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tide (2) ; off Head Harbour, New Brunswick, Sept. 2, 1913, 70-80 fms 

 (3) ; outside Petit Passage, July 31, 1913, 32 fms, sand and gravel (1) ; 

 St. Andrews Harbour, Aug. 6, 1912, 1-5 fms, sand and mud (4) ; 

 Campobello, Duckpond, Aug. 13, 1912, dredged, 10 ft, sand (30). 



Distribution. — This has been the most frequently reported phoxo- 

 cephalid. Western Atlantic as far south as Long Island Sound; Green- 

 land, east and west coasts; Iceland; Spitsbergen; coastlines of Barents 

 and Norwegian Seas; White Sea; Kara Sea; south into the Baltic Sea, 

 east of Bornholm; through the British Isles where the southernmost 

 locality of the species lies at Plymouth. It has not been reported south 

 of Denmark on the continent. It has been reported from shoal water 

 to a depth of 190 meters, but most of the records in European seas are 

 less than 60 meters. 



Phoxocephalus tenuipes Stephensen 



Phoxocephalus tenuipes Stephensen 1925: 160-161, fig. 47. 



Diagnosis. — Eyes absent; gnathopod 2, article 6 as broad as long; 

 peraeopod 3, article 2 stout; epimera of pleon segment 3 convex and 

 smooth behind; rami of uropod 1 equal in length; posterior lobe of 

 article 2 of peraeopod 5 expanding distally. 



Distribution. — West of Greenland, 66° 35' N; North Atlantic 

 Ocean, west and southwest of Iceland. Depth, 600 to 1505 meters. 



Phoxocephalus bassi (Stebbing) 



Phoxus bassi Stebbing 1888: 811-815, pi. 54. 



Phoxocephalus bassi, Stebbing 1906: 135; Stebbing 1910: 577, 635; 

 Thomson 1913: 242; K. H. Barnard 1930: 330-331, fig. 9b. 

 not Phoxocephalus bassi, Thomson 1902: 463 (— >P. regium, fide Hur- 

 ley 1954). 



Diagnosis. — Eyes well developed, bearing lenses; gnathopod 2, ar- 

 ticle 6 as broad as long; peraeopod 3, article 2 broad; epimera of pleon 

 segment 3 convex and smooth behind and bearing an oblique row of 

 3 setae near the posterior edge; rami of uropod 1 equal in length; pos- 

 terior lobe of article 2 of peraeopod 5 expanding distally. 



Distribution. — Australia: Bass Strait, 38 fms; Wata Mooli, 54-59 

 fms; New Zealand: off Three Kings Islands, surface. 



