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A. petiolatus, Kr. (Figs. 270, c; 275, B; 287) {Pallene attemmfa and 

 pygmaea, Hodge ; Fhmichilidium exicjuum and long-icolli', Dolii'ii) : Plymuulli, 

 Firth of Forth, Cuiubrae, Irish coasts. 



Ammothea (Achelia) echinafa, Hodge (Fig. 265, b; 274, 4; 275, k) : 

 Plymouth, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Cunibrae, Durliani (Hodge), West 

 of Ireland. We have not found it on the East of Scotland. A. brevipes, 

 Hodge, is presumed to be the young. Two of Dohrn's Neapolitan species, 

 A. fihnlifera and A. franeiscana, are in my opinion not to be distinguishe<l 

 from one another, nor from the present species. 



A. hispida, Hodge (Fig. 266, c) {A. loiujipes, Hodge (Juv) ; A. magnirostris, 

 Dohm ; 1 Pasithoe vesiculosa, Goodsir ; 1 Pephredo hirsuta, Goodsir) : Corn- 

 wall and Devon (Hodge and Norman), Jersey. The form common on the 

 East of Scotland would seem to be this species. The Mediterranean A. 

 Tnagnirostris, Dohrn, appears to be identical. 



A. laevis, Hodge : Cornwall (Hodge), Devon (Norman), Jei'sey (Sinel). 



Tanystylum orbicular e, Wilson {Glotenia conirostre, Dohrn) : Donegal 

 (Carpenter). 



PhoxicMlus spinosus, Mont. (Fig. 265, c ; 270, a ; 275, c) : South Coast, 

 Moray Firth, Firth of Clyde, Ireland. A smaller and less sj^iny form occurs 

 which Carpenter records as P. laevis, Grube, but Norman unites the two 

 under the name of Endeis spinosus (Mont.). 



Pycnogonum littorale., Strom (Fig. 262) : on all ct)asts, and to considerable 

 depths (150 fathoms, West of Ireland). 



Nymfhon brevirostre, Hodge (N. gracile, Sars) (Figs. 263, 264, 267, a ; 

 272, 274, 3): common on the East Coast; Herm (Hodge), Dublin, Queens- 

 town (Carpenter). Our smallest species of Nymphon. 



N. rubrum, Hodge (iV. gracile, Johnston ; N. rubrum, G. O. Sai's) : 

 common on the East Coast ; Oban (Norman), Ireland (Carpenter). 



N. grossipes, 0. Fabr., Johnston {N. johnstoni, Goodsir) : Northumber- 

 land, East of Scotland, Orkney, etc., not uncommon. 



N. gracile. Leach (iV. gallicum, Iloek ; ^ N. femoratum, Leach) : South 

 of England, West of Scotland, and Ireland. 



N. sfromii, Kr. (N. gigavteum, Goodsir) (Figs. 273, 274, 2) : East Coast, 

 from Holy Island to Shetland. 



Chaetonymphon hirtum, Fabr. (Fig. 274, 1; : Northumberland (Hodge), 

 Margate (Hoek), East of Scotland, and Ireland, not uncommon. There 

 seems to be no doubt that British specimens agree with this sjsecies as figured 

 and identified by Sars. N. spinosum, Goodsir (East of Scotland, Goodsir; 

 Belfast, W. Thompson), is, according to Norman, the same species. Sars' 

 Norwegian specimens figured under the latter name are not identical, and 

 have been renamed by Norman G. spinosissimuvr, but are said by Meinert 

 and Mubius to be identical with C. hirtipes, Bell. 



Hodge (1864) records Nymphon mixtum, Kr., and iV. longitarse, Kr., from 

 the Durham coast. His full list of the recorded species of other authors also 

 includes the following doubtful or unrecognised species : X. fellucidnm, 

 N. simile, and N. minntum, all of Goodsir. 



Pallene brevirostris, 3 o\n\ston {P. em^ »sa, Wilson ; 1 P. emaciata, Dohn^i) 

 (Figs. 275, a; 285): all coasts. Examples differ considerably in size and 

 proportions, as do Dohrn's Neapolitan species one from another. We have 

 specimens from the Sound of Mull that come very near, and perhaps agree 



