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it being very abundant during some seasons while absent as in 

 1904 in others. They state that periods of extreme abundance 

 may occur in winter. Sumner, he. tit., p. 576, records it in such 

 numbers in Buzzards Bay on November 13, 1907, that the 

 parasitic Edii'ardsia leidyi within the ctenophores were very 

 as one looked down from the deck of the ship. 



1 i' : K i map of southern New Jersey, i, Barn. ; j. I.ittlr Egg 



H.ui it Bay; 4. Maurice River Cove. The floating laboratory was 



st.it; :u 1919-1920 at Edge Cove, due west of Beach Iluvni, ami from 1921 



t" the pi.--' n; al --aside Park. 



''\\ '15) encountered "myriads" of Mnemiopsis Icidyi in 

 tlu- >urfn t \\.:t.Ts off the New Jersey coast in July, 1913. He 

 fouin I it ^fiH rally distributed over the inner half of the continental 

 shelf hetwn 11 Ivirnegat and Delaware Bay, although none was 

 seen north of Kirm-gat on this voyage. 



Pleitrobrm'hiii l>runnea nov. sp., was found in great numbers by 

 Ma\i-r ('12), on October 16, 1904, off the coast of New Jersey 

 from Banu-^.it Inlet north to Sandy Hook. The validity of this 

 form as a clLstinrt species has been questioned by Bigelow 

 i'u and '15), and is discussed in a later section of this paper. 



