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Specimens have been examined from : 

 Sitka, Alaska, lo fathoms (Harriman Expedition). 

 Ward Cove, Revillagigedo Island, Alaska (Dr. T. H. Streets, U. S. N.). 

 Off Cape Beale, Vancouver Island, 24 fathoms {Albatross, station 2881). 

 Otter Bay, Pender Island, British Columbia {Albatross). 

 Strait of Fuca, 40-97 fathoms {Albatross, stations 3443, 3462, 3464, 



3465)- 

 Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, 40 fathoms {Albatross, station 2865). 

 Puget Sound (T. Kincaid). 



Port Angeles and Port Townsend, Washington {Albatross). 

 Port Orchard, Washington (O. B. Johnson). 

 San Francisco, California (D. S. Jordan). 

 San Francisco market (R. E. C. Stearns). 



PANDALUS STENOLEPIS Rathbun. 

 Plate II, fig. 4. 

 Pandalus stenolepis Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., xxiv, 901, 1902. 

 Differs from P. dance : 



(i) In the stouter eyes, the transverse diameter being as great as the 

 axial diameter. 



(2) In the more slender antenna! scale. This 

 scale has a concave outer margin, and the distal 

 half of the blade is very narrow and filiform, ^ „ ^ , 



•' ' Fig. 14. Pandalus stenolepis. 



narrower than the adjacent thickened portion. icicle (x 2). station 3464. 



(3) The first pair of feet is longer, reaching almost to the extremity of 

 the maxillipeds. 



(4) The third, fourth, and fifth pairs of feet in the male, while shorter 

 than in the female, as in P. dance, do not differ in shape from those of 

 the female, as in the older species. 



(5) In the tip of the rostrum, usually 2-spined, though occasional 

 specimens have 3 spines. 



Dimensions. — Adult female (station 3464), length 80 mm., length of 

 carapace and rostrum 37.2 mm., of rostrum 21 mm. 



Distribution. — From the Aleutian Islands to Oregon, 27 to 125 fath- 

 oms. Taken at the following stations : 

 Pumicestone Bay, Unalaska, 59 fathoms, station 3319. 

 Iliuliuk Harbor, Unalaska, 85 fathoms, station 3311. 

 Off Akutan Island, Alaska, 36 fathoms, station 3546. 

 Unimak Pass, Alaska, 34 fathoms, station 3220, 

 Northwest of Unimak Island, Alaska, 43 fathoms, station 3262. 

 Southwest of Sannak Islands, Alaska, 41 fathoms, station 3213, 

 Off Cape Beale, Vancouver Island, 34 fathoms, station 2879. 

 Off Cape Flattery, Washington, 27-40 fathoms, stations 2873, 2874. 



