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telson bears two long and two short spines distally on each lobe. The 

 third uropods are missing. I refrain from describing and figuring this 

 species, as there is only the one specimen. 



ELASMOPUS POCILLIMANUS (Bate) 



Moera pocUlimanus Bate, 1862, Cat. Amph. British Mus., p. 191, pi. 34, fig. 7. 

 Moera levis Smith, 1873, in A. W. Verrill, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm. [1874], 



vol. I, p. 559. 

 Elasmopus laevis Paulmier, 1905, Bull. 91, Zoology 12, New York State Mus., 



Albany, p. 162, fig. 32. 

 Elasmopiis laevis Holmes, 1905, Bull. Bur. Fisheries for 1904, vol. 24, p. 507, 



fig. 

 Elasmopus pociUimanus Stebbing, 1906, Das Tierreich, Amphipoda I, Gam- 



maridea, p. 443. 

 Elasmopus pociUimanus Kunkel, 1910, Connecticut Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 16, 



p. 56, fig. 21. 

 Elasmopits pociUimanus Chevreux, 191 i, Mem. Soc. Zool., vol. 23, p. 225, pi. 



16, figs. I, 2. 

 Elasmopus levis Fowler, 1912, Ann. Rep. New Jersey State Mus. [1911], 



p. 197, pi. 58. 

 Elasmopus pociUimanus Chevreux and Face, 1925, Faune de France, 9, Amph., 



p. 246, fig. 257. 

 Elasmopus pociUimanus Shoemaker, 1935, New York Acad. Sci. Scientific 



Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, vol. 15, pt. 2, p. 239. 

 Elasmopus pocUlimanus Schellenberg, 1938, Kungl. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. 



Handlingar, 3d ser., vol. 16, No. 6, p. 56, fig. 28. 



Station 124, 12 specimens; station 169, 3 specimens. 



Elasmopus pociUimanus was described from Genoa, Italy, and it 

 occurs on the east coast of the United States from southern New 

 England to the Gulf of Mexico. It has also been recorded from Ber- 

 muda, Puerto Rico, Cape Verde Islands, Annobon Island, West 

 Africa, and the Gilbert Islands (Schellenberg). The animal measures 

 about 10 mm. in length. 



Note. — In 1916 K. H. Barnard (Ann. South African Mus., vol. 15, 

 pt. 3, p. 200, pi. 27, fig. 15) described a species Elasmopus levis from 

 South Africa, but S. I. Smith's species Moera levis, described in 1873, 

 was transferred to the genus Elasmopus by F. C. Paulmier in 1905. 

 Barnard's name thus becomes a homonym and will have to be dis- 

 carded. I therefore propose the new name Elasmopus harnardi for 

 Barnard's species. 



