H«)(i FLAdF.LLATJ-: — I'H J.c »( IVSTIS 



.//////: S. of Greenland; along the S. coast of Iceland; H(S N. 



8 \V., common; 78" N. 3" W., common. 

 Aiffjtfsr: N. of Spilzbergen, not rare. 

 Si'iiU'iiihcr: Westmannao, very common. 

 lSt)0 May: area between 62" N. 2^ E., 60' N. l" R. and oS N. 3^ 



K., very common. 

 June: 7V N. S'—lif W. to (59^ N. 13- W., as a rule very 



common; HH' N. 2^ K., very common; 71" — 75 N. (r — 20^ 



E., not common. 

 Jiiii/: 74 N. 20' W., rare. 

 Aiif/iisr: 80" N. 51" E., common. 

 Sr/ifc/iihcr: 7(1 — 74" N. \Vr — 18" E., rare. 



Temperature: 5.s, mean of 25 obs., max. 9..-^. min. — 1. (Only 

 sucii sain])lcs considered as <-ontained this species in abundance). 



Salinity: 34. S4, mean of 24 obs., max. 35.8-t, min. 33.i'o. 



Plankton-type. According to the above statements this spe- 

 cies is to be considered as arctic with its southern limit at about 

 57° N., but other years this limit goes so far down as to about 50^ 

 N. - /: C. ' 



