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Spirontocaris pusiola (Kroyer). 



Hippolyte pusiola, Kroyer (184"2). 

 Spirontocaris pusiola, Norman (1894). 



" Bay of Fundy, 1864, 1868, 1870, 1872, 1876 : not uncommon at low-water 

 mark, among stones and algae ; common in 5 to 50 fathoms, rocky, gravelly 

 and shelly bottoms; oflf White Head, Grand Manan, 97 to 105 fathoms, 

 gravelly, 1872. " Le Have Bank, 45 fathoms, gravel and stones, 1872 — 

 abundant. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1877 ; 16 fathoms, rocky ; 18 fathoms, tine 

 sand; 25 fathoms, gravel; and one specimen also from 16 fathoms, mud." Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence, Orphan Bank, aud, in 10 fathoms, gravel, stones and broken 

 shells, off Sea Cow Head, Prince Edward Island, 1873; J. F. Whiteaves " 

 (S. I. Smith, 1879 ; op. cit., p. 77). Off Nova Scotia, in 49 fathoms, SS. 

 Albatross dredgings of 1883 (Verrill). On the Atlantic coast of North 

 America the known range of this species is from Long Island Sound to the 

 Orphan Bank, and from low-water mark to 105 fathoms. 



Spirontocaris Gaimardii (Milne Edwards). 



Hipxiolyte Gaimardii, Milne-Edwards (1837). 

 Hetairus Gaimardii, Spence Bate (1888). 

 Spirontocaris Gaimardii, Stebbing (1893). 



"Halifax, Nova Scotia, 16 and 21 fathoms, stones, sand and red algae, 

 and 18 fathoms, fine sand and mud, U. S. Fish Commission, 1877. Also, 

 off Halifax, 52 fathoms, mud and fine sand, and 57 fathoms mud and 

 pebbles, September, 1877, — one specimen from 57 fathoms, carrying eggs" 

 (S. I. Smith, 1879 ; op. cit., p. 67). H.M.S. Challenger,Station 49, south of 

 Halifax, in 85 fathoms (Bate). Gulf of St. Lawrence, eight miles S.E. of 

 Bonaventure Island, in 56 fathoms, — and fifteen miles S.S.E. of Bonaventure 

 Island, in 50 fathoms, dredged by the writer in 1872 ; Caribou Island, in 

 15 fathoms (Packard). Taken also in the Strait of Belle Isle, and on the 

 Labrador coast, by Packard and the Stearns expedition. 



S. Gaimardii is known to range from Boston Harbour, to the Arctic 

 Ocean north to lat. 79° 29', and from near low-water to 60 fathoms in 

 depth. 



Hetairus tenuis, Spence Bate. 



1888. H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Zoology, vol. xxiv., p. 614. 

 H.M.S. Challenger, Station 49, south of Halifax, in 85 fathoms (Bate). 



