REPORT ON THE AMPHIPODS 



Collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition 

 from the University of Iowa in 1918 



Clarence R. Shoemaker 



Aid, Division of Marine Invertebrates, U. S. National Museum 



The Amphipod collection of the expedition is represented by 

 191 specimens which are included in sixteen species. The rec- 

 ords are all new for Barbados and four of the species (Ampelisca 

 lohata, Lembos concavus, Chevalia aviculae, and Ampithoe inter- 

 media) are reported for the first time from the east coast of 

 America. 



1. Lysianopsis alba Holmes 



Station 1, one mile S. W. of Pelican Island, Barbados, 



May 13, 1918, 38 fms. 2 specimens 



This species was described by S. J. Holmes in 1905 from 

 Woods Hole, Mass. It was reported by Arthur S. Pearse in 1912 

 from Gulf of Mexico. J. B. Henderson and Paul Bartsch found 

 it off Cape San Antonio, Cuba, in 1914, and in 1915 it was col- 

 lected by myself at St. Thomas, W. I. 



2. Ampelisca lobata Holmes 



Station 1, one mile S. W. of Pelican Island, Barbados, 



May 13, 1918, 38 fms. 1 specimen 



This is the first report of the occurrence of this species upon 

 the east coast of North America, the species having been de- 

 scribed by S. J. Holmes off San Nicolas Island, Southern Cali- 

 fornia, in 1908. 



3. Amphilochus, species 



Pelican Island, Barbados, May 13, 1918. 2 specimens 



These specimens are too imperfect for identification. 



4. Leucothoe spinicarpa (Abildgaard) 



Pelican Island, Barbados, May 13, 1918. 1 specimen (immature) 

 This species is found throughout the Arctic Ocean, on the 



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