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picture of the distribution of the species. It occurs at the Shetlands (Norman), from there southwards 

 along Great Britain and Ireland, on the Channel coasts, west coast of France and the Spanish penin- 

 sula, at the Azores, Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands to i7°N. L.; it has also been taken in the 

 Mediterranean at Marseilles (Gourret), at Syracuse (author) and Algiers (Lucas). It is also found at 

 Holland (Hoek), in the Skager Rak, northern and the whole eastern part of the Kattegat down into 

 the Sound (Meinert) ; at Norway if goes up to Lofoten (G. O. Sars), thus somewhat north of the Polar Circle. 

 A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier write that it is specially common between 8 and 43 fm., but can go 

 much deeper to 120 fm.; concerning its occurrence at Denmark Meinert says: "the depth as a rule is 

 15 — 6 fm." "once it was taken in so shallow water as 2 fm." 



22. Galathea nexa Embl. 



? Galathea nexa Embleton, Proc. Berwickshire Nat. Field Club'. 

 1853. — — Bell, Brit. Stalk-e\ed Crust, p. 204, with fig. 



1859. — dispersa Bell, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Vol. Ill, p. 3. 

 ! 1888. — nexa Bonnier, Bull. Sc. de la France et de la Belgique, Ser. 3, T. i, p. 63, PI. XII, figs. 6-8. 

 ! — — dispersa Bonnier, 1. c. p. 68, PI. XIII, figs. 1—3. 



1889. — — A. ]kIilne-Edwards & Bouvier, Res. Sc. de I'Hirondelle (Suppl.) et de la "Prin- 



cesse Alice", fasc. XIII, p. 72. 

 1900. — — A. ]Milne-Ed wards & Bouvier, Exp. Scient. du Travailleur et du Talisman, 



Crust. Dec, I, p. 278, PI. XXIX, fig.s. 2 -3. 

 Occurrence. It has onh- once been taken b}' the "Ingolf". 



North-West of the Fseroes: St. i: 62' 30' N. L., 8^2i'\V. L., 132 fm., temp. 7-2"; i spec. 

 I have seen some specimens from the southern half of the west coast of Iceland, namely, Faxe 

 Fjord, Reykjavik and Grindavik, as also from the Vestmanna Islands on the south coast. It has been 

 taken a number of times at the Fseroes, sometimes in the bays, sometimes further off the coast, once 

 in o — 4fm., otherwise from 8 — g'/a fm. down to 100 fm. 



Distribution. Like the previous species it goes (cf. the French authors cited) southward 

 along Great Britain, France, the Spanish peninsula to the Azores and the Canary Islands (A. Milne- 

 Edwards & Bouvier). It has been taken at several places in the Mediterranean: the .Egean Sea, 

 Adriatic, Marseilles, Villafranca and has been found by the author at Syracuse. I have seen specimens 

 from various places in the North Sea; it has also been taken in the Kattegat and northern part of 

 the Sound ; on the west coast of Norway it goes up to West Finmark (Nordgaard). In Dijmphna-Togtet 

 I mentioned having seen a specimen from the Kara Sea; my determination was correct, but as the 

 species neither before nor since has been taken in an arctic sea I must suppose that an error from the 

 expedition in the statement of locality occurred in one way or another. 



Remarks. It appears from the synonymy list that like Adensamer^ I unite the two species 

 G. nexa and G. dispersa under one. Bonnier has described a specimen of G. dispersa in which the third 



1 I have not been able to complete this reference with data and page. 



2 Long after this text was written I see that Appellof (Nov. 1906) likewise unites them. 



