NO. I POINT BARROW AMPHIPODA — SHOEMAKER 45 



Material collected. — In 35 feet in Eluitkak Pass, Elson Lagoon, 

 August 6, 1948, I specimen. In 130 feet, 4 miles out, August 9, 

 1949, I specimen. In 420 feet, 7 miles out, August 9, 1949, 2 speci- 

 mens. Washed ashore September 26, 1949, i specimen, and October 5, 

 -1949, I specimen. In 40 feet in Eluitkak Pass, Elson Lagoon, Au- 

 gust I, 1950, 2 specimens. 



Paramphithoe polyacantha was described by John Murdoch from 

 specimens taken off Point Franklin, Alaska, in 13.5 fathoms, in 1885, 

 by the Point Barrow Expedition of 1881-1883. It has since been 

 recorded from Nova Zembla, Kara Sea, and New Siberian Islands. 

 The largest specimen in the present collection, a female, measures 

 about 34 mm. This species has been recorded as low as 24 m. 



Family ATYLIDAE 



ATYLUS CARINATUS (Fabricius) 



Atylus carinatus Sars, 1893, p. 471, pi. 166, fig. i. — Stebbing, 1906, p. 328. — 

 GuRjANOVA, 1932, p. 167; i93Sa, p. 76. — Stephensen, 1938, p. 276; 1944b, 

 p. 91. 



Material collected. — In 10 feet, 300 feet out, July 20, 1948, 4 speci- 

 mens. In 30 to 40 feet in Eluitkak Pass, Elson Lagoon, August 18, 

 1948, I specimen. In 30 to 40 feet, September 10, 1948, 3 specimens. 

 Washed ashore September 26, 1949, i specimen. From beach at Point 

 Barrow, September 28, 1950, 2 specimens. 



Atylus cariimtus is a circumpolar species that occasionally dips 

 down into the cold northern waters. It has been recorded from East 

 Greenland and James Bay, which is in the southern end of Hudson 

 Bay. 



There are in the U. S. National Museum specimens from Pendulum 

 Island and Shannon Island, Northeast Greenland ; Disko Island, West 

 Greenland; Davis Strait; Frobisher Bay, east coast of Baffin Land; 

 Collinson Point, Alaska ; Dobbin Bay, East Ellesmere Island ; Melville 

 Island, Northwest Territory, Canada; Kotzebue Sound and Port 

 Clarence, Alaska. This species reaches a length of 43 mm., and has 

 been taken down to about 50 m. 



NOTOTROPIS BRiJGGENI Gurjanova 



Nototropis hruggeni Gurjanova, 1938, p. 325, figs. 36, 37; p. 397. 



Material collected. — In 120 feet, 3 miles out, August 8, 1949, i 

 specimen. 



This species was described in 1938 from the Sea of Japan by 

 E. Gurjanova. The present specimen, which measures about 20 mm.. 



