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 HiPPOLYTE PROJECTA, Spence Bate. 



1888. H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Zoology, vol. xxiv., p. 594. 



H.M.S. Challenger, Station 49 (May 20, 1873) south of Halifax, in 85 

 fathoms (Bate). 



Spirontocaris spinus (Sowerby). 



Cancer spinus, Sowerby (1805). 



Hippoli/tc Sowerbcei, Leach (1817). 



Hippohfte spinus, Owen (1835) ; and S. I. Smith (1879). 



Hippolyte So%i-erhyi, M. Edwards (1837). 



Hippolvte securifrons, Norman (1861) ; fide Bate. 



Spirontocaris spinus, Bate (1888). 



According to Professor Smith, this species has been dredged at Grand 

 Manan and elsewhere in the Bay of Fundy by Professor Verrill and the U. 

 S. Fish Commission ; also at three localities on the Atlantic coast of Nova 

 Scotia, and on the Le Have Bank by the U. S. Fish Commission. It has 

 also been dredged south of Halifax (Station 49) by H.M.S. Challenger. In 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence *S'. spinus has been dredged at many localities by 

 the writer ; and in the Strait of Belle Isle and Atlantic coast of Labrador, 

 by Packard and the Stearns expedition. On the east coast of North America 

 it is known to range from off Salem, Massachusetts Bay, northward to 

 Labrador, Greenland (Valorous and Porcupine expeditions) Grinnell Land 

 and as far north as lat. 81° 44' (Miers), and in depth from 5 to 90 fathoms. 

 Professor Smith also says that Hippolyte spinus is "by far the most abundant 

 species of the genus on the New England coast." 



Spirontocaris Grcenlandica (J. C. Fabricius). 



Astacus Grmnlandicus, J. C. Fabricius (1775). 



Cancer aculeatus, O. Fabricius (1780). 



Hippolyte aculcata, J. C. Ross (1835) ; and Gould (1841). 



Hippolyte Grcenlandica, Miers (1877) ; and S. I. Smith (1879). 



Spirontocaris Groenlandica, Stabbing (1900). 



Grand Manan, " very common in the laminarian zone " (Stimpson). 

 " Grand Manan, Bay of Fundy, 1872 ; also off Flagg's Cove, Grand Manan, 



15 fathoms, shells, mud and stones, 1873. "Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1877; 



16 fathoms, stones, sand and red algfe ; 18 fathoms, fine sand, also mud and 

 fine sand ; 21 fathoms, fine sand and red algse ; and 25 fathoms gravel " (S. I. 

 Smith, 1879; op. cit., p. 85). North shore of the mouth of the River St. 

 Lawrence, at Murray Bay, Sir J. W. Dawson (S. I. Smith). Caribou Island, 

 P.Q. ; Strait of Belle Isle, 10 fathoms; Square Island, Labrador coast, 15 to 

 30 fathoms ; and Domino Harbour, Labrador, 7 fathoms (Packard). L'Anse 

 au Loud, Strait of Belle Isle, 10 to 15 fathoms; Fox Harbour, St. Lewis Sound, 



