S. I. Smith — Crustaceans of the Atlantic Coast. 69* 
off" Head Harbor, 77 fathoms, mud and stones ; and found rarely at 
low-water mark, under stones. Le Have Bank !, 45 fathoms, gravel 
and stones, 1872, — one specimen with two of TI. securifrons. Off 
Cape Negro !, Nova Scotia, 56 fathoms, large stones, 1877. Halifax !, 
Nova Scotia, 1877; 16 fathoms, stones, sand and red algae; and off 
Halifax!, 42 fathoms, fine sand; 52 fathoms, fine sand, mud and 
rocks, abundant ; and 57 fathoms, mud and stones. Gulf of St. 
Lawrence !, “ common on stony ground at moderate depths” 
(Whiteaves). Labrador ! (Packard). Greenland (Kroyer, et al.). 
Grinnell Land, and as far north as latitude 81° 44' (Miers). Bering 
Straits (Stimpson). Spitsbergen (Kroyer). Coast of Norway ! (G. O. 
Sars) and of Scotland (Sowerby, Leach, et al.). This is by far the 
most abundant species of the genus on the New England coast. 
Females carrying eggs were taken off Cape Ann, October 17; in 
the Bay of Fundy, at Eastport, in September or October, 1864, and, 
by Messrs. Merriam and Wilson, in April, 1876; one specimen off* 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 5, and many September 21 and 27. 
I have seeu no specimens taken in winter, but the period of carrying 
eggs undoubtedly extends from October to April or May. 
In life this species is usually translucent and thickly mottled and 
spotted with bright red, brownish red and white, the flagella of the 
antennre, the thoracic legs and the caudal appendages being annu- 
lated or banded with bright red. In some specimens the brownish 
red predominates and the animal is less translucent. There are other 
individuals in which larger or smaller portions of the cephalothorax 
are opaque white, these markings sometimes extending on to the 
abdomen or even upon the cephalothoracic appendages, but they are 
seldom regularly disposed and are sometimes quite unlike on the two 
sides of the same animal. Stimpson mentions bluish markings also, 
and says the antennal scales are usually blue, but I have never 
noticed such coloration. 
Hippolyte securifrons Norman. 
“ Hippolyte securifrons Norman, Transactions Tynside Naturalists’ Field Club, v, p. 
267, 1863” (Danielssen and Boeck, Metzger). Norman, in Brady, Report on 
deep sea dredging on the coasts of Northumberland and Durham, 1862-4, Nat. 
Trans. Northumberland and Durham, i, p. 24, 1865 ; Last Report on dredging 
among the Shetland Isles, Report British Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1868, p. 265. — G. 0. 
Sars. Beretning om en i Sommeren 1865 foretagen zoologisk Reise ved Kysterne 
af Ohriastianias og Christiansands Stifter (extr. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidens- 
kaberne), p. 13, 1866; Christiania Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger, 1871, p. 
261 (18). 
