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AMPELISCA LAEVIGATA, Lilljeborg. 



Ampelisca laevigata, Lilljeborg, Of v. af Kgl. Vet.- 

 Akad. Forh. (1855), p. 123. 



Ampelisca Belliana, Spence Bate, Catal. Amphib. 

 Crust. Brit. Mus. (1862), p. 93, pi. xv, fig. 3. 



Tetromatus Bellianus, Spence Bate, Brit. Assoc. 

 Rep. 1855, p. 58. 



Habitat. — Taken in the dredge in sandy gravel, 15 

 fathoms, off the south shore of Cumbrae, opposite 

 Largs ; and off Fairlie in 20 fathoms, bottom sandy 

 mud; also taken by the sieve in pure sand at low- 

 water, at Crarae, Loch Fyne; and by the same means 

 at low-water in muddy sand, Kilchattan Bay, Bute. 

 Dredged off Seamill, below Portincross,, in 6 

 fathoms, bottom sand and stones ; in 1 to 2 

 fathoms, gravelly sand, between the Allans, Cum- 

 brae ; in the surface-net after sunset, Campbeltown 

 Loch, September ; and by the same means, after sun- 

 set, off Cumbrae, July. In this case all observed 

 were females. 



This species has also been taken in the Moray 

 Firth by the Rev. G. Gordon and Mr. Edward of 

 Banff; and in Plymouth Sound by Messrs. S. Bate 

 and Westwood, who also report it from the North 

 Atlantic, and the coasts of Norway, America, and 

 Greenland. 



ampelisca tenuicornis, Lilljeborg. 



Ampelisca tenuicornis, Lilljeborg, Of v. af Kgl. Vet.- 

 Akad. Forh. (1855), p. 123. 



Ampelisca lazvigata, Spence Bate and Westwood, 

 Brit. Sessile-eyed Crust. (1868), ii. App. p. 504. 



Araneops diadema, Costa, Mem. d. R. Accad. d. Sci. 

 di Napoli. (1856), p. 178, t. 1, fig. 1. 



Habitat. — A single specimen (the only Amphipod 

 seen in the haul) was dredged in Loch Fyne in 80 

 fathoms, bottom soft mud. Another was taken be- 

 tween the Tan, off Cumbrae and Bute, in 35 fathoms, 

 bottom shelly mud. 



