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Genus ORPHANIA Bate. 



Orphania Bate, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Macr., LII, 1888, p. 872. Type Orphania 

 tenuimana Bate, monotypic. 



Orphania tenuimana Bate. 



Orphania tenuimana Bate, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Macr., LII, 1888, p. 872, PI. 

 141, fig. 4. A'". Lat. 38° 34', W. Long. 72° 10' in 1240 fathoms. 



Gulp Stream. 



Alliance Oplophorida. 

 Family OPLOPHORID.^. 



Genus MIERSIA Kingsley. 



Miersia Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1879, p. 416. Type Pandalus 



pelagicus Risso, designated, first species. 

 Bphyra (nee Peron and Le Sueur 1809) Roux, Mem. Class. Crust. Silicoques, 



1831, p. 24. Type Pandalus pelagicus Risso, first species. 

 Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., (6) XI, 1881, p. 12. 



Type Acanthephyfra arniaia A. Milne-Edwards, first species. 

 Systellaspis Bate, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Macr., LII, 1888, p. 757. Type 



Systellaspis lanceocudata Bate, first species. 



Miersia eximea (S. L Smith). 



Acanthephyra eximea S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., X, 1882 (1884), p. 

 376. A''. Lat. 35° 9' 50" W. Long. 74° 57' 40" in 938 fathoms. 



S. I. Smith, 1. c, XIII, 1885 (1887), p. 667, PI. 14, fig. I (type). 



Gulf Stream. 



Miersia purpurea (A. Milne-Edwards). 



Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edwards, Compt. Rend. Ac. Sci. Paris, 



XCIII, 1881, p. 933. Eastern Atlantic in 2590 meters. 

 Miersia agassizii S. I. Smith, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., X, 1882, p. 67, PI. 11, 



figs. S-7, PI. 12, figs. 1-4. A''. Lat. 31°- 41° W. Long 65°- 76° in 



457-1047 in 1047 fathoms. 



S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., XIII, 1885 (1887), p. 667, PI. 15, 



figs. I, 6-6a, 7, PI. 16, fig. 2. N. Lat. 36°-39° W. Long. 68°-73° in 578- 

 2574 fathoms. 



Acanthephyra agassizii M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. N. Hist., 

 VII, 1905, p. 25. Georges Bank 105-810 fathoms. 



GuLE Stream. 



