no.1758. ON MARINE COPEPODA YND CLADOCERA. SHARPE. 413 



Occurrence. — Very common in birge and surface net tows among 

 algse, at Hadley Harbor, Great Harbor near Ram Island, and Eel 

 Pond, Woods Hole. Massachusetts. Also Sheepshead Bay, New 

 York, September. 



Distribution. — Previously reported only from Narragansett Bay 

 and Charlestown Pond, Rhode Island, summer (Williams). 



Family CANDACIID^E. 



Genus CANDACIA Dana, 1846. 



CANDACIA ARMATA Boeck. 



Candaeia pectinata Brady, Copepoda of the British Islands, vol. I, 1878, p. 49 — 

 Giesbrecht, Fauna und Flora des Golf es von Neapel, vol. 19, L892, p. 242, 

 15 figures. — Wheeler, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 1!), L900, p. 177, figs, a e. 



Candaeia armata Boeck, Forh. Vid. Solsk. Christiania, IS7l\ p. 39. — (J. (t. Saks, 

 Crustacea of Norway, vol. 4, Calanoida 1903, p. 135, figs. L— 10. 



L< ngth. — Female, 1.95 to 2.7 mm.; male, 1.7 to 2.7 mm. 



Characters. — Last thoracic segment of female with large posteriorly 

 directed points. First antenna of female twenty- three-segmented, 

 and not overreaching the genital segment. 



Occurrence. — Gulf Stream about 70 miles south of Marthas Vine- 

 yard, July (Wheeler). 



Distribution. — Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean (between ;!(> 

 and 60° N. lat.) (Giesbrecht); Indian Ocean (Scott). 



Family PONTELLIDiE. 



Genus PONTELLOPSIS Brady, 1883. 



PONTELLOPSIS REGALIS (Dana). 



Pontella regalis Dana, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., L849, vol. 2, p. 31. 

 Monops regalis Giesbrecht, Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, vol. 19, 



L892, p. 486, r» figures.— Wheeler, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 19, 



1900. p. L82, figs, a c. 

 Pontellopsis regalis Giesbrecht and Schmeil, Das Tierreich, Dec. L898, p. 117. 



Length. — Female, 1.0 to 4.4 mm.; male, .">. I mm. 



Color. — Dark blue-green. 



Characters. — Last thoracic segment pointed on either side, but in 

 male prolonged into a powerful slightly curved hook. Abdomen of 

 female of two segments. Furca short. 



Occurrence. — Gulf Stream, 70 miles south of Marthas Vineyard, 

 July (Wheeler). 



Distribution. --—Mediterranean Sea; Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian 

 oceans (between 13° N. and 26 S. lat.). 



