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11.— BOPYEID^. 



This family has not been studied, and only a list of the species, fur- 

 nished by Professor S. I. Smith, is included. They are parasitic on Crus- 

 tacea, and at matiuity, the females especially, are generally much dis- 

 torted and degenerate, often losing a gxeat proportion of their appendages. 

 The males are much smaller than the females, and of a more normal 

 form, and they and the young forms must therefore be relied upon to 

 indicate the affinities of this group to the rest of the order. According 

 to Dr. Fritz Miiller these forms indicate a relationship to the Oniscidce, 

 and especially to the genus Idgia, and in deference to his authority I 

 have inserted them at this place. 



ji 

 Cepon distortus Leidy. 



Cepon distortus Leidy, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci.,II, vol. iii, p. 150, pi. xi, figs. 26-32, 

 1855. 

 Harger, This Report, part i, p. 573 (279), 1874; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1879, vol. ii, p. 157, 1879. 

 Leidya distorta Comalia and Pancori, Mem. E. Accad. Sci. Torino, II, torn, xix, 

 p. 114, 1861. 



"From the branchial cavity of Gelashmts pugilator, Atlantic City, 

 New Jersey." (Leidy.) 



Gyge Hippolytes Bate and Westwood (Kroyer). 



Bopyrus Rippolytes Kroyer, Gronlands Amfipoder, p. 306 (78), pi. iv, fig. 22, 1838; 

 Monog. Fremst. Slregteu Hippolyte's nordiske Arter, p. 262, 1842 ; Voy. 

 en Scaud., Crust., pi. xxviii, fig. 2, 1849. 

 Edwards, Hist. nat. des Crnst., iii, p. 283, 1840. 

 Stim^json, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelpliia, 1863, p. 140. 

 Gyge Hippolytes Bate and Westwood, Brit. Sess. Crust., vol. ii, p. 230,1868. 

 Bucldiolz, Zweite deutsche Nordpolfalirt, p. 286, 1874. 

 Metzger, Nordseefakrt der Pomm., p. 286, 1875. 

 Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IV, vol. xx, p. 64, (14), 1877. 

 Smitli in Harger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, vol. ii, p. 157, 1879. 



Massachusetts Bay !, off Salem, on Hippolyte spinus, 30 fathoms, sand 

 and mud, August 4, 1877 -, on IT. Fahricii, 22 fathoms, gravel, August 

 4, 1877 ; on H. securifrons,90 fathoms, soft mud, August 14, 1877. Casco 

 Bay !, on H. polaris and B. pusiola^ 1873. Bay of Fundy !, on H. spinus 

 and E. pusiola^ 18G8, 1872. Off Halifax, Nova Scotia, 43 fathoms, Sep- 

 tember 27, 1877. Gulf of Maine !, 40 miles east of Cape Ann, Massa- 

 chusetts, on R. securifrons, IGO fathoms, soft mud, August 19, 1877; 

 also nerfr Cashe's Ledge, on R. spina, 27 and 40 fathoms, rocks and 

 gravel. 



East side of Smith's Strait, north latitude 78° 30' (Stimpson). " Dis- 

 covery Bay," north latitude 81° 44', Greenland (Miers). British Islands 

 (Bate & Westwood). Scandinavian coasts (Kroyer et al.). Spitzber- 

 gen (KJroyer). 



