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southern California (Giesbrecht, 1892); also at San Diego, Calif. (Esterly, 1905), 

 from the Indian Ocean (Thompson and Scott, 1903), and among the Malay Archi- 

 pelago (A. Scott, 1909). Previous records for this species off the east coast of North 

 America are one station off New York (July 11, 1913, station 10064) and four by 

 the Canadian fisheries expedition — two of them off La Have Bank, one off Banquereau 

 Bank, and one in the deep between the latter and the Newfoundland Banks (Willey, 

 1919). All these American records were from outside the continental edge. 



V. minor was not detected in the Gulf of Maine until 1920, when Dr. C. B. 

 Wilson found occasional specimens in the vertical hauls on Browns Bank on March 

 13 and on German Bank, April 15 (stations 20072 and 20103), these being the same 

 two hauls that yielded V. major (p. 295). 



Judging from the numbers of specimens taken, minor is, if anything, even scarcer 

 than major in the gulf. In the Canadian hauls the reverse was true. So seldom 

 entering the gulf, its chief local interest is as flotsam from the Atlantic offshore. 



Zaus abbreviatus G. O. Sars 



This harpacticoid, described by Sars (1903-1911) as not rare off the west coast of 

 Norway, appears in Doctor McMurrich's lists of plankton at St. Andrews, New 

 Brunswick, in about 20 per cent of the gatherings between November 23 and January 

 26, occasionally in April and June, and not at all during the later summer or early 

 autumn. Sars (1903-1911, p. 59) speaks of it as restricted to the red algae, where it 

 often occurs in considerable numbers. There is no reason to suppose that its presence 

 in the plankton is anything but accidental, and it has not been found in any of the 

 tow nettings in the open Gulf of Maine. 



Zaus spinatus Goodsir 



This species is widespread on North Atlantic and Arctic coasts, Sars (1903-1911) 

 enumerating the polar islands north of Grinnell Land, Nova Zembla, and Franz 

 Josef Land in the Arctic, all along the Norwegian coast, the British Isles, Helgoland, 

 and the coast of France. It has not been recorded previously from American waters. 

 According to Brady (1878-1880) it lives among seaweeds from tide mark down to 

 10 to 12 fathoms. Under normal circumstances it is strictly littoral, living close to 

 shore, but in regions of active vertical circulation it, like other littoral harpactoids, 

 may be swept up to the surface. At St. Andrews, for example, Doctor McMurrich 

 found it on one occasion (March 17, 1916), in a haul at 7 meters. It has not been 

 detected in any of the tow nettings in the open Gulf of Maine nor in its other harbors. 



