PYCNOGON1DA 



\\ mphon spinosum I Is. 



Nymphou spinosum Goodsir, Spec Pycnog., 1842, p. 139, pi. 3, Kg. 3. 



Idem, Spec Gen. Char, \i.i-1i. Crust, 1844, p.3 pi. I. fig. 17 [8. 

 ■. mphon spinosum Sars, Pycnogonidea, t8gi, p. [07. PI. XI. Fig. 3, 3a-i. 

 Nymphon hirtipes Bell, Account Crust, [855, p.403. PI. XXXV. Fig. 3. 



Wilson, Syn. Pycnog. New-EngL, [878, j>. 22. PI. V. Fig.2. PI. VI. Fig2a-k. 

 Hansen, Kara-Hav. Pycnog., t886, p. 5 (159). 

 Chaetonymphon hirtipes Sars, Pycnogonidea, [891, p. 103. 1 M. XI. I" i-k. 



The sp< somewhat variable, but I find no sufficient reason to divide the forms belonging 



hither into two species, as has been done by Sars, even it' I have to acknowledge that most of the 



..1 and examined specimens tolerably well or decidedly can be said to belong either to the A'. 



to his A", hirtipes^ as these species arc- diagnosticated ami described in his last 



ad excellent work. Perhaps I may also here hi- permitted t" state my opinion that Sars may 



said generally t<> be too much inclined to form new ami mam species and genera inside the Ai- 



thropoda, whether it he Crustacea or I'ycnogonida, which for the rest have Keen studied and drawn 



1>\ him in so excellent a manner. That such a different view of the species and the genus cannot 



be referred • sful representation in words 01 in figures, and that the dispute cannot be 



led by original specimens , will already be shown by the circumstance, that our museum by the 



liberal it; Sars is possessed of several such critical specimens, that have been determined 



by him, ami that nevertheless my uncertainty and doubt of the goodness of the species have not 



:i removed. 



ce. The Ingolf-stations are: |, 9, 15, 25, 27. 32, 35, 51, 53, 54, 78, 87, 93, 98, 127, 14 |. 

 This great number of stations shows it to be a widely spread species, mostly, however, to the south, 

 in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea, and the northern part oi the Atlantic, ami into the Den- 

 mark Strait to 66 [8'LatN.; also, however, in the Greenland Sea. a little north of Iceland, and in 

 the -trait to 65 5,7' I. at. X. 55 30' Long. W. The depths were mostly from ca.300 to ca. 800 



lath., in a few instances between < ud ca. 140 fath., and rarely the water was s,, low as 35 



and 44 lath. 



From the collections of tin. Zoological .Museum the following stations may furthermore be 



-Strait,'., -,,,■ |.,,t. X. 1.0 28'Long.W., 285fath. (Wandel); 66 32' Lat N. 55 34'Long.W. 



lla . Holun; os. 27'Lat.N. 54 45'Long.W., 670 fath. (Wandel) 564 57' Lat N. 55 [4'Long.W., 



lem); the Deuinark Strait, 64 ;..•' Lat. X. 27 43' Long. W., |2'> fath. (idem); 65 39' Lat N. 



; fath. 1 Fylla . Ryder); the Greenland Sea in Scoresb) Sound (Deichmann); the 



Denmark Island, 5, fath. (Baj 1; Angmagsalik, 1 1 lath, (idem); 69 25' Lat L. 20 1' 



th. (idem); 71 21' I. at. X. 8 25' Long. W. [60 fath. (Deichmann); 72 25' Lat N. [9 33' 



th. (idem) I [5' Long. W., 105 fath. (idem); 72 53' Lat N. 20 36' Long. W., 



5 we have it from the Faroe-Shetland Channel 6] 23' Lat N. 5 |.' Long. W., 



d from the Skagei Rack, the Tromlinger to X. W. , X. 38 miles, 300 fath. 



