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Volume 53, 1921
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Euprimno macropus Guérin Memeville.

Euprimno macropus Bovallius, 1885, p. 400, pl. xvii, figs. 23–40, and pl. xviii, figs. 1, 2. Primno latreillei, Stebbing, 1881, p. 1445.

This species was recorded from the neighbourhood of New Zealand by Stebbing in the “Challenger” Reports under the name of Primno latreillei. Bovallius unites P. latreillei, p. menevillei Stebbing, and P. antarctica Stebbing with Euprimno macropus. I have a specimen washed up on the Ocean Beach of Dunedin that agrees with the description given by Bovallius, and also with that given by Stebbing of P. latreillei, and from comparison of the two I feel convinced that Bovallius is correct in uniting the species.