CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



AT WOODS HOLE, MASSACHUSETTS. 



THE AMPHIPODA OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. 



By S. J. HOLMES, Ph. D., 

 Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The present paper includes descriptions of all the species of Amphipoda known 

 to occur on the southern coast of New England. In addition, many species have 

 been described which thus far have been found on the New England coast only north 

 of Cape Cod; but it is probable that many of these will subsequently be discovered 

 within the territory covered by this report. 



Many of the species of Amphipoda of southern New England were described by 

 Professor Smith in Verrill and Smith's valuable report on the Invertebrate Animals of 

 Vineyard Sound, published in 1S73. I have been able, however, to add materially to 

 the number of species mentioned in this work, both by the description of several new 

 species and the discovery of many others heretofore known only from other localities. 

 In the perplexities and difficulties involved in the classification of amphipods, I have 

 received great assistance from Doctor Stebbing's report on the Amphipoda of the 

 Voyage of the Challenger ami the volumes on the Amphipoda in Sars's Crustacea of 

 Norway. Only by working through a mass of miserable and fragmentary descrip- 

 tion, which it falls to the lot of every systematist to peruse, is one qualified properly 

 to appreciate such thorough and scholarly productions as these two works. 



I have not thought it necessary to include an extensive synonym}' of the species 

 described, and only those references have been given which are necessary properly 

 to connect the descriptions with work that has been done before. A bibliography is 

 added which lists the principal papers dealing with the amphipod fauna of the region 

 covered and of adjacent territory. 



It is a pleasure to acknowledge the courtesies received during the preparation of 

 this paper from Dr. H. C. Bumpus, formerly director of the laboratory of the Bureau 

 of Fisheries at Woods Hole, Mass. My thanks are due also to the Boston Society 

 of Natural History for the loan of many valuable specimens, to Prof. J. S. Kingsley 

 for several specimens borrowed from Tufts' College, and to Prof. S. I. Smith, of 

 Yale University, for the opportunity to examine the types of some of his species. 



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