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Amathilla Homari (J. C. Fabricius) 



Astacus Homari, J. C. Fabricius (1779); fide Stebbing. 

 Oniscus arenarms, O. Fabricius (1780) ; fide Hansen. 

 Gammarus Suhini, Leach (1819) ; an 1 Stirapson (1853). 

 Amathilla Homari, Stebbing (1888). 



Grand Manan (Stimpson) ; Greenland (O. Fabricius). 



M.EBA Dax.e (Stimpson). 



Lcptothoc Dance, Stimpson (1853). 

 3fcera Dance, Spence Bate (1862). 



Grand Manan. ''This species inhabits the himinarian zone, and seems ta 

 prefer for its residence patches of sandy bottom, on which there are numerous 

 weedy rocks. I have frequently taken what appeared to be the young, in 

 the coralline zone. It is more sluggish in its motions than is usual with 

 amphipods " (Stimpson). 



M.ERA. (Species undetermined.) 



Off Cape George lighthouse, IST.S., in from 22 to 30 fathoms, dredged by 

 the writer in 1873. 



Melita dentata (Kroyer). 



Gammarus dentatus, Kroyer (1842) ; and Packard (18(!7). 

 Gaiiimarus purpuratus, Stimpson (1853). 

 Melita dentata, Boeck (1870). 



Grand Manan, " taken on a sandy bottom, in 12 fathoms, off Cheney's 

 Head " (Stimpson). Common in the Bay of Fundy (S. I. Smith). Dredged 

 by the writer in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Bonaventure Island, in 5Q 

 fathoms, in 1872 ; and between the Bradelle Bank and Miscou Island, in 

 45 fathoms ; also in Gaspe Bay, in 30 fathoms, in 1873. Strait of Belle Isle, 

 15 fathoms, mud ; Chateau Bay, 20 to 30 fathoms ; and Square Island, 

 Labrador, in 15 to 30 fathoms (Packard). 



Melita Goesii, Hansen. 



Dredged by the writer, in 1873, between Port Hood, C.B., and the east 

 point of Prince Edward Island ; off Cape George, N.S.; and between Cap 

 d'Espoir and Grand Pabou, in 70 fathoms. Figured by Goes as a form of 

 Melita dentata (S. I. Smith). 



