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CRUSTACEA MALACOSTRACA. 



! 1896. Eupagurus Bernhardus Bouvier, Feuille d. Jeunes Natur., Ill Ser. 26 s Ann. p. 151, fig. 21. 

 iqoo. — A. Milne-Edwards & E. L. Bouvier, Exp. Seient. du Travailleur et du Talis- 



man, Crust. Dee., I, p. 239. 

 ! 1901. — Benedict, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, p. 452, with fig. 



— — acadianus, — — XIII, p. 454, — — 



Occurrence. This species has only once been taken by the "Ingolf". 



West side of Iceland: Dyre Fjord, in plaice-net, 2 large spec. 



I have also seen specimens from several points along the west coast of Iceland, right from its 

 northernmost part, namely Hofn Bugt, also Adelvig, Skutils Fjord, 0nundar Fjord, Brede Bugt, 

 Faxe Fjord, Reykjavik; it has been taken on the western part of the south coast of Iceland at Grinda- 

 vik, Vestmanna Islands, off Eyjafjallajokul and at i7°34'W. L., but not from any more easterly locality, 

 and it has never been taken on the north or east coast of Iceland. At Iceland it has been taken on 

 the beach at ebb-tide and from there out to ca. 60 fm. At the Fseroes it is common and goes down 

 to 100 fm. 



Distribution. It occurs at the Shetlands (Norman), is common at Scotland, England and 

 Ireland, also on the north coast of France and on its west coast in the Gulf of Gascogne (several 

 authors). It is noted from the coast of Portugal (Capello, test. A. M.-Edw. & Bouvier); in the Mediter- 

 ranean it has been taken at Marseilles (Gourret) and is noted (by Guerin, test. A. M.-Edw. & Bouvier) 

 from Morea, but this seems to me somewhat doubtful. It is also distributed on the southern and 

 eastern coasts of the North Sea (Metzger, etc.), through the Kattegat and somewhat into the Danish 

 Belts (Meinert); it is known further from Kiel and Eekernforde (Mobius). It occurs on the southern 

 and western coasts of Norway, on the west and east coasts of Finmark (M. Sars, Norman, Nordgaard) 

 and on the coast of the short, western part to ca. 35° E. L. of the Murman Sea (Birula). On the east 

 coast of North America the species occurs "from the Grand Bank of Newfoundland to the mouth of 

 Chesapeake Bay, 7 to 265 fathoms" (Benedict; he speaks here of his [both from his own descriptions 

 and figures and from my own investigation of an American specimen] quite stillborn P. acadianus); this 

 means from ca. 45° to 37° N. h. — On the other hand I believe that Benedict is right in referring the 

 specimens described by Brandt as P. Bernhardus var. granulato-dcntimlata from Uualaska and by 

 Owen as P. streblonyx from Kamtschatka to some other species than P. Bernhardus, in other words 

 Eup. Bernhardus does not occur in the Bering Sea or adjacent regions. 



In the "Travailleur" and "Talisman" report A.Milne-Edwards &E. Bouvier introduce their account of 

 the distribution of Eup. Bernhardus with the following sentence: U VE. Bernhardtis est une espece 

 arctique dont les representants se repandent dans les regions septentrionales des deux continents...". 

 According to the above this is incorrect; the species is boreal on the coasts of both sides of the 

 Atlantic; it extends somewhat but not far into the regions where arctic forms are as numerous as or 

 a little more numerous than non-arctic species, but not only is it not found in purely arctic waters, it 

 has never been met with at West Greenland nor on the northern or eastern coasts of Iceland. 



Remarks. The largest specimen I have seen is from Dyre Fjord on the northern part of the 

 west coast of Iceland; the right chela is 35-5 mm. long and 20 mm. broad. 



