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Sårs 1865 (en Ostracode, der bidtil kun er funden langs 

 den norske Kyst paa en Dybde al' 300 Favne eller der- 

 over). 



Udbredelse. Denne arctiske Repræsentant tor Slæg- 

 ten var hidtil kjendt fra Grønland og fra de norske Kyster. 

 Overalt er den kun sparsomt erholdt, enten som døde, iland- 

 drevne Individer, eller * udtagne af Sælemes Maver. Af 

 Nordhavs-Expeditionens Individer vare de 3 optagne fra 

 Havet vestenfor Hammerfest; sandsynligvis er Arten ud- 

 bredt paa gunstige Localiteter over bele Polarbavets Dyb, 

 og vil med mere fuldkomne Redskaber oftere kunne er- 

 holdes. 



Fra Grønland havde Musæet i Kjøbenhavn, ifølge 

 Reinhardt sen., allerede i 1836 erholdt 6 Individer fra de 

 nordligste Colonier Omenak (Umanak), Ritenbank og Ja- 

 cobshavn. Senere er flere Exemplarer nedsendte til samme 

 Musæum fra Syd-Gronland. 



Fra de norske Kyster kj endtes tidligere blot 3 Indi- 

 vider, hvoraf det første var det, der al Strøm toges ved 

 Volden i Søndmør i 1774; det andet hjembragtes til Ber- 

 gens Musæum, angivelig fra Hardangerfjorden, af Stiftamt- 

 mand Christie mellem Aarene 1830 og 1840. Det tredie, 

 der opbevares paa, Universitets-Musæet i Christiania, er 

 indsendt fra Handelspladsen Hasvig ved Hammerfest, og be- 

 finder sig, ligesom foregaaende. i mindre god Stand, skjønt 

 ulige bedre, end Nordhavs-Expeditionens Exemplar fra Stor- 

 eggen; sandsynligvis* er ogsaa dette udtaget eller udkastet 

 af en Fiskemave. 



En anden Art, Scopelus resplendens, Rich. 1845, op- 

 rindeligt beskreven fra Guineakysten, har i de sidst forlobne 

 Aar. 1879 og 1880, vist sig at være stationær i Trondhjems- 

 fjorden (63° N. B.), og adskillige Exemplarer ere allerede 

 fundne. hvoraf flere opbevares paa Musæerne i Trondhjem 

 og Christiania 1 . 



Af en tredie nordisk Art, Sis. hroyeri, Malm 1860, 

 er et enkelt Exemplar funden i Maven af en Gadus morrhua 

 ndenfor Skagen i 1856 2 . 



G.' O. Sårs 1865 (an Ostracod hitherto not met with 

 on the Norwegian coast at a depth of less than 300 

 fathoms). 



Distribution. — The coast of Greenland and the 

 northern shores of Norway were the only localities in which 

 this Arctic representative of the genus had previously been 

 met with.- and but sparingly, for instance floating dead or 

 washed ashore, or found in the stomachs of seals. Of the 

 individuals obtained on the Expedition, 3 were taken in 

 the open sea west of Hammerfest. Probably the species 

 occurs everywhere throughout the depths of the Polar Sea, 

 and with improved apparatus will no doubt be more fre- 

 quently captured. 



' According to Reinhardt sen., tlie Zoological Museum 

 in Copenhagen had obtained l> individuals so far back as 

 .1836. from the most northerly, colonies in Greenland, viz. 

 Omenak, Ritenbank, and Jacobshavn. Subsequently, divers 

 examples were sent to the same Museum from South 

 Greenland. 



On the shores of Norway, but 3 individuals had pre- 

 viously been observed, one of which was the example 

 taken by Strom at Volden in Søndmør, 1774; the second, 

 stated to have been captured in the Hardanger Fjord, 

 was presented to the Bergen Museum by the Stiftamtmand 

 Christie, between 1830 and 1840. The third, preserved in 

 the University Museum, Christiani;:, was sent from Hasvig 

 near Hammerfest; its state of preservation is far from 

 perfect, though better than that of the specimen obtained 

 on the Expedition from the Storeggen fishing-bank; probably 

 this individual too had been in a fish's stomach. 



Quite lately (1879 and 1880), another species, Scopelus 

 resplendens, Rich. 1845, originally described from the Guinea 

 coast, has been met with as stationary in the Trondhjem 

 Fjord (lat. 63° N.), and several specimens, preserved in 

 the Museums of Trondhjem and Christiania, 1 have been 

 already collected. 



A single example of a third Northern species, Sc. 

 hroyeri, Malm i860, was found in the stomach of a Gadus 

 morrhua, taken off the Scaw hi 1856.- 



Fovh. Vid. Selsk. Chra. 1880, No. 8, p. :!. 



Forh. Skaud. Naturf. SMødeKbhvn. 1860, p. 617 (fcbhvn. 1861). 



Forh. Vid. Selsk. Chra. 1880, No. 8, p.' 3. 



Forh. Skand. Naturf. SMødeKbhvn. 1860, p. 617 (Kbhvn. i861). 



