hlAIOMACi:.!. — l!ACTEi;iASTKI'M 285 



BACTERIASTRUM DELICATULUM Cl.' 



(Fifteenfli annual repoit of tlio Kislierv Hoard for Scolland, for tlio year lS9(i. 



pa;4. 298 lig. 15.; 



1898 Jaiiudrij: Ho X. 71 W. 



Fchruari/: Caribbean Sea; H-1-^ N. T.'l \V. 



March: area between the Azores, 45^ N. I.-J \V.. 48' N. 18- 



W. and 45^ N. 40^ W.; 41^ N. (ifP AV. 

 Ap/-(i: 89" N. 24^ \V. to the Engl. Channel and thence alonu 



49° N. to 29- W.; 42' N. 47 W. 

 Mai/: 50- N. 14^ W.; from 57^ N. 25" \V. to 6(> N. 9MV. 

 June: 60-— 62° N. 4° W— 2" HO' E. 

 July: between 58° N. HH W'., (50 N. 23° W. an.l 59 X. 15 



iv. From 11° N. 60- W. to 40° N. 69° W. 

 Aufjti>i{: Azores (common >; from 63° N. 25° W. to ()5° N. 33 



W.: 41° X. 65 W. 

 Scplcinhc/- : S^\^ of Icehiiid, Denmark's Sound, Faroe Channel. 

 October: between 60 N. 4- W. and 59° N. 16- AV. 

 November: Azores; S. and S. K. of Iceland. 

 December'. Faroes. 



1899 April: 46°— 48° N. 13°— 9' W. 

 June: 62° N. 1° E. 



October: 53° N. 31' W. 



Temperature: 14.;. mean of 35 obs,, max. 26.8, min. 9. 



Salinity: 35.--. mean of 27 obs., max. 36. o.-,, min. 31. Nt. 



Plankton-type, 'riiis species appeared in January and Febru- 

 ary in the tropical western Atlantic and in March simultaneously 

 between the Azores and the IJritish Islands and east of New York. 

 In May it had advanced towards the Fiiroe Channel and reached in 

 June mid way to Norway, in August to Iceland and Denmark's Sound. 

 It occurs in the lied Sea. — .S. (typical). 



' Osfenfeld's data used. 



