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Hippolyte pusiola Kroyer. 



Plate IX, figures 4, 5, 6, 7. 



Off Block Island !, 8 to 10 fathoms, rocky, 1874. Off Stonington !, 

 Connecticut, 4 to 5 fathoms, rocky, ] 873 (A. E. Verrill and D. C. 

 Eaton). Vineyard Sound !, 2 to 12 fathoms, gravelly and shelly, not 

 common, 1871 and 1875. Off Nantucket!, 15 fathoms, 1875. Mas- 

 sachusetts Bay!, off Salem, 1877, 20 fathoms, rocks and gravel; 35 

 fathoms, mud and clay nodules ; 48 fathoms, soft mud, — one speci- 

 men. Off Cape Ann !, 50 fathoms, mud, gravel and rocks, 1877. 

 Also, Salem Harbor !, 4 fathoms (J. H. Emerton). Casco Bay !, 1873, 

 at low-water mark !, among stones, on Ram Island Ledge ; also at 

 numerous localities in from 4 to 33 fathoms, rocky and gravelly, or 

 " hard " bottoms, and abundantly in the stomachs of the cod taken 

 on West Cod Ledge !. Jeffrey's Ledge !, 24 fathoms, gravel and 

 stones, 1873. Cashe's Ledge!, 27 and 39 fathoms, rocks and gravel, 

 1874, — abundant; abundant also near the Ledge!, in 52 to 90 

 fathoms, 1873, George's Bank!, 45 fathoms, coarse sand, 1872, — one 

 specimen. Bay of Fundy !, 1864, 1868, 1870, 1872, 1876: not uncom- 

 mon at low- water mark !, among stones and algje ; common in 5 to 

 50 fathoms, rocky, gravelly and shelly bottoms ; off White Head, 

 Grand Menan, 97 to 105 fathoms, gravelly, 1872. Le Have Bank!, 

 45 fathoms, gravel and stones, 1872, — abtmdant. Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia!, 1877 : 16 fathoms, rocky ; 18 fathoms, tine sand ; 25 fathoms, 

 gravel ; and one specimen also from 16 fathoms, mud. Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence!, Orphan Bank and, in 10 fathoms, gravel, stones and 

 broken shells, off Sea-Cow Head, Prince Edward Island, 1873 (J. F. 

 Whiteaves). Iceland (G. O. Sars). Lofoten Islands!, coast of Nor- 

 way (G. O. Sars). Scotland ! (Norman). North Sea (Norman, 

 Metzger). 



I have not been able to discover any authentic record of the occur- 

 rence of this species in Greenland. The statement, by Prof. Verrill 

 and myself, in the Report on the Invertebrate Animals of Vineyard 

 Sound, pp. 396 (102) and 550 (256), that it extends to Greenland, 

 was made without any authority, and the including of Greenland in 

 its geographical range by Kingsley (Bulletin Essex Institute, vol. x, 

 p. 59), is probably due to our error, although Mr. Kingsley gives no 

 authority for his statement. The species has, however, an extensive 

 northern range, and will very likely yet be found in Greenland. 



Out of one hundred and six specimens in which the rostrum was 

 specially examined, ninety-two (among which the males varied from 



