68 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 128 



ERICTHONIUS HUNTERI (Bate) 



Cerapus hunferi Bate, 1862, p. 264, pi. 45, fig. 3. 



Ericthonius hunteri Sars, 1894, p. 605, pi. 216, fig. 2. — Stebbing, 1906, p. 673.— 

 Chevreux and Face, 1925, p. 354, fig. 363. — Stephensen, 1942, p. 403. 



Material collected. — In 125 feet, 4 to 5 miles out, September 9, 

 1948, about 30 specimens. In 125 feet, September 15, 1948, i speci- 

 men. In 216 feet, 4.3 miles out, October 6, 1949, 3 specimens. In 

 152 feet, 3.5 miles out, October 14, 1949, 4 specimens. In 175 feet, 

 4 miles out, October 14, 1949, 15 specimens. In 162 feet, 3.2 miles 

 from beacon light, February 18, 1950, 15 specimens. 



Stephensen gives the following distribution : "West coast of Nor- 

 way; Murman Coast; White Sea; northern Russia; Barents Sea; 

 Jugor Strait; Bay of Biscay; Faroes; Black Sea; and Okhotsk Sea." 

 The present records are the first for Alaska. Ericthonius hunteri 

 reaches a length of 15 mm., and has been recorded down to 235 m. 



ERICTHONIUS TOLLI Briiggen 



Ericthonius tolli Bruggen, 1909, p. 41, pi. i, fig. 6, pi. 3, figs. 29-34. — Shoe- 

 maker, 1926, p. 10.— Stephensen, 1933, p. 50.— Gurjanova, 1938, pp. 374, 

 404. 



Material collected. — In 125 feet, 4 to 5 miles out, September 9, 



1948, 50 specimens. In 130 feet, 4 miles out, August 9, 1949, 2 speci- 

 mens. In 420 feet, 7 miles out, August 9, 1949, 6 specimens. In 

 180 feet, 5 miles out, August 30, 1949, 15 specimens. In 217 feet, 

 7.5 miles out, September 6, 1949, 17 specimens. In 477 feet, 16 miles 

 out, September 6, 1949, 3 specimens. In 130 feet, 6 miles out, Sep- 

 tember 15, 1949, 7 specimens. In 216 feet, 4.3 miles out, October 6, 



1949, 4 specimens. In 341 feet, 6 miles out, October 11, 1949, 30 

 specimens. In 453 feet, 8 miles out, October 11, 1949, 20 specimens. 

 In 152 feet, 3.5 miles out, October 14, 1949, i specimen. In 175 feet, 

 4 miles out, October 14, 1949, 8 specimens. Dredged at 6 to 50 m., 

 July 29, 1 95 1, 75 specimens. 



Ericthonius tolli was described by Bruggen in 1909 from off Siberia 

 (76° 37' N., 147° 27' E.) from a depth of 42 m. In 1926 it was 

 recorded from Hudson Bay. Stephensen recorded it in 1933 from 

 West Greenland (76° 40' N., 76° 20' W.), taken in 85 m. It was 

 recorded from Japan in 1930 by Derjavin, and in 1938 by Gurjanova. 

 The present records are the first for Alaska. There are in the U. S. 

 National Museum a considerable number of specimens taken by the 

 Fisheries steamer Albatross in Bering Sea in 1890. This species 

 reaches a length of 13 mm., and it has been taken as deep as 235 m. 



