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prominent and are provided with the usual frontal area with radiating 

 pores but they become inconspicuous on complete calcification of adjacent 

 zooecia, and the smooth ectooecial cover may completely obscure the 

 frontal area or leave a central pore above it. 



Lorenz described the species from Jan Mayen, Waters from Franz- 

 Josef Land, Kluge from Greenland and Osburn from Greenland and 

 Ungava (Port Burwell at entrance to Hudson Strait). 



It did not appear in the Hancock dredgings, but there are numerous 

 specimens in the collections from Big Koniuji Island, and Alitak Bay, 

 Alaska (U. S. Alaska Crab Investigation) ; from Nunivak Island and 

 Pavlov Bay, Alaska; and from Dillon Beach, California, a little north 

 of San Francisco, R. J. Menzies, coll. Several large colonies with 

 rounded branches 6 mm in diameter and 25 mm high were brought 

 up in a fisherman's net at Cordell Point, California. Also taken at 

 Friday Harbor, Puget Sound, Washington, by Dr. J. L. Mohr. Abundant 

 at Point Barrow, Alaska, G. E. MacGinitie, collector. 



