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CRUSTACEA MALACOSTRACA. 



Davis Straits: St. 29: 65- 34' N. L., 54° 31' W. L., 68 fin., temp. 0-2"; 1 spec. 



D\Te Fjord, Iceland; many spec. 



North-West of Iceland: St. 129: 66° 35' N. L., 23° 47' W. L., 117 fm., temp. 6-5°; i spec. 



North of Iceland: St. 127: 66° 33' N. L., 20° 05' W. L., 44 fra., temp. 5-6-; i spec. 



Reykjavik, in the harbour; 3 large spec. 



North-West of the Faeroes: St. i: 62° 30' N. L., 8° 21' W. L., 132 fm., temp. 7-2°; i spec. 



In Malacostr. Groenl. (p. 30) I have brought together a number of localities from the west coast 

 of Greenland, and the most northerly of these is Godhavn, at 69^/^° N. L., the most southerly is Godt- 

 haab, at 64°ii'N. L.; the species was taken in 5 to 100 fm. Later investigations have not brought 

 any new data of interest so far as West Greenland is concerned; at East Greenland and Jan Mayen 

 it has not been found. I have seen a large number of specimens from numerous places on the 

 western, northern, eastern and south-eastern coasts of Iceland ; the species is there extremeh' commou, 

 as a rule at ca. 5 to 40 fm.; it is likewise common at the Faeroes. 



Distribution. From the Faeroes the species extends southwards to the Shetlands (Norman) 

 and the coasts of Scotland, England and Ireland (Bell, Walker, etc.); it does not seem to have been 

 observed on the west coast of France, but on the other hand it occurs at the Channel Islands (Koehler) 

 and as it is given by H. Milne-Edwards from France it must certainly occur on its north coast; 

 further at Belgium (v. Beueden), Heligoland and several other places in the southern half of the 

 North Sea (Metzger, Meinert), in the Kattegat and northern part of the Sound (]\Ieiiiert), along 

 the coasts of Norway (M. Sars), at Bear Island and Spitzbergen (G. O. Sars, Doflein, Birula), in 

 the White Sea, along the whole north coast of Europe, in the northeru part of the Murinan Sea 

 (Knipowitsch); at the eastern end of Jugor Schar (Hansen), at the east coast of Nova Zembla (Stux- 

 berg) and even in the Kara Sea at ca. 60° E. L. Beyond the last-named locality and along the north 

 coast of Asia as far as 177° 41' E. L., that is, a distance of over 100 degrees of longitude, it is not 

 known. On the other hand it occurs along the most easterly part of the north coast of Asia from 

 17773° E. L. to East Cape (vStuxberg)' and in the Sea of Ochotsk (Brandt); but again it is not known 

 from the north-west coast of America. On the north-eastern side of America it has been takeu at 

 Labrador, Newfoundland, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia and in the Gulf of Maine south to 

 Cape Cod (Smith, M. Rathbnn), and the greatest known depth here is 137 fm., while at Spitzbergen it 

 has been taken once iu nearly 170 fm. 



The species is not knowu from East Greenland or Jan ]\Iayen; nor according to the above 

 account is it known from the 100 degrees of longitude along the north coast of Asia nor from the 

 northern or western coasts of America. Much is wanting therefore to prove it circumpolar; it may be 

 so but there is just as much probability at least for its not being so. The fact, that it has not been 

 taken north of 69'/.,° N. L. at West Greenland, is not known from arctic America north or north-west 

 of Labrador, nor from East Greenland, is rare in the Kara Sea, while on the other side it goes down 

 to the Channel, shows that the species is not typically arctic but that in its occurrence it has just as 

 much the appearance of being boreal as arctic. 



Of its bathy metric distribution may be said, that it occurs as a rule in depths of 15 to 70 fm., 



■ In 1907 A. Birula casts tloubt on Stuxberg's determination of the specitnens from these locahties. 



