CILIATA — TFXTIXNUS 123 



Temperature: 20.?, mean of 138 obs., max. 27..; min. 7. 



Salinity: Ha.sj, mean of 108 obs., max. 38.54, min. 32. si. 



Plankton-type. This species occurs in the Mediterranean, the 

 l^ed Sea and the Indian Ocean. It is common in the tropical and 

 and subtropical Atlantic, at least from 20^ S. to 50'^ N., and rare 

 specimens may drift towards Scotland and Iceland, even north of 

 Iceland (September 1898\ Its principal area of distribution is 

 between Gape Verde, the Eng. Channel and New York. In 

 July and August 1898 it was seen between 40^ — 50^ N. across the 

 whole Atlantic. — S (D). 



TINTINNUS LUSUS UND^ HntzV 



(v. D.\i.A\: Mitth. d. zool. Stat, zu Neapel Vcl. VII, 1887, I'l. XVIII iig. 3, 14. 



T. fnhulosHs Ostf. Zool. Anzeiger 1899, pag. 437. — 



Scarcely distinct from 7'. f'rdl.nni). 



1898 March: 45° N. 13° W. 

 June: 50° N. 12° W. 



August: 61° N. 6° W.; 63° N. 21°— 23° W. 



September': Faroe Channel; round the Shetlands. 



October: between Rockall and the Hebrides; Fiiroe Channel; 



Shetlands. 

 November: 45° N. 50° W. to 40° N. 69° W. 

 December: 48° N. 40° \N. to 42° N. 63° W. 



1899 Xovember: 51° N. 28° W., rare. 



Temperature: 11, max. 13.5, min. 5. 

 Salinity: 35. .jh, max. 35.46, min. 32.oi. 

 Plankton-type. Noted from the Mediterranean. — 8. 



TINTINNUS PELLUCIDUS Cl-. 

 (Kongl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. Vol. XXXII n. 3, pag. 24, PI. I, fig. 4). 

 1898 Aufjuxt: 80°— 81° N. 10°— 23° E. 



1899 August and Septemtter: W. and N. of Spitzbergen; 74° N. 



18° E. to 75° N. 38° E. 

 Temperature: 2.?, mean of 7 obs., max. 4..;, min. O.t. 

 Salinity: 33..s:i, mean of 7 obs., max. 34.5a, min. 32.84. 

 Plankton-type. Xg. 



' Ustenfeld's data used. 



- Since the above was written I liave been convinced that this species 

 is the same as '/'. hoitnirus Nordq., or Lcpiotindnnus batducns Jorgens., but 

 without foreign agglutinated bodies. The genus Lr/)rotintinnits is thus inad- 

 missible. 



