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Ledge, in 52 to 90 fathoms, rocky, 1873, — common. Near St. 
George’s Banks!, 110 fathoms, “sand and mud with a few stones,” 
1872, — one young specimen. Bay of Fundy!, 40 to 50 fathoms, 
rocky, Aug. 14, 1868, — a female carrying eggs; and off White Head, 
Grand Menan, 40 to 50 fathoms, 1872. On the European coast it has 
been recorded from Scotland ! (Norman), the North Sea (Metzger), and 
the west coast of Norway !, 150 to 200 fathoms (G. O. Sars). 
As the above record of stations shows, this species is an inhabitant 
of hard, and usually rocky, bottoms in deep Avater. This is probably 
the reason of its apparent rarity, since such localities are not com- 
mon and are difficult of exploration with the dredge. 
European specimens, received from the coast of Norway through 
Prof. G. O. Sars, agree with all the American specimens examined in 
having well developed epipodi at the bases of the second, third and 
fourth cephalothoracic legs, as well as in all other respects. The 
dentition of the rostrum is subject to considerable variation. In 
twenty-two specimens examined, varying from 17 to 27 mm in length, 
four had the formula, f ; seven, ; nine, f ; one, f ; and one, 1 ; — 
each of the last two cases being adult specimens from Cashe’s Ledge. 
Hippolyte Leach. 
In accordance with the rules for zoological nomenclature as at 
present generally accepted, the name Hippolyte should not be 
applied to the species now usually included under it and ought to be 
restored to the species without mandibular palpi, and for which 
Stimpson has proposed the new generic name Virbius. 
The genus Hippolyte , as first proposed by Leach in 1813 or ’14 
(Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, American edition, vol. vii, p. 271),* con- 
tains but one species, II. varians Leach, and in 1815 in the Transac- 
tions of the Linnean Society, vol. xi, p. 347, varians is still retained 
as the first species and a new species, inermis , added. In the first of 
these publications there is, under Hippolyte , the observation that “ to 
this genus the Cancer Astacus gibbosus of Montagu belongs,” and in 
both of them the “ Cancer spinus of Sowerby” is referred to Alpheus. 
In 1817, in the Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britanniae, however, 
Leach says, “ Montagu sent to me Hippolyte varians , the type of this 
genus, as his Cancer astacus gibbosus , but he afterwards informed 
*1 have not been able to examine the original edition. The American edition 
seems, however, at least as far as the article under consideration is concerned, to be 
an exact reprint of the original, with changes only in paging and division into 
volumes. 
