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Location 109 steamer Speedwell, Bedford Basin, north of Halifax, 

 September 21, 1877, 37 fathoms; 1 specimen. 



Station 2490 steamer Albatross, east of Nova Scotia, 45° 27' 30" 

 N., 58° 27' 45" W., July 6, 1885, 50 fathoms, gravel and pebbles; 2 

 specimens. 



Station 2497 steamer Albatross, east of Nova Scotia, 45° 04' 00" 

 N., 59° 36' 45" W., July 6, 1885, 57 fathoms, yellow sand, broken 

 shells, hard ; 4 specimens. 



Station 2703 steamer Albatross, east of Nova Scotia, 44° 01' 00" N., 

 59° 02' 30" W., August 23, 1886, 140 fathoms, gray sand, black 

 specks; 1 specimen. 



Upon the eastern coast of North America this species has hereto- 

 fore been taken in Ungava Bay; Labrador; and the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence. 



AMPELISCA AEQUICORNIS Bruzelius 



1859. Ampelisca aequicornis li. M. Bkuzelius, Kongl. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. 



Handl., new ser. vol. 3, no. 1, p. 82, pi. 4, fig. 15. 

 1891. Ampelisca aequicornis G. O. Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. 1, p. 177, 



pi. 62, fig. 1. 



Station 2481 steamer Albatross, east of Nova Scotia, 44° 07' 30" N., 

 57° 16' 45" W., July 5, 1885, 116 fathoms, gravel; 1 specimen. 



Avifelisca aequicornis was taken by the Ingolf Expedition off the 

 western coast of Greenland in latitude 65° N. ; the present record, 

 therefore, is the first directly from the eastern coast of North Amer- 

 ica, and also marks a southern extension of the range of this species. 



AMPELISCA LATIPES Stcphensen 



1925. Ampelisca latipes K. Stephen sen, Danish /nf/oZf -Expedition, vol. 3, pt. 9. 

 Crust. Malacost. VI. Amphipoda. II. p. 142, fig. 42. 



Station 2497 steamer Albatross, east of Nova Scotia, 45° 04' 00" N., 

 59° 36' 45" W., July 6, 1885, 57 fathoms, yellow sand, broken shells, 

 hard; 1 specimen. 



Ampelisca latipes Avas described by Doctor Stephensen from three 

 specimens taken by the Ingolf Expedition off the western coast of 

 Greenland in latitudes 63° and 66° N. The present record, therefore, 

 extends the range of this species about 20° southward, and also marks 

 its initial appearance on the eastern coast of North America. 



AMPELISCA SPINIPES Boeck 



1861. Ampelisca spinipes Boeck, Forliandl. Skandinav. Naturforsk., Mode 8, 



p. 653. 

 1891. Ampelisca spinipes G. O. Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. 1, p. 173, pi. 60, 



fig. 2. 



Whiting River, Johnsons Bay, Bay of Fiindy,* United States Fish 

 Commission, 1872, 2 fathoms ; 3 specimens. 



* Although this locality is in Maine, I have included it in this report, as it is a part of 

 the same faunal area. 



