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Bell ill tlie British Museum, and a comparison between this and some of those dredged 

 by the Porcwpine in the North Minch in 1869 showed them to be identical, while a 

 further comparison of both with specnnens of phalangium sent him from Marseille by 

 Prof. Marion convinced Carpenter that celtica was merely a somewhat dwarfed and less 

 robust variety of the latter. He made the suggestion that, as McAndrew and Barrett's 

 celtica is the same as phalangium, the name celtica be transferred to the species called 

 celtica by Sladen (Poliometra prolixa). 



In 1884 Carpenter recorded this species, imder the name phalangium, from some 

 Lightning and Porcupine stations off northwestern Scotland, and from off Cape Sagres. 

 In the same year Perrier noted that it had been obtained in great quantities by the 

 Talisman, but did not give the localit}'. 



In 1886 Carpenter described the cirri in great detail, comparing them with 

 those of the "Mediterranean variety" {phalangium), and recorded it from the Seine 

 Bank, where it had been obtained by the Dacia. 



In 1888 he published a monographic account of this species, united with the 

 Mediterranean form under the name phalangium. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell in 1889 recorded it from off the southwestern coast of Ireland, 

 where it had been dredged by the Flying Fox, and in 1891 Carpenter described in 

 detail some specimens from Funchal, Madeira, and vicinity, which had been sent 

 him by Mr. J. Y. Jobnson of Funchal. In 1891 also Regnard mentioned that the 

 Talisman had secured a large number at a single haul, undoubtedly referrmg to the 

 same occurrence as Perrier in 1884. 



Bell in 1892 repeated the record for southwestern Ireland, and in the following 

 year published a monographic account of its occurrence in British waters. 



Prof. Carl Chun in 1£00 mentioned its occurrence in the Faroe Channel as well 

 as on the Seine Bank, a repetition of Wyville Thomson's confusion of this species with 

 Poliometra prolixa. 



In 1905 Doderlein treated this species in detail, but added no new information, 

 and Kemp agam recorded it from southwestern Ireland. 



In 1908 the present author definitely separated celtica from L. phalangium for 

 reasons given in detail in 1913 and 1918. In 1909 Koehler recorded it from four 

 Princesse- Alice stations, in 1910 Koehler and Vanej" published the records from the 

 Travailleur and Talisman collections, and in 1911 Schaxcl mentioned its occurrence at 

 Wimereux and the author gave it from the Bay of Cadiz in 126 meters. 



Herdman in 1912 noted tliat it had been collected off the western coast of Scotland 

 by the Buna, but gave no definite localities, and in the same year the writer listed 

 two new localities off western Ireland. 



The separation of celtica from phalangium suggested by the author in 1908 was 

 confirmed by Koehler in 1921. 



W. B. Carpenter in 1876 and his son in the same year mentioned certain points 

 in the brachial anatomy of tiiis species, and P. H. Carpenter in 1879, 1880, and 1881 

 described in considerable detail the ccntrodorsal and radials and associated structures. 

 Perrier in 1884 also touched upon the anatomy, especially of the axial organ. 



In recent years very few additional records for this species have been publislunl. 

 The most notable are those of Nobre of several localities off the coast of Portugal and 

 an interesting record by Gisl6n (1947) from the vicinity of Tangier, where the species 

 was taken by the Skagerak Expedition. 



