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0. Noi-dgaard. 



Scyphozoa. 



Lucernaria quadrieornis, Mull. 



Hammerfest (1894); Mehavn (1894); The Skjerstad Fiord. 



M. Sars has given a detailed description of this animal. 1 ) He 

 notes the following places where it has been found: Glesvser, 

 Solsvik. Floro. Kinn. all of these being on the Bergen coast. My 

 locality in the Skjerstad Fiord (S. XVI) lies just inside Saltstrommen. 

 Here several specimens of Lucernaria were found on algae at a 

 depth of from in — 20 m. 



Anthozoa. 



Alcyonaria. 



James A. Grieg detenu. Remarks by tke author. 



Alcyonium digitatum, Lin. 



The Skjerstad Fiord (S. X), 10—30 m. The locality in the 

 Skjerstad Fiord is the northern limit for this species as far as is 

 now known. Its distribution, according to Dr. Walter May. is 

 routined to Norway and Finland. 5 ) 



Paraspongcdes fruticosa, M. Saks. 



The Skjerstad Fiord (S. Ill), 230 m.; the sea NW of Rost, 

 700 m. ; The Porsanger Fiord, 200 m. 



The species is common in the Arctic Sea. 



Paraspongodes rosea, Dan. & Kor. 

 Balstad, SO m. 



Paramuricea placomtcs, Lin. 



Arno, 300—400 m. 



The species has not. up the present, been found north of this 

 place. In „Beretning om en zoologisk Reise (1849)" M. Saks 

 mentions the following animals belonging to this group: Primnoa 

 lepadifera, Lin., from the Ox Fiord and Hammerfest, and Para- 

 gorgia arborea, Lin. from the 0x Fiord. The last mentioned species 

 has been taken at two stations (183 — 260 m.), in the Murman Sea 

 by the Austro-Hungarian Expedition. 3 ) 



Tsidella hipjjuris, Gunnerus. 



The Sag Fiord. 200 in.: Tranodyhet, 607—640 m.; Oxsund, 

 odd m.; Brettesnes-Skroven, 350—400 m. 



Sturm has caught tills species in the Trondhjem Fiord, accord- 

 ing to Grieg 4 ), and Gunnerus mentions it from Smolen. Under the, 

 name of Mopsea borealis it is fully described by G. 0. Sars 5 ) from 

 specimens caugth at the fishing station Skroven in Lofoten. 



Pennatula aculeata, Dan. & Kor. 

 At Risvser (Lofoten), 150—180 m. 



Kophobelemnon stelliferum, < ». F. Mull. 

 The Salten Fiord, 320-380 m., Landego, 400 m. 



M rtr. Fauna littoralis Norvegix, Part 1, pag. 20. 



-I Cf. Walter May, Beitrage zur Systematic und Chorologie der Alcyona- 

 ceen, )>. 104. Abdruck aus der jenaischen Zeitschrift f. Naturw. Vol. XXXIII. 

 X. F. XXVI. 



; 'i Cf. Stl'.kberg. Faunaen pa ooh kring Novaja Semlja, p. 163. 



4 ) Bidrag til kjendskaben om de nordiske alcyonarier, p. ">. Berg. Mus. 

 Urb. 1893. 



') 'in Some Remarkable Forms of Animal Life, I, p. 50, pi. V. h'u-. 1 — 2D. 



According to Grieg 1 ), this species was known from the 

 Kristiania Fiord to the Trondhjem Fiord. Its northern limit is now 

 the Vest Fiord. 



Cladiseus gracilis, Dan. & Kor. 



The Skjerstad Fiord. 230 m. 



Okieg mentions that the type-specimen was from Slotholmen 

 in Nordland (1. c. p. IS). The species has also been caught in the 

 Trondhjem Fiord by V. Sturm. 



Zoantharia. 



James A. Grieg determ. Remarks by the author. 



Uloeyathus areticus, M. Sars. 



The Salten Fiord. 320 m.; Landego, 400 m.; The Folden Fiord, 

 530 in.; Oxsund, 000 m.; The Sag Fiord, 200 in.; Mortsund, 200 

 m.; TTre, 250 m.; Koine, 150 m.; The Lyngen Fiord. 300 m. 



During his expedition in the summer of 1849, Michael Ssrs 

 found this peculiar species in the Ox Fiord, and in the account 

 a short description was given of it. Later on, it was thoroughly 

 described.-) A contribution respecting its anatomy has been made 

 by Miss Emily Arnesen. 3 ) The Austro-Hungarian expedition collected 

 this species at two stations in the Murman Sea. (183 m., 230 m.). 



Lophohelia prolifera, Pall. 



Tnmodybet. 450—530 m.; The Tys Fiord (T. I), 500 in. 



This species was seen in large quantities especially at the place 

 last mentioned. The Ln^linltrl'iit-yy^'i al the mouth of the Tys Fiord 

 is, as far as I know, the most northerly which has hitherto been 

 observed. Later on in this treatice, 1 will refer somewhat more 

 in detail to this interesting formation. 



Aetlniaria. 



Dr. Carlgren, Stockholm, determ. Remarks by the author. 



Protanthea simjjtez, Carlgr. 



The Tys Fiord (T. I) 500 m. On Lophohelia prolifera, Pall. 



Carlgren says, in a written communication to me. that Pro- 

 tanthea is only found in Bohuslen and on the Norwegian coast. 

 The distribution of this species hitherto known is Bohuslen — Lofoten. 



Edwardsia andresi, Dan. 



The Lyngen Fiord (L. Ill), 300 m.; The Skjerstad Fiord. 

 320 m. 



It was caught by the Norw. North Atl. Exp. at St. 253 (The 

 Skjerstad Fiord. 481 m.). 4 ) 



Paraedwardsiu arenarea, Carlge. nov. gen. nov. sp. 



The Skjerstad Fiord, 320 m. 



The new genus and species will later on be thoroughly de- 

 scribed by Dr. Carlgren. In a written communication to me he 

 says: — „Paraedwardsia is characterized by 8 complete mesenteries 

 like Edwardsia, but the scapus in Paraedivardsia is furnished with 



] ) OverMgt over Norses pennatulider, p. Hi. Berg. Mus. Aarb. 1891. 

 -I Fauna littoralis Norveyim. Part II, p. 7:s. pi. 10, figs. 18—27. 

 •') Beitrage zur Anatomie und Histolog-ie von Uloeyathus an tuns etc. 

 Archiv f. Math, og Naturv. Vol. XX. Xr. 9. 

 4 ) Cfr. Daniei.sen, Actinida, p. 111. 



