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s. GOTO : 



" TyjK'-locolity. — ' Clu-istiaiisiuid ' (Norway), 30 fathoms. 



" Distribidîo)i. — Off the eastern coast of the United States and Canada 

 (kt. 44° 26' to 37° 59' N.) in 85 to 1,608 fathoms [Vereill, 1899] : off Nor- 

 ■wav (Christiania Fjt)rd to Finmark, lat. 58° to 72° N.) eastward to the 

 Murman coast ; westward to the Shetland Island, and Ireland [Ludwig, 

 1900] ; Bering Sea (Bering Island ; Pribilof Islands) extending at least as 

 far as Kadiak Island in the eastern north Pacific, and south along the' coast 

 of Asia to the Sea of Japan, 70 to 351 fathoms. 



" Specwiens examined. — Twenty-seven, from the following stations : 



" Specimens of P send arcl taster parelii examined. 



station. 



3225 

 3257 

 3258 

 3330 



3487 



3490 

 3548 

 3606 



4287 

 4291 

 4292 

 4784 

 4792 

 4855 



Locality. 



Depth. 



Fathoms. 



Ke.ir Unimak Island, Aleutians. . 



do 



do 



North of Unalaska Island, Aleu- 

 tians 



Bering Sea, ■nest of Pribilof Is 

 lands 



West of Pribilof Islands 



North of unimak Island 



Bering Sea, North of Unalaska 

 Island 



Uyak Bay, Kadiak Island .... 



Shelikof Strait, Alaska 



do 



Near Attn Island, Aleutians . . 



Near Bering Island 



Matsushima, Sea of Japan .... 



85 

 81 

 70 



351 



81 

 78 

 91 



87 

 66-67 

 65-48 

 109-94 

 135 

 72 

 70-89 



Nature of bottom. 



black sand 



grey sand, gravel. . 

 black sand, gravel 



mud 



green mud, fine sand 



do 



black sand 



green mud, fine sand 



grey mud 



blue mud, sand, 

 gravel 



blue mud, fine sand 

 coarse i^ebbles . . . 



pebbles 



green mud 



No. 



Collection. 



1 

 11 



2 

 1 

 1 



1 

 1 



1 

 2 



1 

 1 



1 



1 



2 



U. S. Nat. Mus. 



do. 



do. 



do. 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 



do. 

 Albatross, 1903 



do. 

 do. 



Albatross, 1906 



do. 



do. 



" liemarhs. — This species is variable in the Atlantic, and the Picific 

 specimens are certainly no excei)tion to the rule. Greater differences are 

 observable between specimens from station 3258 than between an example from 

 off Newijoi-t, Rhode Isknd, and two from Norway, and a slightly larger 



