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ISOPODA. 



Family Bopyriche. 

 Gyge Hippolytes (Kroyer). 



Bopyrus Hippolytes, Kroyer (1838). 



Gyge Hippolytes, Bate and Westwood (1868). 



" Bay of Fundy, on Ilippolyte sjnmis and H. pusiola," 1868, 1872. " Off 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia, 43 fathoms, September 27, 1877" S I. Smith (O. 

 Harger).*" Gulf of St. Lawrence, eight miles S.E. of Bonaventure Island, 

 in 56 fathoms stones and coarse sand, one specimen, on Ilippolyte (now 

 called Spirontocaris) spinus, which was dredged by the writer in 1872 and 

 identified with this species by Professor S. I. Smith. A specimen dredged 

 by the writer in 1873, on the Orphan Bank, parasitic on Pandalus Montagui, 

 Professor Smith thinks is also probably referable to this species. The species 

 is known to range from Massachusetts Bay to Greenland and the east side 

 of Smiths Strait, north latitude 81° 44'. 



Phryxus abdominalis (Kroyer). 



Bopyrus abdominnlis, Kroyer (1838). 

 Phryxus ahominalis, Lilljeborg (1852). 



" Halifax, Nova Scjtia, on Hippolyte pusiola, 18 fathoms, fine sand, Sept- 

 ember 4, 1877 ; also on H. spinus. Abou.t thirty miles south of Halifax, on 

 Hippolyte securifrons, 100 fathoms, fine sand, September 6, 1877 " (Harger). 

 Strait of Belle Isle at L'Anse au Loup, on a female Hippolyte (now called 

 Spirontocaris) Gaimirdii, Stearns expedition ; and Port Burwell, Cape 

 Chudleigh, Hudson Strait, Bell, one specimen, on Hippolyte polaris (S. I. 

 Smith). On the American side of the Atlantic, according to Mr. Harger, 

 P. abdominalis ranges from Massachusetts Bay, to Greenland, Grinnell Land, 

 and Discovery Bay, north latitude 81° 44'. 



Dajus Mysidis, Kroyer. 



Dajus Mvsidis, Kroyer (1849). 

 Bopyrus Mysidnm, Packard (18G7). 



Labrador (Packard). " Packard does not say from what part of the coast 

 his specimens came, but they were undoubtedly from My sis oculata, which 

 he says is abundant along the whole coast. '-Ihave seen no specimens" 

 (S. I. Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. vi., pp. 230 and 231). 



^ All the quotations to which Mr. Harger's name is here appended, are from his 

 " Marine Isopoda of New England and adjacent waters," published in 1880, in the Report 

 of the U.S. Fish Commission for 1878, pp. 297-4(52; and "Notes on New England Isopoda," 

 published in 1880, in the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum for 1879, vol. ii., pp. 

 157-165. 



