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CRUSTACEA MAIvACOSTRACA. 



Distribution. The species is known from the Shetland Isles and the Hebrides (Norman); it 

 is common at Great Britain and Ireland (various authors), it is also found at the Channel Islands 

 (Norman), on the west coast of France (Bonnier), in the western jDart of the Mediterranean and in the 

 Adriatic (Heller). It also occurs at Holland (Hoek); it goes far into the Kattegat, a little into the 

 Sound (Meinert) and is found at Bohuslan (Goes). Concerning H. fascigcr Gosse, which is identical 

 with H. variants, Sars writes: "it occurs along the whole of our soiith and west coasts, but does not 

 seem to reach up into the arctic region"; Sp. Schneider does not give H. varians from the fjords 

 investigated by him lying between 69'/2° and 70° N. L. 



The species lives in depths from quite a few fathoms out to ca. 50 fm. 



50. Spirontocaris Fabricii Kr. 



1841. Hippolyte Fabricii Kroyer, Nat. Tidsskr., 3. B., p. 571. 



! 1842. — — Kroyer, Kgl. D. Vid. Sel.sk. math.-naturv. Afh., Niende Deel, jd. 277, Tab. I, 



Fig. 12—20. 

 1879. — — S. I. Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. V, p. 63. 



1891. Helia fabricii J. Thallwitz, DecajDoden-Studien, p. 24. 



Occurrence. The "lugolf" has taken this species at the following place: 



West Greenland: Ameragdla (Head of Ameralik Fjord, Godthaab); i spec. 



In Malac. Groenl. I mentioned a large number of localities for this species from West Green- 

 land between 72° 23' N. L. and 60° 43' N. L.; it is common from 2 — 5 fm. and out in ca. 45 fm.; once 

 it was taken in 65 fm., while a note of its occurrence in 100 fm. (at Sukkertoppen) must be considered 

 provisionally as doubtful. Since 1888 the Zoological Museum has received numerous specimens from 

 the same coast but none of the localities offer any interest. — At East Greenland the species seems 

 to be absent; in the Zoological Museum there is a .specimen determined by Kroyer labelled "Iceland", 

 but as Kroyer does not mention the locality and the animal has not been found af the island in the 

 last 40 years I am inclined to think that this statement has arisen from some error. 



Distribution. It has been taken at 64° 56' N. L., 66° 18' W. L., 5—15 fm., a place which lies 

 on the west side of the Davis Straits (Ohlin). It is also given from Labrador, St. Lawrence estuary 

 and along the east coast of America southwards to Cape Cod; the species is common along the tract 

 from Halifax southwards in depths from ca. 5 to 64 fm. (S. I. Smith). Further, it has been taken at 

 Point Franklin on the north-west side of Alaska (Murdoch), and from there southwards "through 

 Bering Sea to Siberia and Alaska Peninsula", "low water to 80 fathoms" (Mary Rathbun), also at 

 Kamtschatka (Richters). 



51. Spirontocaris Gaimardii H. M.-Edw. 



1837. Hippolyte Gaimardii H. Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., T. II, p. 378. 

 ! 1S42. — — Kroyer, Kgl. D. Vid. Selsk. math.-naturv. Afh., Niende Del, p. 282, Tab. I, 



Fig. 21—29. 



1842. — gibba, Kroyer, 1. c. p. 288, Tab. I, Fig. 30, og Tab. II, Fig. 31— 37. 

 1891. Euales obses J. Thallwitz, Decapoden-Studien, p. 23. 



