548 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Genus ORPHANiA Bate. 



Orphania Bate, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Macr., LII, 1888, p. 872. Type Orphaiiia 

 tenuimana Bate, monotypic. 



Orphania tenuimana Bate. 



Orphania tenuimana Bate, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Macr., LII, 1888, p. 872, PI. 

 141, fig. 4. A''. Lat. 38° 34', W. Long. 72° 10' in 1240 fathoms. 



Gulf Stream. 



Alliance Oplophorida. 

 Family OPLOPHORIDA. 



Genus iVIIERSIA Kingsley. 



Miersia Kingsley, Proc. x^cad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1879, p. 416. Type Pandalus 



pelagicus Risso, designated, first species. 

 Ephyra (nee Peron and Le Sueur 1809) Roux, Mem. Class. Crust. Silicoques. 



1831, p. 24. Type Pandalus pelagicus Risso, first species. 

 Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., (6) XI, 1881, p. 12. 



Type Acanthephyra armata A. Milne-Edwards, first species. 

 Systellaspis Bate, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Macr., LII, 1888, p. 757. Type 



Systellaspis lanceocudata Bate, first species. 



Miersia eximea CS. L Smith). 



Acanthephyra eximea S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., X, 1882 C1S84), p. 

 376. N. Lat. 33° 9' 50" W. Long. 74° 57' 40" in 938 fathoms. 



S. I. Smith, 1. c, XIII, 1885 (1887), p. 667, PI. 14, %■ I (type). 



GuLf* Stream. 



Miersia purpurea (A. Milne-Edwards). 



Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edwards, Compt. Rend. Ac. Sci. Paris, 



XCIII, 1881, p. 933. Eastern Atlantic in 2390 meters. 

 Miersia agassizii S. I. Smith, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., X, 1882, p. 67, PI. 11, 



figs. S-7, PI. 12, figs. 1-4. N. Lat. 31°- 41° W. Long 63°- 76° in 



437-1047 in 1047 fathoms. 



S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., XIII, 1885 (1887), p. 667, PI. 15, 



figs. I, 6-6a, 7, PI. 16, fig. 2. N. Lat. 36°-39° W. Long. 68°-73° in 578- 

 2574 fathoms. 



Acanthephyra agassizii M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. N. Hist., 

 VII, 1905, p. 25. Georges Bank 105-810 fathoms. 



GuivE Stream. 



