Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 271, depth 2425 fathoms.
7. Pterocorys hirundo, n. sp. (Pl. [71], fig. 4).
Shell slender, ovate, with two deep strictures. Length of the three joints = 1 : 4 : 4, breadth = 2 : 5 : 5. Cephalis hemispherical, with a large pyramidal horn longer than the half shell. Thorax conical, spiny, prolonged above the lumbar girdle into three slender, triangular, prismatic wings, which are about as long as the shell, and slightly curved downwards, with lower convexity. Abdomen inflated, with wide, truncate mouth. Pores irregular, roundish, of very different sizes.
Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.03, b 0.08, c 0.08; breadth, a 0.04, b 0.1, c 0.1.
Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 272, depth 2600 fathoms.
8. Pterocorys barbadensis, Haeckel.
Pterocanium barbadense, Ehrenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 82, Taf. xvii. fig. 6.
Pterocyrtidium barbadense, Bütschli, 1882, Zeitschr. f. wiss. Zool., Bd. xxxvi., Taf. xxxiii. fig. 29, a, b.
Shell slender, smooth, with two slight strictures. Length of the three joints = 1 : 3 : 4, breadth = 2 : 4 : 4. Cephalis hemispherical, with a stout pyramidal horn of twice the length. Thorax campanulate-conical, in the lower half with three divergent, angular wings, which are slightly curved downwards, and as long as the thorax. Abdomen cylindrical, with wide, truncate mouth. Pores small, subregular, circular.
Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.02, b 0.05, c 0.07; breadth, a 0.04, b 0.07, c 0.07.