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Viz: ^'/6 I p. m. 64°i7 L. N. 0=51 L. E. 75-50 fin. i f?; 3 y? (V); i y? (IV); i W; 3 Yc? (V); 3 Yc? (IV); 



ly(in); ly(II). 

 40-10 fm. I f?; 6 y? (V); 5 y? (IV); 9 y^ (V); 9 yc? (IV); 7 y (III). 

 25/5 Jan Mayen 50—60 fm. 5 f$. 



'/y 100 — 50 fm. I f$. 



Johannes Petersen has "l-j 1901 at 73° L,at. North cmd 8" Long. East taken 60 f?, 99 y? 

 (V), 9 y? (IV), 72 yc? (V) and 5 yd' (IV) of Ps. gracilis. 



East and South-East of the Fasroes. To the east and south-east of the Faeroes mature females 

 of Fs. gracilis were only taken 7/5 1S95 and ^5 1896, while those of Ps. clongatus were taken in 3 

 samples (S/g and "^/s 1895) and in 9 samples by Ingolf 1896 (■> 5— ''/s and i^^/g). Mature males were taken 

 Wj 1895 Cyl. 2 |59°i7 Lat. N. 3°26 Long. E. 3 f?; i ii\ 4/5 1896 Cyl. 4 |58°29 Lat. N. 5°o Long. E. 16 f?, 

 3 y$ (V), 2 y? (IV), 2 fd', 6 yc? (V), 2 yj' (IV), i y (III)], 5/. 1896 Cyl. 6 [59=18 Lat. N. 3°o8 Long. E. 5 f?, 

 I y? (IV), I fd', I y (III)I, 5/5 1896 Cj'l. 8 |6i°oo Lat. N. 0=10 L. E. 9° C. 33 f?, of which one with sperma- 

 tophor, 1 y? (V), i y? (IV); 8 fd", 6 yc? (V)], 'Wg 1896 Apstein 81 [63°45 Lat. N. 7°io Long. W. i fc?; x yd* 

 (IV); I y (III)l, '3/8 1896 Klakvig Ankerplads the Fseroes i fc?, '^/s 96 Cyl. 44 [60=50 Lat. N. 0=25 L. W. 

 6 f?, 8 y? (V), 10 y? (IV); i fd', 14 y$ (V), 8 yd" (IV); 4 y (III); i y (II)] and '^/g 1896 Cyl. 47 [59=40 Lat. 

 N. 2=12 Long. E. II f?, I y? (IV); i fc?; i y (III)]. Young animals (V) were taken 5/5 1895 and in 9 samples 

 1896 (-t/j— ^^/j; ^'^/g— '7/3), young animals (IV) only in 5 samples (4/5—^/5 and i?/,, 1896), jun. (Ill) in 3 

 samples (4/5, 6/5, '7/3 1896) and juniores (II) 4/5 and '^/g 1896. 



E. Bay has ''/s 1891 58=03 Lat. N. 2=08 L. W. taken 50 f?, 31 y? (V), 16 y? (IV), 3 fd*, 16 yc? 

 (V), 19 yd* (IV), 9 y (III) and 2 y (II). .Mortensen has s/g 1899 at Kalbarsfjord, the Fseroes, 40—10 fm. 

 taken 3 females with spermatophores and Rink has i^/^ 1848 at the 0rkney Islands taken 6 f?, 4 y?, 

 3 fc? and 3 yd*. 



If any conclusions with regard to the occurrence of the three mentioned types can be drawn 

 from the above, it must be that Ps. major is only found in the open sea in Davis Strait, probably 

 not at the surface, that Ps. elongatus is often found at the very surface, most common in samples 

 taken comparatively near the coast, though in no wise scarce in those from the open sea, and that 

 Ps. gracilis seems to be a more northern and more oceanic form. 



Propagation. As it is generally recognised that the mature males of the pelagic copepodes, 

 especially in species in which the manducatory limbs are rudimentary, only live a comparatively 

 short time, we are right in concluding that the seasons in which we find mature males are those of 

 tlie propagation of the species; specimens with spermatophores attached to the genital somite and 

 with egg-balls indicate the same. 



Mature males have been found south-east of the Faeroes Wj 1895 and in 4 samples 4/5—6/5 1896, 

 in the Iceland-Faeroe Channel at 3 stations "/j— '3/5 1895 and ^°\^ 1896, south-west of Iceland 's/g and 

 7/8 1896, in Denmark Strait at 2 stations '9/5—20/5 1895, in various Icelandish fjords, in 5 samples 3;,_ 

 30/j 1895— 1902, at the Orkney Islands '8/3 1848; 3/^ 1899 a female with spermatophor was taken at the 

 Fferoe Islands; "/e 1891 mature males were taken south-east of the Fseroes; north-east of Iceland (as 

 far north as 66° Lat. North) mature males were taken ^5/^ 1895 (+ females with spermatophores) 



