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BULLETIN 76, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Asmall varietyof /«'mscwZ(7 ocTutring among the rocks at low tide in the vicinity 

 of Monterey, California, and which may be related to eschrichtii, also broods its eggs 

 in December and January. (See under H. leviuscula.) 



Type-locality. — Greenland. 



Distribution. — Greenland, and from the Arctic Ocean north of Bering iStrait 

 south to Kadiak; westward along the Alaskan Peninsula and Aleutian Islands to 

 Bering Island, Kamchatka, to Sea of Okhotsk (Brandt), and south to Simushir, 

 Kuril Islands. Low tide to 53 fathoms. 



Specimens examined. — With one exception all the specimens (253) listed below 

 are from the National Museum collection and that of the U. vS. Bureau of Fisheries 

 steamer Albatross, 1906. Many of the specimens were collected by Dr. W. H. Dall, 

 between 1871 and 1880, and by others whose names are given in the appended list. 



Specimens of HenTicia sanguinolenta eschrichtii examined. 



