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constitutes the second record of the occurrence of this species. It is, 

 however, well represented in the collection of the U. S. National 

 Museum, where there are specimens from Bay of Islands, Newfound- 

 land; Port Franklin and Kiska Island, Alaska; Bering Island; and 

 Indian Point, Siberia. Nototropis briiggeni has been taken between 

 45 and 80 m. 



Family EUSIRIDAE 



RHACHOTROPIS ACULEATA (Lepechin) 



Tritropis aculeata Hansen, 1887a, p. 139, pi. 5, fig. 7. 



Rhachotropis aculeata Sars, 1893, p. 424, pi. 149. — Stebbing, 1906, p. 348. — 



Shoemaker, 1930b, p. 316.— Gurjanova, 1938, p. 329. — Stephensen, 1940b, 



p. 48; 1944b, p. 96. 



Material collected. — In 100 to 150 feet, August 21, 1948, 3 speci- 

 mens. In 150 feet, August 23, 1948, 7 specimens. In no and 125 

 feet, September 8 and 9, 1948, 2 specimens. In 213 feet, 4 miles out, 

 October 6, 1949, i specimen. In 138 feet, 3.5 miles out, August i, 

 1950, I specimen. At Point Barrow base, June 4, 1951, i specimen. 

 Dredged at 75 m., July 26, 195 1, 4 specimens. 



Rhachotropis aculeata is a circumpolar species that dips down into 

 the North Atlantic and North Pacific. On the coast of the United 

 States it has been recorded from Cape Ann, Mass., and on the Asiatic 

 coast from the Sea of Japan by Gurjanova. The International Polar 

 Expedition to Point Barrow, 1881-1883, took it at Point Franklin, 

 Alaska. This species reaches a length of 44 mm. and has been taken 

 down to 250 m. 



EUSIRUS CUSPIDATUS Kroyer 



Eusirtis cuspidatus Sars, 1893, p. 416, pi. 146. — Stebbing, 1906, p. 339. — Ste- 

 phensen, 1940a, p. 283; 1944b, p. 95. 



Material collected. — In 150 feet, August 23, 1948, i specimen. In 

 125 feet, September 9, 1948, i specimen. In 130 feet, 4 miles out, 

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

 5 specimens. In 741 feet, 12.1 miles out, August 17, 1949, i specimen. 

 In 217 feet, 7.5 miles out, September 6, 1949, i specimen. In 246 

 feet, 7 miles out, September 8, 1949, i specimen. In 216 feet, 4.3 

 miles out, October 6, 1949, i specimen. In 295 feet, 5 miles out, 

 October 6, 1949, i specimen. In 341 feet, 6 miles out, October 11, 

 1949, ID specimens. In 175 feet, 4 miles out, October 14, 1949, 

 9 specimens (young). In 204 feet, August 5, 1950, i specimen. 



This species has been recorded from North Norway, Spitzbergen, 

 White Sea, Barents Sea. Franz Joseph Land, northern Russia, Nova 



