36 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I28 



This species has been taken in Kara Sea ; Spitzbergen ; East and 

 West Greenland; Baffin Bay; Labrador; Gulf of St, Lawrence; 

 Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia ; Ccllinson Point and Kotzebue Sound, 

 Alaska; off Diomede Island; and now from Point Barrow. Stebbing 

 gives the length of this species as 6.5 to 18.5 mm., and the depth as 

 10 to 300 m. 



ODITJS CARINATUS (Bate) 



Odius carinatus Sars, 1893, p. 381, pi. 133, fig. 2. — Stebbing, 1906, p. 211. — 

 Stephensen, 1938, p. 184; 1944b, p. 59. 



Material collected. — In 216 feet, 4.5 miles out, October 6, 1949, 

 I specimen. In 175 feet, 4 miles out, October 14, 1949, i specimen. 



Odius carinatus has been taken at Spitzbergen ; North, West, and 

 South Norway; East coast of England; Iceland; East and West 

 Greenland ; oflf Newfoundland ; Pribilof Islands ; and now from 

 Point Barrow. It measures about 5 mm. and has been recorded down 

 to 201 to 204 m. 



Family OEDICEROTIDAE 



ACANTHOSTEPHEIA MALMGRENI (Goes) 



Amphithonotus malmgreni Goes, 1866, p. 526, pi. 39, fig. 17. 

 Acanthostepheia malmgreni Stebbing, 1906, p. 254. — Stephensen, 1938, p. 217, 

 fig. 25 ; 1944b, p. 70. 



Material collected. — Taken on beach at Point Barrow base, Sep- 

 tember 24, 1950, 20 specimens. 



This is probably a circumpolar species. It has been recorded from 

 New Siberian Islands, Kara Sea, Franz Josef Land, Spitzbergen, 

 Iceland, East Greenland, West Greenland, Baf^ Bay, Dolphin and 

 Union Strait, Alaska, Bering or Okhotsk Sea. 



In the U. S. National Museum there are specimens from Labrador; 

 Hudson Bay; Ellesmere Island; and Cape York, North Greenland. 

 This species reaches a length of 45 mm., and has been recorded from 

 the beach down to about 550 m. 



ACANTHOSTEPHEIA BEHRINGIENSIS (Lockington) 



Oedicerus behringiensis Lockington, 1877, p. 47. 



Acanthostepheia behringanus Holmes, 1904a, p. 315, pi. 36, figs. 25-28. 



Acanthostepheia pulchra-\- Acanthostepheia behringiensis Stebbing, 1906, p. 254, 



726. 

 Acanthostepheia pulchra Shoemaker, 1920, p. 11. 

 Acanthostepheia behringiensis Stephensen, 1938, p. 218, fig. 25 (2). 



Material collected. — Taken in Eluitkak Pass, Elson Lagoon, in 30 

 to 40 feet, August 8 and September 8, 1948, 5 specimens. Washed 



