. d c. Fig. 93. Halirages huxleyanus (Bate), a. Head, with two forms of eye shown. b, c, d. Side-plates 5-7 and 2nd joints of peraeopods 3-5 respectively. The variations in the few specimens in the present collection are set out with a view to diagnosing a little more stringently the species described by Bate. I have no hesita- tion in assigning them to his species. On the other hand, I am of opinion that Stebbing's identification of the Challenger specimen as huxleyanus was erroneous, but that he relied more on Bate's figure than on the Challenger figure when he described Bovallia regis in 19
. d c. Fig. 93. Halirages huxleyanus (Bate), a. Head, with two forms of eye shown. b, c, d. Side-plates 5-7 and 2nd joints of peraeopods 3-5 respectively. The variations in the few specimens in the present collection are set out with a view to diagnosing a little more stringently the species described by Bate. I have no hesita- tion in assigning them to his species. On the other hand, I am of opinion that Stebbing's identification of the Challenger specimen as huxleyanus was erroneous, but that he relied more on Bate's figure than on the Challenger figure when he described Bovallia regis in 1914, in spite of the figure of the latter appearing to bear much more resemblance to the Challenger figure of huxley- anus than to Bate's figure, which is proved to be accurate by the present specimens. If the Challenger specimen is regarded as the same as Bate's species (as Stebbing does in 1914, p. 362) surely regis must be synonymous. This solution of the confusion, how- ever, does not commend itself after a careful comparison of Bate's and Stebbing's figures, and especially when one places the actual specimens alongside one another. It is certainly strange that Stebbing distinguished both forms without, however, commenting on their extraordinary resemblances (telson, etc.). A certain amount of doubt attaches to Cunningham's specimens, but that is immaterial both from a nomenclatorial and a geographical point of view. The colour of no. 3 is given as "pale olive-brown with pink eyes". Distribution. Hermite Island; ? Magellan Strait.
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