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West Point and in West Bay, Cape "Flora, in July 1897, at a 

 depth o£ from 2 to 10 fathoms. This is recorded from Spitz- 

 bergen and Greenland, and is also one of the more generally 

 distributed species in Norway, as well as round the British 

 Islands. 



Paeadoxostoma flexuosum, G. S. Brady. 



1866. Bythocythere ?Jlextiosa, G. S. Brady (11), p. 211. 



A. few specimens of Paradoxostoma flexuosum were dredged 

 off East Glacier in July 1897. It has been previously recorded 

 from Davis Strait (lat. 69° 31' N., long. 56^ 1' W.) by A. M. 

 Norman, and is widely distributed southward to the Bay of 

 Biscay. 



MYODOCOPA. 



Genus Philomedes, LiUjeborg, 1853. 



Philomedes beenda (Baird). 



1850. Cypridina brenda, Baird (3), p. 181, pi. 23. figs. 1 a-g. 



A number of specimens of this Ostracod were dredged in 

 15 fathoms, one mile off Flora Cottage, on September 10th, 

 1896, and off West Glacier, Giintber Sound, in 10 fathoms, on 

 September 9th, 1897. Dr. Norman records Philomedes hrenda 

 from Holsteinbourg Harbour, Greenland ; it has also been 

 observed in different Norwegian localities as well as in Sweden. 

 In Britain the only places wbere it has been obtained are off 

 Noss, in Shetland, the Dogger Bank off the coast of Durham, 

 and in the Clyde in the deep water to the east of Arran. 



CLADOCOPA. 

 Genus Polycope, G. 0. Sars, 1865. 



POLTCOPE OEBICULAEIS, G. 0. Sars. 



1866. Polycope orbicularis, G. O. Sars (71), p. 122. 



This species was dredged off Flora Cottage in September 1896, 

 and off East Glacier and Cape Gertrude in July 1897, Polycope 

 orbicularis, though recorded from various parts of the British 

 and Norwegian coasts, does not appear to have been previously 

 observed so far within the Arctic circle; its occurrence there is, 

 however, not surprising, seeing that it is moderately common as 



