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Rh long as the abdomen. Pores subregular, circular, two to four times as broad in the smooth abdomen as in the spiny thorax. Feet very short and broad, shovel-shaped, scarcely as long as the cephalis.

Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.02, b 0.05, c 0.08; breadth, a 0.03, b 0.08, c 0.09.

Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados.

42. Podocyrtis bromia, Haeckel.

Thyrsocyrtis bromia, Ehrenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 84, Taf. xii. fig. 2.

Shell ovate, thorny, with two distinct strictures. Length of the three joints = 2 : 5 : 5, breadth = 3 : 8 : 9. Cephalis subspherical, with a large conical horn, which is half as long as the shell, and spirally dentated in the distal half. Thorax conical, spinulate, with regular, circular, quincuncial pores. Abdomen tuberculate, with a small number of very large irregular pores. Feet short, shovel-shaped, nearly vertical, as long as the cephalis.

Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.02, b 0.05, c 0.05; breadth, a 0.03, b 0.08, c 0.09.

Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados.

43. Podocyrtis sphærogaster, n. sp.

Shell inversely ovate, with two deep strictures. Length of the three joints = 1 : 2 : 6, breadth = 2 : 4 : 7. Cephalis hemispherical, with a slender, slightly bent horn, as long as the abdomen. Thorax hemispherical, spinulate. Abdomen nearly spherical, with much constricted mouth. Pores subregular, circular, hexagonally framed. Feet slender, cylindro-conical, about as long as the shell, with outer convexity, distinctly convergent.

Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.02, b 0.04, c 0.12; breadth, a 0.04, b 0.08, c 0.14.

Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 266, depth 2750 fathoms.

44. Podocyrtis tripus, Haeckel.

Podocyrtis bicornis, Ehrenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 80, Taf. xvi. fig. 8.

? Podocyrtis dipus, Ehrenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 83, Taf. xii. Fig. 11.

Shell conical, rough, with two deep strictures. Length of the three joints = 1 : 2 : 4, breadth = 1 : 3 : 5. Cephalis subspherical, with a large, oblique, conical horn (sometimes with a small accessory horn at its base). Thorax hemispherical, with subregular, circular, small, quincuncial pores. Abdomen campanulate, with a small number (about twenty) of very large, irregular, polygonal pores. Feet conical, small, as long as the thorax, slightly convergent or nearly vertical.

Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.02, b 0.04, c 0.08; breadth, a 0.03, b 0.06, c 0.1.

Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados.