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Dolphin and Union Strait; Kotzebue Sound, Alaska; and Spitz- 

 bergen. The present specimens are the first from the north coast of 

 Alaska. This species measures about 8 mm., and it has been taken 

 from shallow water down to about 87 m. 



PROTOMEDEIA GRANDIMANA Briiggen 



Figure 17, g-i 



Protomedeia grandimana Bruggen, 1905, p. 223, pi., fig. 5 ; 1907, p. 233, 

 figs. 8, 9. — Stebbing, 1906, p. 738. — Stephensen, 1942, p. 379 (part), fig. 57; 

 1944b, p. 122. 



Material collected. — In no feet, September 8, 1948, 3 specimens. 



The males taken at Point Barrow agree with a male 9 mm. in 

 length identified by Briiggen, which is now in the collection of the 

 U. S. National Museum. The figures here given of an Alaskan male 

 agree with the specimen identified by Bruggen. Gnathopod i has no 

 lobe at the lower hind margin of the second joint; the fifth joint is 

 about as wide as, but a little longer than, the sixth; sixth joint with 

 short convex palm which merges into the hind margin of joint without 

 defining angle; seventh joint slender, slightly curved, and much longer 

 than the palm. Gnathopod 2 much like Bruggen's figure; fifth joint 

 a little wider and longer than sixth; sixth joint has palm nearly 

 transverse, with a raised, finely serrate central ridge, palm defined 

 by a rounding angle bearing a stout spine; seventh joint strong, 

 greatly curved, and closing against the inside surface of sixth joint. 

 This species reaches a length of 9 mm., and has been taken from 

 shallow water down to 160 m. 



Protomedeia grandimana has been recorded from Murman Coast, 

 Kara Sea, Spitzbergen, and now from Alaska. Many of the localities 

 assigned to this species by Stephensen (1942, pp. 384 and 385) 

 undoubtedly apply only to the following species, Protomedeia 

 stephenseni. 



PROTOMEDEIA STEPHENSENI, new species 

 Figure 18, a-l 

 Protomedeia grandimana Stephensen, 1942, p. 379 (part), figs. 58, 59. 



Material collected. — Washed ashore at Point Barrow base, Alaska, 

 August 21, 1949, 10 specimens. Washed ashore at Point Barrow 

 base, Alaska, September 22, 1949, i specimen. 



Stephensen (1942, p. 379, figs. 58 and 59) partially described and 

 figured a male and female specimen of Protomedeia which he identi- 

 fied as P. grandimana Bruggen. His specimens, taken at East Iceland 



