DECAPODS 6I 
B”’, Third maxilliped without acca or ened Thoracic feet 
without epipods . . % 2 oi RCIUS. 
B’’, Exopods and epipods unknown Ogre. Tan a: OMQOIUS. faye, 
SPIRONTOCARIS PRIONOTA (Stimpson). 
Hippolyte prionota STIMPSON, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 153, 1864.— 
KINGSLEY, Bull. Essex Inst., XIV, 127, pl. II, fig. 9, 1883.—SHARP, 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 117,,.1993: 
Spirontocaris prionota WALKER, Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc., XII, 277, 1898. 
Spirontocaris prionata HOLMES, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., VII, 206, 
1900. 
To Kingsley’s figure one must add 2 or 3 supraorbital spines arranged 
in a longitudinal series. While 3 seems to be the normal number, the 
anterior one is often reduced and sometimes wanting. 
Distribution.—From Bering Sea to Monterey, California: 
Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, and Kadiak (Harriman Expedition, W. R. Coe). 
Collected by W. H. Dall at Cape Etolin, Nunivak Island, 8 fathoms; 
Captains Harbor, Unalaska, 9 and 80 fathoms; Coal Harbor, Unga, 
8-g fathoms; Belkofski Bay, 15-25 fathoms; Chiniak Bay, Kadiak ; 
Chugachik Bay, Cook Inlet, 20-60 fathoms. 
Dredged by the A/atross in Bristol Bay, Alaska, 744 and 10% fathoms, 
stations 3232 and 3233; off North Head, Akutan Island, 72 fathoms, 
station 2842; Unimak Pass, 34 fathoms, station 3220; North of Bird 
Island, Shumagins, 21 fathoms, station 2850; Admiralty Inlet, Puget 
Sound, 40 fathoms, station 2865. 
Puget Sound (T. Kincaid). 
Pacific Grove, California (J. O. Snyder). 
Bering Island, 2-12 fathoms, some in stomach of Gadus macrocephalus 
(N. Grebnitzky). 
Puget Sound (Stimpson); Marmot Isles, Alaska, 45 fathoms (Sharp) ; 
Monterey, California (Holmes). 
SPIRONTOCARIS GRAGNLANDICA (J. C. Fabricius). 
Astacus Grenlandicus J. C. FABRICIUS, Syst. Entom., 416, 1775; Entom. 
syst. auct. et emend., II, 484, 1793 (gre@nlandicus). 
Cancer aculeatus O. FABRICIUS, Fauna Greenlandica, 239, 1780. 
Alpheus Aculeatus SABINE, in Supplement to Appendix of Parry’s [First] 
Voyage, p. CCXXXVII, pl. II, figs. g and Io, 1824. 
Hippolyte aculeata J. C. Ross, in John Ross, Appendix to Narrative of a 
Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, IJ, p. ]xxxili, 1835. 
Hippolite armata OWEN, in Zoology of Capt. Beechey’s Voyage [of the 
Blossom], Crustacea, p. 88, pl. XXvII, fig 2, 1839 (@). 
fippolite cornuta OWEN, op. cit., p. 89, pl. XXVIII, fig. 2,°1839 (2). 
Hippolyte grenlandica MiERS, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xx, 62° (22), 
1877.—SMITH, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., Vv, 85, pl. X, fig. 251879. 
Spirontocaris grenlandica WALKER, Trans. Liv erpool Broly. Soc., x11, 270; 
1898.—HOLMES, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., VII, 236, 1900. 
The number of spines on the abdomen is the same in the two sexes, 
