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Melpiiidippa. (Species undetermined.) 



About half way between Anticosti and the Gasp^ peninsula, in 220 

 fathoms; also (a fragment) off Richibucto, N.B., in 14 fathoms; dredged 

 by the writer in 1873. 



Leptociieirus piNGUis (Stimpson). 



Ptilocheirus piniruist, Stimpson (1853). 

 Lcptocheirus pinguis. Stebbing (1888). 



" This species is abundant on the whole coast of New England, as well as 

 at Grand Manan. It is most abundant on sandy bottoms in the laminarian 

 zone ; although sometimes occurring at low-water mark, as at Fisher's Cove ; 

 or in the coralline zone, as in 2-0 fathoms, off Duck Island " (Stimpson). 

 " Common on the whole coast of New England upon muddy bottoms and 

 north to Labrador. In depth it extends down to 150 fathoms, and probably 

 much farther" (S. I. Smith). In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, it has been 

 dredged by the writer on the Bradelle Bank, and between it and Miscou 

 Island : also between Cape Bear, P.E.I., and Pictou Island, N.S.; and at 

 two localities in Northumberland Strait. 



Family Fardaliscidce. 

 Pardalisca cuspidata, Kroyer. 

 Off Cape Bon Ami, Gaspe, in 30 fathoms, dredged by the writer in 1873. 



Family Eusiridce. 



EusiRUS cuspiDATUS, Kroyer. 



One large specimen was drtdged by the writer on the Orphan Bank, in 

 1873, and others, in the northern part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in 1871. 



Rhacotropis aculeatus (Lepechin). 



Oniseus aculeatus, Lepechin (1780). 

 Amphitonotus Edward.iii, Packard (1867). 

 Tritropis acukata, Boeck (1870). 

 Rhacotropis aculeata. Smith (1883). 



Le Have Bank, Nova Scotia, in 45 and 60 fathoms, U. S. Fish Commission, 



1872 (Smith and Harger) ; and H.M.S. Challenger, Station 49 (May 20, 



1873) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 85 fathoms. Gulf of St. Lawrence, 



on the Orphan and Bradelle banks ; in 56 fathoms, 8 miles S.E. of Bona- 



venture Island ; and in 30 fathoms, off Cape Bon Ami, Gaspe,— dredged by 



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