O. Nordgaard. 



Scrphozoa. 



Lucernaiia quadricornis, JIull. 



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



M. Saes has given a detailed description of this animal.*) He 

 notes the following' places where it has been found: Glesvær, 

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

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

 Here several specimens of Lucsrnaria were found on algae at a 

 depth of from 10—20 m. 



Anthozoa. 



Alcyonaria. 



James A. Geieu determ. Remarks by tke author. 



Alcyonium difjitatam. Lin. 

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

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

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

 confined to Noi'way and England.-) 



Paraspongcdes fruticom. M. Saes. 

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

 700 m.; The Porsanger Fiord, 2o0 m. 



The species is common in the Ai-ctic Sea. 



Panisponcjodes rosea, Dan. & Koe. 

 Bålstad, SO m. 



Parumurlcca placoniiis, 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. Saes 

 mentions the following animals belonging to this group: Primnoa 

 lepadifera, Lin., from the 0x 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 vVustro-Hungarian Expedition.") 



Isidill.il llilijii/lis, (rUNNEEUS. 



Tile Sag Fiord, 20(i ui.; Tranodybet, (107 — 640 m.; Oxsund. 

 600 ni.; Brettesncs-Skroven, 350—400 m. 



Sjoem has caught this species in the Trondhjem Fiord, accord- 

 ing to (JEiEG''), and GuNNEEUs mentions it from Smølen. Under tlu; 

 name of Mopsea borealis it is fully described by G. O. Saes'') from 

 specimens cangth at tlie fisliing station Skroven in Lofoten. 



I'l'iiHtdiila ncuU'/itit, Dan. it K(.)H. 

 At Risvær (Lofoten), 1.50—180 m. 



Kojiliobeli'muon dcUÅfcrum, (). J<\ Mum,. 

 The Salten Fioi'd, 320-380 m., Landego, 400 in. 



') Cfi-. Fauna littoralis Norvegiæ, Part I, pag. 20. 



2) Ct. Walter May, Beitrage znr Sy.stematik und Chorologie der Alcyoiia- 

 ceeii, p. 104. Abdruck aus der jenaischen Zaitschrift f. Naturw. Vol. XXXIIl. 

 N. F. XXVI. 



•■*) Cf. Stuxbero. Faunaen pa dcU kring Novaja Semi ja, p. \Wi. 



*) Bidrag til kjend.^kaben om cle. nordiske alcyonarier, p. .5. Borg. Mus. 

 A arb. \m^. 



'"') On Some Remarkable Forms ol' Animal Life, I, p. oO, pl. V, Hgs. 1—23. 



According to Grieg'), this .species 

 Kristiania Fiord to the Trondhjem Fiord, 

 the Vest Fiord. 



was known from the 

 Its northern limit is now 



Cludisms gracilis, Dan. it Kor. 



Tiie Skjerstad Fiord, 230 m. 



Geieg mentions that the type-specimen was from Slotholmen 

 in Nordland (1. c. p. 18). The species has also been caught in the 

 Trondhjem Fiord by V. Stoem. 



Zoantharia. 



.Iajies a. Grieg determ. Remarks by the autlior. 



riocgiifluis arrticiis, 'M. Sars. 



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

 530 m.; Øxsund, 600 m.; The Sag Fiord, 200 m.; Mortsund, 20o 

 m.; Ure, 250 m.; Reine, 150 m.; The Lyngen Fiord, 300 m. 



During his expedition in the summer of 1849, Michael SaRs 

 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.') The Austro-Hungarian expedition collected 

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



LophohcJ'ia prolifcra. Pall. 



Tranodybet, 4oO— 530 m.; The Tys Fiord (T. I), 500 m. 



This species was seen in large quantities especially at the place 

 last mentioned. The Lophuhelia-reai at the mouth of the Tys Fiord 

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

 observed. Later on in this treaticc, I will refer somewhat more 

 in detail to this interesting formation. 



Avtiniaria. 



Dr. Carlgren, Stockholm, determ. Komai'ks by the author. 



Prutanthi'ii ■•iiiiiplcr. Carlgr. 



The Tys Fiord (T. 1) 5oo m. On fjipliohclia jirollfera, 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. 



Ediranlsia andrrsi. Dan. 



The Lyngen Fiord (L. III). ;ioo ni.; The Skjerstad Fioi'd. 

 320 m. 



It was caught by the Xorw. North .\tl. lOxp. at St. 253 (Tlif 

 Skjerstad Fiord, 481 m.).') 



Paraedward-sia arenarva, Carliie. nov. gen. nov. sp. 



The Skjerstad Fiord, 320 m. 



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

 scribed by Dr. Carlgren. [n a written communication to me he 

 says: — ..Paraedirardsia is chai'acterized by 8 comjilete mesenteries 

 like Pdinn-dsia. liut the sca[iiis in I'arardirardsat is furnished with 



') Overvigt over Norges pennatulider, p. 16. Berg. Miis. Aarb. 18!U. 

 ■^) Fauna littoralis Xorveyiæ. Part, 11, p. 73, pi. 10, figs. 18—27. 

 ■') ]5eiti-;ige zur Anatomie und Histologie von Ulncyathus arctkus c\r. 

 Archiv f. Math, og Natnrv. Vol. XX. Nr. !». 

 '') (Jfr. Danielskn, Aetinida, ]). 111. 



