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Prof. Kingaley had no authority whatever from me to state that I regarded 

 the Sarsii as a variety, and I ' think ' he had never seen many specimens 

 of the two forms when he wrote the letter to Bate." 



PoNTOPHiLus NoRVEGicus, M. Sars. 



Crangon Norvegicus, M. Sars (1861). * 



Pontophilus Norvegicus, M. Sars (1861). 



"Off the coast of Nova Scotia, about thirty miles south of Halifax, 10 i 

 fathoms, fine sand, and 110 fathoms, fine sand and mud," U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission, 1877 (S. I. Smith, 1879; op. cit., p. 61). On the North American 

 coast it has also been dredged in the Gulf of Maine. 



Nectocraxgon lar ^Oweu). 



Argis lar (Owen) Packard (1863 and 1867). 

 Ncctrocraiigon lar (Brandt ex Owen) S. I. Smith (1879). 



Taken by the U. S. Fish Commission in 1877," about twenty miles south- 

 east from Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, in 59 fathoms ; in Bedford Basin, 

 Halifax, in 26 to 41 fathoms ; and about 10 miles off Halifax, in 52 

 fathoms (S. I. Smith, 1879: op. cit., p. 61). Gulf of St. Lawrence, dredged 

 by the writer in 1873 on the Bradelle and Orphan banks, also (in 1872) 

 eight miles S.E. of Bona venture Island, in 56 fathoms ; and by Packard, in 

 1860, off Caribou Island, in 10 fathoms. Square Island, Labrador, in 30 

 fathoms (Packard) ; Henley Harbour, Strait of Belle Isle, in 10 fathoms; 

 and Dead Island (near Square Island^ Labrador ; Stearns expedition, (S. I. 

 Smith). On the North American coast, the geographical range of this 

 species is from Nova Scotia to the Arctic Ocean, and its range in depth 

 from 10 fathoms, or less, to 60 fathoms. 



Caridion Gordoni (Spence Bate). 



Hippohjte Gordoni (Bate) Norman. 

 Caridion Gordoni, Goes (1863). 



Bay of Fundy, 40 to 50 fathoms, rocky, Aug. 14, 1868, — a female carrying 

 eggs; and off White Head, Grand Manan, 40 to 50 fathoms, 1872 (S. I. 

 Smith, 1879; op. cit., p. 62). 



Family Homarid(P. 



HoMARUS Americanus, Milne Edwards. 



The American lobster occurs throughout the whole of the region now 

 under consideration, but is rarely if ever taken by the dredge. It is known 



