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 Family Asellidos. 



J.ERA ALBIFRONS, Leach. 



Jwra albifrons, Leach (1813--14). 



Jcera eopiosa, Stimpson (1853) ; and Packard (1863). 



Jcera nivalis, Packard (1867). 



Ascllus Groenlaiidicus, Packard (1867). 



" Found in great numbers on our whole New England coast north of 

 Cape Cod, living on the under surfaces of stones in the first (upper) subregion 

 of the littoral zone." " At Grand Manan it was most frequent in sheltered 

 situations " (Stimpson). Long Island Sound to Labrador (Harger). Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence, off Caribou Island; and Sandwich Bay, Square Island, 

 Indian Tickle, and Hopedale, Labrador (Packard). Fox Harbour, Labrador, 

 Stearns expedition (S. I. Smith ; op. cit., p. 231). 



Janira alta (Stimpson). 



Asellodcs alta, Stimpson (1853). 

 Janira alta, Harger (1879). 



"Dredged in soft mud in 40 fathoms, off Long Island, Grand Manan" 

 (Stimpson). " A northern species not as yet found south of Massachusetts 

 Bay, occasionally collected in tide pools, but usually dredged, and extending 

 to a depth of 190 fathoms " (Harger). 



Janira spinosa, Harger. 



"The only specimens yet known are two females, which were taken 

 adhering to the cable of the schooner Marion, by Captain J. W. Collins, at 

 Banquereau (Nova Scotia) August 25, 1878 " (Harger). 



MuNNA Fabricii, Kroycr. 



Casco Bay, Bay of Fundy ; and in 53 fathoms. Brown's Bank, off Nova 

 Scotia (Harger). 



Family Munnopsidoe. 

 MuNNOPSis TYPiCA, M. Sars. 



" Bay of Fundy, between Head Harbour and the Wolves, in 60 fathoms, 

 muddy bottom, U. S. Fish Commission, August 16, 1872" (Harger). Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence, between Anticosti and the Gaspe peninsula, in 125 to 220 

 fathoms, dredged by the writer in 1871 and 1872. Baffin Bay, in 100 

 fathoms. Valorous expedition (Norman) ; off Cape Napoleon, Grinnell Land, 

 in 25 to 50 fathoms (Miers). 



