Amphipods 17 B 



Station 27h: Lagoon-bay at Collinson point, Alaska, 0-1 foot water, Sep- 

 tember 18, 1913; 15 specimens. 



Station 27o: Collinson point, Alaska, September 20, 1913, pelagic, over 1 

 foot of water (9-inch ice); 1 specimen. 



Station 28c: Collinson point, Alaska, October 14, 1913, 1 fathom, sandy 

 mud with scattered algae; 35 specimens. 



Station 281: Beach at Collinson point, Alaska, June, 1914; 2 specimens. 



Station 28o: Collinson point, Alaska, from stomach of Salvelinus malm a 

 Walb., July 8, 1914; 14 specimens. 



Station 28r: Bay at Collinson point, Alaska, July 24, 1914; from stomach 

 of Coitus quadricornis L. 2 fragments. 



Station 37a: Bernard harbour, Northwest Territories, August 24, 1914, 

 from stomach of Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben); 5 specimens. 



Station 37j: Bernard harbour, Northwest Territories, September 1, 1914, 

 pelagic, over 2 fathoms water; 1 specimen. 



Station 37r, u: Bernard harbour, Northwest Territories, October 16-20, 

 1914, pelagic, over 1 fathom water; 6 specimens. 



Station 40d: Dolphin and Union strait (Bernard harbour), Northwest 

 Territories, June 8, 1915. Pelagic over 9 fathoms; 1 specimen. 



Station 40ft: Dolphin and Union strait (Bernard harbour), North w r est 

 Territories, June 25, 1915, pelagic, over 2^ fathoms water; 5 specimens. 



Station 40m: Bernard harbour, Northwest Territories, June 25, 1915, from 

 stomach of Xema sabini (J. Sabine); 1 specimen. 



Station 40p: Bernard harbour, Northwest Territories, July 1, 1915, pelagic, 

 in littoral region; 20 specimens. 



Station 40w: Bernard harbour, Northwest Territories, July 6-8, 1915, from 

 stomach of Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben), F.; 4 specimens. 



Station 486: Banks peninsula, Bathurst inlet, Northwest Territories, May 

 18, 1916, from stomach of Gadus sp.; 10 specimens. 



Station 50d: Young point, Northwest Territories (Dolphin and Union 

 strait), July 21, 1916, among loose algse, in littoral region; 6 specimens. 



Color. -Entire animal maize yellow, eyes berlin blue, legs and antennae 

 banded with light russet-vinaceous, each of the body segments with a dark, 

 transverse dorsal band, the last two thoracic and the abdominal segments 

 marked on their lower portions with scarlet. 



Distribution. Arctic ocean, North Atlantic, North Pacific. 



Immature species of Gammarus were obtained at station 40r, 41g, (both 

 Dolphin and Union strait), and 56a (Harrison Bay, Alaska). 



42. Synurella johanseni, new species. 



Type specimen: Catalogue No. 1380; paratypes, Nos. 1381-3, Victoria 

 Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 



Station 20r: Pond in the tundra at Teller, Alaska, August 6, 1913; 21 

 specimens. 



Station 20?': Brackish pond at Teller, Alaska, August 3, 1913; 1 specimen 

 (juvenile). 



Description. Body rather stout, not much compressed. Head with front 

 edge broadly rounded. Eyes rather small, irregularly oval, composed of few 

 elements, brownish black. 



Pleon segments 1 and 2 with posterior lateral corners slightly produced; 

 segment 3, with posterior lateral corners evenly rounded or with a very slight 

 production of the lower posterior margin. Posterior edge of pleon segment 3 

 with shallow notch bearing a minute seta just above the lower margin. 



Antenna 1 is about half as long as the body; the joints of the peduncle 

 becoming consecutively shorter; 1st joint much the stoutest; flagellum of about 



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