.  4596.  Oct.  14,  1904.  Lat.  16°  47'  N.,  long.  100°  27'  W.     Surface.     58  specimens,  small. 

Sta.  4598.  Oct.  15, 1904.  Lat.  15°  58'  N.,  long.  98°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     19  specimens. 

Sta.  4605.  Oct.  17,  1904.  Lat.  12°  21' N.,  long.  92°  13' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     15  specimens. 

Sta.  4613.  Oct.  19,  1904.  Lat.  9°  45'  N.,  long.  86°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4615.  Oct.  19,  1904.  Lat.  9°  7' N.,  long.  85°  11' W.     Surface.     6  small  specimens. 

Sta.  4619.  Oct.  20,  1904.  Lat.  7°  15'  N.,  long.  82°  8'  W.     Surface.     10  small  specimens. 

Sta.  4634.  Nov.   4,  1904.  Lat.  4°  35.4'  N.,  long.  83°  32.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4637.  Nov.   5,  1904.  Lat.  1°  31' N.,  long.  86°  32' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     20  specimens. 

Sta.  4640.  Nov.  6,  1904.  Lat.  0°  39.4'  S.,  long.  88°  11'  W.     Surface.     1  small  specimen. 

Sta.  4644.  Nov.  7,  1904.  Lat.  2°  13.3'  S.,  long.  89°  42,2'  W.     Surface.     2  small  specimens. 

Sta.  4646.  Nov.  8,  1904.  Lat.  4°  1.6' S.,  long.  89°  16.3' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4649.  Nov.  10, 1904.  Lat.  5°  17'  S,,  long.  85°  19.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     9  specimens. 

Sta.  4650.  Nov.  10, 1904.  Lat.  5°  22'  S.,  long.  84°  39'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     35  specimens. 

f  100  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4652.  Nov.  11, 1904.  Lat.  5°  44.7' S.,  long.  82°  39.5' W.  •}  200  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

[  400  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4657.  Nov,  13,  1904.  Lat.  7°  12.5'  S,,  long.  84°  9'  W,     300  fms,  to  surface.     1  .specimen. 

Sta.  4659.  Nov.  14, 1904.  Lat.  8°  54.5' S.,  long.  86°  5.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimen.?. 

Sta.  4661.  Nov.  15, 1904.  Lat.  10°  17'  S.,  long.  88°  2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4663.  Nov.  16, 1904.  Lat.  11°  20.3' S.,  long.  88°  55.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     18  specimens. 

Sta.  4665.     Nov.  17,  1904.     Lat.  11°  45' S.,  long.  86°  5.2' W. -|  ^"^'f^'^''-   /  ^"'f  ^P~-    . 

(  300  fms.  to  surface.     24  specimens. 

Sta.  4667.     Nov.  18,  1904.     Lat.  11°  59.5'  S„  long.  83°  40.4'  W  ]  ^^^Y^'  ^  '  ^Peci^en  scarcely  adult. 

.  .  (  300  fms.  to  surface.     13  specnnens. 

Sta.  4668.  Nov.  19,  1904.  Lat.  12°  9,3'  S,,  long,  81°  45,2'  W,     Bottom  of  Tanner  net,  300  fms,     3 

specimens, 

Sta,  4669.  Nov,  19,  1904,  Lat,  12°  12,7' S,,  long,  80°  25,6' W,     300  fms.  to  surface,     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4671.  Nov.  20, 1904.  Lat.  12°  6.9'  S.,  long.  78°  28.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4673.  Nov.  21, 1904.  Lat.  12°  30.5' S.,  long.  77°  49.4' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  40.8'  W,     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4710,  Dec,  30,  1904,  Lat.  9°  30.5'  S.,  long.  95°  8.3'  W.     Surface.     1  adult  specimen. 

Sta.  4713.  Jan.    1,1905.  Lat.  5°  35.2' S.,  long.  92°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4715.  Jan.    2,  1905.  Lat.  2°  40.4'  S.,  long.  90°  19,3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4717.  Jan.    2,1905.  Lat.  5°  10' S.,  long.  98°  56' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Description. —  Body  slender. —  Frontal   plate   (fig.   3a)    moderately   short, 
with  a  portion  of  each  lateral  margin  somewhat  convex,  anteriorly  produced 


EUPHAUSIA  DISTINGUENDA.  240 

ill  a  small. or  iicarlj*  rudiineiUary,  acute  rostrum  which  is  badly  tlclincd,  ijroader 
or  much  broader  than  long,  about  half  as  long  as  the  breadth  of  second  antennu- 
lar  joint  or  even  conspicuously  smaller.  The  gastric  area  well  developed,  with 
the  median  keel,  seen  from  the  side  (fig.  3b),  rather  high  and  cvvn  slightly  angular. 

Eyes  rather  small;  eye-stalks  a  little  longer  in  proportion  to  their  distal 
breadth  than  in  allied  species  and  in  very  young  specimens  somewhat  conspicu- 
ously long. —  The  antennular  peduncles  moderately  strong;  the  proximal  joint 
distally  somewhat  raised  (fig.  3c)  above  the  base  of  second  joint,  but  the  lobe 
may  be  termed  rudimentary,  as  the  terminal  margin,  seen  from  above  (fig.  3d), 
is  somewhat  convex  and  with  a  small  incision  rather  near  the  middle.  Second 
joint  at  the  upper  outer  distal  angle  with  a  rather  short  and  high,  oblique  keel 
(figs.  3c  and  3d,  p.)  directed  upwards  and  somewhat  forwards,  forming  almost 
an  ear-like,  rounded  process;  the  distal  upper  margin  of  the  joint  from  this 
process  to  the  inner  margin  is  somewhat  oblique  (fig.  3d).  Third  peduncular 
joint,  seen  from  the  outer  side  (fig.  3c),  with  its  distal  half  occupied  above  by  a 
high  keel,  highest  at  the  middle  and,  if  well  preserved,  with  the  distal  upper 
angle  rectangular  and  acute,  the  terminal  margin  a  little  concave  and  oblique. — 
The  antennal  squama  is  somewhat  broad,  less  than  three  times  as  long  as  broad, 
tapering  considerably  towards  the  end  so  that  the  terminal  transverse  margin  is 
short  and  there  is  no  tooth  from  the  outer  angle;  the  spine-shaped  process 
from  the  outer  angle  of  the  peduncle  nearly  one  third  as  long  as  the  squama. 

First  and  second  abdominal  segments  slightly  produced  above  at  the  middle 
of  the  posterior  margin,  but  this  produced  part  is  rounded,  scarcely  angular. 
Third  segment  posteriorly  produced  in  a  spiniform,  compressed  process,  from 
one  third  to  nearly  half  as  long  as  tlie  following  segment.  Foiu'th  and  fifth 
segments  without  any  trace  of  a  dorsal  tooth.  Sixth  segment  long,  twice  as  long 
as  deep.  Preanal  spine  simple  in  both  sexes. —  Endopod  of  the  uropods  slightly 
longer  than  the  exopod  and  as  long  as,  or  even  a  little  longer  than,  the  telson. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  3e-3f)  show  some  peculiar  features.  The 
terminal  process  has  a  rather  long  foot  and  a  very  long,  cur\ed  heel ;  the  portion 
beyond  the  foot  is  moderately  short,  thick  at  the  base,  tapering  considerably 
to  beyond  the  middle  where  it  is  curved  somewhat  inwards,  while  its  distal  part 
is  slender  with  the  end  scarcely  acute.  The  proximal  process  (fig.  3f,  p\)  has 
somewhat  less  than  the  proximal  half  stout  and  almost  straight,  then  it  bends 
abruptly  considerably  inwards  and  becomes  rapidly  thinner,  being  at  the  middle 
much  narrower  or  even  only  half  as  broad  as  its  proximal  part;  a  little  beyond 
the  middle  the  inner  side  is  almost  abruptly  considerably  expanded,  and  this 


250  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

expansion  decreases  gradually  to  somewhat  before  the  en  d ;  the  terminal  part  is 
curved  inwards  and  tapers  to  the  acute  end.  The  median  lobe  is  normal,  termi- 
nating in  a  somewhat  flattened,  rounded  lobe;  the  lateral  process  (fig.  3e) 
is  rather  robust  at  the  base;  considerably  beyond  the  middle  it  is  bent  very 
strongly,  both  inwards  and  considerably  in  the  proximal  direction,  and  at  the 
bending  it  has  a  very  conspicuous,  cur\'ed,  acute  dorsal  (or  outer)  tooth  and 
sometimes  still  a  smaller  tooth  or  two  small  teeth  (fig.  3f,  p''.).  The  auxiliary 
lobe  is  long.  The  setiferous  lobe  is  broad,  with  five  setae  from  the  triangularly 
produced  terminal  part  and  about  four  setae  distributed  along  the  outer  margin. 

Length  of  both  sexes  10-14.5  mm. 

Type.^A  male  from  Sta.  4665;  300  fms.  to  surface. 

Remarks. —  E.  distinguenda  resembles  E.  paragibba  and  allied  species  by 
its  slender  body  and  rather  small  eyes,  but  it  is  easily  distinguished  by  having 
no  protruding,  acute  lobe  from  first  antennular  joint,  by  the  somewhat  ear-like 
keel  at  the  outer  angle  of  the  second  joint,  and  l)y  the  copulatory  organs;  the 
reduced  rostrum,  the  high  keel  on  the  third  antennular  joint,  and  the  dorsal 
process  on  third  abdominal  segment  being  compressed  afford  other  valid  but 
less  conspicuous  characters. 

Distribution. —  The  long  list  of  localities  shows  that  this  species  is  common 
in  a  large  part  of  the  area  explored,  viz.  from  Lat.  22i°  N.  to  Lat.  122°  S.,  while 
it  is  wanting  south  of  the  last-named  latitude,  and  besides  it  was  not  taken 
in  the  southwestern  part  of  the  area,  west  of  Long.  100°  and  south  of  the  line. 
Many  of  the  specimens  referred  by  Ortmann  (1894)  to  E.  mucronata  G.  0.  S. 
belong  to  E.  distinguenda.  But  I  have  not  seen  a  specimen  of  this  species  from 
any  other  area  or  ocean.  The  list  shows  that  the  species  was  several  times  taken 
at  the  surface,  but  that  the  specimens  in  question  were  nearly  all  immature  and 
generally  small. 

23.     Euphausia  lamelligera  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Plate  S,  figs.  4a-4e;    Plate  9,  fig.  la. 

1911.     Euphuusia  hniiclligera  H.  J.  Han.sen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc^an.  Monaco,  no.  210,  p.  32. 

Sta.  4588.  Oct.  12,   1904.  Lat.  19°  52' N.,  long.  106°  22' W.     Surface.     1  young  specimen. 

Sta.  4592.  Oct.  13,   1904.  Lat.  18°  20'  N.,  long.  103°  40'  W.     Surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4605.  Oct.  17,  1904.  Lat.  12°  21' N.,  long.  92°  13' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4611.  Oct.  18,  1904.  Lat.  10°  33'  N.,  long.  88°  30'  W.     Surface.     27  specimens. 

Sta.  4613.  Oct.  19,   1904.  Lat.  9°  45'  N.,  long.  86°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4615.  Oct.  19,   1904.  Lat.  9°  7' N.,  long.  85°  11' W.     Surface.     20  specimens. 

Sta.  4619.  Oct.  20,   1904.  Lat.  7°  15' N.,  long.  82°  8' W.     Surface.     30  specimens. 

Sta.  4640.  Nov.    6,1904.  Lat.  0°  39.4' S.,  long.  88°  11' W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4648.  Nov.    9,  1904.  Lat.  4°  43'  S.,  long.  87°  7.5'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 


Sta.  4652.     Nov.  1 1,  I'JOl.     L:it.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  S2°  39.5'  W 


EUPHAUSIA  LAMELLIGERA.  251 

Sta.  41)50.     Nov.  10,  I'JOl.     Lat.  5°  22'  S.,  long.  S4°  39'  W.  -j  '^"^"^i.^""'  ]  ■'"""'"'■"• 

'  (  300  fnis.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Surface.  2  specimens. 

100  fms.  to  surface.     31  specimens. 

200  fms.  to  surface.     23  specimens. 

400  fms.  to  surface.     15  specimens. 

Sta.  4655.     Nov.  12,  1904.     Lat.  5°  57.5'  S.,  long.  SO"  50'  W.  -]  '';,\''^f  "•   ,^  ^P''^""^"^- 

'  (  400  fms.  to  surlace.     4  speeunens. 

Sta.  4657.     Nov.  12,  1904.     Lat .  7°  12.5'  S.,  long.  84"  9'  W.  ]  '^"ff "  ^"  «P-™«"«-         . 

'  (  300  fms.  to  surface.     1  sjiocuncn. 

Sta.  4659.     Nov.  14,  1904.     Lat.  S°  54.5' S.,  long.  86°  5.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4661.     Nov.  15,  1904.     Lat.  10°  17' S.,  long.  88°  2' W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

Description. —  Body  slender. —  The  frontal  plate  (fig.  4a)  is  very  short, 
but  laterally  somewhat  produced  with  right  angles,  while  the  long  front  margin 
is  almost  transverse,  being  only  feebly  produced  at  the  middle  with  an  extremely 
obtuse  angle,  and  consequently  no  rostrum  is  developed.  The  gastric  area  is 
highly  vaulted  and,  seen  front  the  side,  with  the  upper  margin  angular  (fig.  4b), 
but  a  real  keel  is  not  developed. 

The  eyes  are  large. —  The  antennular  peduncles  are  somewhat  robust; 
the  basal  joint  is  much  raised  above  towards  the  terminal  margin  (fig.  4c),  which 
is  situated  much  above  the  base  of  second  joint  and  produced  in  a  moderately 
small  lobe  projecting  upwards,  forwards,  and  outwards  (fig.  4d);  the  end  of  the 
lobe  is  more  or  less  distinctly  cleft.  Second  joint  at  the  end  furnished  with  a 
very  large,  movable  lamella  which,  seen  from  above  (fig.  4d,  1.),  is  subtriangular, 
reaching  almost  to  the  inner  margin,  and  covering  the  outer  proximal  half  or 
still  more  of  the  upper  surface  of  the  third  joint;  while  seen  from  the  side  (fig.  4c) 
its  lower  margin  runs  almost  along  the  middle  of  the  side  of  the  third  joint,  so 
that  the  proximal  upper  fourth  or  still  more  of  the  whole  outer  surface  of  the 
joint  is  covered;  in  immature  specimens  this  lamella  is  smaller  and  in  about 
half-grown  individuals  quite  small.  The  third  joint,  seen  from  the  outer  side 
(fig.  4c)  with  the  dorsal  keel  high,  occupying  the  distal  half  of  the  joint,  with  the 
front  margin  long  and  a  little  oblique,  the  angle  between  this  margin  and  the 
upper  margin  being  about  100°. —  The  antennae  nearly  as  in  E.  distinguenda. 

Third  abdominal  segment  with  a  dorsal,  slender,  spiniform,  compressed 
process'  a  little  or  scarcely  more  than  one  third  as  long  as  the  next  segment; 
fourth  and  fifth  segments  without  any  vestige  of  dorsal  denticles.  Sixth  seg- 
ment long,  even  a  little  more  than  twice  as  long  as  deep. —  Exopod  of  uropods 
a  little  longer  than  the  endopod  and  conspicuously  shorter  than  the  telson. 

The  copulatory  organs  (Plate  8,  fig.  4e;  Plate  9,  fig.  la)  show  some  simi- 
larity to  those  of  E.  distinguenda,  but  there  are  several  differences.  The  termi- 
nal process  has  a  rather  long  foot,  but  its  heel  is  somewhat  short  and  curved. 


252  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

and  the  process  beyond  the  foot  is  rather  long,  regularly  tapering  in  breadth 
from  the  robust  base  to  the  acute  end;  also  a  httle  curved  and  towards  the 
acute  end  curved  considerably  inwards.  The  proximal  process  has  the  proximal 
three  fifths  robust  and  somewhat  curved,  with  the  inner  margin  concave  and  the 
outer  more  convex,  as  the  part  at  the  middle  is  thicker  than  at  each  end;  the 
distal  two  fifths  are  flattened,  towards  the  end  quite  flat,  with  the  proximal  half 
of  its  antero-interior  margin  somewhat  convex,  as  this  part,  seen  from  behind 
(fig.  la),  is  considerably  expanded;  then  it  tapers  in  breadth  towards  the  rounded 
end  and  the  most  distal  part  is  so  flattened  that,  seen  from  the  inner  side  (fig.  4e), 
it  looks  quite  thin  with  the  end  nearly  acute.  The  median  lobe  has  its  terminal 
part  produced  as  a  narrow  but  moderately  short  lobe  which  is  rounded  at  the 
end  and  directed  obliquely  forwards,  it  is  therefore  seen  better  from  the  inner 
side  (fig.  4e);  the  lateral  process  is  of  moderate  size,  curved  inwards  more  or 
less  beyond  the  middle  and  with  a  sharp  dorsal  tooth  slightly  beyond  the  curva- 
ture. The  auxiliary  lobe  is  long.  The  setiferous  lobe  is  broad,  with  six  setae 
from  the  triangularly  produced  terminal  part,  but  with  no  setae  along  the  outer 
margin. 

Length  of  adult  males  7.5-10  mm.,  of  a  large  female  10.8  mm. 

Type. —  A  male  from  Sta.  4652;  100  fms.  to  surface. 

Remarks. —  This  small  species  is  easily  distinguished  from  all  other  forms 
by  the  large,  movable  lamella  projecting  from  the  second  antennular  joint  and 
covering  a  large  portion  of  the  upper  and  outer  portion  of  third  joint.  The 
shape  of  the  short  frontal  plate,  of  the  lobe  from  the  first  antennular  joint,  etc., 
afford  other  valuable  characters. 

Distribution. —  The  list  of  localities  shows  that  E.  lamelligera  is  common 

in  the  eastern  part  of  the  area  explored  in  1904-1905,  but  only  between  Lat.  20° 

N.  and  Lat.  10^°  S.,  furthermore  it  was  frequently  taken  at  the  surface  and  at 

times  in  considerable  numbers.     The  species  is  unknown  to  me  from  any  other 

area  or  ocean. 

24.    Euphausia  gibboides  Ortmann. 

Plate  9,  figs.  2a-2h. 

1893.     Euphausia  gibboides  Ortmann,  Ergebn.  der  Plankton-Exped.,  2,  G.,  b.,  p.  12,  taf.  1,  fig.  5. 
1911.     Euphausia  gibboides  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Ocean.  Monaco,  no.  210,  p.  33. 

Lat.  4°  35.4'  N.,  long.  83°  32.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
Lat.  1°  31'  N.,  long.  86°  32'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     20  specimens. 
Lat.  0°  27'  N.,  long.  87°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.    2  specimens. 
Lat.  2°  40.4'  S.,  long.  90°  19.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  2°  18.5'  S.,  long.  90°  2.6'  W.     600  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
Lat.  5°  10'  S.,  long.  98°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  0°  3.4'  N.,  long.  117°  15.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 


Sta. 

4634. 

Nov. 

4, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4637. 

Nov. 

5, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4638. 

Nov. 

6, 

1904. 

Sta. 

4715. 

.Tan. 

2 

1905. 

Sta. 

4716. 

J. an. 

2, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4717. 

Jan. 

13, 

1905. 

Sta. 

4742. 

Feb. 

15, 

1905. 

EUPHAUSIA  GIBI50IDES.  253 

Furthermore  the  species  was  taken  twice  in  1S97  by  Dr.  Agassiz,  viz.:  — 

Fiji  Islands.     Dec.  11,  1897.     6  iii.  South  of  Suva  light.sliip.     1.50  fiiia.     4  specimens. 
Fiji  Islands.     Dec.  11,  1897.     3  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     100  tms.     1  specimen. 

Description. —  Body  rather  stout. —  Frontal  plate  (fig.  2a)  is  very  short, 
subangular  at  each  side;  anteriorly  it  is  produced  into  a  rather  long  rostrum, 
the  basal  part  of  which  is  a  comparatively  somewhat  large  triangle  a  little  broader 
than  long,  while  its  distal  portion  is  spiniform.  The  gastric  area  is,  seen  from 
the  side  (fig.  2b),  highly  vaulted;  the  keel  from  the  middle  of  the  rostrum  and 
along  that  area  is  sharp. 

The  eyes  are  large. —  The  antennular  peduncles  moderately  robust;  the 
first  joint  is  raised  considerably  above  towards  the  upper  terminal  margin  (fig.  2c), 
the  major  part  of  which  is  nearly  transverse  (fig.  2d),  but  the  inner  part  is  pro- 
duced into  a  moderately  long  lobe  projecting  forwards  and  somewhat  upwards, 
tapering  in  breadth  to  beyond  the  middle  where  it  abruptly  bends  much  out- 
wards, this  terminal  part  forming  an  oblong,  acute  triangle  directed  more  out- 
wards than  forwards.  Second  joint,  seen  from  above  (fig.  2d),  is  as  usually 
with  the  inner  margin  somewhat  longer  anteriorly  than  the  outer,  but  the 
terminal  upper  margin  is  not  oblique,  but  transverse,  even  a  little  and  some- 
times considerably  concave,  extending  to  about  the  outer  margin  of  third  joint, 
where  it  suddenly  bends  in  the  proximal  direction  parallel  with  the  last-named 
margin;  in  this  way  a  kind  of  short,  broad  lobe  is  circumscribed,  which  covers 
the  proximal  part  of  the  upper  surface  of  the  third  joint  with  the  exception  of 
its  outermost  portion;  and  the  outer  part  of  tliis  lobe  is  produced  slightly  or 
conspicuously  forwards,  when  the  transverse  terminal  margin  is  considerably 
concave.  The  third  joint,  beginning  only  a  little  from  the  lobe  of  second  joint, 
has  the  dorsal  keel  high;  it  rises  in  height  to  somewhat  beyond  the  middle 
and  is  there  produced  into  a  slender,  porrected  tooth;  the  front  margin  of  the 
keel  is  very  oblique  and  deeply  incised  just  below  the  upper  end,  the  incision 
limiting  the  tooth  mentioned. —  The  antennal  squama  is  moderately  broad, 
at  most  reaching  the  middle  of  third  antennular  joint  and  without  any  marginal 
tooth  at  the  somewhat  broad  end;  the  spiniform  process  from  the  outer  side  of 
the  peduncle  is  long,  about  half  as  long  as  the  squama. 

First  and  second  abdominal  segments  at  the  middle  of  the  dorsal  posterior 
margin  are  produced  a  little,  but  the  protuberance  is  feebly  rounded,  not  angular. 
Third  segment  with  a  short  dorsal  process  which  at  the  base  is  a  carinated  plate 
and  distally  slender  and  almost  compressed,  acute.  Fourth  and  fifth  segments 
without  vestige  of  any  dorsal  tooth.     Sixth  segment  moderately  long,  with  the 


254  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

proximal  part  somewhat  deep;  preanal  spine  simple  in  both  sexes. —  Exopod 
of  the  uropods  as  long  as  the  telson  and  as  long  as  or  a  little  shorter  than  the 
endopod. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  2e-2h)  differ  in  some  features  from  those  of 
above-described  forms.  The  terminal  process  (p-.)  has  the  foot  of  moderate 
length,  the  heel  rather  short,  thick,  and  straight;  and  the  process  beyond  the  foot 
is  moderately  long,  rather  slender  and  tapering  to  the  acute  end ;  seen  from  behind 
straight  (fig.  2e),  seen  from  the  inner  side  somewhat  curved  (fig.  2g).  The  proxi- 
mal process  (p^.)  is,  seen  from  behind  (figs.  2e  and  2f),  long  and  nearly  regularly 
curved,  constituting  about  one  fourth  of  a  circle;  its  basal  part  is  very  moder- 
ately robust,  somewhat  convex  on  the  outer  side;  it  then  tapers  gradually  to  a 
little  before  the  end,  where  on  the  inner  —  the  proximal  —  margin  it  has  a  kind 
of  oblong  expansion  with  a  slender  tooth  from  the  proximal  angle  (fig.  2f) ; 
seen  from  the  inner  side  (fig.  2h)  this  terminal  part  shows  itself  as  an  oblong, 
rather  broad,  distally  broadly  rounded  plate  placed  obliquely  on  the  end  of 
the  slender  part  of  the  process  and  possessing  the  long,  slender  tooth  at  its  base; 
a  comparison  of  fig.  2f  with  fig.  2h,  the  latter  figure  showing  the  plate  a  good 
deal  shorter  than  it  is  in  reality  because  its  position  is  very  oblique  in  proportion 
to  the  direction  of  the  view,  will  show  further  details  not  mentioned  in  the  text 
as  to  curvature,  etc.  The  median  lobe  is  produced  in  some  degree  from  the  base 
on  the  inner  side  into  a  somewhat  small,  oblique,  conical  tubercle,  (a  in  fig.  2e 
and  fig.  2g);  the  most  distal  i^art  of  the  lobe  is  widened  a  little  at  the  curvature 
of  the  lateral  process  and  then  it  taper.s  to  the  acute  tip  (fig.  2g) ;  the  lateral 
process  is  of  moderate  size,  thick  at  the  base,  much  bent  inwards  considerably 
beyond  the  middle  and  without  any  tooth  at  the  curvature;  a  minute  tooth 
insei'ted  on  the  inner  side  of  the  lobe,  off  the  curvature  of  the  lateral  process, 
may  be  interpreted  as  a  rudiment  of  an  additional  process.  The  auxiliary  lobe 
is  thicker  and  a  little  shorter  than  in  the  two  preceding  species.  The  setiferous 
lobe  is  moderately  broad  with  a  couple  of  setae  on  the  distal  part  of  the  inner 
margin;  there  are  six  setae  on  the  triangularly  produced  terminal  part  and  about 
three  setae  (fig.  2g,  but  not  visible  in  fig.  2e)  on  the  proximal  half  of  the  outer 
side  near  the  outer  margin. 

Length  of  an  adult  male  22  mm.,  of  a  very  large  female  27  mm. 

Remarks. —  This  large  species  is  easily  distinguished  by  the  rather  long 
rostrum  together  with  the  shape  of  the  lobes  from  first  and  second  antennular 
joints.     The  copulatory  organs  exhibit  features  useful  as  specific  characters. 

Distribution. —  E.  gibboides  Ortm.  was  established  on  numerous  specimens 


EUPIIATTSIA  MUCRONATA.  255 

collected  by  the  German  Plankton-Expedition  in  \;irious  areas  of  Ilu>  \v;irni(>r 
temperate  and  the  tropical  Atlantic,  viz:  —  Sargasso  Sea,  Northern  eciiiatoi'ial 
current,  Guinea  current,  and  Southern  equatorial  current.  The  Prince  of 
Monaco  secured  it  at  various  places  in  the  Eastern  Atlantic  between  Lat.  32^°  N. 
and  Lat.  27|°  N.  It  is  not  known  from  the  Indian  Ocean,  but  the  Copenhagen 
Museum  possesses  a  specimen  from  the  Southern  Chinese  Sea  at  Lat.  9°  40'  N., 
long.  109°  20'  E.  According  to  the  list  of  localities  from  the  East  Pacific  the 
species  was  taken  only  at  a  small  number  of  Stations  all  situated  in  the  transverse 
area  between  Lat.  4°  35'  N.  and  Lat.  5°  10'  S.  Ortmann  enumerated  three 
Stations  from  the  Eastern  Pacific,  two  of  which  are  near  the  line  and  not  far 
from  the  Galapagos,  while  the  third  is  widely  distant,  viz.  Lat.  35°  19.5'  N., 
long.  125°  21.5'  W. —  The  species  has  very  rarely  been  taken  at  the  surface. 

25.    Euphausia  mucronata  G.  O.  Sars. 
Plate  9,  figs.  3a-.3g. 

1883.     Euphausia  rmicronala  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  16. 
1885.     Euphausia  mucronata  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  87,  pi.  15,  figs.  9-11. 
1911.     Euphausia  mucronata  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Ocean.  Monaco,  no.  210,  p.  33.     (With  one 
text-figure). 

Sta.  4652.     Nov.  11,  1904.     Lat.  5°  47.7' S.,  long.  82°  39.5' W.     100  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4655.     Nov.  12,  1904.     Lat.  5°  57.5'  S.,  long.  80°  50'  W.  \  ^^^f^'  ,^  **Pe'^'°iens^ 

(  400  fms.  to  surface.     22  specnnens. 

Sta.  4657.     Nov.  13,  1904.     Lat.  7°  12.5'  S.,  long.  84°  9'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     8  specimens. 

Sta.  4667.     Nov.  18,  1904.     Lat.  11°  59.5'  S.,  long,  83°  40.4'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4668.     Nov.  19,  1904.     Lat.  12°  9.3'  S.,  long.  81°  45.2'  W.     Open  part  of  Tanner  net,  300  fms.  to 

surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4669.     Nov.  19,  1904.     Lat.  12°  12.7'  S.,  long.  80°  25.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     8  specimens. 

Sta.  4671.     Nov.  20,  1904.     Lat.  12°  6.9'  S.,  long.  78°  28.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     31  specimens. 

Sta.  4673.     Nov.  21,  1904.     Lat.  12°  30.5'  S.,  long.  77°  49.4'  W.  -|  |"j^^f ''■  ,  ^^  specimens. 

(  300  ims.  to  surface.     30  specimens. 

Sta.  4676.     Deo.    5,1904.     Lat.  14°  28.9' S.,  long.  81°  24' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     69  specimens. 

Sta.  4677.     Dec.    5,1904.     Lat.  14°  37.5' S.,  long.  81°  41' W.     Surface.     4  specimens. 

■Description. —  Body  moderately  slender. —  Frontal  plate  (fig.  3a)  very 
short,  somewhat  protruding  but  not  angular  at  the  sides,  produced  into  a  badly 
defined,  short  rostrum  about  three  times  as  broad  as  long  with  the  end  acute 
or  subacute.  The  gastric  area,  seen  from  the  side  (fig.  3b),  highly  vaulted  with 
the  upper  margin  angular  or  subangular;  the  median  keel  along  this  area  is 
sharp  but  terminates  anteriorly  nearly  at  the  base  of  the  rostrum  (fig.  3a). 

The  eyes  are  extremely  large. —  The  antennular  peduncles  are  moderately 
robust;  first  joint,  seen  from  the  side  (fig.  3c)  elevated  towards  the  end,  wlicre 
it  is  produced  in  a  rather  short,  deeply  l)ifid  lobe  (fig.  3d)  with  its  two  oblong, 
acute  teeth  directed  somewhat  upwards  and  more  outwards  than  forwards,  the 


256  ,       THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

lobe  therefore  overlapping  a  very  small  portion  of  the  next  joint;  the  inner  tooth 
of  the  lobe  is  generally  longer  and  stouter  than  the  outer.  Second  joint  conspicu- 
ously longer  than  third,  with  its  dorsal  wall  produced  feebly  in  front  above  the 
base  of  third  joint  and  the  ujiper  terminal  margin  near  the  outer  side  produced 
in  a  low,  acute  angle  (fig.  3d);  third  joint,  seen  from  the  side  (fig.  3c),  with  the 
dorsal  keel  occupying  somewhat  more  than  half  of  the  upper  margin,  moderately 
high  and  increasing  in  height  to  the  end  which  in  well-preserved  specimens  is 
produced  in  an  acute  denticle,  while  the  front  margin  is  steep,  not  quite  vertical. — 
The  antennal  squama  somewhat  broad,  with  the  terminal  margin  of  iniddle 
length,  transverse,  without  tooth  at  the  outer  margin.  The  spiniform  process 
from  the  outer  side  of  the  peduncle  short,  less  than  one  fourth  or  one  fifth  as 
long  as  the  squama. 

First  and  second  abdominal  segments  at  the  iniddle  of  the  upper  posterior 
margin  a  little  produced,  but  the  protuberance  is  broadly  rounded.  Third  seg- 
ment a  little  expanded  backwards  at  the  middle  of  the  hind  margin  and  pro- 
duced in  a  somewhat  short,  strong,  conspicuously  compressed,  acute  process, 
which  has  the  upper  margin  a  little  curved,  the  lower  straight,  and  the  process 
is  continued  a  little  forwards  as  a  keel.  Fourth  and  fifth  segments  with  the 
hind  margin  distinctly  produced  in  the  median  line,  forming  either  a  sharp 
angle  or  a  very  short  denticle.  Sixth  segment  moderately  long,  somewhat 
less  than  twice  as  long  as  deep.  Preanal  spine  wanting  in  both  sexes. —  Uropods 
with  the  rami  subequal  in  length  and  as  long  as,  or  a  httle  shorter  than,  the 
telson. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  3e-3g)  differ  in  several  features  from  those  in 
allied  forms.  The  terminal  process  (p^.)  with  the  foot  moderately  long,  the  heel 
rather  short  but  considerably  curved,  the  part  beyond  the  foot  moderately  long, 
somewhat  slender,  proximally  straight,  distally  curved  considerably  inwards 
and  forwards  and  with  the  terminal  part  a  little  expanded  and  flattened,  very 
oblong-oval  with  the  end  blunt.  The  proximal  process  (p'^.)  is  of  very  moderate 
length;  almost  all  the  proximal  half  is  rather  stout  and  a  little  bent  before  its 
middle;  the  distal  half  is  bent  strongly  inwards  and  tapers  considerably  to  not 
far  from  the  end,  while  the  terminal  portion  is  abruptly  very  much  expanded, 
seen  from  the  inner  side  (fig.  3g)  forming  a  broad  plate  bent  strongly  backwards 
(in  the  figure  therefore  to  the  right),  and  with  a  sharp,  protruding  angle  on  its 
proximal  part ;  seen  from  behind  (fig.  3f)  this  terminal  plate  is  oblong,  somewhat 
expanded  upwards,  and  this  expanded  part  seemingly  proximally  produced 
into  a  long  tooth  crossing  the  posterior  surface  of  the  process  and  projecting 


PSEUDEUPHAUSIA  LATIFJIONS.  257 

on  its  proximal  or  inner  side;  that  this  terminal  part  is  so  extremely  dilt'erent 
in  outline  when  seen  from  the  inner  side  and  from  behind  is  due  to  its  very 
curious  shape  and  the  irregular  fur\ature  of  the  plate  itself.  The  distal  part  of 
the  median  lobe  is  produced  in  a  rather  long,  tapering,  terminally  rounded  lobe 
projecting  very  nuich  beyond  the  distal  part  of  the  lateral  process;  this  process 
(p^.)  is  somewhat  small,  beyond  the  middle  strongly  curved  inwards  and  without 
any  tooth  at  the  bend;  the  additional  process  (p^.)  is  shaped  as  a  rather  small 
but  strong  spine  inserted  a  little  beyond  the  curvature  of  the  lateral  process. 
The  auxiliary  lobe  is  long  and  slender.  The  setiferous  lobe  is  broad,  with  setae 
along  the  distal  part  of  the  inner  margin,  along  both  margins  of  the  triangularly 
produced  terminal  part  and  along  almost  the  proximal  two  thirds  of  the  outer 
margin,  leaving  the  distal  shorter  part  naked. 

Length  of  males  18.5-19.5  mm.,  of  one  of  the  largest  females  22  mm. 

Remarks. —  According  to  my  examination  of  Sars's  type  in  the  British 
Museum  his  figures  and  description  are  incorrect  in  several  particulars.  It  may 
be  pointed  out  that  the  type  has  the  lobe  of  first  antennular  joint  with  two  teeth, 
the  process  on  the  third  abdominal  segment  cannot  be  described  as  "mucronate  ", 
because  its  lower  margin  is  straight  but  the  upper  margin  convex,  and  the  eye  is 
too  small  in  the  figure.  These  specimens  were  certainly  not  full  grown.  The 
species  is  easily  distinguished  by  having  distinctly  produced,  acute  angles  or 
real,  small  denticles  on  the  upper  posterior  margin  of  fourth  and  fifth  abdominal 
segments,  furthermore  by  its  extremely  large  eyes,  the  bifid  and  very  oblique 
lobe  from  first  antennular  joint  but  with  no  ear-like  process  or  lamella  on  second 
joint,  etc. 

Distribution. —  The  ten  Stations  above  named  are  all  situated  in  a  rather 
small  area  along  the  coast  of  Peru;  the  Station  most  remote  from  that  coast  is 
at  a  distance  from  it  of  about  120  geographical  miles.  Sars's  specimens  were 
taken  off  the  coast  of  Chile.  This  species  is  unknown  from  any  other  area  in  the 
Pacific,  as  the  specimens  referred  to  it  by  Ortmann  belong  to  the  two  preceding 
species.     And  it  was  never  found  in  the  Indian  Ocean  or  the  Atlantic. 

PSEUDEUPHAUSIA  H.  J.  Hansen  (1910). 

Only  a  single  species  is  known. 

26.    Pseudeuphausia  latifrons  G.  O.  Sars. 

1883.     Euphausia  latifrons  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Sel.sk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  19. 
1885.     Euphausia  latifrons  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Ropt.,  13,  p.  95,  pi.  16,  figs.  17-23. 
1910.     Pseudeuphausia  latifrons  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  103,  pi.  15,  figs.  la-Id. 


258  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Not  a  specimen  of  this  species  was  found  among  the  material  secured  in 
1904-1905,  but  Dr.  Agassiz  has  taken  a  number  of  specimens  at  several  locali- 
ties in  the  Fiji  Islands  in  1897. 

Fiji  Islands.  Off  Vatu.     Dec.  9,  1897.     30  fms.      12  specimens. 

Fiji  Islands.  3  m.  South  of  Nanuka.     Dec.  10,  1897.     50  fms.     1  specimen. 

Hji  Islands.  6  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     Dec.  10,  1897.     100  fms.     1  specimen. 

Fiji  Islands.  5  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     Dec.  10,  1897.     100  fms.     4  specimens. 

Fiji  Islands.  3  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     Dec.  11,  1897.     100  fms.     2  specimens,  both  adult  males. 

Fiji  Islands.  5  ra.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     Dec.  16,  1897.     100  fms.     1  specimen. 

Fiji  Islands.  Eastern  entrance  of  the  Nibengha  passage.     Dec.  16,  1897.     Surface.     14  specimens. 

Fiji  Islands.  Eastern  entrance  of  the  Nibengha  passage.     Dec.  16,  1897.     100  fms.     2  specimens. 

Remarks. —  All  the  specimens,  excepting  two,  are  immature  and  many  among 
them  less  than  half  grown  or  merely  larval  stages.  In  the  following  chapter 
on  the  larval  stages  such  larvae  are  mentioned,  especially  with  reference  to  their 
differences  from  the  larvae  of  Nyctiphanes  simplex  H.  J.  H. 

Distribution. —  Sars's  specimens  were  from  the  Southeastern  coast  of  Au- 
stralia, from  the  Arafura  Sea  and  off  Mindanao,  Philippine  Islands.  The 
"Siboga"  captured  enormous  multitudes  at  a  large  number  of  Stations  in  the 
Indian  Archipelago.  The  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  some  specimens 
taken  at  Lat.  24°  17'  N.,  long.  118°  15'  E.,  between  Formosa  and  China  (Capt. 
Suenson)  and  many  specimens  from  the  Bay  of  Bengal  ("Galathea"  Exp.). 
Stebbing  mentioned  it  "as  observed  in  great  numbers  N.  10°  W.  of  Cape  St. 
Blaize,  33  miles  (South  coa.st  of  Africa). 

This  pecuhar  form  seems  always  to  live  not  very  far  from  land,  and  it  has 
most  frequently  been  taken  near  the  surface. 

NEMATOSCELIS  G.  O.  Sars  (1883). 

The  account  of  this  genus  given  by  Sars  in  the  "Challenger"  Report  is 
somewhat  deficient,  because  his  material  was  very  poor;  he  had  in  reality  no 
males  and  of  only  one  species  a  sufficient  numbers  of  females.  In  recent  papers 
I  have  pointed  out  interesting  sexual  differences  and  various  characters  in  maxil- 
lulae,  thoracic  legs,  and  copulatory  organs.  And  it  may  be  useful  to  reprint 
here  the  addition  to  the  generic  description,  etc.  given  in  1911. 

In  the  female  second  and  third  peduncular  joints  of  the  antennulae  are 
slender  and  rather  long;  in  adult  males  these  joints  are  conspicuously  thicker, 
second  joint  somewhat  and  the  third  considerably  shorter  than  in  the  other 
sex;  peculiar  lobes  or  processses  on  the.se  joints  are  always  wanting.  Sixth 
pair  of  legs  with  the  exopod  well  developed  in  both  sexes,  the  endopod  two- 
jointed  and  longer  than  the  exopod  in  the  female,  wanting  in  the  male.     The 


NEMATOSCELIS  MU'ROPS.  259 

copulatory  organs  possess  the  throe  processes  on  the  inner  lobe,  hut  lh(>  spine- 
shaped  process  is  nearly  straight  and  nearly  p;irallel  with  tlie  two  others  wiiich 
are  inserted  on  the  end  of  the  lobe;  the  lateral  process  is  never  hook-shaped 
and  an  additional  process  is  wanting. —  The  females  carry  their  eggs. 

It  may  be  added  that  in  the  majority  of  the  species  the  rostrum  is  rather 
long  or  extremely  so  in  the  female,  nnich  smaller  or  quite  rudimentary  in  the 
adult  male. 

Six  species  are  known.  They  may  be  divided  into  two  groups  separated 
by  some  sharp  and  interesting  characters. 

A.  Maxillulae  with  a  pseudexopod  well  developed.     First  elongate  pair  of  thoracic 

legs  with  long  spines  both  from  the  terminal  joint  and  from  the  distal  end  of 
the  penultimate  joint.  Endopod  of  second  to  fifth  pairs  of  thoracic  legs 
ivith  the  full  number,  viz.  three,  joints  beyond  the  knee. 

B.  Maxillulae  without  pseudexopod.     First  elongate  pair  of  thoracic  legs  ivith 

long  spines  only  from  the  terminal  joint.  Endopod  of  second  and  third 
pairs  of  thoracic  legs  with  but  two  joints  beyond  the  knee;  endopod  of  fourth 
and  fifth  pairs  with  only  one  joint  beyond  the  knee. 

Group  A  comprises  two  species,  but  they  are  not  represented  in  the 
material  received  from  Dr.  Agassiz.  Group  B  comprises  four  species  which 
can  be  separated  by  the  key  in  the  "Siboga"  paper,  p.  107;  three  of  these 
species  are  dealt  with  below. 

27.    Nematoscelis    microps  G.  O.  Sars. 

Plate  9,  figs.  4a-4d;    Plate  10,  figs,  la-lb. 

1883.     Nematoscelis  microps.  G.  O.  Sar.s,  Forh.  Viil.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  28. 
1885.     Nematoscelis  microps  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  131,  pi.  2.5,  figs.  1-4. 
1910.     Nematoscelis  microps  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  107,  pi.  15,  figs.  2a-2k.     (With  full 
synonymy). 

Sta.  4679.  Dec.    7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.  '  1  specimen. 

Sta.  4681.  Dec.    8,  1904.  Lat.  18°  47.1'  S.,  long.  89°  26'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4683.  Dec.    9,  1904.  Lat.  20°  2.4'  S.,  long.  91°  52.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  .surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4685.  Dec.  10,  1904.  Lat.  21°  36.2'  S.,  long.  94°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.4687.  Dec.  11,  1904.  Lat.  22°  49.5' S.,  long.  97°  30.6' W.  |  gLts.'l^rS::.   '^^^. 

Sta.  4689.  Dec.  12,  1904.  Lat.  24°  5' S.,  long.  100°  20' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4691.  Dec.  13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  27.3'  S.,  long.  103°  29.3'  W.     .300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4695.  Dec.  23,  1904.  Lat.  25°  22.4'  S.,  long.  107°  45'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4701.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5'  S.,  long.  102°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4703.  Dec.  27,  1904.  Lat.  17°  18.6'  S.,  long.  100°  52.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surf.ace.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3'  S.,  long.  99°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     12  specimens. 

Sta.  4707.  Dec.  29,  1904.  Lat.  12°  33.2'  S.,  long.  97°  42'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4729.  Jan.  19,  1905.  Lat.  14°  15' S.,  long.  115°  13' W.    Surface.     1  specimen. 


260  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.  20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     14  specimens. 

Sta.  4732.  Jan.  21,  1905.  Lat.  16°  32.5'  S.,  long.  119°  59'  W.    300  fms.  to  surface.     9  specimens. 

Sta.  4734.  Jan.  22,  1905.  Lat.  17°  36'  S.,  long.  122°  35.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4742.  Feb.  15,  1905.  Lat.  0°  3.4' N.,  long.  117°  15.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Finally  from  the  following  locality: — 

Fiji  Islands.     5  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     Dec.  16,  1897.     100  fms.     1  small  specimen.     A.  Agassiz. 

To  the  description  and  remarks  in  the  "Siboga"  paper  a  few  points  may  be 
added. 

The  maxillae  (fig.  la)  have  the  main  part,  viz.  second  and  third  joints  with 
their  lobes,  very  large  in  proportion  to  the  fom'th  joint;  the  palp,  which  is  much 
smaller  than  in  the  two  following  species,  scarcely  half  as  long  again  as  broad 
and  only  a  little  more  than  half  as  long  as  the  inner  margin  of  the  lobe  of  tliird 
joint. 

In  most  adult  females  the  rostrum  is  long  (fig.  4c)  and  only  moderately 
broad  towards  the  base,  but  in  two  or  three  females  the  rostrum  is  very  short 
and  broadly  rounded  (fig.  4d);  whether  this  aberrant  feature  is  an  individual 
anomaly  or  is  due  to  damage  days  or  weeks  before  the  capture  of  the  individuals 
cannot  be  decided.  The  adult  males  from  the  East  Pacific  differ  from  those 
from  other  oceans  by  having  the  very  slender  rostrum  (fig.  4a)  appreciably 
longer,  about  as  long  as  or  a  little  longer  than  the  breadth  of  the  second  antennu- 
lar  joint.  Finally'  immature  males  before  the  last  moult  may  be  mentioned. 
As  is  seen  from  a  comparison  of  fig.  4a,  representing  an  adult  male,  with  fig.  4b 
representing  an  immature  male  —  and  both  figures  were  drawn  with  the  same 
degree  of  enlargement  —  the  two  distal  joints  of  the  antennular  peduncles  are 
proportionately  more  slender  and  especially  the  third  joint  conspicuously  longer 
in  the  immature  than  in  the  adult,  furthermore  the  former  has  the  rostrum 
somewhat  longer  and  broader  at  the  base  than  is  the  case  in  the  adult. —  Finally 
the  copulatory  organs,  as  the  difference  in  the  relati\'e  length  of  the  processes 
in  the  adult  and  in  the  immature  male  is  interesting  and  at  first  sight  even  be- 
wildering. 

In  the  adult  N.  microps  the  proximal  process  is,  as  shown  in  the  "Siboga" 
paper,  considerably  or  much  longer  than  the  terminal  process,  while  in  the 
immatures  males  the  difference  between  the  length  of  the  two  processes  men- 
tioned is  slight  (Plate  10,  fig.  lb),  thus  in  this  respect  only  it  is  but  slightly  dif- 
ferent from  the  feature  found  in  N.  atlantica  H.  J.  H.  (In  the  latter  species, 
however,  the  terminal  process  overreaches  considerably  the  spine-shaped  process, 
\\hich  is  not  the  case  in  the  immature  N.  microps).     And  it  is  very  interesting 


NEMATOSCELIS  GRACILIS.  201 

that  the  pi'ofc't;.ses  arc  so  luii;lil3'  (IcNclopcil  in  males  hclni-c  llicir  last  iiioiill  ; 
that  such  specimens  are  immature  can  easily  be  seen  by  comparing  the  distal 
joints  of  their  antcnnular  peduncles  with  those  in  adult  specimens. 

One  of  the  largest  females  is  21  mm.  long,  an  adult  male  l(j  nun.  and  an 
immature  male  13  mm.;  fig.  4c,  fig.  4a,  fig.  4b  exhibit  the  front  part  of  these 
specimens. 

Distribution. —  The  list  above  shows  that  all  localities  excepting  one  are 
situated  in  a  transverse  southern  belt  of  the  area  explored,  between  about  Lat. 
12°  33'  S.  and  Lat.  25°  27'  S.,  and  that  the  belt  is  rather  far  from  reaching  the 
West  coast  of  South  America;  a  single  locality  (Sta.  4742)  is  situated  near  the 
line. —  In  the  "Siboga"  paper  a  good  number  of  Stations  in  the  Indian  Archi- 
pelago were  enumerated,  and  besides  it  was  stated  that  I  have  this  species  in 
the  Monaco  material  from  the  warmer  temperate  northeastern  Atlantic.  Sars's 
type  is  from  the  "Pacific,  North  of  the  Sandwich  Islands."  But  all  the  locali- 
ties enumerated  in  the  literature  before  the  "Siboga"  paper  must  be  considered 
valueless,  because  N.  microps  has  been  confounded  with  A'',  atlantica  H.  J.  H., 
N.  gracilis  H.  J.  H. —  both  species  established  in  1910  —  and  partly  even  with 
N.  tenella  G.  O.  S.  I  have  seen  Ortmann's  specimens  from  the  first  six  of  the 
eight  localities  enumerated  for  N.  microps  in  1894,  and  all  belong  to  the  two 
following  species.     N.  microps  is  very  rarely  taken  at  the  surface. 

28.    Nematoscelis  gracilis  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Plate  10,  fig.  2a. 

1910.     Nematoscelis  gracilis  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  109,  pi.  15,  figs.  3a-3g. 

Lat.  15°  58'  N.,  long.  98°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 
Lat.  12°  21'  N.,  long.  92°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  small  specimen. 
Lat.  10°  33'  N.,  long.  88°  30'  W.     Surface.     53  small  specimens. 
Lat.  9°  45'  N.,  long.  86°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  small  specimens. 
Lat.  4°  35.4'  N.,  long.  83°  32.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  specimens. 
Lat.  1°  31'  N.,  long.  86°  32'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  specimens. 
Lat.  4°  1.6' S.,  long.  89°  16.3' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 
Lat.  5°  17'  S.,  long.  85°  19.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     9  specimens. 
Lat.  5°  22'  S.,  long.  84°  39'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

[  100  fms.  to  surface.     9  specimens. 
Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  82°  39.5' W.  \  200  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

[  400  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 
Lat.  5°  57.5'  S.,  long.  80°  50'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  7°  12.5'  S.,  long.  84°  9'  W.     .300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
Lat.  8°  54.5'  S.,  long.  86°  5.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     14  specimens. 
Lat.  10°  17'  S.,  long.  88°  2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Lat.  11°  20.3'  S.,  long.  88°  55.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 
Lat.  11°  30.3'  S.,  long.  87°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 
Lat.  11°  45'  S.,  long.  86°  5.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     19  specimens. 
Lat.  11°  59.5'  S.,  long.  83°  40.4'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 


Sta. 

4598. 

Oct. 

15,  1904. 

Sta. 

4605. 

Oct. 

17,  1904. 

Sta. 

4611. 

Oct. 

18,  1904. 

Sta. 

4613. 

Oct. 

19,  1904. 

Sta. 

4634. 

Nov. 

4,  1904. 

Sta. 

4637. 

Nov. 

5,  1904. 

Sta. 

4646. 

Nov. 

8,  1904. 

Sta. 

4649. 

Nov. 

9,  1904. 

Sta. 

4650. 

Nov. 

10, 1904. 

Sta. 

4652. 

Nov. 

11, 1904. 

Sta. 

4655. 

Nov. 

12, 1904. 

Sta. 

4657. 

Nov. 

13, 1904. 

Sta. 

4659. 

Nov. 

14, 1904. 

Sta. 

4661. 

Nov. 

15, 1904. 

Sta. 

4663. 

Nov. 

16,  1904. 

Sta. 

4664. 

Nov. 

17, 1904. 

Sta. 

4665. 

Nov. 

17,  1904. 

Sta. 

4667. 

Nov. 

18,  1904. 

262  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

f  Top  of  Tanner  net,  300  fms.  to  sur- 

Sta.  4668.     Nov.  19,  1904.     Lat.  12°  9.3'  S.,  long.  81°  45.2'  W.  -I   „  ^^'''^'     1  specimen. 

^  I   Bottom  of  Tanner  net,  300  fms.     10 

\_      specimens. 

Sta.  4669.     Nov.  19, 1904.     Lat.  12°  12.7'  S.,  long.  80°  25.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4671.     Nov.  20,  1904.     Lat.  12°  6.9'  S.,  long.  78°  28.2'  W.  I  il^^'f*^'     ^  ^'"'^"  ^^P'^"™™-. 

(  300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4676.  Dec.   5,  1904.  Lat.  14°  28.9'  S.,  long.  81°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4679.  Dee.   7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  26.4' S.,  long.  86°  46.5' VV.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4681.  Dec.   8,  1904.  Lat.  18°  47.1' S.,  long.  89°  26' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4683.  Dec.   9,  1904.  Lat.  20°  2.4' S.,  long.  91°  52.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4701.  Dec. 26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5' S.,  long.  102°  24' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  .specimens. 

Sta.  4703.  Dec.  27,  1904.  Lat.  17°  18.6'  S.,  long.  100°  52.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3' 8.,  long.  99°  19' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     33  specimens. 

Sta.  4707.  Dec.  29,  1904.  Lat.  12°  32.2'  S.,  long.  97°  42'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     8  specimens. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  40.8'  W.     300  fins,  to  surface.     40  specimens. 

Sta.  4710.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  9°  30.5' S.,  long.  95°  8.3' W.     Surface.     3  small  specimens. 

Sta.  4711.  Dec.  31,  1904.  Lat.  7°  45.7' S.,  94°  5.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     11  specimens. 

Sta.  4712.  Dec.  31,  1904.  Lat.  7°  5'  S.,  long.  93°  35.5'  W.     Surface.     4  specimens,  3  of  which  small, 

and  1  not  full-grown. 

Sta.  4713.  Jan.    1,  1905.  Lat.  5°  35.3' S.,  long.  92°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     29  specimens. 

Sta.  4715.  Jan.    2;  1905.  Lat.  2°  40.4'  S.,  long.  90°  19.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4716.  Jan.    2,1905.  Lat.  2°  18.5' S.,  long.  90°  2.6' W.     600  fms.  to  surface.     1  .specimen. 

Sta.  4717.  Jan.  13,  1905.  Lat.  5°  10'  S.,  long.  98°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     19  specimens. 

Sta.  4719.  Jan.  14,  1905.  Lat.  6°  29.8'  S.,  long.  101°  16.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     17  specimens. 

Sta.  4721.  Jan.  15,  1905.  Lat.  8°  7.5' S.,  long.  104°  10.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     17  specimens. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.  16,  1905.  Lat.  9°  31' S.,  long.  106°  30.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     17  specimens. 

Sta.  4724.  Jan.  17,  1905.  Lat.  11°  13.4' S.,  long.  109°  39' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4728.  Jan.  19,  1905.  Lat.  13°  47.5' S.,  long.  114°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.  20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7'  S.,  long.  117°  1.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4732.  Jan.  21,  1905.  Lat.  16°  32.5' S.,  long.  119°  59' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

The  adult  males  from  the  Pacific  have  no  denticle  on  the  posterior  part  of 
the  lateral  margin  of  the  carapace. 

The  maxillae  (fig.  2a)  differ  considerably  as  to  the  relative  size  of  their 
main  part  and  the  palp  from  those  of  A'^.  niicrops,  the  palp  being  nearly  as  long  as 
the  inner  margin  of  the  lobe  of  third  joint  and  about  half  as  long  again  as  broad. 

In  immature  specimens  measuring  9-10  mm.  in  length  the  frontal  plate 
with  the  not  defined  rostrum  is  longer  and  anteriorly  more  produced  than  in 
the  adults,  and  the  upper  section  of  the  eyes  is  considerably  smaller  than  the 
lower.  In  still  smaller  specimens,  6.5-7  mm.  long,  the  frontal  plate  is  propor- 
tionately still  longer,  reaching  bej'ond  the  eyes  and  with  the  distal  third  of  the 
lateral  margin  somewhat  convex  and  the  tip  itself  acuminate  and  acute;  the 
upper  section  of  the  eyes  is  much  smaller  than  the  lower,  and  the  dorsal  keel 
on  the  carapace  is  very  conspicuous,  but  its  highest  part  with  the  anterior  margin 
more  oblique  than  in  the  young  of  N.  microps  (comp.  the  "Siboga"  paper). 

One  of  the  largest  females  is  18.5  mm.  long;  a  good-sized  male  is  14.5  mm., 
but  most  adult  specimens  of  both  sexes  are  somewhat  or  sometimes  considerably 
smaller. 


NEMATOSC'ELIS  TENELLA.  26.3 

Diatribution.-  The  long  list  of  Stations  shows  that  A',  yruciliti  was  wanting 
in  the  most  southern  part  of  the  area  explored,  viz.  South  of  Lat.  20°  S.,  that  it 
was  very  connnon  between  Lat.  20°  S.  and  the  hne,  and  that  it  was  taken  six 
times  North  of  the  line,  northwards  to  near  Lat.  16°  N.  The  specimens  from 
the  six  first-named  of  Ortniann's  Stations  (1894)  for  N.  microps  all  belong  to 
N.  gracilis,  excepting  two  specimens  which  belong  to  N.  tenella  G.  O.  S.  and  are 
mentioned  below;  furthermore  the  specimens  from  a  single  Station  (from  Lat. 
12°  34'  N.)  referred  by  Ortmann  to  N.  tenella  are  also  A'',  graeilis;  all  Ortmann's 
Stations  in  question  are  situated  in  the  area  where  A".  </ract7is  was  taken  in  1904- 
1905.  Furthei^iore  the  species  was  taken  at  a  number  of  Stations  in  the  Indian 
Archipelago  by  tlie  "Siboga,"  but  is  hitherto  unknown  from  any  other  place 
and  is  certainly  wanting  in  the  Atlantic. 

The  list  shows  also  that  small  specimens  have  been  taken  a  few  times  at 
the  surface,  but  that  larger  or  full-grown  specimens,  with  a  single  exception, 
were  always  taken  in  the  vertical  net  from  300  fms.  to  the  surface,  and  that 
ten  specimens  were  taken  in  the  bottom  of  the  Tanner  net  towed  at  300  fms. 

29.    Nematoscelis  tenella  G.  O.  S. 

Plate  10,  figs.  3a-3c. 

1883.     Nematoscelis  tenella  G.  O.  S.\rs,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  28. 
1885.     Nematoscelis  tenella  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  133,  pi.  2.5,  figs.  5-7  (young). 
1910.     Nematoscelis  tenella  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  110,  pi.  15,  figs.  4a-4ra.     (With  full 
synonymy). 

Sta.  4637.  Nov.    5,1904.  Lat.  1°  31' N.,  long.  86°  32' VV.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4638.  Nov.    6,  1904.  Lat.  0°  27'  N.,  long.  87°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4646.  Nov.    8,1904.  Lat.  4°  1.6' S.,  long.  89°  16.3' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4679.  Dec.     7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4681.  Dec.     8,  1904.  Lat.  18°  47.1'  S.,  long.  89°  26'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4685.  Dec.  10,  1904.  Lat.  21°  36.2' S.,  long.  94°  56' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4687.  Dec.  11,  1904.  Lat.  22°  49.5' S.,  long.  97°  30.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4689.  Dec.  12,  1904.  Lat.  24°  5'  S.,  long.  100°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4691.  Dec.   13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  27.3' S.,  long.  103°  29.3' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4699.  Dec.  25,  1904.  Lat.  21°  39.5' S.,  long.  104°  29.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  15.3' S.,  long.  99°  19' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4707.  Dec.  29,  1904.  Lat.  12°  33.2'  S.,  long.  97°  42'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     7  specimens. 

Sta.  4715:  Jan.     2,  1905.  Lat.  2°  40.4'  S.,  long.  90°  19.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4716.  Jan.     2,  1905.  Lat.  2°  18.5'  S.,  long.  90°  2.6'  W.     600  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4721.  Jan.   15,  1905.  Lat.  8°  7.5'  S.,  long.  104°  10.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.   16,1905.  Lat.  9°  31' S,  long.  106°  30.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     6  specimens. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.   20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4734.  Jan.   22,  1905.  Lat.  17°  36'  S.,  long,  122°  35,6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4742.  Feb.   15,1905.  Lat.  0°  3.4' N.,  long.  117°  15.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

The  adult  males  from  the  East  Pacific  —  and  from  the  Indian  Archipelago  — 
have  no  denticle  posteriorly  on  the  lateral  margins  of  the  carapace,  while  such 
denticles  are  found  in  males  from  the  North  Atlantic. 


264  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Fig.  3a  represents  the  left  maxillula,  seen  from  behind;  the  palp  is  long, 
somewhat  slender,  increasing  a  little  in  breadth  from  the  base  to  the  obliquely 
truncate  end,  and  the  terminal  margin  has  several  slender  setae  and  two  stiff, 
nearly  spiniform  ones,  the  most  distal  (fig.  3b)  serrate  beyond  the  middle. — 
The  maxillae  (fig.  3c)  have  the  palp  still  longer  than  in  A'',  gracilis,  as  long  as 
the  inner  margin  of  the  lobe  of  third  joint  and  nearly  twice  as  long  as  broad. 

A  large  female  is  19.9  mm.,  a  large  male  17.8  mm.  long. 

Distribution. —  The  list  of  Stations  shows  that  N.  tenella  was  found  in  nearly 
the  whole  part  South  of  the  Hne  of  the  area  explored,  excepting  in  a  broad  longi- 
tudinal belt  along  South  America.  As  already  stated,  the  specimens  from  Lat. 
12°  34'  N.  referred  in  1894  by  Ortmann  to  N.  tenella  belong  to  A^.  gracilis  H.  J.  H. ; 
on  the  other  hand,  one  of  the  specimens  from  Hyd.  Sta.  2627  (Lat.  0°  36'  N., 
long.  82°  45'  W.)  and  one  of  the  specimens  from  Sta.  3414  (Lat.  10°  14'  N.,  long. 
96°  28'  W.)  referred  by  him  to  N.  mtcrops  belong  to  N.  tenella.  Furthermore 
the  species  was  taken  in  the  Indian  Archipelago  by  the  "Siboga"  at  a  number 
of  Stations;  Sars's  type  was  captured  South  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and 
finally  it  is  known  from  the  Eastern  Atlantic  between  the  Canary  Islands  and 
Lat.  36°  46'  N. 

NEMATOBRACHION  Calman.     (1905). 
(Nematodactylus  Calm.,  1896). 

Description. —  Carapace  with  a  cervical  suture  and  without  any  denticle 
on  its  lateral  margins. —  Eyes  divided  into  two  sections,  the  upper  broader  than 
the  lower  and  with  its  upper  surface  somewhat  flatly  vaulted. —  Antennulae 
similar  in  both  sexes;  peduncles  at  least  somewhat  robust;  flagella  long,  slender, 
and  multi  articulate. —  Antennae  with  the  spiniform  process  from  the  outer 
end  of  the  subbasal  joint  short,  about  as  long  as  the  breadth  of  the  squama; 
last  joint  of  the  peduncle  of  the  endopod  as  long  as  or  longer  than  the  penultimate 
and  not  reaching  the  end  of  the  squama. —  Mandibles  with  a  three-jointed 
palp. —  Maxillulae  with  or  without  pseudexopod;  the  palp  slender  and  at  least 
rather  long. —  Maxillae  with  their  main  part,  viz.  second  and  third  joints  with 
their  lobes,  very  broad  in  proportion  to  the  fourth  joint,  the  palp,  which  is  well- 
marked  off,  and  both  lobes  with  the  margin  a  little  bifid. 

First  pair  of  thoracic  legs  only  a  little  longer  than  the  maxillipeds  and  of 
the  usual  structure,  slender,  with  the  short  last  joint  a  little  widened  below 
and  furnished  with  peculiar,  short  setae.  Second  pair  extremely  elongate, 
without  setae  or  hairs;  its  third  joint  thick;  fourth  joint  at  most  as  long  as  the 


NEMATOBRACHION.  265 

third,  rather  abruptly  bent  upwards,  at  a  little  distance  from  its  base;  before 
this  curvature  its  upper  edge  is  produced  into  a  flat,  vertical  plate  and  at  a  short 
distance  from  the  curvature  the  joint  is  again  somewhat  bent,  but  in  the  opposite 
direction  and  thus  directed  forwards;  seventh  joint  two  thirds  to  three  fourths 
as  long  as  the  sixth,  at  the  end  with  six  closely  set,  long,  serrate,  stifif  but  thin 
spines,  four  of  these  projecting  from  the  end,  two  from  the  side  a  little  from 
the  end.  Third  to  fifth  pairs  of  legs  with  the  shape  and  relative  length  of  the 
joints  in  the  main  as  in  Thysanopoda.  Sixth  pair  of  legs  with  the  full  number  of 
joints  in  the  somewhat  short  endopod  and  the  exopod  is  well  developed.  Seventh 
pair  with  a  normally  developed,  sometimes  small  exopod,  while  an  endopod  is 
not  developed,  the  exopod-bearing  joint  terminating  in  a  .short,  broad  lobe  with 
some  setae. —  Branchiae  nearly  as  in  Nematoscelis. —  Preanal  spine  simple 
in  the  male,  simple  or  bifid  in  the  female. —  Luminous  organs  as  in  Thysanopoda, 
etc. 

The  copulatory  organs  of  first  pleopods  in  the  main  as  in  Thysanopoda, 
with  all  lobes  and  fi\'e  processes  well  developed. —  No  female  with  ovisacs  has 
been  found. 

Remarks. —  This  interesting  genus  was  founded  by  Dr.  Caiman  on  a  single 
specimen  of  a  new  species;  he  named  it  Nematodactylus  boopis,  and  correctly 
referred  Stijlocheiron  flexipes  Ortm.  to  the  same  genus  without  having  seen  any 
specimen.  Later  Caiman  obtained  a  little  more  material,  among  which  a  muti- 
lated male,  of  N.  boopis  and  then  he  published  additions  and  corrections  to 
his  earlier  statements  and  changed  the  name  of  the  genus  to  Nematobrachion, 
as  the  former  name  was  preoccupied.  Caiman's  account  of  the  genus  and  of  his 
single  species  is  very  good,  but  as  he  has  examined  only  one  species,  while  I 
possess  three  species,  and  as  the  interesting  sexual  differences  in  antennulae 
and  the  sixth  pair  of  thoracic  legs  in  the  other  genera  with  tlivided  eyes  were 
then  nearly  unknown,  I  ha\'e  thought  it  useful  to  give  here  a  description  of 
the  genus.  I  must  add  that  in  1905  I  referred  Stijlocheiron  flexipes  Ortm.  to  the 
present  g?nus,  having  overlooked  that  this  had  already  been  done  by  Caiman 
in  1896. 

According  to  some  remarks  in  1905  Caiman  has  felt  the  difficulty  as  to  the 
relationships  of  Nematobrachion  and  the  three  other  genera  with  divided  eyes 
and  one  pair  of  prehensile  legs ;  in  mentioning  the  two  posterior  pairs  of  thoracic 
legs  he  correctly  pointed  out  their  resemblance  with  Thysanopoda,  and  he  states 
that  the  copulatory  organs  of  first  pleopods  are  "much  more  complex"  than  in 
Stj'locheiron  or  Nematoscelis.     Nematobrachion   occupies   in   reality   a   very 


266  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

isolated  position  between  the  genera  with  prehensile  legs  and  divided  eyes, 
differing  widely  from  these  genera  and  agreeing  with  Thysanopoda  in  having 
the  antennulae  similar  in  both  sexes,  the  endopod  of  sixth  pair  of  thoracic  legs 
fully  developed,  five-jointed  in  both  sexes  —  while  in  Thysanoessa,  Nemato- 
scelis,  and  Stylocheiron  this  endopod  is  unjointed  or  two-jointed  in  the  female 
and  wanting  in  the  male  —  and  in  the  structure  and  number  of  processes  of  the 
copulatory  organs;  as  to  the  shape  of  maxillulae  and  maxillae  it  is  tolerably 
intermediate  between  Thysanopoda  and  Nematoscelis. 

Key  to  the  Species. 

a.  Frontal  plate  obtuse,  without  rostral  process.  Eyes  dark  brownish  with  a 
light  stripe,  divided  by  a  groove  and  the  upper  section  more  than  twice  as 
deep  as  the  lower  which  is  very  small.  Antennular  peduncles  without 
any  process  from  the  distal  outer  angle  of  first  joint,  and  with  an  at  most 
slightly  produced  acute  angle  above  near  the  distal  outer  angle  of  second 
joint.     No  dorsal  denticles  or  processes  on  the  abdominal  segments. 

A^.  boopis  Calm. 

b.  Frontal  plate  terminating  in  a  slender  rostrum.  Eyes  black,  conspicuously 
constricted,  with  the  upper  section  only  somewhat  deeper  than  the  lower. 
Antennular  peduncles  with  a  long,  spiniform  process  from  the  distal  outer 
angle  of  first  joint  and  with  a  very  c  onspicuous  process  from  tlie  upper, 
outer  distal  end  of  second  joint.  Conspicuous  dorsal  denticles  on  at  least 
two  of  the  abdominal  segments. 

a.  The  process  from  second  antennular  joint  with  at  most  the  proximal 
half  plate-shap  ed  while  the  distal  part  is  spiniform.  Maxillulae  with- 
out pseudexopod.  Third  to  sixth  abdominal  segments  each  with  a 
single  dorsal  spiniform  process  from  the  hind  margin,  that  of  third 
segment  generally  considerably  longer  than  the  others.  Distal  third 
of  the  terminal  process  of  the  copulatory  organs,  seen  from  behind, 
tapering  to  the  narrow,    obtuse  end     .         .         .     N.  flexipes  Ortm. 

/3.  The  process  from  second  antennular  joint  is  a  large,  oblong  plate 
slightly  acuminate  at  the  acute  end.  Maxillulae  with  pseudexopod. 
Fourth  and  fifth  al:)dominal  segments  each  with  a  dorsal  row  of  three 
sharp  teeth  from  the  hind  margin,  but  no  denticle  on  the  other  seg- 
ments. Distal  third  of  the  terminal  process  of  the  copulatory  organs, 
seen  from  behind,  \-ery  broad  with  the  terminal  margin  long  and  incised. 

N.  sexspinosus  H.  J.  H. 


NEMATOBRACHION  BOOPIS.  267 

30.    Nematobrachion  boopis  Calman. 

Plate  10,  figs.  4a-icl. 

1896.      Nemalodaclylus  boopis  Calman,  Traii.s.  Roy.  Irish  Acad.,  31.  p.  17,  pi.  2,  figs.  19-28. 
1905.      Ncmalobrachion  boopis  Calman,  Kept.  Sea  and  Inland  Fisheries  of  Ireland,  1902-3,  pt.  2,  Apj).  4, 
p.  153,  pi.  26. 

Sta.  4681.     Dec.  8,  11104.     Lat.  18°  47.1'  S.,  long.  89°  20'  W.     300  fms  to  surface.     2  specimens  (1  cT, 

1  immat.). 

o.      ^ro~      -n.       11    1  nr,  1      t    i  o.^o  .r, ->  o    1         n-onnrm-    I  300  fms.  to  surfacc.     1  Specimen, 
sta.  468 (.     Dec.  11,  1904.     Lat.  22   49.o  S.,  long.  97   30.6  \\  .  -    ,,  >.  ,        .  .  , 

(  212:)  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4695.  Dec.  23,  1904.     Lat.  25°  22'.4  S.,  long.  107°  45'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.     Lat.  15°  5.3'  S.,  long.  99°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4707.  Dec.  29,  1904.     Lat.  12°  32.2' S.,  long.  97°  42' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.  16,  1905.     Lat.  9°  31'  S.,  long.  106°  30.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4724.  Jan.  17,  1905.     Lat.  11°  13.4' S.,  long.  109°  39' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4742.  Feb.  15,  1905.     Lat.  0°  3.4' N.,  long.  117°  15.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Description. —  Body  somewhat  clumsj'. —  The  frontal  plate  is  a  very  short 
triangle  with  the  vertex  obtuse  and  without  any  vestige  of  a  rostrum;  the 
lateral  margins  are  very  conspicuously  raised,  nearly  vertical;  the  keel  between 
the  cervical  groove  and  the  tip  of  the  frontal  plate  is  rather  high,  with  a  short 
portion  slightly  in  front  of  the  middle  a  Uttle  more  raised  and  feebly  angular. 

The  eyes  are  extremely  largej  dark  brownish  or  nearly  blackish  above  on 
the  somewhat  flatly  vaulted  upper  surface;  somewhat  lighter  on  the  outer  side, 
on  which  is  seen  a  nearly  horizontal  or  somewhat  obliciue  light  groove,  separating 
the  very  large  upper  section  from  the  lower  small  section  which  is  developed  only 
on  the  outer  side  and  less  than  twice  as  high  as  the  upper. —  The  antennular 
peduncles  are  short  and  robust,  the  proximal  joint  very  considerably  raised  above 
at  the  distal  end  about  as  a  transverse,  subvertical  lobe  which,  seen  from  in 
front,  is  subtriangular,  much  broader  than  high,  with  the  ^•ertex  broadly  rounded 
and  very  setose;  the  joint  has  no  spiniform  process  at  the  outer  distal  angle. 
Second  joint  somewhat  vaulted  above  towards  the  end,  slightly  jiroduced  above 
the  base  of  third  joint,  with  the  upper  outer  corner  of  this  produced  part  either 
angular  or  feebly  projecting  as  a  small,  short  tooth.  Third  joint  with  the  dorsal 
keel  rather  short  and  moderately  low. —  Antennal  squama  somewhat  narrow, 
tapering  to  the  broadly  rounded  end  and  without  outer  distal  tooth;  terminal 
joint  of  the  peduncle  of  the  endopod  somewhat  thickened. 

The  maxillulae  (fig.  4a)  with  the  proximal  lobe  scarcely  as  broad  as  the 
distal,  which  is  about  as  broad  as  long,  while  the  palp  is  very  slender  and  slightly 
longer  than  the  outer  margin  of  the  distal  lobe ;  a  pseudexopod  is  not  developed, 
but  the  lobe  of  the  fii'st  joint  is  somewhat  expanded  in  the  distal  direction. — 
The  maxillae  (fig.  4b)  witli  the  main  part  a  little  longer  than  broad;    the  palp 


268  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

somewhat  shorter  than  the  inner  margin  of  the  lobe  from  third  joint  and  twice 
as  long  as  broad. —  Second  pair  of  thoracic  legs  with  fifth  joint  considerably 
longer  than  the  sixth. 

Abdomen  without  dorsal  processes  or  teeth.  Preanal  spine  simple  in  both 
sexes. —  Uropods  slightly  or  scarcely  overreaching  the  telson;  the  exopod 
slightly  longer  than  the  endopod. —  Telson  has  two  longitudinal  keels  extremely 
finely  serrate  along  more  than  half  of  its  length  and  with  a  very  short  and  thin 
seta  at  each  saw-tooth. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  4c-4d)  show  some  peculiarities.  The  spine- 
shaped  process  (p'.)  is  somewhat  small,  well  curved.  The  terminal  process 
(p.^)  has  the  basal  portion  very  much  tliickened  and  from  the  outer  side  of 
this  part  the  process  projects  forwards,  having  the  inner  margin  straight  and 
at  some  distance  from  the  end  suddenly  bent  somewhat  inwards,  while  the 
outer  margin  is  convex  and  the  terminal  margin  in  the  Pacific  specimen 
obliquely  and  deeply  emarginate^;  the  major  part  of  the  process  has  a  flat 
expansion  on  the  outer  side  and  at  the  end  it  is  peculiarly  shaped,  being  curved 
somewhat  backwards,  as  may  be  seen  by  a  comparison  of  fig.  4c  with  fig.  4d. 
The  proximal  process  has  its  proximal  part  very  thick  and  directed  forwards 
and  outwards  (fig.  4c,  p'\);  then  it  bends  abruptly  and  strongly  inwards,  is  very 
slender,  very  long,  and  at  the  middle  curved  in  the  opposite  direction,  while 
the  terminal,  very  thin  part  is  curved  semicircularly.  The  lateral  process  (p"*.) 
is  rather  slender,  with  the  cur\-ed  distal  part  short.  The  additional  process 
(p''.)  as  in  the  other  species  of  the  genus  consisting  of  an  oblong  and  feebly  curved 
basal  part,  from  the  end  of  which  projects  an  extremely  thin  distal  portion 
directed  outwards  and  forming  with  the  tliick  part  an  acute  angle.  The  median 
lobe  long  and  moderately  narrow;  the  auxiliary  lobe  somewhat  short;  the 
setiferous  long,  somewhat  narrow,  with  setae  along  the  distal  part  of  the 
inner  margin  and  the  major  part  of  the  outer  margin. 

Length  of  the  single  adult  male  21.5  mm.,  of  a  large  female  21  mm. 

Remarks. —  For  comparison  with  the  two  following  species  the  above 
description  may  be  useful.  Caiman  has  given  (in  1905)  an  excellent  figure  (jf 
the  animal;  the  only  point  with  wliich  I  disagree  is  the  position  of  the  eye, 
as  I  never  found  the  groove  dividing  it  into  two  so  vertical  areas,  but  at  most 
somewhat  oblique  and  most  frequently  nearly  horizontal. 

Distribution. —  A^.  boopis  goes  very  far  northwards  in  the  Atlantic,  as  it 

'  In  a  male  from  the  Monaco  collection  the  terminal  margin  is  very  oblique,  badly  defined  from 
the  other  margin  and  slightly  incised. 


NEMATOBRACIIION  FLEXIPES. 


269 


has  been  taken  West  of  Iceland:  Lat.  05°  0'  N.,  long.  28°  10'  \\.,  furtlienuore 
South  of  Iceland  and  West  of  the  Faeroes;  it  was  captured  at  a  {^ood  number  of 
Stations  in  the  eastern  i)urt  of  tlu>  temperate  Atlantic,  as  West  of  Ireland,  West 
of  France  and  southwards  to  the  Canary  Islands  (several  authors).  Some  few 
specimens  were  taken  by  the  "Siboga"  in  the  Indian  Archipelago,  and  Ortmann 
mentions  it  from  the  waters  near  Hawaii.  According  to  the  foregoing  list  it  was 
secured  at  only  eight  Stations  in  the  East  Pacific,  sporadically  in  a  large  i)art  of 
the  area  South  of  the  line.  It  is  not  contained  in  the  older  rich  collection  of 
Euphausiacea  in  the  Copenhagen  Museum,  taken  between  1845  and  1884  by 
the  "Galathea"  Expedition  and  especially  by  Captains  in  the  merchant  marine, 
and  judging  from  this  fact  and  from  the  labels  of  the  material  at  hand  I  think 
that  N.  boopis  never  occurs  at  the  surface,  but  according  to  "Thors"  catches 
in  the  North  Atlantic  it  must  sometimes  occur  in  depths  between  ca.  75  and  25 
fms. 

31.    Nematobrachion  flexipes  (Ortmann). 
Plate  10,  figs.  5a-5m. 


1893.     Slylocheiron  flexipes  Ortmann,  Ergebn.  der  Plankton-Exped.,  2,  G.,  b.,  p.  18,  taf.  1,  fig.  7. 

9°  45' N.,  long.  86°  20' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
4°35.4N.,  long.  83"  32.3' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
1°  31' N.,  long.  86°  32' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 
5°  17'  S.,  long.  85°  19.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surf.ace.     1  specimen. 
5°  22'  S.,  long.  84°  39'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

1         QO"  ■?Q  c;'  w    '  ~^^  '^™^'  *'°  ^"'■^^''6.     2  specimens. 


Sta.  4613. 

Oct. 

19 

1904. 

Lat 

Sta.  4634. 

Nov 

4 

1904. 

Lat 

Sta.  4637. 

Nov 

5 

1904. 

Lat 

Sta.  4649. 

Nov 

10 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  46.50. 

Nov 

10 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4652. 

Nov 

11, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4655. 

Nov 

12 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4663. 

Nov 

13, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4676. 

Dec. 

5, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4679. 

Dec. 

7, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4683. 

Dec. 

9, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4685. 

Dec. 

10, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4687. 

Dec. 

11, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4689. 

Dec. 

12, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4691. 

Dec. 

13, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4699. 

Dec. 

25, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4701. 

Dec. 

26, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4707. 

Dec. 

29, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4709. 

Dec. 

30, 

1904. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4713. 

Jan. 

1, 

1905. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4715. 

Jan. 

9 

1905. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4717. 

Jan. 

13, 

1905. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4719. 

Jan. 

1-1, 

1905. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4721. 

Jan. 

15, 

1905. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4730. 

Jan. 

20, 

1905. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4732. 

Jan. 

21, 

1905. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4736. 

Jan. 

23, 

1905. 

Lat. 

Sta.  4742. 

Feb. 

15, 

1905. 

Lat. 

5°  44.7' S., 


(  400  fms.  to  surface 
5°  57.5'  S.,  long.  80°  50'  W.     400  fms.  to  surface. 
11°  20.3'  S.,  long.  88°  55.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface 
14°  28.9'  S.,  long.  81°  24'  W. 
17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W. 
20°2.4'S.,  long.  91°  52.5' W. 
21°36.2'S.,  long.  94°.56'W. 
22°  49.5'  S.,  long.  97°  30.6'  W 


1  specimen. 
1  specimen. 

4  specimens. 

1  specimeen. 

1  specimns. 
2  specimen. 
1  specimen. 


300  fms.  to  surface. 
300  fms.  to  .surface. 
300  fms.  to  surface. 
300  fms.  to  surface. 
2125  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 
24°  5'  S.,  long.  100°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
25°  27.3'  S.,  long.  103°  29.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
21°  39.5'  S.,  long.  104°  29.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
10°  11.5'  S.,  long.  102°  24'  W.     300  fm.s.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 
300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 
W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 


12°  32.2'  S.,  long.  97°  42'  W. 
10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  40.8'  W 
5°  35.3' S.,  long.  92°  21.6' W. 
2°  40.4'  S.,  long.  90°  19.3'  W. 
5°  10'  S.,  long.  98°  56'  W. 
6°  29.8'  S.,  long.  101°  16.8 


8°  7.5'  S.,  long.  104°  10.5'  W. 
15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W. 
16°  32.5' S.,  long.  119°  59' W. 
19°  0.4'  S.,  long.  125°  5.4'  W. 
0°  3.4' N.,  long.  117°  15.8' W. 


300  fms.  to  surface. 
300  fms.  to  surface. 
300  fms.  to  surface. 
300  fms.  to  surface. 
300  fms.  to  sin  face. 


1  specimen. 
I  specimens. 
1  specimen. 
1  specimen. 
1  specimen. 


270  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Description. —  Body  scarcely  robust,  being  conspicuously  more  slender 
than  in  A^.  boopis. —  The  frontal  plate  is  a  short  triangle  (fig.  5a)  terminating 
in  a  spiniform,  long,  or  moderately  long,  horizontal  rostrum  which  is  very  slender 
from  the  base  and  somewhat  compressed.  The  keel  between  the  rostrum  and 
the  cervical  groove  well  developed. 

Eyes  moderately  large,  black,  constricted  somewhat  below  the  middle, 
with  the  upper  section  somewhat  deeper  and  very  conspicuously  thicker  than 
the  lower  (fig.  5b). —  The  antennular  peduncles  longer  and  conspicuously  thinner 
than  in  N.  boopis;  first  joint  with  the  outer  margin  very  concave  (fig.  5a),  as 
the  joint  widens  considerably  at  the  outer  side  towards  the  end,  and  from  the 
outer  distal  angle  a  long,  spiniform  process  projects  forwards,  reaching  beyond 
the  middle  of  the  second  joint,  but  somewhat  distant  from  its  lateral  margin; 
at  the  distal  end  the  joint  is  above  raised  as  a  kind  of  low,  subvertical,  transverse, 
setiferous  lobe.  The  second  joint  is  considerably  longer  than  broad,  and  above 
at  the  outer  distal  angle  produced  into  a  process  which  is  lamellar  at  the  base, 
tapering  considerably  and  with  the  distal  half  or  nearly  two  thirds  spiniform 
(fig.  5d);  the  process  is  long,  directed  forwards  and  somewhat  outwards  and 
upwards  (figs.  5c  and  5d).  Third  joint  with  the  dorsal  keel  short  and  rather 
low. —  The  antennal  squama  reaches  nearly  the  middle  of  the  third  antennular 
joint,  is  somewhat  narrow  and  tapers  considerably  to  the  oblique  or  nearly  ter- 
minal margin;  a  distal  outer  tooth  is  very  distinct;  the  terminal  joint  of  the 
peduncle  of  the  endopod  is  slender  (fig.  5b). 

The  maxillulae  (fig.  5e)  with  the  distal  lobe  not  broader  than  the  proximal 
and  conspicuously  longer  than  broad;  the  palp  considerably  longer  and  broader 
than  in  A'^.  boopis,  overreaching  considerably  the  distal  lobe;  a  pseudexopod 
is  not  developed  but  the  middle  part  of  the  lobe  is  somewhat  expanded  forwards . 
—  The  maxillae  (fig.  5f )  with  the  main  part  conspicuously  longer  than  broad ; 
the  palp  even  a  little  longer  than  the  inner  margin  of  the  distal  lobe  and  almost 
twice  as  long  as  broad.  Second  pair  of  thoracic  legs  with  fifth  joint  slightly 
or  scarcely  longer  than  the  sixtli. 

Abdomen  with  a  dorsal  spiniform  process  from  the  hind  margin  of  tliird 
to  sixth  segments;  the  process  from  third  segment  generally  compressed  and 
longer  than  any  of  the  others,  but  yet  varying  very  much  in  length,  being  some- 
times moderately  short,  sometimes  about  half  as  long  as  the  fourth  segment;  in 
three  adult  specimens  this  spine  is  rudimentary  or  wanting,  but  seems  to  have 
been  broken  off  or  damaged  before  the  animal  was  captured;  the  three  other 
spiniform  processes  vary  also  considerably  in  length ;  the  hind  margin  of  first  and 


NEMATOBRACHION  FLEXIPES.  271 

second  segments  a  little  angular  or  conspicuously  angular  above  in  the  middle 
line  (fig.  5g).  The  lateral  plates  of  second  to  fifth  segments  with  the  postero- 
lateral angle  acute,  and  the  plate  of  fifth  segment  besides  somewhat  produced 
(fig.  5g).  Preanal  spine  simple  in  the  male  and  with  an  accessory  tooth  in  the 
female. —  Uropods  about  as  long  as  the  telson;  the  exopod  slightly  or  scarcely 
longer  than  the  endopod. —  The  telson  with  two  pairs  of  small  dorsal  spines. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  5h-5m)  differ  from  those  in  N.  boopi.'^  by  the 
shape  of  the  terminal  and  the  proximal  processes.  The  terminal  process  is 
somewhat  less  thickened  at  the  base,  tapering  to  the  narrow  middle  and  then 
flattened  and  almost  abruptly  and  strongly  expanded  on  the  outer  side  and 
feebly  expanded  on  the  iimer  side;  the  distal  half  is,  seen  from  behind  (fig.  5i), 
shaped  nearly  as  an  oblique  triangle  with  the  inner  margin  somewhat  sinuate, 
the  outer  proximal  angle  very  broadly  rounded  and  the  vertex  narrowly  rounded; 
a  little  from  the  distal  end  the  posterior  side  shows  a  peculiarly  raised  part,  the 
shape  of  which  is  better  understood  when  looked  at  from  the  outer  side  (p-. 
on  fig.  5k).  The  proximal  process  is  somewhat  broader  than  in  A'^.  boopis  and 
more  evenly  curved,  its  distal  half  is  somewhat  depressed,  and  thus  broader 
than  deep;  the  terminal  part  is  much  flattened  and  considerably  expanded, 
forming,  seen  from  the  base  of  the  organ,  an  oblong-oval  plate  (fig.  5m)  with 
nearly  the  whole  margin  finely  serrate.  The  median  lobe  long  and  slender 
(fig.  5h)  with  its  two  processes  nearly  as  in  N.  boopis;  the  two  remaining  lobes 
nearly  as  in  that  species. 

Length  of  a  large  male  21.5  mm.,  of  a  female  22.5  mm. 

Remarks. —  N.  flexipes  differs  in  general  aspect  much  from  N.  boopis, 
but  it  would  be  a  mistake  to  establish  a  new  genus  for  its  reception,  because  both 
species  agree  with  each  other  in  all  characters  of  real  generic  value.  It  may 
be  mentioned  here  that  even  in  less  than  half-grown  specimens  the  carapace 
has  no  vestige  of  any  tooth  on  the  lateral  margins. 

Distribution. —  This  species  was  estabhshed  on  two  specimens  from  the 
Southern  equatorial  current  in  the  Atlantic.  The  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses 
specimens  from  two  places  in  the  North  Atlantic,  viz.  Lat.  31°  30'  N.,  long.  21° 
10'  W.,  and  Lat.  24°  3'  N.,  long.  25°  0'  W.  It  is  unknown  from  the  Indian 
Ocean  and  the  Western  Pacific,  but  according  to  the  long  list  of  Stations  it  is 
common  in  the  major  part  of  the  area  explored  in  1904-5  in  the  East  Pacific, 
viz.  between  Lat.  9°  45'  N.,  and  Lat.  25°  27'  S.  Ortmann  has  recorded  it  from 
two  Stations  in  the  same  area,  viz.  off  Panama  at  Lat.  0°  21'  N.,  and  at  Lat. 
0°  36'  N.,  long.  82°  45'  W.     The  specimens  in  the  Copenhagen  Museum  were 


272  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

taken  at  the  surface,  but  the  occurrence  there  must  certainly  be  rare,  as  all 
specimens  secured  in  the  Pacific  are  marked  "300  fms.  to  surface"  or,  in  some 
instances,  the  instrument  employed  had  been  sunk  to  greater  depths. 

32.    Nematobrachion  sexspinosus  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Plate  10,  fig.  6a;    Plate  11,  figs,  la-li. 

1911.     Nematuhrachion  sexspinosus  H.  J.  Hansen,  Bull.  Mus.  Oc^an.  Mouaco,  no.  210,  p.  51. 

Sta.  4699.     Dec.  25,  1904.     Lat.  21°  39.5'  S.,  long.  104°  29.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  adult  males. 

Description. —  Body  somewhat  more  clumsy  than  in  N.  flexipes,  otherwise 
rather  similar  in  general  aspect. —  Frontal  plate  nearly  as  in  N.  flexipes,  produced 
in  a  compressed,  proximally  somewhat  deep  (fig.  la),  thin,  acute,  moderately 
long  rostrum;  the  dorsal  keel  about  as  in  the  two  other  species. 

Eyes  black,  conspicuously  larger  and  especially  proportionately  longer 
than  in  N.  flexipes,  otherwise  as  in  that  species.  The  antennulae  essentially 
as  in  the  last-named  species,  excepting  that  the  process  at  the  outer  distal  angle 
of  second  joint  (figs,  lb  and  Ic)  is  shaped  as  a  large,  oblong,  subtriangular  plate 
with  the  end  acute  and  a  little  acuminate. —  The  antennae  with  the  squama  and 
the  distal  peduncular  joint  of  the  endopod  as  in  A'',  flexipes. 

The  maxillulae  (Plate  10,  fig.  6a)  have  the  distal  lobe  somewhat  broader 
than  the  proximal  and  scarcely  longer  at  the  upper  margin  than  broad;  the  palp 
is  very  long,  considerably  longer  than  the  lobe  of  third  joint  and  moderately 
slender;  a  pseudexopod  (pex)  is  present  as  an  oblong-oval,  somewhat  small 
plate  which  ne\-ertheless  reaches  a  little  beyond  the  outer  margin  of  third  joint. — 
The  maxillae  (fig.  Id)  with  the  main  part  only  very  little  longer  than  broad; 
the  palp  is  conspicuously  smaller  than  in  the  two  preceding  species,  distinctly 
shorter  than  the  breadth  of  the  lobe  from  third  joint  and  somewhat  less  than 
twice  as  long  as  broad. —  Second  pair  of  thoracic  legs  with  fifth  joint  scarcely 
longer  than  the  sixth. 

The  abdominal  segments  without  dorsal  spines  excepting  the  fourth  and  fifth 
segments,  each  of  which  has  three  sharp  teeth  projecting  from  the  hind  margin 
at  some  distance  from  each  other  (figs,  le  and  If),  and  the  median  tooth  or 
process  is  conspicuously  larger  than  the  sublateral  teeth.  The  lateral  plates 
of  the  five  anterior  segments  with  tlie  postero-lateral  angle  acute  and  those  of 
fifth  segment  produced  considerably  backwards  (fig.  le). —  The  uropods  as  in 
N.  flexipes,  but  the  telson  with  6-8  pairs  of  dorsal  saw-like  teeth. 

The  copulatory  organs  (figs.  Ig-li)  are  rather  similar  to  those  of  N.  boopis, 


STYLOCHEIHON.  273 

but  the  three  large  processes  show  some  differences.  The  terminal  process  is 
thickened  at  the  base,  but  this  thicker  part  does  not,  as  in  N.  hoopia,  constitute 
a  nearly  right  angle  with  the  following  more  slender  portion;  furthermore  the 
distal,  expanded  part  is  only  half  of  the  entire  process,  thus  proportionately 
shorter  but  broader,  more  expanded,  than  in  N.  boopis,  with  the  inner  margin 
nearly  straight  and  the  long  terminal  margin  somewhat  incised  at  the  middle 
and  raised  on  the  posterior  side  (fig.  Ih);  from  the  outer  side  (fig.  li)  this  raised 
part  is  seen  to  be  the  terminal  portion  bent  strongly  backwards  and  forming 
a  right  angle  with  the  p6sterior  surface.  The  proximal  process  has  its  distal 
half  regularly  and  semicircularly  curved  with  the  very  short  terminal  part  a 
little  expanded  and  bent  considerably  forwards  as  a  minute  triangle  (fig.  Ih). 
The  lateral  process  is  slender  and  unusuallj^  long  (fig.  Ig),  somewhat  sinuate 
and  with  the  incurved  distal  part  short. 

Length  of  the  largest  male  23  mm. 

Remarks. —  This  species  is  interesting.  In  general  aspect  it  is  somewhat 
similar  to  A^.  flexipes,  though  conspicuously  more  clumsy,  but  by  the  structure 
of  the  copulatory  organs  and  the  serration  on  the  dorsal  side  of  the  telson  it  is 
more  nearly  related  to  TV.  boopis;  it  differs  from  both  species  by  the  maxillulae 
which  possess  a  real  pseudexopod. 

Distribuiion. —  N.  sexspinosus  seems  to  be  rare  but  widely  distributed. 
In  the  enormous  amount  of  material  studied  from  many  sources  and  all  oceans 
I  have  found  but  three  specimens,  all  males,  viz.  two  from  the  East  Pacific 
and  the  third  from  the  northern  temperate  Atlantic  (Monaco,  Sta.  2105). 


STYLOCHEIEON  G.  O.  Sars  (1883). 

To  Sars's  diagnosis  of  this  aberrant  genus  some  additions  and  corrections 
may  be  made. 

The  carapace  is  always  without  denticles  on  the  lateral  margin. 

The  antennulae  have  in  the  females  the  second  and  especially  the  third 
peduncular  joint  slender  and  long,  frequently  even  extremely  long,  while  in  the 
males  these  joints,  and  especially  the  third,  are  conspicuously  shorter  and  much 
or  very  much  thicker;  the  upper  flagellum  is  shorter  than  the  lower  and  both 
flagella  consist  of  6-10  joints,  most  of  them  proportionately  long;  in  the  females 
the  joints  are  slender  and  round,  but  in  the  males  the  major  distal  part  of  each 
flagellum  is  in  most  species  conspicuously  flattened  and  frequently  expanded, 
in  the  upper  flagellum  depressed,  in  the  lower  compressed;    the  basal  joint  of 


274  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

the  lower  flagellum  is  long,  in  the  male  oblong-triangular,  being  much  thickened 
towards  the  base.  The  peduncle  of  the  endopod  of  the  antennae  reaches  con- 
siderably beyond  the  end  of  the  squama  —  a  feature  not  found  in  any  other 
genus  —  and  its  penultimate  joint  is  very  elongate,  much  longer  than  the  termi- 
nal. The  maxillae  have  the  fourth  joint  either  very  small  or  badly  defined, 
and  the  inner  margin  of  both  lobes  is  without  the  usual  incision. 

In  the  females  the  endopod  of  fifth  pair  of  thoracic  legs  is  moderately  long, 
three-jointed,  the  endopod  of  sixth  pair  much  larger  than  the  small  exopod  and 
two-jointed;  in  the  males  the  endopod  of  sixth  pair  is  always  wanting,  while  in 
fifth  pair  it  seems  to  be  wanting  (f.  inst.  in  S.  longicorne)  or  developed  as  in  the 
female  (in  S.  maximum). 

The  copulatory  organs  of  first  pleopods  have  the  median  lobe  coalesced 
with  the  inner  lobe  to  near  the  end  of  the  latter,  while  the  former  is  oblong,  simple, 
and  distally  rounded;  the  processes  are  .small  in  proportion  to  the  size  of  the 
whole  organ;  the  spine-shaped  process  is  curved  and  shaped  as  in  several  other 
genera,  while  the  two  other  processes  are  at  most  a  little  cur\'ed;  the  lateral 
process  is  placed  rather  near  or  very  near  the  base  of  the  inner  margin  of  the 
lobe,  and  an  additional  process  is  always  wanting.  The  auxiliary  lobe  is  placed 
on  the  inner  side  of  the  setiferous  lobe  and  sometimes  very  reduced. 

The  genus  comprises  nine  species,  eight  of  which  are  represented  in  the 
"Albatross"  collection;  the  only  species  not  present  is  S.  insulare  H.  J.  H., 
hitherto  known  only  from  the  Indian  Archipelago.  As  to  the  geographical  • 
distribution  numerous  statements  in  the  literature  are  discarded  as  untrust- 
worthy, because  >S.  affine  H.  J.  H.  and  6'.  jnicrophthahna  H.  J.  H.  were  not  .sepa- 
rated from  tS'.  suhmii  and  this  last-named  species  sometimes  was  not  distinguished 
from  S.  longicorne.  In  a  similar  way  S.  maximum  H.  J.  H.  (1908)  was  not  dis- 
tinguished from  .5.  ahhrevialuyn . 

a.     Species  only  with  lateral  setae  on  the  penultimate  joint  of  the  elongate  pair  of  legs. 

33.    Stylocheiron  carinatum  G.  O.  Sars. 

Plate  11,  figs.  2a-2b. 

1883.     Slylocheiron  carinatum  G.  O.  Sar.s,  Forh.  Vid.  Sel.sk.  Cliristiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  31. 

1885.     Stylocheiron  carinatum  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  137;  pi.  26. 

1910.     Stylocheiron  carinatum  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  113,  pi.  16,  figs,  la-lh. 

Sta.  4611.  Oct.   18,1904.  Lat.  10°  33' N.,  long.  88°  30' W.     Surface.     69  specimens. 

Sta.  4613.  Oct.   19,  1904.  Lat.  9°  45'  N.,  long.  86°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4634.  Nov.    4,  1904.  Lat.  4°  35.4'  N.,  long.  83°  32.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     27  specimens. 

Sta.  4635.  Nov.    4,  1904.  Lat.  3°  52.5'  N.,  long.  84°  14.3'  W.     Surface.     274  specimens. 

Sta.  4640.  Nov.    6,1904.  Lat.  0°  39.4' S.,  long.  88°  11' W.     Surface.     6  specimens. 


STYLOCHEIRON  CARINATUM. 


275 


Sta.  4644. 
Sta.  4646. 
Sta.  4661. 
Sta.  4663. 
Sta.  4665. 
Sta.  4679. 
Sta.  4681. 
Sta.  4682. 


Nov. 
Nov. 
Nov. 
Nov. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Dec. 
Dec. 


7,  1904. 

8,  1904. 

15,  1904. 

16,  1904. 

17,  1904. 

7,  1904. 

8,  1904. 
8,  1904. 


Sta.  4689. 
Sta.  4699. 
Sta.  4701. 
Sta.  4702. 
Sta.  4705. 
Sta.  4707. 
Sta.  4709. 
Sta.  4710. 
Sta.  4713. 
Sta.  4715. 
Sta.  4716. 
Sta.  4718. 
Sta.  4719. 
Sta.  4721. 
Sta.  4722. 
Sta.  4724. 
Sta.  4727. 
Sta.  4728. 
Sta.  4730. 
Sta.  4734. 
Sta.  4740. 


Dec.  12,  1904. 
Dec.  25,  1904. 
Dec.  26,  1904. 
Dec.  26,  1904. 
Dec.  28,  1904. 
Dec.  29,  1904. 
Dec.  30,  1904. 
Dec.  30,  1904. 
Jan.  1,  1905. 
Jan.  2,  1905. 
Jan.  2,  1905. 
Jan.  13,  1905. 
Jan.  14,  1905. 
Jan.  15,  1905. 
Jan.  16,  1905. 
Jan.  17,  1905. 
Jan.  18,  1905. 
Jan.  19,  1905. 
Jan.  20,  1905. 
Jan.  22,  1905. 
Feb.  11,  1905. 


Lat, 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 


Sta.  4687.     Dec.  11,  1904.     Lat 


\V. 
11° 
11= 
17° 
18° 
19°  7.6'  S.,  long.  90°  10.6'  W. 

22°  49.5'  S.,  long.  97°  30.6 


jSOOh 
(2125  1 


Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 
Lat. 


2°  13.3'  S.,  long.  S9°  42.2'  W.     Surface.     5  .specimens. 
4°  1.6'  S.,  long.  89°  16.3'  W.     300  fins,  to  surface.     3  specimens. 
10°  17'  S.,  long.  88°  2'  \V.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
20.3'  S.,  long.  88°  55.2'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 
45'  S.,  long.  86°  5.2'  \V.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 
26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 
47.1'S.,  long.  89°26' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 
Surface.     1  specimen. 

fms.  to  surface.     1  .specimen. 
5  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
24°  5'  S.,  long.  100°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
21°  39.5'  S.,  long.  104°  29.8'  VV.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  .specimens. 
19°  11.5'  S.,  long.  102°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 
18°  39.5'  S.,  long.  102°  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 
15°  5.3' S.,  long.  99°  19' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 
12°  33.2'  S.,  long.  97°  42'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
Surface.     2  specimens. 
300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
600  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
Surface.     1  specimen. 
300  fms.  to  surface.     12  specimens. 


10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  40.8'  W. 
9°  30.5'  S.,  long.  95°  8.3'  W. 

35.3' S.,  long.  92°  21.6' W. 

40.4'  S.,  long.  90°  19.3'  W. 

18.5'  S.,  long.  90°  2.6'  W. 

32.4'  S.,  long.  99°  32.2'  W. 

29.8'  S.,  long.  101°  16.8'  W. 


5 

2 

2' 

5' 

6' 

8°  7.5'  S.,  long.  104°  10.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

9°  31'  S.,  long.  106°  30.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     10  specimens. 

11°  13.4'  S.,  long.  109°  39'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

13°  03'  S.,  long.  112°  44.9'  W.     Surface.     1  specimen. 

13°47.5'S.,  long.  114°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  .surface.     6specimens. 

15°7'S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

17°  36'  S.,  long.  122°  35.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

9°  2.1'  S.,  long,  123°  20.1'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 


Furthermore  this  species  was  taken  by  the  "Albatross"  at  two  Stations 
in  1899  and  1900,  and  Dr.  Agassiz  took  it  several  times  in  1897  at  the  Fiji  Is- 
lands. 


Sta.  3681.     Aug.  27,  1899.     Lat.  28°  23'  N.,  long.  126°  57'  W.     100  fms.     1  specimen 
Hyd.  Sta.  3998  (236).     Jan.  28,  1900.     Lat.  6°  34'  N.,  long.  170°  59'  W.     Surface; 

specimen.     "  Albatross." 
Fiji  Islands.     Ringold  Channel,  lee  side,  Nukusemanu  Reef.  Nov.  23,  1897.     50  fms. 
Fiji  Islands.     Kimbombo,  Nov.  25,  1897.     40  fms.     9  specimens. 
Fiji  Islands.     3  m.  South  of  Naniuka.     Dec.  10,  1897.     50  fms.     9  specimens. 
Fiji  Islands.     6  m.  South  of  Suva.     Dec.  10,  1897.     100  fms.     6  specimens. 
Fiji  Islands.     5  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship. 
Fiji  Islands.     3  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship. 
Fiji  Lslands.     3  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship. 
Fiji  Islands.     5  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship. 
Fiji  Islands.     5  m.  South  of  Suva 
Fiji  Islands.     5  m.  South  of  Suva 


"  Albatross." 
electric  light. 

11  specimens. 


Dec.  10,  1897. 

Dec.  11,  1897. 

Dec.  16,  1897, 

Dec.  16,  1897. 
100-25  fms.     9  specimens. 
25  fms.     3  specimens. 


100  fms. 
100  fms. 
75  fms. 
100  fms. 


200  specimens. 

20  specimens. 
1  specimen. 

8  specimens. 


For  comparison  with  the  maxillulae  and  maxillae  in  species  of  the  two  other 
groups  of  this  genus  I  have  given  new  figures  of  these  appendages.  The  maxil- 
lulae (fig.  2a)  have  the  palp  about  twice  as  long  as  broad  and  among  its  terminal 
setae  a  few  are  soUd.  The  maxillae  (fig.  2b)  are  characteristic;  their  basal  part, 
the  first  joint,  is  unusually  long;  the  proximal  lobe  has  its  terminal  margin  very 


276  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

short  as  compared  with  that  of  the  distal  lobe  which  is  somewhat  convex;  the 
fourth  joint  is  well  defined  but  very  small  and  nearly  more  than  twice  as  broad 
as  long;  the  exopod  is  badly  defined  and  distally  without  any  produced,  free  part. 

The  largest  specimen,  a  female,  measures  12  mm.  in  length,  but  adult  speci- 
mens of  both  sexes  are  generally  only  8-10  mm.  long. 

Remarks. —  More  than  half-grown  to  full-grown  specimens  of  this  small 
species  are  easily  distinguished  from  very  young  specimens  of  S.  ahhreviatum 
of  similar  size  by  the  antennal  squama,  which  in  S.  carinatum  is  moderately 
broad  to  the  end  and  never  reaches  the  middle  of  third  joint  of  the  antennular 
peduncle,  while  in  S.  abbreviaium  the  squama  tapers  conspicuously  towards  the 
end  and  reaches  to  near  the  distal  end  of  third  antennular  joint.  This  difference 
is  useful  when  the  elongate  second  pair  of  legs,  which  differs  extremely  in  the 
two  species,  has  been  lost. 

It  may  be  mentioned  that  a  specimen  from  Sta.  4719  has  an  Epicarid  fixed 
between  the  eyes,  and  that  a  male  from  Sta.  4724  has  an  Epicarid  on  the  carapace 
a  little  from  its  front  margin. 

Distribution. —  The  long  hst  of  Stations  in  the  East  Pacific  shows  that  S. 
carinatu?n  is  common  in  the  major  part  of  the  area  explored,  but  is  wanting  in  a 
broad  longitudinal  belt  along  the  coast  of  America  from  the  line  southwards. 
It  is  widely  distributed  in  the  Pacific  according  to  the  facts  given  above  as  to 
its  capture  in  1899  and  1900  by  the  "Albatross,"  in  1897  at  the  Fiji  Islands  by 
Dr.  Agassiz,  and  Ortmann  has  recorded  it  from  Lat.  28°  31'  N.,  long.  141°  47'  W., 
the  Hawaiian  Islands.  Sars  has  recorded  it  from  off  Kandavu,  Fiji  Islands,  and 
from  off  Mindanao,  Philippine  Islands.  The  "Siboga"  captured  it  at  a  large 
number  of  Stations  in  the  Indian  Archipelago.  It  is  also  widely  distributed 
in  the  Atlantic;  Sars  recorded  it  from  "South  Atlantic,"  Ortmann  from  the 
Sargasso  Sea,  the  Southern  equatorial  current  and  the  Brazil  current;  finally 
the  Copenhagen  Museum  possesses  it  from  Lat.  7°  N.,  long.  30°  W.,  from  Lat. 
17°  46'  N.,  long.  51°  12'  W.,  and  from  Lat.  20°  24'  N.,  long.  83°  W.  (West 
Indies).  It  has  not  infrequently  been  taken  at  the  surface,  and  more  than  once 
in  large  numbers. 

b.  Species  with  the  elongate  pair  of  legs  terminating  in  false  chelae  having  no  real 
immovable  finger  but  a  very  long  and  strong  terminal,  distally  curved  spine 
{and  near  this  two  shorter  spines)  on  the  penultimate  joint. 


STYLOCHEIRON   SUHMII.  277 

34.     Stylocheiron  microphthalma  11.  ,J.  Hansen. 

1910.     Slylochrinni  iiiicrnplilhdliiiii  11.  .1.  H.vNSEN,  Sihoga-lOxp.,  37,  j),  117.  pi.  ICi,  fi^.s.  3!i-3d. 

Sta.  4722.     Jan.  16,  1905.     Lat.  9°  31' S.,  long.  106°  3(),r,' \V.     31)0  fins,  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
Sta.  4740.     Feb.  11,  1905.     Lat.  9°  2.1' S.,  long.  123°  20.1' \V.     300  fnis.  (o  siiiface.     1  specimen. 

Besides  it  has  been  captured  two  times  by  Dr.  Agassiz  in  1897:  — 

Fiji  Islands.     5  m.  South  of  Suva.     Dec.  10,  1897.     1  specimen. 

Fiji  Islands.     3  m.  South  of  Suva.     Dec.  11,  1897.     100  fms.     2  specimens,  cf  and  9. 

The  largest  female  (from  Sta.  4722)  is  6.7  mm.  long;  the  male  is  5.8  mm. 
Distribution. —  This  small  species  was  hitherto  known  only  from  five  of 
the  "Siboga"  Stations  in  the  Indian  .\i-chipelago. 

35.    stylocheiron  suhmii  G.  O.  Sars. 

Plate  11,  figs.  3a-3b. 

1883.     Stylocheiron  suhmii  G.  O.  Saes,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  31. 
18S5.     Stylocheiron  suhmii  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  142,  pi.  27,  figs.  1-4. 

Sta.  4687.  Dec.  1 1,  1904.  Lat.  22°  49.5'  S.,  long.  97°  30.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4691.  Dec.  13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  27.3'  S.,  long.  103°  29.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4732.  Jan.  21,  1905.  Lat.  16°  32.5' S.,  long.  119°  59' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen.. 

Sta.  4734.  Jan.  22,  1905.  Lat.  17°  36'  S.,  long.  122°  35.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Besides  it  has  been  captm-ed  nine  times  by  Dr.  Agas.siz  in  1897:  — 

Fiji  Islands.  Ringold  Channel,  lee  side,  Nukusimanu  Reef.     Kov.  23,  1897.     50  fms.     4  specimens. 

Fiji  Islands.  3  m.  South  of  Nanuka.     Dec.  10,  1897.     50  fms.     1  specimen. 

Fiji  Islands.  6  m.  South  of  Suva.     Dec.  10,  1897.     100  fms.     6  specimens. 

Fiji  Islands.  5  m.  South  of  Suva.     Dec.  10,  1897.     100  fms.     16  specimens. 

Fiji  Islands.  3  m.  South  of  Suva  hghtship.     Doc.  11,  1897.     100  fms.     1  specimen. 

Fiji  Islands.  3  m.  South  of  Suva  hghtship.     Dec.  16,  1897.     75  fms.     1  specimen. 

Fiji  Lslands.  5  m.  South  of  Suva.     Dec.  ?,  1897.     25  fms.     1  specimen. 

Fiji  Islands.  5  m.  South  of  Suva.     Dec.  ?,  1897.     100-25  fms.     1  specimen. 

Fiji  Islands.  Dec.  16,  100  fms.     12  specimens. 

Description. —  Frontal  plate  rather  long,  in  the  adult  females  terminating 
in  a  long,  distally  very  slender  rostrum,  while  in  adult  males  the  rostrum  is  \'ery 
short  or  scarcely  developed.  The  dorsal  keel  on  the  gastric  area  moderately 
high,  anteriorly  very  sloping. 

The  eyes  are  high,  at  least  twice  as  high  as  broad  (fig.  3a),  somewhat  pyri- 
form,  with  the  lower  section  from  more  than  half  as  broad  again  to  a  little  less 
than  twice  as  broad  as  the  upper;  the  upper  section  projects  much  above  the 
upper  end  of  the  stalk  and,  seen  from  the  side,  has  only  three  crystal  cones  in  a 
transverse  row. —  The  antennulae  in  the  female  nearly  as  in  S.  longicorne ;  the 
peduncle  is  longer  than  the  carapace,  with  the  two  distal  joints  very  slender 
and  the  third  about  one  third  as  long  again  as  the  second ;  the  upper  flagellum  is 
slightly  shorter  than  the  lower  and  about  as  long  as  the  peduncle;  both  flagella 


278  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

are  extremely  thin.  In  the  male  antennulae  the  two  distal  peduncular  joints 
are  somewhat  shorter  and  much  thicker  than  in  the  female;  the  upper  flagellum 
is  slightly  longer  than  the  peduncle  and  conspicuously  shorter  than  the  lower; 
both  flagella  distinctly  thicker  than  in  the  female,  but  any  expansion  or  flatten- 
ing is  not  distinct,  and  the  joints,  probably  eight,  are  difficult  to  count. —  The 
antennal  squama  is  very  long  and  narrow,  13-14  times  as  long  as  broad  a  little 
behind  the  base  of  the  marginal  tooth ;  in  the  female  it  scarcely  reaches  to  the  mid- 
dle of  third  joint  of  the  antennular  peduncle,  in  the  male  scarcely  to  the  end  of  the 
same  joint. —  The  false  chelae  of  second  pair  of  legs  in  the  main  as  in  S.  affinc. 

Sixth  abdoininal  segment  (fig.  3b)  a  little  less  than  twice  as  long  as  deep, 
with  the  lower  margin  curved  moderately  strongly  upwards  towards  the  end. — 
The  rami  of  the  uropods  nearly  equal  in  length,  reaching  scarcely  the  end  of 
telson. 

Length  of  the  males  5-5.5  mm.,  of  the  females  5-5.8  mm. 

Remarks. —  It  may  be  seen  from  the  description  that  this  species  is  very 
closely  allied  to  S.  affine  H.  J.  H.  and  S.  longicorne  G.  O.  S.  But  it  is  easily 
distinguished  from  both  by  tlie  eyes  which,  seen  from  the  side,  are  slender, 
extend  very  much  beyond  the  upper  end  of  the  stalk  and  show  only  three  crystal 
cones  in  the  transverse  row. 

Distribution. —  The  type  of  Sars,  preserved  in  the  British  Museum,  is  from 
the  Pacific,  North  of  New  Guinea.  His  specimen  from  "off  Luzon,  China  Sea," 
is  damaged,  but  seems  to  belong  to  this  species.  Whether  the  specimen  from 
his  third  locality,  "Samboangan  to  Ho-Ho,  Philippines"  in  reality  belonged  to 
this  species  cannot  be  decided,  as  it  seems  to  be  lost.  I  discard  all  other  state- 
ments in  the  literature  before  1910  as  uncertain,  because  several  and  perhaps 
many  among  them  belong  to  other  species;  it  may  only  be  stated  here  that  the 
Monaco  material  from  the  temperate  North  Atlantic  comprises  a  number  of 
specimens. 

36.     Stylocheiron  affine  H.  J.  Hansen. 

1910.     Stylocheiron  affinc  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  118,  pi.  16,  figs.  4a-4d. 

Sta.  4609.  Oct.    18,1904.  Lat.  11°  05' N.,  long.  89°35' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4613.  Oct.    19,  1904.  Lat.  9°  4.5'  N.,  long.  86°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  46.34.  Nov.    4,1904.  Lat.  4°  35.4' N.,  long.  83°  32.3' \V.     300  fms.  to  .surface.     16  specimens. 

Sta.  4637.  Nov.    5,1904.  Lat.  1°  31' N.,  long.  87°  32' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     9  specimens. 

Sta.  4638.  Nov.    6,  1904.  Lat.  0°  27'  N.,  long.  87°  13'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4646.  Nov.    8,1904.  Lat.  4°  1.6' S.,  long.  89°  13.3' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Surface.     1  specimen. 


Sta.  4652.     Nov.  11,  1904.     Lat.  5°  44.7'  S.,  long.  82°  39.5'  W. 


100  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 
200  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 
400  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 


STYLOCIIEIRON  LOxNGICORNE.  279 

Sta.  4663.  Nov.  16,  1904.  Lat.  11°  20.3'  S.,  long.  88°  55.2'  W.     300  fms.  to  surfarc.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  10°  15.2' S.,  long.  95°  40.8' W.     ;>()()  fms.  to  .surface.     2  si.ccimens. 

Sta.  4717.  Jan.    13,1905.  Lat.  5°  10' S.,  long.  98°  56' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4722.  Jan.    16,  1905.  Lat.  9°  31' S.,  long.  106°  30.5' W.     300  fms.  to  .surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4728.  Jan.   19,  1905.  Lat.  13°  47,5' S.,  long,  114°  21.6' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4740.  Feb.  11,  1905.  Lat.  9°  2.1'  S.,  long.  123°  20.1'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Besides  it  was  taken  by  Dr.  Agassiz  in  1897 :  — 

Fiji  Islands.     5  m.  South  of  Suva.     Dec.  10,  1897.     100  fms.     1  specimen. 

Distribution. —  S.  affine  was  captured  by  the  "Siboga"  at  a  number  of 
Stations  in  the  Indian  Archipelago. 

37.     Stylocheiron  longicorne  G.  0.  Sars. 

Plate  11,  figs.  4a-4b. 

1883.    Slylocheiron  longicorne  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  32. 
1885.     Slylocheiron  longicorne  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Kept.,  13,  p.  144,  pi.  27,  fig.  5. 
1910.     Stylocheiron  longicorne  H.  J.  Han.sen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  120,  pi.  16,  figs.  5a-5b. 

Sta.  4605.  Oct.  17,1904.  Lat.  12°  21' N.,  long.  92°  13' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4637.  Nov.  5,  1904.  Lat.  1°  31'  N.,  long.  86°  32'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4679.  Dec.  7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4685.  Dec.  10,  1904.  Lat.  21°  36.2'  S.,  long.  94°  56'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4687.     Dec.  11,  1904.     Lat.  22°  49.5' S.,  long.  97°  30.6' W. -j  ^?V^'-  *°  ""'"ff*^'     2^Pe"«iens. 

(  2125  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4689.  Dec.  12,  1904.  Lat.  24°  5'  S.,  long.  100°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4691.  Dec.  13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  27.3' S.,  long.  103°  29.3' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4695.  Dec.  23,  1904.  Lat.  25°  22.4'  S.,  long.  107°  45'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4699.  Dec.  25,  1904.  Lat.  21°  39.5'  S.,  long.  104°  29.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  4701.  Dec.  26,  1904.  Lat.  19°  11.5'  S.,  long.  102°  24'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3'  S.,  long,  99°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat.  10°  15.2'  S.,  long,  95°  40,8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4721.  Jan.    15,1905.  Lat.  8°  7.5' S.,  long.  104°  10.5' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4724.  Jan.    17,1905.  Lat.  11°  13.4' S.,  long.  109°  39' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4728.  Jan.    19,  1905.  Lat.  13°  47.5'  S.,  long.  114°  21.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  47.30.  Jan.    20,  1905.  Lat.  15°  7' S.,  long.  117°  1.2' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4734.  Jan.   22,  1905.  Lat.  17°  36'  S.,  long.  122°  35.6'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4736.  Jan.   23,  1905.  Lat.  19°  0.4'  S.,  long.  125°  5.4'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Figs.  4a  -4b  represent  the  left  maxillula  and  left  maxilla,  giving  an  idea  of 
these  appendages  in  a  species  of  this  group  of  the  genus.  The  maxillulae  differ 
from  those  in  *S^.  carinatum  only  in  minor  particulars;  thus  the  third  joint  is 
comparatively  broader  and  the  palp  is  broader  with  a  much  larger  number  of 
setae.  The  maxillae  (fig.  4b)  are  more  interesting;  the  fourth  joint  is  not  at 
all  marked  off,  not  even  at  the  inner  margin,  from  the  third  joint  with  its  lobe, 
but  judging  from  the  place  of  the  distal  end  of  the  insertion  of  the  exopod  the 
fourth  joint  is  moderately  long;  the  exopod  is  well-marked  off  and  distally  pro- 
duced with  a  free  lobe  beyond  the  end  of  the  articulation. 

This  species  varies  much  in  size;  the  largest  female  (from  Sta.  4699)  is 
13  mm.  long. 


2S0  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Remarks. —  It  may  be  mentioned  that  one  of  the  specimens  from  Sta. 
4637  has  an  Epicarid  on  the  lower  side  of  the  thorax  between  the  posterior  legs. 

Distribution. —  The  list  of  Stations  shows  that  S.  longicorne  is  rather  com- 
mon in  some  parts  of  the  area  explored  in  1904-1905,  but  seems  to  be  wanting  in 
other  parts,  for  instance  near  the  Galapagos,  in  a  rather  large  field  Southwest 
and  South  of  these  Islands,  and  in  a  broad  longitudinal  belt  along  the  coast  of 
South  America;  The  specimen  from  the  Hawaiian  Islands  referred  (1905) 
by  Ortmann  to  S.  suhmii  belongs  to  S.  longicorne.  This  species  was  gathered 
by  the  "Siboga"  at  nine  Stations  in  the  Indian  Archipelago.  Sars's  type  was 
taken  South  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and  Sars  states  that  he  had  some  speci- 
mens from  the  Mediterranean.  In  the  Atlantic  it  is  evidently  not  uncommon 
and  has  been  captured  as  far  northwards  as  South  of  Iceland,  Lat.  63°  08'  N., 
long.  21°  30°  W.  ("Ingolf "  Exp.). —  It  has  very  rarely  been  taken  at  the  surface. 

38.    Stylocheiron  elongatum  G.  O.  Sars. 

1S83.     Slylocheiron  elongalum  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  32. 
1885.     Stylocheiron  elongalum  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept .,  13,  p.  146,  pi.  27,  figs.  6-10. 

Sta.  4689.     Dec.  12,  1904.     Lat.  24°  5'  S.,  long.  100°  20'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

This  .slender  .species  is  ea.sily  recognized  by  its  extremely  long  sixth  abdomi- 
nal segment.  Sars's  description  and  figures  are  imperfect  as  to  some  particulars, 
but  a  new  representation  based  on  good  material  must  be  postponed  for  the 
report  on  the  Monaco  material. 

Distribution. —  Only  the  single  abo\'e-named  specimen  is  hitherto  known 
from  the  Pacific,  and  it  is  unknown  from  the  Indian  Ocean.  Sars's  two  speci- 
mens were  from  the  South  Atlantic.  Ortmann  had  it  from  several  areas  in 
the  Atlantic,  viz. : — the  Florida  current.  Sargasso  Sea,  Northern  equatorial  cur- 
rent, Guinea  current  and  Southern  equatorial  current.  In  1905  I  enumerated 
a  number  of  localities  in  the  Eastern  Atlantic  between  Lat.  36°  17'  N.  and  Lat. 
27°  43'  N. 

c.     Species  with  the  elongated  pair  of  legs  terminating  in  real  chelae  with  a  well- 
developed  imynovable  finger  from  the  penultimate  joint. 

39.     Stylocheiron  abbreviatum  G.  O.  Sars. 

Plate  11,  figs.  5a-5f. 

1883.  Sti/lochciron  ahbrcvialum  G.  O.  Sars,  Forh.  Vid.  Selsk.  Christiania  for  1883,  no.  7,  p.  33. 

1885.  Stylocheiron  abbreviatum  G.  O.  Sars,  Challenger  Rept.,  13,  p.  147,  pi.  27,  tigs.  12-13. 

1896.  Stylocheiron  chelifer  Chun,  Bibl.  Zool.,  7,  heft.  19,  p.  162,  taf.  1,  figs.  1-8. 

1910.  Stylocheiron  abhreviatuiii  11.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  122. 


STYLOCHEIRON  ABBREVTATT  IVr.  281 

Sta.  4679.  Dec.    7,  I'.JOl.  Lat.  17°  20.4'  S.,  lonp;.  Sli°  4ti.r)'  \V.     :iO()  fms.  to  surface.     3  .specimens. 

Sta.  4081.  Dec.    8,1904.  Lat.  18°  47.1' S.,  long.  89°  20' W.     ;iOO  fm.s.  to  surface.     2  .specimens. 

Sta.  4085.  Dec.  10,  1904.  Lat.  21°  30.2' S.,  long.  94°  50' \V.     300  fms.  to  surface.     4  specimens. 

Sta.  40S7.  Dec.  11,  1904.  Lat.  22°  49.5' S.,  long.  97°  30.0' W.     300  fms.  to  .surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4089.  Dec.  12,  1904.  Lat.  24°  5'  S.,  long.  100°  20'  \V.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4091.  Dec.  13,  1904.  Lat.  25°  27.3'  S.,  long.  103°  29.3'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     3  specimens. 

Sta.  4695.  Dec.  23,  1904.  Lat.  25°  22.4'  S.,  long.  107°  45'  W.     300  fms.  to  .surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4099.  Dec.  25,  1904.  Lat.  21°  39.5'  S.,  long.  104°  29.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4705.  Dec.  28,  1904.  Lat.  15°  5.3'  S.,  long.  99°  19'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  sjK'cimens. 

Sta.  4707.  Dec.  29,  1904.  Lat.  12°  33.2'  S.,  long.  97°  42'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     5  specimens. 

Sta.  4709.  Dec.  30,  1904.  Lat,  10°  15.2'  S.,  long.  95°  40.8'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4719.  .Jan.   14,  1905.  Lat.  0°  29.8' S.,  long.  101°  16.8' W      300  fms.  to  .surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4724.  ,Jan.  17,  1905.  Lat.  11°  13.4' S.,  long.  109°  39' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4730.  Jan.  20,  1905.  Lat.  1.5°  7' S,  long.  117°  1.2  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4734.  Jan.  22,  1905.  Lat.  17°  36'  S.,  long.  122°  35.0'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Besides  I  have  it  from  the  following  localities: — 

Sta.  3681.     .^ug.  27,  1899.     Lat.  28°  23'  N.,  long.  126°  57'  W.     100  fms.     2  specimens.     "  Albatross." 
Fiji  Islands.     6  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     Dec.  11,  1897.     1.50  fms.     1  specimen.     A.  Agassiz. 
Fiji  Islands.     3  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     Dec.  11,  1897.     100  fms.     1  specimen.     A.  Agassiz. 
Fiji  Islands.     3  m.  South  of  Suva  lightship.     Dec.  11,  1897.     1.50  fms.     1  specimen.     A.  Agassiz. 

In  the  ''Siboga"  paper  I  pointed  out  the  main  differences  between  this 
species  and  S.  maximum  H.  J.  H.  But  as  no  adult  male  was  found  in  the  "Si- 
boga" material,  as  the  copulatory  organs  have  never  been  figured,  and  the  inter- 
esting antennulae  in  adult  males  are  unknown  I  give  some  figures  of  these 
and  other  parts  with  the  necessary  description;  the  preservation  of  the  females 
in  the  collection  does  not  allow  corresponding  figures  of  the  antennular  flagella 
in  this  sex. 

Fig.  5a  exhibits  the  anterior  part  of  a  male.  The  eye  has  the  shape  char- 
acteristic in  this  species;  it  is  nearly  pyriform,  the  lower  area  being  somewhat 
or  a  little  less  than  twice  as  broatl,  but  more  than  twice  as  deep  as  the  upper. — 
In  the  female  the  antennulae  have  the  two  distal  peduncular  joints  slender  as 
in  the  other  species  of  the  genus,  and  the  third  joint  is  conspicuously,  though 
not  much,  longer  than  the  second;  the  flagella  are  slender  with  round  joints. 
In  the  male  the  second  and  especially  the  third  joint  of  the  antennular  peduncles 
is  much  thickened,  the  second  slightly  shorter  than  in  the  female,  but  the  third 
slightly  shorter  than  the  second  and  gradually  more  thickened  towards  the  end. 
The  male  antennular  flagella  are  very  characteristic  (figs.  5b  and  5c) ;  the  upper 
flagellum  is  somewhat  shorter  than  the  peduncle  (fig.  5a),  6-jointed;  the  four 
proximal  joints  rather  slender,  but  the  first  a  little  expanded  towards  the  base, 
the  second  extremely  short,  and  the  fourth  is  distinctly  depressed  and  begins  to 
be  a  little  expanded;  the  two  distal  joints  together  considerably  longer  than  the 
sum  of  the  four  proximal  joints,  flattened,  the  fifth  distally  much  expanded 
inwards  with  the  inner  margin  of   the  broadest  part   finely  serrate,  the  sixth 


282  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

joint  oblong-triangular,  a  little  longer  than  the  fifth  and  finely  serrate  along  the 
inner  margin.  The  lower  flagellum  is  not  fully  half  as  long  again  as  the  upper, 
9-jointed,  the  basal  joint  long  and  extremely  thickened  towards  the  base,  with  a 
large  tuft  of  innumerable,  thin  sensory  setae;  the  second  joint  is  extremely 
short,  the  third  long  and  slender,  the  fourth  much  shorter,  compressed,  and 
distinctly  widened  towards  the  end,  while  the  five  distal  joints  increase  in  length 
to  the  last,  all  being  besides  strongly  compressed,  with  the  upper  margin  finely 
serrate. 

The  antennal  squama  is  long,  rather  narrow,  tapers  towards  the  end,  with 
an  outer  tooth  reaching  beyond  the  short,  oblique  or  transverse  terminal  margin; 
it  reaches  in  the  male  to  or  a  little  beyond  the  end  of  third  joint  of  the  antennular 
peduncle  (fig.  5a),  in  the  female  beyond  the  middle  of  that  joint  but  never  to  its 
end;  the  two  distal  joints  of  the  special  peduncle  of  the  endopod  (a')  are  very 
thin  and  taken  together  extremely  long,  reaching  far  behind  the  end  of  the 
squama. 

The  maxillulae  (fig.  5d)  difTer  only  in  minor  details  from  those  of  S.  longi- 
corne  (fig.  4a)  and  the  same  is  the  case  with  the  maxillae  (fig.  5e),  the  latter 
being,  however,  proximally  somewhat  broader  in  proportion  to  the  length  and 
have  the  fourth  joint  marked  off  at  the  inner  margin  from  the  lobe  of  third 
joint. 

Fig.  5f,  representing  the  inner  and  the  median  lobe  of  the  copulatory  organ, 
illustrates  especially  the  great  difference  in  thickness  between  the  terminal  and 
the  proximal  process  (p-.  and  p^)  which,  as  pointed  out  in  the"Siboga"  paper, 
is  the  best  specific  character  in  this  organ  for  S.  abbrematum  in  contradistinction 
to  S.  jnaximum.  (The  copulatory  organ  of  the  latter  species  has  been  figured 
in  the  paper  named). 

Length  of  a  good-sized  male  15  mm.,  of  a  female  16  mm. 

Distribution. —  Most  of  the  localities  enumerated  in  the  literature  are  not 
trustworthy,  because  the  next  species  has  frequently  been  confounded  with  S. 
abbrematum.  Sars's  type  is  from  the  tropical  Atlantic,  and  the  Copenhagen 
Museum  possesses  two  specimens  from  the  same  area,  viz.  Lat.  2.3°  31'  N., 
long.  22°  41'  W.,  and  Lat.  18°  S.,  long.  2°  W.;  a  number  of  specimens  are  at 
hand  from  the  area  in  the  northern  temperate  Atlantic  explored  by  the  Prince 
of  Monaco.  Furthermore  it  has  been  captured  at  some  .Stations  in  the  Inchan 
Archipelago  by  the  "Siboga."  It  is  widely  distributed  in  the  Pacific;  according 
to  the  list  of  Stations,  Expedition  of  1904-1905,  it  is  rather  common  in  the 
southern  part  in  the  area  explored,  going  northwards  to  about  Lat.  65°  S. ;   but 


EUPHAUSIACEA.  2S3 

furthermore  it  was  taken  at   the  Fiji  Lslaiuls  aiul  in  the  North  Pacific;    Ort- 
mann's  specimen  from  tlic  H  awaiian  Islands  belongs  to  this  species,  while  his 
specimen  from  off  Galera  Point  is  too  poor  for  determination. —  The  species  has 
very  rarely   been  taken  at  the  surface. 

40.     Stylocheiron  maximum  II.  J.  H.\nsen. 

1908.     Stylocheiron  maximum  H.  J.  H.^nsen,  The  Danish  Ingolf-ExpecL,  3,  2,  p.  92. 
1910.     Stylocheiron  ma.rimum  H.  J.  Hansen,  Siboga-Exp.,  37,  p.  121,  pi.  16,  figs.  6a-6d. 

Sta.  41346.  Nov.  S,  1904.  Lat.  4°  1.6' S.,  long.  89°  16.3' W.     300  fnis.  to  surface.     1  spedmen. 

St.a.  4679.  Dec.    7,  1904.  Lat.  17°  26.4'  S.,  long.  86°  46.5'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4707.  Dec.  29, 1904.  Lat.  12°  32.2'  S.,  long.  97°  42'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4713.  Jan.    1,190.5.  Lat.  5°  35.3' S.,  long.  92°  21.6' W.     .300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4716.  Jan.    2,1905.  Lat.  2°  18.5' S.,  long.  90°  2.6' W.     600  fms.  to  .surface.     1  specimen. 

Sta.  4724.  Jan.  17,  1905.  Lat.  11°  13.4'  S.,  long.  109°  39'  W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     2  specimens. 

Sta.  4742.  Feb.  15, 1905.  Lat.  0°  3.4' N.,  long.  117°  15.8' W.     300  fms.  to  surface.     1  specimen. 

Remarks. —  The  material  is  somewhat  poor  in  quality,  most  of  the  speci- 
mens being  not  well  preserved  and  only  two,  both  females,  are  adult.  For  this 
reason  a  representation  of  this  large  and  fine  species  must  be  postponed. 

Distribution. —  In  the  Atlantic  S.  maximum  extends  northwards  to  Lat. 
61°  49'  N.,  long.  14°  11'  W.,  West  of  the  Fseroes  ("  Ingolf "  Exp.),  and  it  is  not 
uncommon  in  the  area  explored  by  the  Prince  of  Monaco.  Finally  it  was  taken 
at  some  few  localities  in  the  Indian  Archipelago  by  the  "Siboga." 


LARVAL  STAGES  OF  EUPHAUSIACEA. 

Plate  12. 

The  collection  contains  a  large  number  of  larvae  in  various  stages  of  develop- 
ment. But  more  than  two  thirds  belong  to  the  genus  Euphausia  and  are  not 
very  interesting;  a  smaller  number  in  the  later  stages  of  development  can  be 
named  with  certainty,  but  it  is  impossible  to  refer  most  of  them  to  the  forms  to 
which  they  belong.  Sars  has  given  a  very  detailed  account  of  the  metamorphosis 
of  his  Euphausia  pellucida,  and  though  this  species  —  according  to  his  list  of 
synonymy,  his  figures,  and  many  of  his  specimens  examined  by  me  —  comprises 
at  least  three  allied  species,  and  though  it  is  impossible  to  decide  whether  the 
larvae  described  and  figured  by  him  as  stages  of  E.  pellucida  in  reality  belong 
to  a  single  or  to  two  or  three  closely  allied  species,  his  figures  and  descriptions  do 
give  an  excellent  account  of  the  development  of  animals  of  the  krohnii- group. 
The  time  is  still  remote  when  it  may  be  possible  to  give  a  full  account  of  the 
metamorphosis  of  at  least  several  species  of  the  rich  genus  Euphausia,  a  task 


284  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

which,  for  the  others,  must  always  be  very  difficult,  as  frequently  it  will  be  next 
to  impossible  to  find  specific  characters  for  every  stage  of  every  species.  As  the 
number  of  species  of  the  genus  Euphausia  collected  by  the  Agassiz  expedition 
1904-1905  is  fourteen,  and  it  may  be  expected  that  larvae  of  the  majority  of  these 
species  exist  in  the  material,  it  will  instantly  be  seen  that  to  solve  the  difficulties 
connected  with  the  endeavour  to  refer  the  older  larval  stages  to  their  proper 
form  and  then  in  a  similar  way  to  proceed  from  older  to  younger  stages  would 
have  been  in  most  cases  at  least  very  great  and  sometimes  or  frequently  impos- 
sible. Under  such  circumstances  I  thought  it  better  not  to  make  a  hazardous 
attempt  to  work  out  the  material  of  these  larvae,  with  the  exception  of  some  few 
presenting  a  somewhat  peculiar  aspect  and  belonging  to  a  single  species.  But 
I  thought  it  useful  and  safer  to  describe  a  number  of  larvae  of  five  other  genera, 
hoping  thereby  to  give  an  addition  of  some  little  importance  to  our  knowledge 
of  the  larvae  of  this  order,  especially  as  I  am  able  to  refer  most  of  these  larvae 
to  the  species  in  question. 

THYSANOPODA  sp.  (T.  monacantha  aff). 
Plate  12,  figs,  la-lg. 

A.  Fir&l  Furcilia-Stage  (figs.  la-Id). —  The  frontal  plate  (fig.  lb)  very 
long,  nearly  as  long  as  broad  at  the  base;  its  lateral  margins  proximally  concave, 
more  distally  convex  and  then  almost  straight  to  the  slightly  acuminate,  acute 
tip;  the  upper  surface  a  little  concave  longitudinally. —  The  carapace  has  a 
fine  denticle  on  the  lower  margin  somewhat  before  its  posterior  end  (fig.  la); 
seen  from  the  side  a  short,  but  somewhat  high  keel,  including  the  dorsal  organ,  is 
seen  on  the  upper  margin  considerably  nearer  to  the  posterior  margin  than  to 
base  of  the  frontal  plate. —  The  eyes  are  large,  yellow  with  the  central  part  black, 
but  they  do  not  reach  beyond  the  sides  of  the  carapace  (fig.  lb),  as  their  stalks 
are  short. —  The  antennular  peduncles  short  and  very  robust;  first  joint  ex- 
tremely broad,  with  its  distal  outer  process  reaching  the  end  of  third  joint  and 
furnished  with  fine  spines  on  the  inner  margin;  second  joint  broader  than  long 
with  two  very  long,  plumose  setae  on  the  inner  margin;  third  joint  nearly  half 
as  long  again  as  the  second  and  a  little  longer  than  broad,  with  terminal  setae 
and  three  very  long,  plumose  setae  on  the  inner  margin;  botli  flagella  are  one- 
jointed,  the  upper  much  shoi-ter  and  thinner  than  the  lower  which  is  a  little 
shorter  than  the  third  peduncular  joint. —  The  antennae  (figs,  la  and  lb)  with 
both  rami  one-jointed  and  terminating  in  a  bundle  of  extremely  long,  plumose 


THYSANOPODA  SP.  285 

setae;  outer  ramus  much  shorter  than  the  inner. —  The  maxillipeds  (fig.  la, 
mxp.)  with  the  exopod  longer  than  the  endopod. —  First  pair  of  tlioracic  legs 
are  only  short,  simple  protuberances,  and  no  distinct  vestige  of  following  pairs 
is  observed. 

The  abdomen  (fig.  la)  with  the  upper  part  of  second  segment  distinctly- 
elongate  and  dorsally  a  little  protruding  towards  the  hind  margin ;  sixth  segment 
as  long  as  the  sum  of  the  two  preceding  segments  and  somewhat  longer  than 
deep. —  First  pair  of  pleopods  shaped  as  a  very  oblong,  naked  joint;  the  follow- 
ing pleopods  visible  only  as  low  knots  covered  by  the  "epimera." — The  uro- 
pods  (fig.  Ic)  reach  conspicuously  beyond  the  middle  of  the  telson.—  Telson 
almost  two  and  a  half  times  as  long  as  sixth  segment,  scarcely  three  and  a  half 
times  as  long  as  broad  and  narrower  somewhat  from  the  end  than  at  the  base; 
its  end  (fig.  Id)  with  seven  moderately  short,  distally  very  slender  spines,  and  at 
each  side  near  the  end  three  spines,  the  distal  long  and  very  strong  with  fine 
spines  along  more  than  the  proximal  half  of  its  inner  margin,  the  intermediate 
spine  a  little  less  strong  but  still  somewhat  longer  than  the  distal  and  showing 
similar  armature;  the  proximal  spine  strong  but  only  one  third  as  long  as  the 
next. 

Length  3.7  mm. 

The  two  specimens  described  are  from  "Albatross"  Sta.  46.35,  November  4, 
1904;  surface.  A  third  specimen  from  the  same  Station  is  intermediate  between 
the  first  and  the  last  Fm-cilia-stage. 

B.  Last  Furcilia-Stage  (figs,  le-lg).— The  frontal  plate  (fig.  If)  a  little 
shorter  and  somewhat  broader  than  in  the  first  Furcilia-stage;  the  dorsal  keel 
is  smaller  and  situated  nearer  to  the  base  of  the  frontal  plate  than  to  the  pos- 
terior margin  of  the  carapace  (fig.  le). —  The  antennulae  are  somewhat  longer 
(fig.  If);  the  process  from  first  joint  reaches  the  middle  of  the  third  joint;  the 
second  joint  nearly  longer  than  broad;  the  lower  flagellum  as  long  as  the  third 
peduncular  joint  and  somewhat  longer  than  the  upper  flagellum.  The  antennae 
and  the  maxillipeds  essentially  as  in  the  preceding  stage.^The  first  pair  of 
thoracic  legs  not  longer  than  the  maxillipeds,  with  the  endopod  divided  mto 
some  joints,  the  exopod  very  short  and  two  branchial  filaments;  second  pair 
nearly  rudimentary  with  a  four-branched  gill;  third  pair  rudimentary  with  a 
small  three-branched  gill. 

Second  abdominal  segment  protrudes  as  in  the  preceding  stage;  sixth 
segment  more  than  half  as  long  again  as  deep.^  First  pair  of  pleopods  with  both 
rami  present  and  setiferous  but  the  endopod  is  very  short;   second  pair  a  little 


286  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

shorter  with  the  exopod  setiferous  but  no  endopod.  Third  to  fifth  pair  nearly 
rudimentary,  oblong,  with  a  transverse  suture  but  without  setae. —  The  uropods 
reach  nearly  the  proximal  pair  of  spines  on  the  terminal  part  of  the  telson. 
This  terininal  part  (fig.  Ig)  is  very  different  from  that  of  first  Furcilia-stage ; 
the  terminal  margin  is  convex  with  only  five  spines  and  the  median  spine  longer 
and  stronger  than  the  others,  which  are  a  httle  shorter  than  in  the  earlier  stage; 
of  the  distal  lateral  spines  the  intermediate  pair  are  nearly  as  in  the  preceding 
stage  (in  the  single  specimen  the  left  spine  is  normal,  the  right  shorter  and  without 
fine  marginal  spines),  the  proximal  pair  are  short  and  slender,  while  the  distal 
pair  are  longer  and  stronger  than  the  intermediate,  straight,  with  only  two  or 
three  fine  spines  on  the  inner  margin. 

Length  of  the  single  specimen  5  nrmi. 

The  specimen  is  from  "Albatross"  Sta.  4710;   December  30,  1904.    Surface. 

Remarks. —  That  the  two  stages  described  belong  to  the  same  species  is 
easily  seen  from  the  shape  of  the  frontal  plate,  the  antennulae,  the  eyes,  and  the 
second  abdominal  segment.  It  is  closely  allied  to  T.  monacantha  Ortm.  {T. 
agassizii  Ortm.)  but  can  scarcely  be  that  species.  The  "Siboga"  material 
contained  specimens  of  tlie  last  Furcilia-stage,  furthermore  a  young  animal  in 
which  the  process  from  the  two  proximal  antennular  joints  had  begun  to  develop 
^  so  that  this  specimen  could  with  absolute  certainty  be  referred  to  T.  mona- 
cantha —  and  besides  two  stages  intermediate  between  the  last-named  speci- 
men and  the  last  Furcilia-stage,  and  it  is  quite  sure  that  all  these  specimens 
belong  to  the  same  species.  But  the  specimens  in  the  last  Furcilia-stage  from 
the  "Siboga"  differ  from  the  specimen  in  the  Agassiz  collection  just  described 
by  having  the  body  a  httle  shorter  and  somewhat  more  clumsy,  the  eyes  some- 
what larger,  the  frontal  plate  a  little  different  in  shape,  tlie  second  abdoininal 
segment  less  protruding  above  and  besides  showing  an  interesting  difference  in 
the  telson.  Though  the  thoracic  and  abdominal  appendages  show  the  same 
degree  of  development  in  the  specimens  in  last  Furcilia-stage  from  both  col- 
lections, the  Agassiz  specimen,  which  is  a  little  longer  than  those  from  the 
"Siboga,"  has  the  distal  part  of  the  telson  less  developed  than  the  "Siboga" 
specimens,  as  the  long  postero-lateral  spines  of  the  intermediate  pair  found  in 
the  Agassiz  specimen  are  lost  in  the  "Siboga"  specimens  (Siboga-Exp.,  37, 
pi.  13,  fig.  3g). 

It  is,  I  think,  very  improbable  that  the  differences  pointed  out  between 
specimens  in  the  last  Furcilia-stage  from  the  Indian  Archipelago  and  the  tropical 
East  Pacific  can  be  found  in  lar^■ae  of  the  same  species  from  two  distant  areas. 


EUPHAUSIA  DISTINGITENDA.  287 

And  after  a  renewed  examination  of  tlie  "kSiboga"  material  I  consider  my  inter- 
pretation or  reference  of  these  animals  as  quite  certain.  The  above-described 
larvae  must  therefore  belong  to  a  species  alUed  to  T.  monacantha  {T.  agassizii) 
and  according  to  my  knowledge  of  young  animals  of  T.  pedinala,  T.  orienlalis, 
T.  aequalis,  and  T.  obtusifrons  they  cannot  belong  to  any  of  these  forms,  but 
most  probably  to  T.  cristaia  G.  O.  S.,  which  is  larger  than  T.  monacantha  and 
agrees  with  it  in  having  a  lateral  furrow  somewhat  above  the  lower  margin  of 
the  carapace. 

Euphausia  distinguenda  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Plate  12,  figs.  2a-2c. 

Last  Furcilia-Stage. —  Slender. —  The  frontal  plate  (fig.  2b)  is  large,  scarcely 
twice  as  broad  as  long,  anteriorly  very  broadly  rounded  but  with  a  quite  minute 
acute  tooth  representing  the  rostrum.  The  dorsal  keel  of  the  carapace  situated 
nearly  equally  distant  from  the  rostrum  and  from  the  posterior  margin;  it  is 
high,  subtriangular,  with  the  front  margin  rather  steep;  the  tooth  situated  far 
behind  on  the  lateral  margins  of  the  carapace  is  large. 

The  eye-stalks  are  uncommonly  long,  almost  longer  than  broad  (fig.  2b) 
and  conspicuously  longer  than  deep  (fig.  2a) . —  The  antennulae  are  half  devel- 
oped; the  distal  process  from  the  first  peduncular  joint  reaches  not  fully  to  the 
end  of  third  joint;  the  flagella  are  equal  in  length,  somewhat  longer  than  the 
sum  of  the  two  distal  peduncular  joints,  three-jointed. —  The  antennae  have 
the  exopod  somewhat  shorter  than  the  endopod  and  not  yet  developed  as 
squama. —  The  maxillipeds  with  both  rami  equal  in  length  and  the  exopod  one- 
jointed. —  First  pair  of  thoracic  legs  twice  as  long  as  the  maxiUipeds;  endopod 
with  the  full  number  of  joints  with  only  a  few  short  setae  at  the  end;  the  exopod 
not  quite  half  as  long  as  the  endopod;  a  minute  bipartite  branchia  is  visible. 
Second  pair  of  legs  nearly  rudimentary,  with  a  minute  branchial  rudiment; 
third  pah"  scarcely  visible. 

The  four  anterior  pairs  of  pleopods  with  both  rami  setiferous;  the  exopod 
as  long  as  the  stalk,  while  the  endopod  is  minute.  Fifth  pair  of  pleopods  small, 
naked,  with  a  transverse  suture. —  Distal  part  of  telson  (fig.  2c)  with  three 
terminal  spines,  the  intermediate  spine  somewhat  longer  than  the  others,  and 
with  three  pairs  of  lateral  spines,  the  distal  pair  a  little  longer  than  and  twice  as 
broad  as  the  intermediate,  while  the  proximal  pair  are  minute. 

Length  of  the  specimen  described  and  figured  2.8  mm. 

The  specimen  is  from  the  "Albatross"  Sta.  4588;  October  12,  1904. 
Surface. 


288  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

Remarks. —  The  reference  of  this  larva  to  E.  distinguenda  H.  J.  H.  is  certain, 
because  I  have  a  nearly  complete  series  of  the  following  stages  of  development 
and  growth  up  to  the  adult  specimens.  The  larvae  of  the  stage  described  are 
distinguished  from  those  of  other  species  by  the  combination  of  possessing  a 
slender  body,  a  high  and  anteriorly  steep  dorsal  keel  and  somewhat  long  eye- 
stalks.  A  comparison  between  the  larvae  just  described  with  the  corresponding 
stage  described  and  figured  by  Sars  as  belonging  to  E.  pellucida  ("  Challenger  " 
Rept.,  pi.  29,  fig.  7  and  pi.  30,  fig.  40)  is  not  without  interest.  In  certain  respects 
Sars's  larva  is  more,  in  other  features  less,  developed  than  the  larva  of  E.  dis- 
tinguenda; E.  pellucida  has  the  second  pair  of  thoracic  legs  considerably  longer 
than  E.  distinguenda,  and  the  last  j^air  of  pleopods  with  both  rami  setiferous, 
while  the  telson  has  still  seven  terminal  spines  and  the  antennular  flagella  are  a 
little  less  developed  than  in  E.  distinguenda. —  Similar  cases  of  differences  in 
the  development  between  various  species  of  the  genus  Euphausia  have  been 
pointed  out  in  my  paper  on  the  Schizopoda  of  the  Belgian  Antarctic  Expedition. 

Nyctiphanes  simplex  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Plate  12,  figs.  3a-3f. 

A.  Intermediate  F urcilia-Stage  (figs.  3a-3d). —  The  frontal  plate  (fig.  3b) 
very  large,  somewhat  less  than  twice  as  broad  as  long,  longitudinally  concave 
and  anteriorly  cut  off,  with  the  front  margin  about  half  as  long  as  the  basal 
breadth  of  the  plate  and  conspicuously  concave  but  not  angular  at  the  middle; 
the  antero-lateral  angles  feebly  produced,  acute. —  The  carapace  has  a  well- 
developed  tooth  on  the  lateral  margin,  while  the  usual  dorsal  keel  is  very  short 
and  low,  placed  a  little  farther  from  the  end  of  the  frontal  plate  than  from  the 
posterior  margin. 

The  eyes  are  extremely  large  with  moderately  long  stalks. —  The  antennulae 
are  very  thick;  the  process  from  first  peduncular  joint  reaches  beyond  the  middle 
of  the  third;  second  and  third  joints  slightly  longer  than  broad;  the  upper 
flagellum  thick,  nearly  conical,  unjointed  and  a  little  longer  than  the  lower. — 
Antennae  with  the  rami  subsimilar  in  shape,  but  the  exopod  a  little  shorter  than 
the  endopod. —  Maxillipeds  (mxp.)  with  the  exopod  a  Uttle  shorter  than  the 
endopod. —  First  pair  of  thoracic  legs  scarcely  as  long  as  the  maxillipeds,  with  a 
rudimentary  exopod  and  a  small  two-branched  gill;  the  endopod  has  one  dis- 
tinct and  two  indistinct  articulations.  Second  pair  half  as  long  as  the  first, 
with  a  rudimentary  ])ranchia;  third  pair  quite  rudimentary. 

First  and  second  pairs  of  pleopods  with  the  exopod  well  developed,  seti- 


NYCTIPHANES  SIMPLEX.  289 

ferous,  while  the  endopod  is  minute  and  naked.  The  three  posterior  jiairs 
somewhat  shorter  than  the  second  pair;  the  exopod  well  defined,  as  long  as  the 
stalk  and  without  terminal  setae. —  Sixth  abdominal  segment  somewhat  longer 
than  the  fifth  and  rather  thick. —  The  uropods  reach  a  little  beyond  the  middle 
of  telson. —  The  telson  (fig.  3c)  is  a  httle  broader  near  the  end  than  at  the  base. 
The  terminal  margin  (fig.  3d)  transverse,  straight,  with  seven  spines,  which 
increase  somewhat  in  length  from  the  median  spine  outwards  and  have  the 
proximal  major  part  at  each  side  furnished  with  minute  denticles;  the  inter- 
mediate pair  of  postero-lateral  spines  slightly  longer  and  a  little  less  thick  than 
the  inner  pair,  which  is  more  than  twice  as  long  as  the  outer  terminal  spine; 
the  outer  postero-lateral  spine  less  than  half  as  long  as  the  intermediate  pair. 

Length  of  the  specimen  described  3.2  mm. 

Last  Furdlia-Stage  (figs.  3e-3f). —  Carapace  with  frontal  plate  almost 
as  in  the  preceding  stage. —  Antennulae  considerably  longer,  but  the  process 
from  the  first  joint  is  still  as  long  as  in  the  stage  described,  while  the  flagella 
are  about  as  long  as  the  sum  of  the  two  distal  peduncular  joints,  setiferous  at 
the  end  but  with  articulations  very  indistinct;  the  lower  flagellum  is  a  little 
longer  and  considerably  thicker  than  the  upper. —  Antennae  still  as  in  the 
intermediate  stage. —  The  endopod  of  the  maxillipeds  somewhat  longer  and 
thicker  than  the  exopod,  with  a  few  feeble  articulations. —  First  pair  of  thoracic 
legs  considerably  developed;  the  endopod  reaches  the  base  of  the  antennae, 
is  distally  setiferous  and  with  the  final  number  of  joints;  the  exopod  still  un- 
join ted  and  without  setae;  the  gill  with  two  long  branches  and  one  very  short 
branch. —  Second  pair  somewhat  less  developed  than  the  first,  as  the  endopod 
is  somewhat  shorter,  but  yet  with  the  end  setose  and  the  full  number  of  joints, 
while  the  gill-branches  are  a  little  shorter  than  in  first  legs. —  Third  pair  of  legs 
less  than  half  cis  long  as  second  pair  but  with  the  gill  quite  similar;  the  two  next 
pairs  of  legs  are  small  rudiments. 

The  three  anterior  pairs  of  pleopods  have  the  endopod  almost  half  as  long 
as  the  exopod  and  distally  setiferous;  in  the  two  posterior  pairs  the  exopod  is 
well  developed,  setiferous,  while  the  endopod  is  small  and  naked. —  Sixth  ab- 
dominal segment  as  usually  conspicuously  longer  than  in  the  intermediate  stage ; 
its  uropods  reach  somewhat  beyond  the  middle  of  the  telson  (fig.  3e). —  The 
telson  (figs.  3e  and  3f)  is  a  little  more  than  four  times  as  long  as  broad  and 
slightly  broader  at  the  base  than  somewhat  before  the  end;  the  terminal  margin 
is  a  good  deal  shorter  than  in  the  preceding  stage,  but  still  with  the  seven  spines, 
which  are  even  somewhat  smaller  than  before;  among  the  postero-lateral  spines 


290  PSEUDEUPHAUSIA  LATIFRONS. 

the  two  outer  pairs  are  nearly  as  in  the  preceding  stage,  but  the  inner  pair  are 
almost  twice  as  broad. 

Length  of  the  specimen  described  3.7  nun. 

Remarks. —  By  the  distally  broad  and  emarginate  frontal  plate  the  larvae 
of  Nyctiphanes  and  Pseudeuphausia  differ  strongly  from  those  of  all  other 
Euphausiacea.  The  above-described  larvae  were  chosen  among  a  good  number 
of  larvae  and  young  and  adult  specimens  from  Sta.  4655,  Nov.  12,  1904,  Surface. 
Young  specimens  with  the  frontal  plate  distally  emarginate  and  the  character- 
istic lobe  of  first  antennular  joint  high  but  not  yet  fully  developed  have  been 
described  on  p.  228.  This  lobe  begins  to  protrude  conspicuously  in  a  specimen 
measuring  about  4.5  mm.,  and  in  this  specimen  the  telson  has  nearly  acquired 
its  final  shape.  Specimens  measuring  4.5-5  mm.  are  therefore  easy  to  determine 
by  aid  of  the  lobe  mentioned  as  Nyctiphanes,  for  Pseudeuphausia  latifrons 
G.  O.  S.  does  not  possess  such  a  high  protuberance;  the  differences  between 
larvae  of  Nyctiphanes  simplex  still  without  the  antennular  lobe  and  stages  of 
Pseudeuphausia  of  the  same  size  are  pointed  out  below. 

The  larvae  described  show  that  they  acquire  a  rather  considerable  size  before 
the  appendages  are  half  developed  and  before  the  end  of  the  telson  begins  to 
lose  its  larval  armature,  though  adult  specimens  are  rather  small.  The  distal 
process  of  first  antennular  joint  remains  very  long  until  the  specimens  are  con- 
siderably more  than  half  grown,  and  the  dorsal  carina  of  the  carapace  is  very 
small  even  in  the  youngest  larva  described. 

Pseudeuphausia  latifrons  G.  O.  Saks. 
Plate  12,  figs.  4a-4b. 

As  stated  above.  Dr.  Agassiz  collected  at  the  Fiji  Islands  a  number  of  speci- 
mens, among  which  are  a  few  larval  forms;  and  from  the  "Siboga"  I  have 
several  larvae  in  the  Furcilia-  and  Calyp topis-stages.  And  they  are  mentioned 
chiefly  for  comparison  with  those  of  Nyctiphanes  simplex. 

The  larvae  of  Pseudeuphausia  differ  from  those  of  Nyctiphanes  simplex 
especially  in  three  features,  viz.  they  are,  when  chosen  in  the  same  stage,  con- 
siderably smaller,  their  antennular  peduncles  are  more  slender  and  the  frontal 
plate  is  not  only  more  deeply  emarginate,  but  the  emargination  is  not  rounded, 
but  angular  at  the  middle.  The  anterior  and  the  posterior  parts  of  the  youngest 
Agassiz  specimen  are  rendered  in  figs.  4a  and  4b,  and  a  view  on  these  figures 
shows  that  the  antennular  flagella  and  the  telson  are  considerably  more  devel- 
oped than  in  the  above-described  specimen  in  last  Furciha-stage  of  Nyctiphanes, 


NEMATOSCELIS  MICROPS.  291 

though  the  specimen  is  only  3.2  mm.,  thus  as  long  as  the  intermediate  Furcilia- 
stage  of  Nyctiphanes;  it  may  be  added  that  the  thoracic  legs  are  also  somewhat 
more  developed  than  in  the  last  Furcilia-stage  of  Nyctiphanes  measuring  3.7 
mm.  Fig.  4b  shows  that  the  telson  tapers  gradually  to  the  insertion  of  the  outer 
pair  of  postero-lateral  spines,  that  the  intermediate  pair  of  these  spines  are  very 
slender,  the  inner  pair  somewhat  strong  with  the  fine  denticles  along  their  inner 
margin,  while  the  telson  itself  is  produced  in  an  acute  spine  and  the  terminal 
spines  are  wanting. 

A  specimen  in  the  intermediate  Furcilia-stage  (from  the  "Siboga")  is 
2.7  mm.  long;  its  pleopods  are  developed  about  as  in  the  same  stage  of  Nycti- 
phanes, while  its  antennular  flagella  and  two  anterior  pairs  of  thoracic  legs  are 
a  little  more  developed  than  in  the  latter  form.  But  the  telson  is  quite  different, 
as  to  shape  of  itself  and  relative  size  of  the  three  pairs  of  postero-lateral  pairs 
similar  not  to  the  first  but  to  the  last  Furcilia-stage  of  Nyctiphanes,  while  the 
terminal  transverse  margin  of  telson  is  short  with  only  thi*ee  small  spines. 

Nematoscelis  microps  G.  O.  Sars. 
Plate  12,  figs.  5a-5c. 

Last  Furcilia-Stage. —  The  frontal  plate  is  very  long,  linguiform,  longitudi- 
nally somewhat  excavated,  anteriorly  broadly  rounded  at  the  sides  and  at  the 
middle  produced  in  a  very  small,  tooth-shaped  rostrum  (fig.  5b);  the  dor.sal 
keel  of  the  carapace  is  long  and  high,  oblong-triangular,  with  the  upper  angle 
rounded  and  the  front  margin  rather  steep,  situated  a  little  nearer  to  the  posterior 
margin  than  to  the  rostrum;  the  tooth  on  the  lateral  margins  of  the  carapace 
is  very  large,  du-ected  much  downwards  and  originating  at  the  posterior  margin 
(fig.  5a). 

The  eyes  have  the  lower  section  rather  well  developed,  but  the  upper  section 
is  very  small. —  The  antennular  peduncles  are  rather  slender;  the  process  from 
the  first  joint  does  not  reach  the  end  of  second  joint,  which  is  a  little  more  than 
twice  as  long  as  thick  and  conspicuously  shorter  and  thicker  than  the  third;  the 
flagella  are  very  short,  unjointed;  the  lower  with  a  single  terminal  seta  (omitted 
in  the  figures) . —  Antennae  and  maxillipeds  completely  larval  in  shape  and 
tegumental  surface;  the  exopod  of  the  maxillipeds  a  little  longer  than  the  endo- 
pod. —  First  thoracic  legs  somewhat  developed;  the  endopod  reaches  slightly  in 
front  of  the  end  of  rostrum,  has  the  full  number  of  joints  with  last  joint  termi- 
nating in  a  few  spines;  a  branchial  lobe  is  visible. —  Second  thoracic  legs  rather 
small,  with  the  endopod  scarcely  twice  as  long  as  the  exopod  and  the  branchia 


292  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

lobes  somewhat  short  and  broad;  of  third  pair  of  legs  only  the  branchia  is 
discernible. 

The  four  anterior  pairs  of  pleopods  with  the  exopod  well  developed,  seti- 
ferous,  while  the  endopod  is  very  small  with  a  single  seta.  Fifth  pair  of 
pleopods  small,  with  the  naked  exopod  marked  off. —  The  uropods  reach  con- 
siderably beyond  the  middle  of  telson;  the  endopod  is  longer  than  the  exopod. — ■ 
Telson  tapers  in  breadth  from  the  base  to  a  little  before  the  outer  postero-lateral 
spines ;  the  distal  part  is  intermediate  as  to  shape  and  spines  between  the  earlier 
larval  stages  and  the  fully  developed  specimens;  in  the  earlier  stages  three  pairs 
of  postero-lateral  spines  and  seven  terminal  spines  are  found,  while  in  the  adult 
the  intermediate  pair  of  lateral  spines  and  all  terminal  spines  are  wanting;  in 
the  specimen  mentioned  here  the  terminal  margin  is  short  with  three  spines, 
the  middle  spine  much  shorter  than  the  submedian  spines,  each  of  which  has  a 
strong  spiniform  denticle  on  each  side  before  the  middle;  furthermore,  the 
intermediate  pair  of  postero-lateral  spines  are  lost,  while  the  inner  pair  are 
extremely  broad,  \'ery  long  and  furnished  with  a  number  of  fine  spines  on  the 
major  proximal  part  of  the  inner  margin. 

The  specimen  described  is  3.5  mm.  long. 

Remarks. —  The  shape  and  tegument  with  spines  of  the  first  pair  of  thoracic 
legs  proves  that  the  specimen  —  taken  at  Hyd.  Sta.  3789,  Lat.  2°  38'  N.,  long. 
137°  22'  W.,  September  9,  1899,  Surface  —  belongs  to  the  genus  Nematoscelis; 
furthermore  among  the  species  of  this  genus  it  must,  according  to  the  shape  of 
the  eyes  and  the  strong  development  of  the  dorsal  keel,  belong  to  either  N. 
microps  G.  0.  S.  or  N.  gracilis  H.  J.  H.  And  judging  from  the  very  high  and 
anteriorly  steep  dorsal  keel  I  have  referred  it  to  N.  microps. 

Whether  the  specimen  described  shall  be  referred  to  the  last  Furcilia-stage 
or  the  first  Cyrtopia-stage  is  almost  a  matter  of  free  choice.  But  it  may  be  of 
some  interest  to  compare  it  with  the  above-described  larva  of  Euphausia  dis- 
tinguenda.  In  both  larvae  the  four  anterior  pairs  of  pleopods  are  setiferous, 
the  thoracic  legs  are  nearly  equ  ally  developed  and  the  end  of  the  telson  has  only 
three  marginal  spines,  but  in  E.  distinguenda  the  intermediate  postero-lateral 
pair  of  spines  which  have  been  lost  in  Nematoscelis,  are  still  preserved,  while, 
on  the  other  hand,  the  antennular  flagella  are  very  short  and  unjointed  in  the 
latter,  but  somewhat  elongate  and  three-jointed  in  the  former  species.  This  is 
a  new  instance  of  the  above-mentioned  fact  that  as  to  the  consecutive  order 
of  the  development  of  appendages  and  telson  considerable  differences  are  found 
in  this  order. 


STYLOCHEIRON  CARINATUM.  293 

Stylocheiron  carinatuzn  G.  O.  Sars. 
Plate  12,  figs,  Ga-Gd. 

Intermediate  Furcilia-Stage  (figs.  6a-6c). —  The  frontal  plate  with  rostrum 
constitutes  a  rather  large  triangle  almost  as  long  as  broad  and  with  the  lateral 
margins  somewhat  concave  and  the  end  very  acute;  the  dorsal  keel  of  the  cara- 
pace is  low  and  placed  much  behind  its  middle;  the  lateral  margins  of  the 
carapace  are  without  any  tooth. 

The  eyes  have  the  lower  section  well  developed,  while  the  upper  is  small. — 
The  antennular  peduncles  are  rather  slender;  the  process  from  first  joint  reaches 
a  little  beyond  the  end  of  next  joint;  second  joint  almost  twice  as  long  as  broad, 
somewhat  shorter  than  the  third;  fiagella  unjointed,  upper  flagellum  much 
shorter  and  thinner  than  the  lower  which  is  about  half  as  long  as  third  peduncular 
joint. —  Antennae  and  maxillipeds  showing  the  usual  larval  development; 
two  anterior  pairs  of  thoracic  legs  rudimentary. 

First  pair  of  pleopods  with  the  exopod  setiferous;  the  two  following  pairs 
are  very  oblong,  undivided;  the  posterior  pairs  rudimentary,  scarcely  visible 
below  the  margin  of  the  lateral  plates. —  Sixth  abdominal  segment  as  long  as 
the  sum  of  the  two  preceding  segments. —  The  uropods  reach  much  beyond  the 
middle  of  the  telson. —  Telson  is  four  and  a  half  times  as  long  as  broad,  with  the 
distal  part  somewhat  narrower  than  the  proximal;  the  terminal  margin  (fig.  6c) 
is  long,  with  seven  rather  long,  naked  spines,  increasing  in  length  from  the 
median  spine  to  the  subangular  pair;  the  intermediate  pair  of  postero-lateral 
spines  are  very  long  and  strong,  a  little  longer  than  the  inner  pair  and  both  pairs 
with  about  five  or  six  fine  spines  along  a  good  part  of  their  inner  margin;  the 
proximal  third  pair  of  the  postero-lateral  spines  are  rather  small. 

The  specimen  is  2.8  mm.  long;  it  is  somewhat  poorly  preserved  so  that  I 
may  have  committed  some  inaccuracy  in  the  appendages  on  fig.  6a. —  The 
specimen  is  from  Sta.  4611,  October  18,  1904,  Surface. 

Last  Furcilia-Stage  (fig.  6d). —  The  triangle  formed  by  the  frontal  plate 
and  rostrum  in  the  main  as  in  the  preceding  stage,  but  the  lateral  margins  are 
nearly  straight;  the  dorsal  keel  of  the  carapace  is  placed  a  little  more  forwards 
but  still  considerably  behind  the  middle. —  Eyes  a  little  more  developed. — 
Antennulae  with  the  process  from  first  peduncular  joint  a  little  shorter  and  the 
still  undivided  lower  flagellum  conspicuously  longer  than  in  the  former  stage. — 
Endopods  of  first  and  second  pairs  of  thoracic  legs  more  than  half  developed, 
with  the  full  number  of  joints,  and  the  relative  size,  shape,  and  tegumental 


294  THE  SCHIZOPODA. 

surface  with  setae  of  the  two  distal  joints  of  second  pair  in  the  main  as  in  fully 
developed  specimens;  third  pair  of  legs  almost  rudimentary;  branchiae  rudi- 
mentary. 

The  three  anterior  pairs  of  pleopods  with  the  endopod  very  small  though 
terminating  in  a  seta  and  the  exopods  well  developed;  the  two  posterior  pairs 
are  smaller,  with  the  exopod  setiferous  while  the  endopod  is  rudimentary,  with- 
out any  seta. —  Telson  more  slender  than  in  the  preceding  stage;  its  terminal 
part  between  the  inner  postero-Iateral  spines  considerably  produced,  the  terminal 
margin  transverse  but  shorter  and  with  only  five  spines  proportionately  smaller 
than  in  the  preceding  stage;  the  inner  pair  of  postero-Iateral  spines  with  the 
proximal  half  a  little  broader  than  in  the  preceding  stage  and  considerably  broader 
than  the  intermediate  pair,  which  are  more  slender  than  in  preceding  stage. 

Length  of  the  specimen  described  3  mm. —  It  was  taken  at  Sta.  4588, 
October  12,  1904,  Surface. 

Remarks. —  The  shape  and  setae  of  the  two  distal  joints  of  the  second 
elongate  pair  of  legs  prove  beyond  doubt  that  the  last-named  specimen  belongs 
to  Stylocheiron  carinatum  G.  O.  S.  And  a  comparison  between  this  specimen 
and  the  specimen  in  the  intermediate  Furcilia-stage  gives  the  result,  that  both 
belong  to  the  same  species.  And  as  nothing  was  known  on  the  larval  stages 
of  any  species  of  the  aberrant  genus  Stylocheiron  I  find  it  useful  to  give  here  what 
I  can,  though  the  younger  specimen  is  not  well  preserved.  The  larvae  of  S. 
carinatum  differ  from  those  of  Nyctiphanes,  Thysanopoda,  Euphausia,  Pseud- 
euphausia,  and  Nematoscelis  by  having  no  denticle  on  the  lower  margin  of 
the  carapace;  I  think  that  this  feature  affords  a  good  generic  character;  yet 
it  may  be  very  possible  that  the  hitherto  unknown  larvae  of  the  genus  Nemato- 
brachion  agree  with  Stylocheiron  in  possessing  no  marginal  denticles.  The 
larvae  of  Stylocheiron  agree,  as  might  be  expected,  with  those  of  Nematoscelis 
(and  probably  of  Thysanoessa)  in  having  the  two  distal  peduncular  joints  of 
the  antennulae  more  slender  than  in  those  of  the  other  genera  mentioned,  but 
they  differ  from  the  larvae  of  Nematoscelis  by  the  shape  of  the  frontal  plate 
and  by  having  the  dorsal  keel  of  the  carapace  smaller  and  remarkably  far  behind 
the  middle.  But  judging  from  the  two  above-described  larval  stages  of  S. 
carinatum  the  development  and  structure  of  the  larvae  of  the  genus  Stylocheiron 
seems  to  deviate  but  little  from  other  genera  of  the  order. 


EUPHAUSIACEA.  295 

THE  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  EUPHAUSIACEA. 

As  already  stated,  the  Agassiz  Expedition  1904-1905  in  the  tropical  and 
subtropical  East  Pacific  secured  thirty-nine  species  of  the  order  Euphausiacea, 
thus  a  Uttle  more  than  half  of  the  species  known  from  all  Oceans  together. 
Among  these  thirty-nine  species  nineteen  are  at  present  known  both  from  the 
Atlantic  and  from  the  Indian  Ocean,  eight  from  the  Atlantic,  but  not  from  the 
Indian  Ocean,  five  from  the  Indian  Ocean  (in  the  main  from  the  Indian  Archi- 
pelago) but  not  from  the  Atlantic;  thus  thirty-two  of  the  thirty-nine  of  the 
species  enumerated  here  from  the  East  Pacific  are  known  from  at  least  one  of 
the  two  other  great  Oceans.  And  I  think  that  in  no  other  order  of  Invertebrates 
82  p.  c.  of  the  species  known  from  the  warm  area  of  the  East  Pacific  are  also 
known  either  from  one  of  the  two  other  Oceans  or  from  both!  Seven  species 
remain;  among  these  one,  viz.  Euphausia  gibba  G.  O.  S.,  is  also  known  from 
the  West  Pacific  (between  Api  and  Cape  York),  and  a  second,  E.  pacifica  H.  J.  H. 
is  widely  distributed  in  the  North  Pacific  and  has  been  taken  several  times 
near  Japan  and  Corea.  Deducting  these  forms  the  following  five  species:  — 
Nydiphanes  simplex  H.  J.  H.,  Euphausia  eximia  H.  J.  H.,  E.  distinguenda 
H.  J.  H.,  E.  lamelligera  H.  J.  H.,  and  E.  mucronata  G.  O.  S.  are  known  only 
from  the  East  Pacific,  but  one  among  them  E.  mucronata  has  also  been  captured 
off  Chile,  thus  more  southwards,  and  a  second,  Nydiphanes  simplex,  is  known 
from  the  Gulf  of  California  and  another  location  at  Lat.  351°  N.  Three  species 
remain  hitherto  not  known  to  me  from  any  Station  outside  the  area  explored 
in  1904-1905! 

As  to  the  distribution  within  the  area  explored  in  1904-1905  of  the  species 
taken  at  nurnerous  localities  I  do  not  venture  to  say  a  great  deal;  an  investi- 
gation of  thic  kind  must  be  connected  with  a  detailed  study  of  currents  and  tem- 
peratures. For  the  majority  of  the  species  in  question  I  have  in  the  passage  on 
distribution  pointed  out  the  limits  of  the  occurrence  within  the  area  explored, 
but  I  do  not  venture  to  attempt  a  more  general  treatment.  Only  one  interest- 
ing detail  I  may  call  attention  to.  When  two  closely  allied  species,  as  Euphausia 
diomedeae  Ortm.  and  E.  mutica  H.  J.  H.,  Nematoscelis  microps  G.  0.  S.  and  N. 
gracilis  H.  J.  H.,  were  both  taken  at  numerous  Stations,  they  were  only  taken 
together  at  some  few  Stations,  and  in  one  part  of  the  area  one  of  such  two  alUed 
species  was  very  common  but  quite  wanting  in  another  part,  while  the  second 
species,  which  was  absent  in  the  first  part,  was  common  in  the  other. 

Our  knowledge  of  the  bathymetrical  occurrence  and  distribution   is  rather 


296  THE  SCHIZOPODA.  » 

imperfect,  but  some  points  may  be  mentioned.  No  species  is  a  surface  form  to 
any  degree  comparable  with  Siriella  thompsonii  M.  Edw.  or  S.  gracilis  Dana 
(comp.  the  statements  on  p.  193  and  p.  194).  The  great  majority  of  the  species 
were  taken  only  in  "300  fms.  to  surface,"  but  the  material  in  the  Copenhagen 
Museum  proves  that  three  such  species,  viz.  Thysanopoda  tricuspidata  M.  Edw., 
T.  aequalis  H.  J.  H.,  and  Euphausia  pseudogibba  Ortm.  have  not  infrequently 
been  taken  at  the  surface.  The  lists  of  Stations  from  the  Agassiz  Expedition 
together  with  the  Copenhagen  material  shows  that  Euphausia  tenera  H.  J.  H., 
E.  lameUigera  H.  J.  H.,  the  members  of  the  A;ro /inii-group,  viz.  Euphausia 
eximia  H.  J.  H.,  E.  diomedeae  Ortm.,  E.  mutica  H.  J.  H.,  E.  brevis  H.  J.  H.,  (and 
E.  recurva  H.  J.  H.),  and  Stylochciron  carinatum  G.  0.  S.,  were  frequently  taken 
at  the  surface.  The  Agassiz  Stations  show  that  full-grown  specimens  of  Nema- 
toscelis  gracilis  H.  J.  H.  were  never  taken  at  the  surface  and  generally  in  "300 
fms.  to  surface,"  but  that  immature  or  generally  even  small  specimens  were 
taken  at  the  surface  at  a  few  Stations.  With  the  above-named  exceptions  the 
species  of  the  genera  Thysanopoda,  Nematoscelis,  Nematobrachion,  and  Sty- 
locheiron  have  very  rarely  or  never  been  taken  at  the  surface.  Specimens  of 
Bentheuphausia  amblyops  G.  O.  S.  have  been  captured  at  seven  Stations  in 
"300  fms.  to  surface,"  but  all  specimens  with  a  single  exception  seem  to  be  im- 
mature, and  judging  from  the  Monaco  material  the  adults  live  generally  in 
greater  depths.  Finally  the  adults  of  the  two  gigantic  species  Thysanopoda 
cornuta  Illig.  and  T.  egregia  probably  live  always  in  great  depths,  and  adult 
males  of  T.  monacantha  Ortm.  are  probably  unknown;  though  Dr.  Agassiz 
secured  specimens  of  the  last-named  species  at  eighteen  Stations  in  "300  fms. 
to  surface"  the  males  at  hand  seem  to  be  immature. 

It  may  still  be  mentioned  that  specimens  of  two  species,  Euphausia  dis- 
tinguenda  H.  J.  H.  and  Nematoscelis  gracilis  H.  J.  H.,  were  found  in  the  bottom 
of  the  Tanner  net  from  300  fms.  Of  the  first-named  species  both  adult  and 
especially  immature  or  small  specimens  were  also  taken  at  the  surface,  while  of 
N.  gracilis  only  young  specimens  were  taken  a  few  times  at  the  surface,  numerous 
adult  specimens  from  many  Stations  generally  in  "300  fms.  to  surface." 

Pseudeuphausia  latifrons  G.  O.  S.,  which  was  taken  at  the  Fiji  Islands  but 
not  in  1904-5,  may  be  mentioned  separately.  According  to  our  knowledge, 
especially  from  the  "Siboga,"  this  species  seems  to  hve  rather  near  the  coasts, 
frequently  in  shallow  water,  and  has,  for  instance,  been  captured  at  a  number 
of  anchorages. 


EXPLANATION    OF   THE    PLATES. 


PLATE    1. 


Fig. 

la. 

Fig. 

lb 

Fig. 

Ic. 

Fig. 

Id, 

Fig. 

le. 

PLATE  1. 

Fig.  1.    Chalaraspis  alata  Willemoes-Sdhm. 

Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  an  adult  male  from  Sta.  4719,  from  above;    X  v- 
Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  the  same  male,  from  the  left  side;    X  ^.     o.  eye. 
Right  antcnnal  squama  of  an  immature  specimen  from  Sta.  4672,  from  above;    X  13. 
Left  mandible  of  the  same  immature  specimen,  from  below;    X  V- 

Left  maxillula  of  the  same  immature  specimen,  from  below;    X  -r-     1-  first  joint;   1'. 
lobe  from  first  joint;   2.  second  joint;   3.  third  joint. 

Fig.  If.  Left  ma.xilla  of  the  same  immature  specimen,  from  below;  X  17.  1.  first  joint;  1'.  lobe 
from  second  joint;  1^.  lobe  from  third  joint;  p.  palp. 

Fig.  Ig.  Left  maxilliped  of  the  same  immature  specimen,  from  below;  X  13.  The  epipod 
omitted. 

Fig.  Ih.  First  left  thoracic  leg  (the  appendage  behind  the  gnathopods)  of  the  same  immature 
specimen,  from  behind;    X  V- 

Fig.  li.     Last  (sixth)  left  thoracic  leg  of  the  same  specimen,  from  behind;   X  ^. 
Fig.  Ik.     Posterior  half  of  abdomen,  with  the  distal  parts  of  the  uropods  and  telson  omitted,  of 
the  adult  male  from  Sta.  4719,  from  the  left  side;    X  ~f. 

Fig.  11.  Fifth  and  sixth  abdominal  segments  with  telson  and  the  right  uropod  of  the  same  adult 
male,  from  above,  X  -j-- 

Fig.  2.    Boreomysis  media,  sp.  nov. 

Fig.  2a.     Anterior  part  of  an  adult  female  from  Sta.  4652,  from  above;  12. 

Fig.  2b.  Telson  and  left  uropod  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;  X  16.  a.  a  portion  of  the 
right  lateral  margin  of  the  telson  more  highly  magnified,  viz.  X  64,  in  order  to  show  the  arrangement 
and  relative  size  of  the  lateral  spines. 

Fig.  3.    Boreomysis  fragilis,  sp.  nov. 
Fig.  3a.     Anterior  part  of  a  male  from  Sta.  4679,  from  above;    X  16. 


'AlbatTXJSs"    Kx 


Schizopoda    Plate  1. 


If 


1.  Cltalaras-pix    (iltita^    Will  -  Suhm         ?   florratm/si  s    mctlut    ntrp.         .?  Ji    rin,/i/is    n.  rp 
K.J.IIaiuscTV     <iW..  rX.VoUvr   ao-. 


PLATE  2. 


PLATE  2. 

Fig.  1.     Boreomysis  fragilis,  sp.  nov. 
Fig.  la.     Telson  and  left  uropod  of  the  same  male,  from  above;    X  22. 

Fig.  2.    Hemisiriella  abbreviata,  sp.  nov. 

Fig.  2a.     Anterior  part  of  an  adult  female,  from  above;    X  33. 

Fig.  2b.  Po,sterior  part  of  sixth  aljdominal  segment  with  left  uropod  and  telson  of  tlie  same 
female,  from  above;    X  33. 

Fig.  2c.     Telson  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;    X  51. 

Fig.  3.    Gastrosaccus  pacificus,  sp.  nov. 

Fig.  3a.  Anterior  part  of  an  adult  female,  from  above,    X  34. 

Fig.  3b.  First  right  pleopod  of  an  adult  male,  from  behind;    X  45. 

Fig.  3c.  Second  right  pleopod  of  the  same  male,  from  behind;    X  45. 

Fig.  3d.  Third  right  pleopod  of  the  same  male,  from  behind;  X  45.  The  distal  part  of  the 
e,\'opod  wanting. 

Fig.  3e.  Fourth  right  [ileopod  of  the  same  male,  from  behind;    X  45. 

Fig.  3f.  Fifth  right  pleopod  of  tlie  same  male,  from  behind;    X  45. 

Fig.  3g.  Telson  and  right  uropod  of  an  adult  female,  from  above;    X  46. 

Fig.  4.     Anchialina  obtusifrons,  sp.  nov. 

Fig.  4a.     Anterior  part  of  an  adult  male,  from  above;    X  20. 

Fig.  4b.     Left  gnathopod  of  the  same  male,  from  behind;    X  33. 

Fig.  4c.  Distal  part  of  the  exopod  of  third  right  male  pleopod,  from  in  front;  X  186.  a.  tlie 
lamellar  process;  b.  joint  bearing  the  terminal  processes;  c.  outer  very  long  process,  with  its  secondary 
branch  c'.;  d.  median  ramified  terminal  process;  e.  inner  terminal  process. 

Fig.  5.    Euchaetomera  typica  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  5a.  Median  and  left  part  of  the  anterior  margin  of  the  carapace  of  an  ovigerous  female, 

from  above;  X  48. 

Fig.  5b.     Right  eye  of  the  same  female,  from  above;    X  52. 

Fig.  5c.  Proximal  part  of  right  antenna  with  the  squama  of  the  same  female,  from  above;    X  23. 

Fig.  5d.  Distal  part  of  fourth  left  leg  of  the  same  female,  from  in  front;    X  35. 

Fig.  5e.  End  of  sixth  abdominal  segment  with  telson  and  left  uropod  of  the  same  female,  from 
above;    X  22. 


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PLATE  3. 


PLATE  3. 

Fig.  1.    Euchaetomera  plebeja,  sp.  nov. 

Fig.  la.     .interior  part  of  a  male  from  Sta.  4070,  from  above;    X  3.3. 

Fig.  ll:i.     End  of  sixth  abdominal  segment  with  telson  and  left  uropod  of  the  same  specimen,  from 
above;    X  25. 


Fig. 

2a. 

shrivelled. 

Fig. 

2b. 

Fig. 

2c. 

Fig. 

2d. 

Fig. 

2e. 

Fig. 

2f. 

Fig. 

2g. 

Fig. 

2h. 

Fig. 

2i. 

Fig. 

2k. 

Fig. 

21. 

above;    : 

X  32 

Fig. 

2m. 

Fig. 

3a. 

Fig. 

3b. 

Fig. 

3c. 

Fig. 

3d. 

Fig. 

3e. 

Fig. 

3f. 

Fig. 

3g. 

Fig.  2.    Cryptomysis  latnellicauda,  gen.  et.  sp.  nov. 
Anterior  part  of  an  adult  female,   from  above;    X  32.     The  specimen   is  somewhat 

Left  antenna  of  the  same  female,  from  above;    X  40. 

Left  mandible  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  47. 

Distal  part  of  the  same  mandible,  from  below;    X  48. 

Second  joint  of  the  palp  of  the  same  mandible,  from  below;    X  78. 

Left  maxillula  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  SO. 

Left  maxilla  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  SO. 

Left  maxilliped  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  4.5. 

Left  gnathopod  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  4.5. 

Major  distal  part  of  the  endopod  of  a  thoracic  leg  of  the  same  specimen;    X  45. 

End  of  sixth  abdominal  segment  with  telson  and  left  uropod  of  the  same  specimen,  from 

Telson  shown  in  the  preceding  figure,  from  above;    X  74. 

Fig.  3.    Doxomysis  pelagica,  gen.  et.  sp.  nov. 

Left  antenna  of  the  adult  female,  from  below;    X  40. 
Left  mandible  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  56. 
Distal  part  of  the  same  mandible,  from  below;    X  88. 
Left  maxilla  of  the  same  female,  from  below ;    X  90. 
Left  maxilliped  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  88. 
Telson  of  the  same  female,  from  above;    X  47. 
Distal  part  of  telson,  from  above;    X  80. 


Exopod  and  epipod  omitted. 


Fig.  4.    Thysanopoda  cristata  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  4a.     Carapace  of  an  immature  specimen  from  Sta.  4736,  from  the  left  side;    X   2  ■ 
tide  at  the  lateral  margin  omitted. 

Fig.  4b.     Front  part  of  the  carapace  of  an  adult  male,  from  above;    X  5. 

Fig.  4c.     Front  part  of  the  carapace  of  the  adult  male,  from  the  left  side;    X  8. 


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PLATE  4. 

Fig.  1.    Thysanopoda  cristata  G.  O.  Sars. 

Left  antennular  peduncle  of  the  adult  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  8. 
Right  antennular  peduncle  of  the  adult  male,  from  above;    X  8. 

Left  antennular  peduncle  of  the  young  specimen  from  Sta.  4699,  from  the  left  side;    X  14. 
Left  maxillula  of  the  immature  specimen  from  Sta.  4736,  from  below;    X  31. 
Male  copulatory  organ  of  left  first  pleopod,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;    X  25.     h. 
inner  lobe;   Im.  median  lobe;   Is.  setiferous  lobe  —  the  setae  along  both  margins  omitted;   lu.  auxihary 
lobe;  p'.  spine-shaped  process;  p''.  terminal  process;  p'.  proximal  process;  p''.  lateral  process. 
Fig.  If.     Terminal  process  of  the  organ  shown  in  fig.  le,  from  behind;    X  45. 
Fig.  Ig.     Terminal  process  of  the  organ  shown  in  fig.  le,  from  the  inner  side;    X  50. 
Fig.   Ih.     Distal  part  of  the  median  lobe  of  the  organ  shown  in  fig.  le,  seen  from  in  front  and  ex- 
hibiting the  lateral  process  and  the  additional  process;    X  45. 

Fig.  2.    Thysanopoda  tricuspidata  H.  Milne  Edwards. 

Fig.  2a.  Left  maxillula  of  an  adult  specimen,  from  below;  X  32.  1.  first  joint;  1'.  lobe  from  first 
joint;  2.  second  joint;  3.  third  joint;  IMobe  from  third  joint;  4.  fourth  joint  or  palp;  px.  pseudexopod. 

Fig.  3.    Thysanopoda  monacantha  Ortmann. 

Fig.  3a.  Left  maxiUula  of  a  probably  immature  male,  from  below;  X  34.  The  lettering  as  in 
fig.  2a. 

Fig.  3b.  Inner  and  median  lobes  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  aprobably  immature  male,  from  behind; 
X  85.     The  median  lobe  has  the  lateral  process  and  only  one  additional  process. 

Fig.  3c.  Inner  and  median  lobes  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  another  probably  immature  male, 
from  behind;    X  85.     p'.  lateral  process;  p^  three  additional  processes. 

Fig.  4.    Thysanopoda  aequalis  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Fig.  4a.     Left  maxillula  of  an  adult  female,  from  behind;    X  35. 

Fig.  5.    Thysanopoda  obtusifrons  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  5a.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  female,  from  above;  X  15.  The  setae  on  left  antennula 
omitted. 

Fig.  5b,     Anterior  part  of  a  female,  from  the  left  side;    X  14. 

Fig.   5c.      Left  maxillula  of  an  adult  male,  from  below;    X  30. 

Fig.  5d.  Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;  X  48.  p'.  lateral  process;  p'. 
additional  process. 

Fig.  5e.  Inner  and  median  lobes  of  left  copulatory  organ,  from  the  inner  side;  X  60.  p'.  spine- 
shaped  process;  p'.  terminal  process;  p^  proximal  process;  p'.  lateral  process;  p*.  additional  process; 
lu.  margin  of  the  auxihary  lobe  with  its  minute  couphng  hooks. 

Fig.  5f.  Distal  part  of  the  proximal  process  of  the  organ  shown  in  fig.  5e,  from  the  inner  side;  X 
130. 


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4.   T.  ii-tjHtillx    ll.i  II        i   T.    •'/■Iii.'i  tii-iis  atix. 


T.A:  Miliar   sc. 


PLATE  5. 


PLATE  6. 

Fig.  1.    Thysanopoda  pectinata  Ortmann. 

Fig.  la.  Anterior  part  of  a  female  from  Sta.  47 19,  from  above ;  X  13.  The  setae  on  right  antennula 
omitted. 

Fig.  lb.     Anterior  part  of  a  female  from  Sta.  4705,  from  the  left  side;   X  12. 

Fig.  Ic.     Front  end  of  the  carapace  of  a  male  from  Sta.  4705,  from  above;   X  12. 

Fig.  Id.  Left  maxillula  of  a  male,  from  below;  X  24.  4.  fourth  joint  or  palp,  very  small  and  seen 
through  the  large  pseudexopod. 

Fig.  le.  Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;  X  34.  p'.  spine-shaped  process; 
p'.  terminal  process;  p'.  pro>dmal  process;  p*.  lateral  process;  p^  additional  process;  p^.  secondary 
additional  process. 

Fig.  If.  Distal  part  of  the  inner  and  median  lobes  of  left  copulatory  organ,  seen  from  the  inner 
side  and  showing  aU  processes  excepting  the  secondary  additional  process;    X  48. 

Fig.  Ig.     Distal  part  of  the  proximal  process,  seen  from  the  outer  side;   X  50. 

Fig.  Ih.     The  additional  process,  seen  from  in  front;    X  90. 

Fig.  li.  Inner  lobe  with  its  three  processes  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  a  small  male  from  Sta.  4705, 
from  behind;   X  68. 

Fig.  Ik.  Anterior  part  of  a  young  specimen,  11  mm.  long,  from  Sta.  4730,  from  above;  X  23. 
Setae  omitted. 

Fig.  11.  Anterior  part  of  the  young  specimen  shown  in  the  preceding  figure  and  seen  from  the 
right;    X  14. 

Fig.  Im.     Right  antennula  of  the  same  young  specimen,  from  the  right  side;    X  25. 

Fig.  2.    Thysanopoda  orientalis  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  2a.  Left  maxillula  of  an  adult  male,  from  below;  X  32.  The  palp  is  seen  through  the  large 
pseudexopod. 

Fig.  2b.  Outline  of  left  maxiUula  of  another  male,  from  below;  X  20.  The  figure  is  given  for 
comparison  with  fig.  2a  in  order  to  show  difference  in  the  palp. 

Fig.  2c.  Left  maxilla  of  an  adult  male,  from  below;  X  20.  1.  first  joint;  2.  second  joint;  1^.  lobe 
from  second  joint;  3.  third  joint;  P.  lobe  of  third  joint;  ex.  exopod. 

Fig.  2d.  Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;  X  33.  p*.  lateral  process;  p*. 
additional  process;  p^.  secondary  additional  process. 

Fig.  2e.     Terminalprocessof  the  same  organ,  from  in  front;    X  53. 

Fig.  2f.     Distal  part  of  the  proximal  process  of  the  same  organ,  from  behind;    X  86. 

Fig.  2g.     Distal  part  of  the  proximal  process  of  the  same  organ,  from  in  front;    X  127. 

Fig.  2h.     Distal  part  of  the  proximal  process  of  left  organ  of  another  specimen,  from  behind;   X  86. 

Fig.  2i.  Distal  half  of  the  median  lobe  of  the  organ  shown  in  fig.  2d,  seen  from  the  inner  side;  X  50. 
The  lettering  as  in  fig.  2d. 


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tIf.MolUr   so-. 


PLATE  6. 


PLATE  6. 

Fig.  1.     (?)  Thysanopoda  cornuta  Illig.    Young. 

Fig.  la.     Anterior  part  of  the  single  young  specimen,  14.5  mm.  long,  from  above;   X  15. 
Fig.  lb.     Peduncle  of  right  antennula,  from  above;    X  31. 

Fig.  le.     Left  maxillula,  from  below;    X  34.     1.  first  joint;    1'.  lobe  from  first  joint;   2.  second 
joint;  3.  third  joint;  P.  lobe  of  third  joint;  4.  fourth  joint  or  palp;  ex.  exopod. 
Fig.  Id.     Left  maxilla,  from  below;    X  34.     1.  first  joint;  ex.  exopod. 
Fig.  le.     Posterior  part  of  abdomen,  from  above;    X  ^. 

Fig.  2.     Nyctiphanes  simplex  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  2a.  Anterior  part  of  an  adult  male,  from  above;    X  16. 

Fig.  2b.  Left  antennula  of  a  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  27. 

Fig.  2c.  Right  antennula  of  a  male,  from  above;    X  26. 

Fig.  2d.  Left  antennula  of  an  adult  female,  from  the  outer  side;    X  28. 

Fig.  2e.  Right  antennula  of  an  adult  female,  from  above;    X  27. 

Fig.  2f.  Left  antennula  of  an  immature  .specimen,  from  the  outer  side;    X  28. 

Fig.  2g.  Left  maxiUula  of  a  female,  from  below;    X  58. 

Fig.  2h.  Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;    X  SO.     li.  inner  lobe;  Im.  median 
lobe;  p^  spine-shaped  process;  p"".  lateral  process. 

Fig.  2i.  Major  distal  part  of  the  inner  lobe  of  the  same  organ,  from  behind;    X  143. 

Fig.  3.    Nyctiphanes  australis  G.  O.  Sahs. 

Left  antennula  of  the  adult  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  22. 

Right  antennula  of  the  same  male,  from  above;    X  22. 

Left  antennula  of  the  adult  female,  from  the  outer  side;    X  27. 

Right  antennula  of  the  same  female,  from  above;    X  24. 

Left   copulatory  organ,  mirolled  and  seen  from  behind;    X  58.     Im.  median  lobe;    p*. 


Fig. 

3a. 

Fig. 

3b. 

Fig. 

3c. 

Fig. 

3d. 

Fig. 

3e. 

lateral  process, 

•Albatross"    K.\ . 


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c>.  X.  auxtiiilCy     H.o.s. 


ZX.MoOti-  sc. 


PLATE  7. 


PLATE  7. 

Fig.  1.    Nyctiphanes  simplex  H.  J.  Hansen.    Young. 

Fig.  la.  Anteriorpart  of  a  young  specimen  measuring  7  mm.  in  lengtli,  from  above;  X  33.  The 
setae  of  left  antennula  omitted. 

Fig.  lb.     Left  antennula  of  the  specimen  shown  in  the  preceding  figure,  from  the  outer  side;   X  48. 

Fig.  2.    Euphausia  eximia  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  2a.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  an  adult  male,  from  above;  X  14.  The  setae  on  left  an- 
tennula omitted. 

Fig.  2b.     Peduncle  of  left  aptennula  of  an  adult  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  25. 

Fig.  2c.     Major  part  of  the  peduncle  of  right  antennula  of  a  male,  from  above;    X  25. 

Fig.  2d.  Distal  part  of  second  joint  of  the  peduncle  of  right  antennula  of  another  specimen,  a 
female,  from  above;    X  27. 

Fig.  2e.  Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;  X  47.  p-.  terminal  process;  p'. 
proximal  process;  p*.  lateral  process. 

Fig.  2f.  Inner  lobe  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  another  specimen,  from  the  inner  side;  X  50. 
Lettering  as  in  fig.  2e. 

Fig.  2g.  Median  lobe  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  a  large  specimen,  from  the  inner  side;  X  42.  p*. 
lateral  process. 

Fig.  3.    Euphausia  recurva  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  3a.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  an  adult  male,  from  above;  X  23.  The  setae  on  left  an- 
tennula omitted. 

Fig.  3b.     Left  antennular  peduncle  of  an  adult  male,  from  the  left;   X  39. 

Fig.  3c.     Major  part  of  the  peduncle  of  right  antennula  of  an  adult  male,  from  above;    X  36. 

Fig.  3d.  Left  antennular  peduncle  of  an  adult  female  from  Lat.  34°  50'  S.,  long.  25°  30'  E.,  from 
the  outer  side;    X  25. 

Fig.  3e.  Major  part  of  the  peduncle  of  right  antennula  of  the  adult  female  from  Lat.  34°  50'  S., 
long.  25°  30'  E.,  from  above;    X  22. 

Fig.  3f.     Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;    X  77. 

Fig.  3g.     Distal  part  of  the  terminal  process  of  the  organ  shown  in  fig.  3f,  from  behind;   X  140. 

Fig.  3h.     Terminal  process  of  left  organ  of  another  male,  from  the  inner  side;    X  130. 

Fig.  3i.      Terminal  part  of  the  proximal  process  of  the  organ  shown  in  fig.  3f,  from  behind;   X  150. 

Fig.  3k.  Terminal  part  of  the  proximal  process  of  the  left  organ  of  another  male  from  Sta.  4576, 
from  behind;   X  150. 

Fig.  31.  Proximal  process  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  a  male  from  Lat.  34°  50'  S.,  long.  25°  30'  E., 
from  behind;    X  80. 

Fig.  3m.     Terminal  part  of  the  proximal  process  .shown  in  fig.  31,  from  behind;    X  150. 

Fig.  3n.  Terminal  part  of  the  proximal  process  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  another  male  from  Lat. 
34°  50'  S.,  long.  25°  30'  E.,  from  behind;    X  150. 

Fig.  4.    Euphausia  diomedeae  Ortmann. 

Fig.  4a.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male  from  Sta.  4721,  having  the  rostral  plate  strongly 
expanded  and  the  rostrum  short;  from  above;    X  15. 

Fig.  5.    Euphausia  pacifica  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  5a.     Anterior  part  of  a  slightly  more  than  half-grown  specimen,  from  above;    X  19. 
Fig.  5b.     Terminal  part  of  the  proximal  joint  with  the  basal  part  of  second  joint  of  right  antennular 
peduncle  of  the  specimen  shown  in  fig.  5a,  from  above;   X  50. 


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J  i'   veourva     HJ.H.        4  K  liiomrdea    Ortm.        S  E.  pacificii   H.JH. 


TXift^Uer    sc. 


PLATE  8. 


PLATE  8. 

Fig.  1.    Euphausia  brevis  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  la.     Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  above;    X  32. 

Fig.  lb.     Left  antennular  peduncle  of  a  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  47. 

Fig.  Ic.  Major  part  of  right  antennular  peduncle  of  a  male,  showing  the  terminal  part  of  first 
joint  with  its  lobe,  and  the  whole  second  joint,  from  above;    X  47. 

Fig.  Id.     Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;    X  87. 

Fig.  le.      Proximal  process  of  the  organ  shown  in  the  preceding  figure,  from  behind;    X  150. 

Fig.  If.      Inner  lobe  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  another  male,  seen  from  the  inner  side;    X  141. 

Fig.  Ig.  Distal  part  of  the  terminal  process  of  the  lobe  exhibited  in  fig.  If,  seen  from  the  inner 
Bide  and  a  little  from  in  front;    X  141. 

Fig.  2.    Euphausia  gibba  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  2a.     Left  antennular  peduncle  of  a  male,  from  tlie  outer  side;    X  25. 

Fig.  2b.  Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;  X  52.  p^.  terminal  process;  p'. 
proximal  process;  p^  lateral  process;  hn.  median  lobe,  with  its  finger-like  distal  part. 

Fig.  3.    Euphausia  distinguenda  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  3a.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  above;  X  20.  The  setae  on  left  antennula 
omitted. 

Fig.  3b.     Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  the  left  side;    X  17. 

Fig.  3c.  Left  autenimlar  peduncle  of  the  same  male,  from  the  left  side;  X  35.  p.  ear-hke  process 
at  the  distal  outer  upper  angle  of  second  joint. 

Fig.  3d.  Major  part  of  right  antennular  peduncle  of  a  male,  showing  the  distal  part  of  first  joint 
and  the  whole  second  joint,  from  above;  X  35.  p.  ear-like  process  at  the  distal  outer  upper  angle  of 
second  joint. 

Fig.  3e.     Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;    X  77. 

Fig.  3f.  Proximal  process,  p'.,  and  median  lobe  with  the  lateral  process;  p'.,  of  left  copulatory 
organ  of  another  specimen,  seen  from  the  inner  side ;    X  90. 

Fig.  4.    Euphausia  lamelligera  II.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  4a.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  above;  X  23.  1.  movable  lamella  from  second 
joint. 

Fig.  4b.     Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  the  left  side;    X  IS. 

Fig.  4c.     Left  antennular  peduncle  of  a  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  38. 

Fig.  4d.  Right  antennular  peduncle  of  a  male,  from  above;  X  36.  1.  movable  lamella  from  the 
end  of  second  joint.     The  setae  omitted. 

Fig.  4e.  Inner  and  median  lobes  of  left  copulatory  organ,  seen  from  the  inner  side;  X  84.  p'. 
terminal  process;   p^  proximal  process;  p"".  lateral  process. 


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Fig.  1.    Euphausia  lamelligera  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Fig.  la.     Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;    X  84. 

Fig.  2.    Euphausia  gibboides  Ortmann. 

Fig.  2a.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  above;  X  12.  The  setae  on  left  antennular 
peduncle  omitted. 

Fig.  2b.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  the  left  side;  X  10.  Setae  on  the  antennula 
omitted. 

Fig.  2c.  Left  antennular  peduncle  of  same  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  21. 

Fig.  2d.  Right  antennular  peduncle,  excepting  the  major  part  of  third  joint,  of  a  male,  from  above; 
X20. 

Fig.  2e.  Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;  X  34.  a.  protruding,  triangular, 
acute  tubercle  from  the  median  lobe;  p^.  terminal  process;  p'.  proximal  process;  p*.  lateral  process. 

Fig.  2f.  Distal  part  of  the  proximal  process  of  the  same  organ,  from  behind;   X  95. 

Fig.  2g.  Left  copulatory  organ  almost  in  the  natural  position  of  another  male,  from  the  inner 

side;    X  34.  Lettering  as  in  fig.  2e. 

Fig.  2h.  Distalpart  of  the  proximal  process  of  the  organ  shown  in  fig.  2g,  from  the  inner  side;   X95. 

Fig.  3.    Euphausia  mucronata  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  3a.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  above;  X  13.  The  setae  on  left  antennula 
omitted. 

Fig.  3b.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  the  left  side;  X  ^.  Setae  on  the  left  an- 
tennula omitted.     The  frontal  plate  too  obtuse. 

Fig.  3c.     Left  antennular  peduncle  of  the  specimen  shown  in  fig.  3b,  from  the  outer  side;   X  23. 

Fig.  3d.     Right  antennular  peduncle  of  a  male,  from  above;    X  22.     Most  of  the  setae  omitted. 

Fig.  3e.  Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;  X  46.  p-.  terminal  process;  p^ 
proximal  process;  p*.  lateral  process;  p^.  additional  process. 

Fig.  3f.     Pro.ximal  process  of  the  organ  shown  in  fig.  3e,  from  behind;    X  80. 

Fig.  3g.  Inner  and  median  lobes  of  left  organ  of  another  male,  seen  from  the  inner  side;  X  57. 
Lettering  as  in  fig.  3e. 

Fig.  4.    Nematoscelis  microps  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  4a.     Anterior  part  of  an  adult  male,  from  above;    X  9. 
Fig.  4b.     Anterior  part  of  an  immature  male,  from  above;    X  9. 
Fig.  4c.     Anterior  part  of  an  adult  female,  from  above;    X  9. 

Fig.  4d.  Anterior  part  —  the  majority  of  the  antennular  peduncles  omitted  —  of  another  adult 
female  in  order  to  show  the  anomalous  rostrum,  from  above;    X  9. 


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PLATE  10. 

Fig.  1.    Nematoscelis  microps  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  la.     Left  maxiUa  of  a  female,  from  below;    X  33.     All  setae  omitted. 

Fig.  lb.     Inner  and  median  lobes  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  an  immature  male,  from  behind ;   X  83. 

Fig.  2.    Nematoscelis  gracilis  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Fig.  2a.     Left  maxiUa  of  a  female,  from  below;    X  33.     All  setae  omitted. 

Fig.  3.    Nematoscelis  tenella  G.  O.  Saes. 

Fig.  3a.     Left  maxillula  of  a  female,  from  below;    X  40. 

Fig.  3b.  The  distal  nearly  spiniform  seta  from  the  end  of  the  palp  of  the  ma.\illula  shown  in  fig. 
3a,  from  below;    X  160. 

Fig.  3c.     Left  maxilla  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  40. 

Fig.  4.    Nematobrachion  boopis  Calman. 

Fig.  4a.     Left  maxiUula  of  a  female,  from  below;    X  26. 

Fig.  4b.     Left  maxilla  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  26. 

Fig.  4c.  The  inner,  the  median  and  the  auxiliary  lobes  of  left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen 
from  behind;  X  44.  p^  spine-shaped  process;  p'.  terminal  process;  p\  proximal  process;  p'.  lateral 
process;   p'.  additional  process. 

Fig.  4d.  The  inner  lobe  of  the  same  copulatory  organ,  seen  from  the  outer  side;  X  80.  The 
lettering  as  in  fig.  4c. 

Fig.  5.    Nematobrachion  flexipes  (Obtmann). 

Fig.  5a.  Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  above;  X  12.  The  setae  on  left  antennula 
omitted. 

Fig.  5b.     Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  the  same  male,  from  the  left  side;    X  10. 

Fig.  5c.     Left  antennular  peduncle  of  the  same  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  20. 

Fig.  5d.  Distal  part  of  second  peduncular  joint,  with  the  basal  portion  of  third  joint  of  left  an- 
tennula of  a  female,  from  above;    X  24. 

Fig.  5e.     Left  maxillula  of  a  female,  from  below;    X  32. 

Fig.  5f.     Left  maxilla  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  32. 

Fig.  5g.     The  abdominal  segments  of  a  female,  from  the  left  side;   X  — ■ 

Fig.  5h.     Left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind;    X  45. 

Fig.  5i.  The  inner  lobe  with  its  thi-ee  processes  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  another  male,  from 
behind ;    X  90. 

Fig.  5k.  The  inner  lobe  shown  in  fig.  5i,  seen  from  the  outer  side;  X  90.  The  lettering  as  on  fig. 
4c  and  fig.  4d. 

Fig.  51.     The  distal  portion  of  the  proximal  process  of  the  lobe  shown  in  fig.  5i,  from  behind ;   X  220. 

Fig.  5m.  The  distal  portion  of  the  proximal  process  of  left  copulatory  organ  of  a  third  male,  seen 
as  from  the  end  of  the  inner  lobe;    X  220. 

Fig.  6.    Nematobrachion  sexspinosus  H.  J.  Hansen. 
Fig.  6a.     Left  maxillula  of  a  male,  from  below;    X  25.     pex.  pseudexopod. 


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Fig.  1.     Nematobrachion  sexspinosus  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Anterior  part  of  the  body  of  a  male,  from  the  left  side;    X  -r- 
Left  antennular  peduncle  of  the  same  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  13. 
Distal  part  of  second  peduncular  joint  with  the  basal  part  of  third  joint  of  left  antennula 
lale,  from  above;    X  20. 
Left  maxilla  of  a  male,  from  below;    X  25. 

The  four  posterior  abdominal  segments  of  a  male,  from  the  left  side;    X  |. 
Major  part  of  the  same  segments  as  shown  in  fig.  le,  from  above;    X  7. 
The  inner,  the  median,  and  the  auxihary  lobes  of  left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen 
X40. 

Inner  lobe  with  its  processes  of  the  same  copulatory  organ,  from  behind;    X  78. 
Distal  half  of  the  terminal  process  of  the  same  organ,  seen  from  the  outer  side;   X  80. 

Fig.  2.    Stylocheiron  carinatum  G.  O.  Sars. 

Left  maxiDula  of  a  female,  from  below;    X  58. 

Left  maxilla  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  58. 

Fig.  3.    Stylocheiron  suhmii  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  3a.  Left  eye  with  stalk  of  a  male,  seen  with  the  Ught  transmitted  and  the  lower  half  somewhat 
diagrammatic,  from  the  outer  side;    X  46. 

Fig.  3b.     Sixth  abdominal  segment  of  a  male,  from  the  outer  side;    X  46. 

Fig.  4.     Stylocheiron  longicorne  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  4a.     Left  maxillula  of  a  female,  from  below;    X  42. 

Fig.  4b.     Left  maxilla  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  42. 

Fig.  5.    Stylocheiron  abbreviatum  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  5a.  Anterior  part  of  an  adult  male  (from  Sta.  4734),  from  the  left  side;  X  scarcely  9.  a?. 
last  peduncular  joint  of  the  endopod  of  the  left  antenna;  V.  second  left  thoracic  leg  —  the  distal  half 
with  the  chela  omitted;   mxp.  left  maxiUiped. 

Fig.  5b.  Third  peduncular  joint  with  both  flagella  of  left  antennula  of  the  same  male,  from  the 
outer  side;    X  15. 

Fig.  5c.  Third  peduncular  joint  with  the  whole  upper  flageUum  and  the  major  part  of  the  lower 
flageUum  of  the  male  left  antennula  shown  in  fig.  a,  from  above;    X  15. 

Fig.  5d.  Left  maxillula  of  a  female  from  below;  X  38.  s.  the  distal  spine  on  the  end  of  the  palp 
more  highly  magnified,  viz.    X  128. 

Fig.  5e.     Left  maxilla  of  the  same  female,  from  below;    X  38. 

Fig.  5f.  The  inner  and  the  median  lobes  of  left  copulatory  organ,  unrolled  and  seen  from  behind; 
X  185.     p'.  spine-shaped  process;  p^  terminal  process;  p'.  proximal  process;  p<.  lateral  process. 


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PLATE  12. 

Larval  Stages  of  Euphatjsiacea. 
Fig.  1.     Thysanopoda  sp.  {T.  mnnacanlha  Ortmann.  aff.). 

Fig.  La.     First  Furoilia-stage;  length  3.7  mm.     The  animal,  from  the  left;  X  2L     mxp.  raaxilliped. 

Fig.  lb.  Anterior  part  of  the  same  larva,  from  above;  X  37.  Setae  and  antenna  on  the  right 
side  omitted. 

Fig.  Ic.     Posterior  part  of  abdomen  with  right  uropod  of  the  same  larva,  from  above;    X  30. 

Fig.  Id.     Posterior  part  of  telson  of  the  same  larva,  from  above;    X  80. 

Fig.  le.  Last  Furcilia-stage;  length  5.0  mm.  The  animal,  from  the  left  side;  X  21.  mxp. 
maxilliped. 

Fig.  If.  Anterior  part  of  the  specimen  shown  in  fig.  le,  from  above;  X  28.  The  distal  part  of 
left  antennula,  right  antenna,  and  most  setae  omitted. 

Fig.  Ig.     Distal  part  of  telson  of  the  specimen  shown  in  fig.  le,  from  above;    X  87. 

Fig.  2.    Euphausia  distinguenda  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  2a.  Anterior  half  of  a  larva  in  the  last  Furciha-stage;  from  the  left;  X  35.  The  animal  is 
2.8  mm.  long. 

Fig.  2b.  Anterior  part  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;  X  49.  The  setae  on  right  antennula 
omitted. 

Fig.   2c.     Distal  part  of  telson  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;    X  82. 

Fig.  3.    Nyctiphanes  simplex  H.  J.  Hansen. 

Fig.  3a.  Cephalothorax  and  the  three  anterior  abdominal  segments  of  a  larva  in  the  intermediate 
Furciha-stage,  from  the  left;    X  26.     mxp.  maxilliped.     The  animal  is  3.2  mm.  long. 

Fig.  3b.     Anterior  part  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;    X  30. 

Fig.  3c.  Posterior  part  of  abdomen  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;  X  30.  Right  uropod 
omitted. 

Fig.  3d.     Distal  part  of  telson  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;    X  83. 

Fig.  3e.  Posterior  part  of  abdomen  with  left  uropod  of  a  larva  in  last  Furcilia-stage,  from  above; 
X  29.     The  animal  is  3.7  mm.  long. 

Fig.  3f.     Distal  part  of  the  telson  shown  in  fig.  3e,  from  above;    X  83. 

Fig.  4.    Pseudeuphausia  latifrons  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  4a.  Anterior  part  of  a  larva  in  a  Cyrtopia-stago,  from  above;  X  32.  The  animal  is  3.2  mm. 
long. 

Fig.  4b.     Posterior  part  of  abdomen  with  right  uropod  of  the  same  larva,  from  above;    X  32. 

Fig.  5.    Nematoscelis  microps  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  5a.     Larva  in  the  first  Cyrtopia-stage,  from  the  right;    X  25.     The  animal  is  3.5  mm.  long. 
Fig.  5b.     Head  with  eyes  and  antennulae  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;   X  39. 
Fig.  5c.     End  of  telson  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;    X  93. 

Fig.  6.     Stylocheiron  carinatum  G.  O.  Sars. 

Fig.  6a.  Larva  in  the  intermediate  Furciha-stage,  from  the  right;  X  30.  The  animal  is  2.8  mm. 
(On  possible  inaccuracies  in  the  figure  see  page  293). 

Fig.  6b.  Head  with  eyes  and  antennulae  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;  X  46.  The  setae 
omitted. 

Fig.  6c.  Posterior  part  of  telson  of  the  same  specimen,  from  above;    X  140. 

Fig.  6d.  Cephalothorax  and  first  abdominal  segment  of  a  larva  in  the  last  Furcilia-stage,  from  the 

right;    X  30.  The  animal  is  3  mm.  long. 


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Date  Due 


OCT  'i  i  1994