1 : 10 : 12. Cephalis hemispherical, with six bristle-shaped spines of half the length of the shell; three horns divergent upwards, and three alternating feet divergent downwards. Thorax nearly conical. Abdomen flatter.
Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.015, b 0.1, c 0.03; breadth, a 0.02, b 0.15, c 0.18.
Habitat.—North Pacific, Station 236, surface.
5. Corocalyptra ludovicæ, n. sp.
Shell flatly campanulate or hat-shaped. Length of the three joints = 1 : 4 : 3, breadth = 2 : 7 : 10. Cephalis hemispherical, with six bristle-shaped spines, about one-fourth to one-third as long as the shell; three horns diverging upwards, and three alternate feet diverging downwards. Thorax nearly conical. Abdomen much larger than in all preceding species, inflated, with convex, lateral outline; its mouth-edge curved inwards. The network is much finer than in the similar Corocalyptra emmæ (Pl. 59, fig. 4), and the abdomen is relatively twice as long and broad.
Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.02, b 0.08, c 0.06; breadth, a 0.04, b 0.14, c 0.2.
Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 271, surface.
Genus 585. Dictyoceras,[1] Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 333.
Definition.—Theopilida (vel Tricyrtida triradiata aperta) with three latticed free lateral wings on the sides of the thorax, which are not prolonged into the cephalis.
The genus Dictyoceras and the following Pteropilium agree with the two preceding genera in the possession of three lateral wings on the sides of the thorax; but whilst these in the latter are simple solid spines, they are in the former vertical fenestrated plates. Dictyoceras may be derived from Pterocorys by development of a vertical lattice-plate between the thorax and the three free lateral spines arising from it.
1. Dictyoceras insectum, n. sp. (Pl. 71, figs. 6, 7).
Shell with two distinct strictures. Length of the three joints = 1 : 3 : 2, breadth = 2 : 4 : 3. Cephalis hemispherical, with a slender pyramidal horn of twice the length. Thorax subspherical, in the upper half with three divergent lattice-wings of the same length, each of which represents a slender, fenestrated, three-sided pyramid. Abdomen subovate, with wide, truncate mouth (in the figured specimen broken off). Pores circular, small, of different sizes.
Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.025, b 0.055, c 0.04; breadth, a 0.035, b 0.08, c 0.06.
Habitat.—Central Pacific, Stations 263 to 274, depth 2350 to 2925 fathoms.
- ↑ Dictyoceras = Reticulated horn; δίκτυον, κέρα.
