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pollock, and other fish, and in the autumn by immense flocks of gulls ; the 

 fish and smaller gulls appearing to feed almost exclusively upon the Thysa- 

 nopoda at such times. It not infrequently occurs in this way in the harbour 

 of Eastport, Maine, and with a hand-net, may be caught by the quart even 

 from the wharves. I have observed it only in August, September and October, 

 but Messrs. Merriam and Wilson found it in abundance in April. Professor 

 Verrill observed it in 1859, swarming in myriads at the " Ripplings," in the 

 centre of the Bay of Fundy " (S. I. Smith, 1879 ; op. cit., pp. 89 and 90). In a 

 letter from Professor Smith, received October 6, 1891, he says, also, that he has 

 had both this and the next species " from the stomachs of herring, mackerel 

 and other fish." Four specimens, which Professor Smith has identified with N. 

 JSorvegica^ were sent to the writer in 1891 by Lieut. Gordon, R.N., (per 

 Colonel Tilton) labelled as crustaceans, " which to a great extent form the 

 food of the herring in the Bay of Fundy." 



Rhoda inermis (Kroyer). 



Thysanopoda inermis, Kroyer (1849). 

 Bhoda inermis, Stebbing (1803). 



Bay of Fundy, at the surface, 1864, 1868, 1872 ; dredged in 4C to 50 

 fathoms, rocky, 1868 ; and found in the stomachs of pollock and hake, 1872 " 

 (S. I. Smith, 1879 ; op. cit., p. 92). 



Gulf of St. Lawrence, between Grand Pabou and Cap d'Espoir, in 50 and 

 70 fathoms; also between Anticosti and the Gaspe peninsula, in 210 and 

 220 fathoms ; dredged by the writer in 1873. 



Decapoda. 



MACRURA. 



Family Pandalidce. 

 Pandalus Montagui, Leach. 



Pandalus Montagui, Leach (1813 or 1814), 



Pandalus annulicornis. Leach (1815). 



Pandalus leviyatus, Stimpson (1853) ; fide S. I. Smith. 



One of the commonest of the large shrimps of the region under considera- 

 tion. On the Atlantic coast of North America, it is known to range from 

 Vineyard Sound, Mass., and Newport, R.I., northward to Greenland ; and 

 in depth, from 6 to 90 fathoms. In Canadian waters, it has been dredged in 

 the Bav of Fundy by Stimpson and by Verrill ; on the Atlantic coast of Nova 

 Scotia by the U. S. Fish Commission ; in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, at many 

 localities, by the writer ; in the Strait of Belle Isle, and on the Labrador 

 coast by Packard and the Stearns expedition ; and in Hudson Strait and 

 Bay by Bell and Low. 



