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Occurrence. The "Ingolf" has taken this species at 10 localities. 



West Greenland: Godthaab Fjord, a small ebb pool; 1 specimen. 



West of Iceland: St. 9: 64 18' N. L., 27 00' W. L., Trawl, 295 fm.; 1 spec. 



North-East of Iceland: St 121: 66° 59' N. L., 13 n'W. L., Vertical net, 100— o fm.; 3 spec. 



East of Iceland: St. 103: 66° 23' N. L., 8°52'W. L., Vertical net, 100 -o fm.; 2 spec. 



— - - 105: 65°34' - 7° 31' Trawl, 762 fm.; 1 spec. 



— - - 58: 64° 25' — 12 09' — Plankton net, 100 — o fm; 3 spec. 

 South-East of Iceland: St. 57: 63 37' N. L., 13° 02'W. L., Trawl, 350 fm.; 1 spec. 



- 3 : 6 3°35' — I o°24' — 272 — ; 2 — 



North of the Faeroes: St. 140: 63 29' — 6° 57' — — 780 — ; 1 — 



- 141: 63° 22' - 6° 58' - 679 -; 1 - 



In Malac. Groenl. this species is mentioned from West Greenland as taken at "Egedesminde 

 and Ritenbenk" as also Godhavn; later it has been found at Jakobshavu (Traustedt); it thus goes 

 northwards here at least to 69 13' N. L., perhaps to 69° 44' N. L. A specimen is present from 59 N. L,., 

 5i°W. L., south-west from Cape Farewell. It was taken by the "Thor" and other investigators a 

 number of times on the west, south and east of Iceland, and it appears likewise in the fjords, being 

 taken in Skjalfandi 011 the north coast, in Mid Fjord, Seydis Fjord, Rode Fjord and Bern Fjord on 

 the east coast. It was taken by the "Ingolf, as noted above, somewhat to the north of the Faeroes, 

 but has hitherto not been found to the .west, east or south of these islands. It was taken by the 2 r "' 

 Amdrup Expedition at Jan Mayeu, from which it was already noted by Koelbel, also at ca. 737 2 °N.L., 

 4 W. L. and ca.7473N.L-, 8 : / 2 W. L. ; Ohlin gives it for several places along East Greenland between 

 ca. 71V2 and 73 1 // N. L., at the last-mentioned latitude in Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord. 



Distribution. The species has been taken at Shetland and twice at Scotland (Norman) going 

 southward to ca. 5572 N. L. Further, it has been taken at several places in the North Sea and twice 

 in the Channel's western end off the Scilly Islands and still more to the south towards the French 

 coast (Gough). In the northern Kattegat it has been taken once (Meinert); it is extremely frequent "off the 

 northern shores of Norway" (G. O. Sars), has been taken in the Kara Sea (Hansen), round about Spitz- 

 bergen both west and east side (Ohlin, Zimmer), as also at Franz Joseph Laud (Stebbing). On the 

 east coast of America it is known from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Bay of Fundy and from there 

 southward to Vineyard Sound (ca. 4173 N. L.) (S. I. Smith). 



It is this species which according to G. O. Sars appears at Finmark in such masses, that it 

 forms the chief food of the blue whale and sometimes the food of the green cod. It was twice taken 

 by the "Thor" in the young-fish trawl with respectively 15 and 40 meters line out; it was taken 3 

 times by the "Ingolf in the vertical net from 100 to o fm. It appears from these 5 catches and from 

 the literature, that the species often lives in the upper water-layers, but it is impossible at present to 

 say whether it lives as a rule or always in the open sea at a distance of less than 100 fm. from the surface. 



4. Rhoda Raschii M. Sars. 



1864. Thysanopoda Raschii M. Sars, Forh. i Vid. Selsk. Christiania for 1863, p. 83. 

 ! 1882. Euphausia Raschii G. O Sars, Forh. i Vid. Selsk. Christiania for 1882, No. 18, p. 51. 



