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BULLETIN 54, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



of Norway, II, 1899, pp. 70-71, pi. xxix. RICHARDSON, American Natural- 

 ist, XXXIV, 1900, p. 216; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 513. 

 OHLIX, Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., XXVI, Afd. iv, 1901, 

 No. 12, pp. 23-24. DOLLFCS, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, XXVIII, 1903, pp. 

 5-6. NORMAN, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), XIV, 1904, p. 437. HAXSEX, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. London, XXIX, 1905, pp. 342-343. 



Localities. Off Cape Florida; Atlantic coast of North America; also 

 British Isles; Shetland Isles; northern part of the western coast of 

 France; latitude 61 16' north, longitude 1 18' east; Mediterranean at 

 Villefranche and Naples; southern and western coast of Norway; Kat- 

 tegat; latitude 64 48' north, longitude 6 32' east. 



Depth. 30-300 fathoms; 140 m. to 1,210 m. (Dollfus); 808 fathoms 

 (Norman). 



Stebbing" says of this form: "It is a good swimmer, tenacious of 

 life, a savage devourer of fish, and not to be held in the human hand 

 with impunity." 



FIG. 83. ClEOLANA BOREALIS (AFTER HARGSK). O, LATERAL VIEW. X 3. 6, SECOND ANTENNA. 



x 10. c, FIRST ANTENNA, x 10. d, PLEOPOD OF SECOND PAIR OF MALE, x 8. 



According to Sars, C. borealis is "one of the most effective scaven- 

 gers of the sea, excelling in this respect even the most voracious species 

 of Anonyx among the amphipoda." 6 



Body oblong-ovate, almost two and a half times longer than broad, 

 5 mm. :12 mm., very convex. 



Head wider than long, 2 mm. :3 mm., with the anterior margin 

 widely rounded and produced in a small median point. Ej^es small, 

 round, composite, and placed in {he antero-lateral angles of the head. 

 The first pair of antennae have the first two articles short, the second 



a Hist, of Crustacea, 1893, p. 343. & Crust, of Norway, II, 1899, p. 71. 



