QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 213 B- 



A single dry female specimen from Vancouver Island appears 

 unquestionably of this species. It is about 33 ram - long; ; the carapax, 

 including the rostrum, 13-8 mm - ; the rostrum, T3. The dorsal carina is 

 armed with six teeth, of which three are on the rostrum, and there 

 are three teeth in the lower edge of the rostrum. 



Hippolyte spinus "White. 



Cancer spinus Sowerby, British Miscellany, p. 47, pi. 23, 1805. 



Alphceus spinus Leach, "Edinburgh Encyclopedia, vii., p. 431, 1813-14," 



(Miers), American edit., vii., p. 271 ; Transactions Linnean Soc. 



London, xi., p. 347, 1815. 



Hippolyte Sowerbcei Leach, Malacostraca Podophtbalmata Britannise, pi. 39 



1817. 

 Eippolyte spinus White, List Crust. British Museum, p. 76, 1847. — Bell 



History of British Crustacea, p. 284 [1847?]. 



Hippolyte spina Stimpson, Proceedings Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, xii., p. 

 34 (103), 1860 ; Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, x., p. 126, 



1871. 



There are seven dry specimens from Vancouver Island, and two in 

 alcohol from shallow dredging, Queen Charlotte Islands, which agree 

 well with Atlantic specimens of this species. 



Hippolyte Phippsii Kroyer. 



Hippolyte Phippsii Kroyer, Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, iii., p. 575, 1841 ($). 



Hippolyte turgida Kroyer, ibid., p. 575, 1841 ( ? ). 



Hippolyte vibrans Stimpson, Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, x., p. 125, 



1871 (£, var). 

 Hippolyte Ochotensis Brandt, Middendorff's Sibirische Reise, ii., p. 120, pi. 5, 



fig. 17, 1849 (?). 



A female from 15 to 8 fath., Virago Sound, Q.C.I. Length, 32 mm - ; 

 length of carapax, including rostrum, 11*6 ; rostrum, 5*2. The dorsal 

 carina of the carapax and rostrum is armed with eleven teeth, of which 

 the three posterior are the larger, situated near the middle of the 

 carapax and separated considerably from the one next in front, which 

 is just over the base of the rostrum ; the remaining teeth are succes- 

 sively nearer to each other toward the tip, which is itself tridentate. 

 There are in addition four teeth on the oblique anterior part of the 

 inferior edge of the rostrum. The dentition of the carapax and 

 rostrum is thus seen to approach pretty closely to Brandt's H Ocho- 

 tensis, and yet the specimen appears to be unquestionably specifically 

 identical with the well-kuown Atlantic species, so that I have little 

 doubt that Brandt's species is only a variety of the female of H. 

 Phippsii. • 



