26 BULLETIN 54, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



LEPTOCHELIA SAVIGNYI (Kr0yer). 



Tanais savignyi KR0yER, Nat. Tidsskrift, IV, 1842, p. 168, pi. tt, fi^s. 1-12 



(female). 

 Tanais edivardsii Kr0yer, Nat. Tidsskrift, IV, 1842, p. 181, pi. ii, figs. 13-19 



(male). 

 LeptochelUi edwardaU Bate and Westwood, Brit. Sessile-eyed Crustacea, II, 1866, 



p. 134 (male). 

 Tanais filnm Harger (not Stimpson), Report U. S. Comm. of Fish and Fisheries, 



Pt. 1, 1873, p. 573 (male and female). 

 Paratanais algicola Harger, Am. Journ. Sci. (3), XV, 1878, p. 377 (both sexes). 

 LeptocheUa algicola Harger, Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879, p. 162; Report 



U. S. Comm. of Fish and Fisheries, Ft. 6, 1880, pp. 421-423 (male and 



female). 

 Paratanais savignyi Delage, Arch. zool. experim., 1881, p. 134, pi. xi, figs. 1-8 



(female). 

 LeptocheUa samgnyi Sars, Archiv. for Math. ogNaturvid., 1882, p. 25. 

 LeptocheUa dubia Sars (not Kr0yer), Archiv. for Math, og Naturvid., 1882, p. 26. 

 LeptocheUa samgnyi G. 0. Sars, Archiv. for Math, og Naturvid., Christiania, XI, 



1886, p. 326, pi. IX, figs. 4-8 (male and female). 

 LeptocheUa dubia. Sars (not Kr0yer) , Archiv. for Math. og. Naturvid., Christiania, 



XI, 1886, p. 317, pis. X, XI (male and female). 

 LeptocheUa savignyi Dollfus, Mem. de la Soc. zool. de France, XI, 1898, pp. 



40-43. 

 Lepioclielia algicola Dollfus M^m. de la Soc. zool. de France, XI, 1898, pp. 



41-43. 

 LeptocheUa savigim Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), III, 1899, p. 333. 

 LeptocheUa savignyi Richardson, Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 503. 

 LeptocheUa dubia Richardson (not Kr0yer), Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 



1901, p. 504. 



Localities. — Provincetown, Massachusetts; Woods Hole, Massachu- 

 setts; Vineyard Sound; Noank, Connecticut; Long- Island Sound; 



Great Egg Harbor, New 

 Jerse}^; also England; 

 Belgrave Bay, Guern- 

 sey; Sark; Jerse}^; Na- 

 ples; Trieste; Spezia; 



Fig. 26.— Leptochklia savignyi (After Harger). Male. Messina* Svi'aCUSe' At- 

 lantic coast from Brit- 

 tany to Senegal; Birterbuy Bay, Ireland; Falmouth Harbor; Valentia, 

 Ireland; France; Azores; Mediterranean; Madeira. 



Dejyth. — Found on surface, among eelgrass and algre. 



There seems to be no sufficient reason for keeping Z. algicola Har- 

 ger and L. mvignyi (Kr0yer) distinct. The female of L. algicola agrees 

 with Kr0yer's description of L. mvignyi in having the inner branch 

 of the uropoda six-jointed. The first pair of antennae are usually 

 composed of three articles, but some speciuiens from Long Island 

 Sound in the U. S. National Museum have the last articles of the tir.st 

 antenna sometimes divided into two articles. The male of L. algicola 



