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expressed the opinion that Nyinplion spinosum of Goodsir was this species, 

 and not that to which Sars had referred it, inasmuch as the only Clicetonym- 

 pJion of which there is any record of occurrence on our east coast is C. Jiirtwm, 

 and that in my collection I had this species from the Firth of Forth, whence 

 Goodsir procured the species which he named. C. liirtum was recorded as 

 living on the British coasts between thirty and forty years ago both by the 

 late Mr. George Hodge (22. p. 28 & 24. p. 41) and by myself (43. p. 301), 

 on the east coast of Enoland and at Shetland. 



Specimens are at the present time in my possession from Shetland (43) and 

 Cullercoats, Northumberland {A.M. N,), off Ryhope, Co. Durham ((r. Hodge), 

 Firth of Forth {Dr. Henderson), Aberdeenshire {R. Daioson). Mus. Nor. 



Montrose, East Haven {ly Arcy Thompson) ; Irish 8ea {Carpenter) ; Norway 

 in 80-90 fathoms (Sars) ; Iceland (Kroyer) . 



2. Ch^tonymphon hirtipes ( T. Bell) . 



Nymphon hirtipes, Bell, Last of the Arctic Voyages — Crustacea, p. 403, pi. xxxv. fig. 3. 



„ „ Wilson, (58) p. 22, pi. v. tigs. 2, 3 ; pi. vi. figs. 2 a-b. 



„ liirtum, Wilson, (57) p. 495, pi. vii. figs. 38-41. 



„ hirtipes, Hansen, (18) p. 159. 



„ Hoek, (27) p. 6, pL i. figs. 1-8. 

 Chcetonymphon hirtipes, Sars, (51) p. 103, pi, xi. figs. 2 a-k. 

 Nymphon spinosum, Meinert (nee Goodsir), (37) p. 44. 



Off Halifax, Nova Scotia, ( Wilson) ; Bog Fiord, 100-120 fathoms, and 

 Varanger Fiord, 125 fathoms, both in East Finmark [A. M. N.) ; off Disco, 

 Greenland, 175 fathoms (' Valorous ' Expedition, 1875). ' Porcupine ' Exped. 

 1869, Stats. 64, 65, 78, 88, in from 290 to 705 fathoms : of these the first 

 station was in the Faroe Channel, the second and third were just on the 

 border of the British Area, while the last in lat. 59° 2& N., long 8° 23' W., 

 makes the species a member of our fauna. Mus. Nor. 



Arctic Norway, Jan Mayen, Kara Sea, 50-100 fathoms, Spitsbergen, 

 Iceland (Sars); Siberian and Polar Sea [Stuxherg); NovayaZemlia (^Hansen); 

 Franz Josef Land (Ca7'penter) ; White Sea, Murman Coast, and Karl Konigs 

 Land (Mohius) ; East Greenland [Lonnherg) ; Greenland (Miers 8f Rodger) ; 

 N.E. America (Bell Sf Wilson). 



3. Ch^tonymphon spinosissimum, Norman. 



Chcetonymphon spifiosmn, Sars (nee Goodsir), (51) p. 107, pi. xi. figs. 3 a-i. 

 „ spinosissimu7n,l\oy:vaan, (45) p. 154. 



Meinert (37) and Mobius have united this species with the foregoing. I 

 cannot acquiesce in that view ; and indeed Meinert's own statement hardly 

 agrees with his conclusion. He says that he has had the opportunity of 

 examining a very large number of specimens, and he writes respecting them : 



