Canon A. M. Norman on British Amphipoda. 345 



Genus 3. Haploops, Lilljeborg, 



79. Haploops tubicola, Lilljeborg. 



1855. Haploops tubicola, Lilljeborg, Qi]f vers, af K. Vet.-Akad, Forhand. 



p. 134, $. 

 1855. Haploops carinata, id. ibid. p. 89, cf. 



1868. Haploops tuhicola, Norman, " Crustacea Amphipoda new to 

 Science or to Britain," Ann. Sc Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. ii. p. 411, 

 pi. xxi. figs. 1-3 (and references). 



1869. Hajjloops tubicola, Bate & Westwood, (1) vol. ii. p. 505. 

 1876. Haploops tubicola, Boeck, (1,38) p. 537, pi. xxx. fig. 5. 

 1876. Haploops carinata, id. ibid. p. 539, pi. xxx. fig. 6, (^ . 

 1892. Haploops tubicola, G. O. Sars, (142) p. 192, pi. Ixvii. 



Hah. Off Berwick-on-Tweed and near Holy Island, North- 

 umberland ; Shetland ; Isle of Skye ; several places in Firth 

 of Clyde {A. M. N.) : Mus. Nor. Off Durham coast and 

 7 miles off Tynemouth, Northumberland (.4. M. N.) ; between 

 Isle of Man and Great Ormes Head, 20-30 fathoms {A. 0. W.) ; 

 near Bass Rock and other parts of the Firth of Forth {T. S.) ; 

 Loch Linnhe, W. Scotland [G. Brook). 



Distrib. ' Porcupine,' 1869, Stat. 36, outside the entrance 

 to the British Channel, in 725 fathoms ; Godhavn Harbour, 

 Greenland, in 5-20 fathoms, ' Valorous,' 1875 ; Bay of 

 Fundy, N.E. America {8. I. Smith) ; Bog and Varanger 

 Fiords, East Finmark {A. M. N.) ; Bohuslan, Sweden 

 (LovSn) ; Naples {Delia Valle) : AIus. Nor. Whole coast of 

 Norway, Arctic Ocean generally to Siberian Polar Sea ; the 

 Baltic {G. 0. Sars); Denmark {Meinert) ; Western France 

 [Chevreux) . 



In my Shetland Report this species was twice recorded by 

 myself as Haploops tuhicola, and also on Mr. Spence Bate's 

 authority under the name " Pontoporeia affinis " by mistake. 

 The species forms for itself a very thick tube of mud, in which 

 it makes its home. 



80. Haploops setosa, Boeck. 



1870. Haploops setosa, Boeck, (137) p. 148. 



1876. Haploops setosa, Boeck, (138) p. 541, pi. xxx. fig. 7. 



1888. Haploops setosa, D. Robertson, Contrib. to Cat. Amphip. and Isup. 



Firth of Clyde, p. 23. 

 1892. Haploops setosa, G. 0. Sars, (142) p. 194, pi. Ixviii. fig. 1. 



Hah. Dredged off Skate Island, Loch Fyne, in 100 fathoms, 

 mud (I). R.) : Mus. Nor. There are, I believe, only three 

 spots in our seas between our islands in which a depth of 

 100 fathoms can be found. The others are near Cronlin 

 Island in the Sound of Skye and between tlie islands of 

 Cumbrae and Arran in the Firth of Clyde. Tiie immediate 



