BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND '2(). AKD. IV. NIO 12. V) 



Leptostraca. 



Fam. Nebaliidae. 



Nebalia Leach 1815. 



Nebalia bipes (O. Fabricius). 



17SU. Cancer l)ii)es O. Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica. p. 246, n:o 



223, fig. 2. 

 1S3S. Nebalia ■ KrÖYER, Gröul. Anitip. 1. c. p. 31'.». 



1846. ;> X KrÖYER, Voy. in Scand. etc, pl. 40, tigg. 2a — x. 



1847. KrÖYER, Karcin. Bidr. 1. c. R. 2, Bd. 2, p. 436. 

 1879. longicornis Thomson, On a new Species of Nebalia from 



New Zealand; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) Vol. 4, 

 p. 418, pl. 19, tig. 7—9. 



Durin g the last Swedish Arctic Expeditions this highly 

 interesting crustacean was obtained at tlie following place.'^: 



in 1898: 

 stat. 39. lat. 79° 43' N., long. 10° 52' E., Danish Island, »Yirgo's 

 Harbour», deptli -25 — 30 m., gray mud, Laminariae, 27 VIII, 

 abundant. 



in 1899: 

 stat. 20. lat. 74^35' N., long. 18° 23' W., S. of Little Pendulum Is- 

 land, depth 18 — 21 m., sandy mud, algas, 6 VII, fbur spec. 

 » 23. lat. 73° 26' N., long. 21 13' W., Cape Benett, depth 9—11 



m., sandy mud, algas, 19/VII, one spec, 

 :v 35. lat. 73° 6' N., long. 27° 17' W., Franz Josephs Fjord, depth 

 3 — 9 m., sandy mud, algas, 12 VIII, two spec. 



Tliis crustacean already mentioned by Fabricius has a 

 very wide distribution. In the Northern seas it has been 

 obtained on Baffin Land (Ohlin), on the Atlantic coast of 

 North America (Packard). on AVest- and East Greenland 

 (Fabricius, Lutken. Buchholz, ( )hlin), on the coasts of Nor- 

 way and England (Särs and Norman). Buchholz, who has 

 compared .specimens from East Greenland with such of the 



