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Barnacles from deep-sea Telegraph Cables in the Malay Archipelago. BY N. ANNANDALE, D. Sc., F. A. S. B. (Zoological Survey of India). Many years ago Capt. F. Worsley of the S. S. 'Sherard Osborne obtained a number of deep-sca barnacles from cables that his ship was engaged in repairing. Some of these he presented to the Indian Museum in Calcutta, the others (the major part) to the Raffles Museum in Singapore. Those in the Indian Museum were described by me in 1905 in the Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, I have now to thank Dr. Hanitsel for the opportunity of examining those in Singapore and of comparing selected speci- mens with the collection in Calcutta. There is one slight uncertainty as to the provenance of the Singapore specimens. A large portion of them are stated to have been found in lat. 10° 22' 30", but it is not stated whether North or South. There can, however, be little real doubt that South is meant, for the corresponding specimens in Calcutta are labelled. "Bali Straits." The majority of the specimens are from Bali and Gasper Straits and the Java Sea. There is also one species from off Timor. Probably all were brought up from depths of between 60 and 200 fathoms, except IIeleralepas malaysiana, the type-specimen of which came from 30 fathoms. A remarkable feature of the collection is the very large pro- portion of otherwise unknown forins represented in it. In the following list those species that are recorded also from other sources are distinguished by a star at the end of their names. List of the Pedunculate Barnacles from Telegraph Cables in the Malay Archipelago. Scalpellum (Smilium) nudipes, Scalpellum stearnsi," Pilsbry. sp. nor. Scalpellum sociabile, Annandale. Scalpellum hamulus,* Hook. Scalpellum sociabile var. porei- Scalpellum persona, sp. nov. IIeteralepas gigas (Annandale), Heteralepas (Paralepas) malay- siana (Annandale). ceps, var. nov. Poecilasma (Glyptelasma) gigas, sp. nov. Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc., No. 74, 1916.