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Say as lyratus, Spence Bate, 1866, p. 267. 

 Hyas lyrata, Miers, 1886, p. 47. 



Type: Male holotype, no longer extant, length 31.5 mm, width 

 20.5 mm. 



Type locality: "Ad oras Oregonenses." Actually Puget Sound, then 

 Oregon Territory, C. Pickering, U.S.S. Vincennes, collector. 



Localities subsequently reported, with collectors: Bering Sea: off 

 Pribilof Islands, 25-121 fathoms, and Bristol Bay, 7.5-33 fathoms, 

 Albatross (Rathbun, 1925, 1893a). Aleutian Islands: Chichagoff 

 Harbor, Attu Island, 5-7 fathoms, Kyska [Kiska] Harbor, Kyska 

 Island, 7-14 fathoms, Constantine Harbor, Amchitka Island, 6-10 

 fathoms, Bay of Islands, Adakh [Adak] Island, 9-16 fathoms, and 

 Captains Harbor or Port Levasheff, Unalaska Island, 25-75 fathoms, 

 W. H. Dall; off Unalaska Island, 59-93 fathoms, off Akutan Island, 

 45-78 fathoms, and Unimak Pass, 34-91 fathoms, Albatross (Rathbun, 

 1893a) ; off Kyska Island. Rat Islands, 34-55 fathoms, Petrel Bank, off 

 Semisopochnoi Island, 43-56 fathoms, and off Unimak Island, 41-70 

 fathoms, Albatross (Rathbun, 1925). Alaska Peninsula: north of Penin- 

 sula, 15-53 fathoms, Shumagin Islands, 35-110 fathoms, and east of 

 Afognak Island, 51-68 fathoms, Albatross; Belkoffsky Bay, 15-25 

 fathoms, Coal Harbor, Unga Island, 6-9 fathoms, and Chajafka 

 [Shahafka] Cove, St. Paul Harbor, Kodiak Island, W. H. Dall; 

 Kadiak [Kodiak], U. S. Fish Commission (Rathbun, 1893a); 56° N 

 Latitude, 25-62 fathoms (Holmes) ; Kodiak Island: W. J. Fisher; off 

 Marmot Island, east of Afognak Island, T. H. Bean ; Afognak Bay, 

 Afognak Island, 14-19 fathoms, Shelihof Strait, 48-65 fathoms, Alitak 

 Bay, 29 fathoms, Karluk, 31-110 fathoms, and Uyak Bay, 74-99 fathoms, 

 Albatross (Rathbun, 1925). Southeastern Alaska: Kachekmak [Kache- 

 mak, not Chugachik] Bay, Cooks Inlet, 20-60 fathoms, Port Etches, 

 5-18 fathoms, and Sitka Harbor, 15 fathoms, W. H. Dall; Wrangell, 

 W. H. Jones, U.S.N. ; Port Wrangell, Steamer Bay, Etolin Island, 

 and Nakat Harbor, H. E. Nichols (Rathbun, 1893a) ; Berg Bay, 

 Glacier Bay, and Juneau, 50 fathoms, Harriman Alaska Expedition 

 (Rathbun, 1904); Cordova, Bureau of Fisheries; vicinity of Funter 

 Bay, Lynn Canal, 350 fathoms, Chilcoot Inlet, 72-73 fathoms, Dundas 

 Bay, Icy Strait, 6.5-78 fathoms, Stephens Passage, 131-198 fathoms, 

 Bay of Pillars, Kuiu Island, 8 fathoms (in halibut stomach), off 

 Shakan, Sumner Strait, 153-218 fathoms, Kasaan Bay, Prince of Wales 

 Island, 42-123 fathoms, and vicinity of Yes Bay, Behm Canal, 147-205 

 fathoms, Albatross (Rathbun, 1925). 



