ABSTRACT
This publication contains the description of three previously but insufficiently known representatives of the former genus Drepanophorus, that live in the northern Atlantic Ocean. They are, together with the two species of Uniporus described by Brinkmann (1913), the only Beptantia that are known from the Atlantic. One of them, Punnettia splendida, lives in the English Channel, and was described by Keferstein and McIntosh as a distinct species, different from Hubrecht’s Drepanophorus rubrostriatus. Bürger included all these species in the Mediterranean D. spectabilis, and so did Riches and the author. After my publication on Mediter- ranean Polystilifera (1926), in which the Atlantic species as being separate was not mentioned, the late Professor McIntosh asked why I had been silent on this question. The present article gives my answer. The material has partly been collected by me in Plymouth, and partly consists in a series of sections from Professor Brinkmann.
