34 4 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Norway to the Mediterranean. In Irish waters, however, it is not nearly so- 

 abundant as the Anaphia species. 



ENDEIDAE. 



Endeis laevis (Grube). 



Blacksod (Feorinyeeo Bay, south shore, 14th September, 1909 ; Elly Bay, 

 north shore, 12th March, 1910). Inishbofin (2). Ballynakill (2). 



This is another widespread species, occurring probably all round the Irish 

 coast, and ranging from Norway to the Mediterranean and the Azores. 



Norman has shown (3) that Endeis (Philippi, 1843) must be used for this 

 genus. The name Phoxichilus, which he, following Stebbing, would transfer 

 to Pseudopallene, had better be dropped altogether ; otherwise great confusion 

 will result to future workers who are not specialists in the nomenclature of 

 Pycnogonida. 



PYCNOGONIDAE. 



Pycnogonum littorale Stroem. 



Blacksod (Elly Bay, south shore, 17th September, 1910). Off Achill 

 Head (" Fingal," 144 fms., see 1). Clew Bay (15 fms., see 1). 



Probably this species is to be found all round our coast. Its exceedingly 

 wide geographical and bathymetric range (shore to over 700 fms. off our south- 

 west peninsulas) has often been remarked. 



PiEFEEENCES. 



1. Carpenter, G. H. — On some Pycnogonida from the Irish coasts. Sci 



Proc. B. Duhlin Soc, vol. viii, 1893, pp. 195-205, pi. xii. 



2. The Marine Fauna of the Coast of Ireland. Pt. vi. Pycnogonida. 



Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1904, iv. [1905]. 



3. Norman, A. M. — The Podosomata (= Pycnogonida) of the Temperate 



Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Linn. Soc. Jour. — Zool., vol. xxx, 1908, 

 pp. 198-238, pis. 29, 30. 



4. Dogiel, V. — Note on Besearch in Marine Biol. Assocn. W. Scotland, Annual 



Beport, 1911. 



