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a single, slender process which is entirely naked excejDt at the tip, 

 where it is armed with numerons modified spines like those upon the 

 tip of the inner lamella of the first pair of appendages in the male; 

 while in the male there is a similar process, nsually arising nearer the 

 base, however, biit always accompanied by a somewhat smaller pro- 

 cess arising just at the base of the first and furnished with numerous' 

 long setae like the marginal setae of the lamella itself. 



Hippolyte Grcenlandica Miers. 



Astacus Grcunlandicus S . C. Fabricius, Systema Entomologia?. p. 416, 1775; Entomo- 

 logia systematica, ii, p. 484, 1793. 



Cancer aculeatus 0. Fabricius. Fauna Groelandica, p. 239. 1780. 



Alpheus aculeatus Sabine, in Supplement to appendix of Parry's [first] Voyage, p. 

 ccxxxviii, pi. 2, figs. 5-8, 1824. 



Hippolyte aculeata J. C. Ross, in John Ross. Appendix to narrative of a second Voy- 

 age in search of the northwest passage, p. Ixxxiii, 1835. 



Hippolyte armata Owen, Voyage of the Blossom, p. 88, pi. 27, fig. 2, 1839 ( ^ ). 



Hippolyte cornula Owen, op. cit., p. 89, pi. 28, fig. 2, 1839 ( $, ). 



Hippolyte Groenlandica Miers. .\nnals and ^fagazine Nat. Hist., IV, xx, p. 62 (12), 

 1877. 



Salem Harbor !, Massachusetts, 6 fathoms, 1873; also off Baker's 

 Island !, 20 fathoms (J. H. Emerton, 1878). Between Cape Ann and 

 the Isles of Shoals!, 3M fathoms, gravel and stones, 1873. Casco 

 Bay!, 1873: between Overset and Peak's Islands, 18 fathoms, rocks 

 and sponges; West Qod Ledge, 10 to 20 fathoms, rocky; and from 

 the stomachs of cod taken at the last locality. Grand Menan !, Bay 

 of Fundy, 1872; also off Flagg's Cove!, Grand Menan, 15 fathoms, 

 shells, mud and stones, 1873. Off Treat's Island!, Eastport, Maine, 

 15 fathoms, stones, 1870. Halifax !, Nova Scotia, 1877: 16 fiithoms, 

 stones, sand and red algae; 18 fathoms, fine sand, also mud and fine 

 sand; 21 fathoms, fine sand and red algae; and 25 fathoms, gravel. 

 Mnrry Bay !, Gulf of St. Lawrence (Principal J. W. Dawson). Lab- 

 rador (Packard). Grinnell Land, as far north as 82° 30' (Miers). 

 Greenland (J. C. Fabricius, O. Fabricius, Kroyer, et al.). Bering Sea 

 and Arctic Ocean north of Bering Straits (Owen, Stimpson). 



The largest specimens examined were from the Bay of Fundy, the 

 largest male 41""", the largest female 55""" in length. 



According to the following notes, made by Professor Verrill in 

 1870, on two males from the Bay of Fundy, this species varies con- 

 siderably in coloration. A male 41""" long, from 15 fathoms, stony, 

 north of Treat's Island, Eastport Harbor, had the body very pale 

 whitish gray with faint clouds of dark gray on the carapax and a 

 large spot of the same color on each side of each of the first five seg- 



