NO. I POINT BARROW AMPHIPODA — SHOEMAKER 39 



Material collected. — In 216 feet, 4^ miles out, October 6, 1949, 

 3 specimens. 



This species has been recorded from the White Sea, Spitzbergen, 

 North and West Norway down to the Skagerak, Iceland, Scotland, 

 East and West Greenland, Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Nova Scotia, 

 and Sea of Japan. There are specimens in the United States National 

 Museum from the Bay of Fundy. The present specimens, which are 

 not fully mature, are the first to be recorded from Alaska. 



Lysianassa spinifera was described by William Stimpson from 

 Grand Manan, Bay of Fundy, in 1954, He gives no figures, but his 

 description, as far as it goes, applies accurately to Tiron acanthurus 

 Lilljeborg. It is unfortunate that the specific name acanthurus, which 

 has been in use so long, will have to be put into synon)miy, but the 

 law of priority should prevail. This species reaches a length of 8 or 

 9 mm., and has been taken down to about 120 m. 



SYRRHOfi CRENULATA Goes 



Syrrho'e crenulata Sars, 1893, p. 390, pi. 136. — Stebbing, 1906, p. 282. — Shoe- 

 maker, 1930b, p. 291. — Stephensen, 1938, p. 234; 1944b, p. y6. 



Material collected. — In 216 feet, 4.3 miles out, October 6, 1949, 

 3 specimens. 



Syrrhoe crenulata has been recorded from Franz Joseph Land; 

 Nova Zembla, Kara Sea; White Sea; Murman Coast; Spitzbergen; 

 North and West Norway ; Iceland ; East and West Greenland ; New- 

 foundland ; Gulf of St. Lawrence ; and the Sea of Japan. There are 

 specimens in the United States National Museum from the Bay of 

 Fundy; Casco Bay, Maine; coast of Massachusetts; off Marthas 

 Vineyard ; Block Island, R. I. ; 15 miles north of Big Diomede Island ; 

 and mouth of Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. This species reaches a length 

 of about 10 mm., and has been taken as low as 300 m. 



Family CALLIOPIIDAE 



APHERUSA GLACIALIS (Hansen) 



Amphxthopsis glacialis Hansen, 1887a, p. 137, pi. 5, fig. 6a-c. 

 Apherusa glacialis Stebbing, 1906, p. 307. — Stephensen, 1931, p. 277, fig. 79; 

 1944b, p. 81. 



Material collected. — Found clinging to under side of ice cakes at 

 Point Barrow base, August 29, 1948, 12 specimens. 



Apherusa glacialis is probably a circumpolar species, but has not 

 heretofore been recorded from Alaska. It has been recorded from 

 East and West Greenland, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Northeast 



