BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 27. AFD. IV. N:0 8. 17 



stat. 4. lat. 74° 21' N., long. 19' lö' E., Beeren Island, »South Har- 



bour», depth 14 — 18 m., rocky bottom with alga?, pebbles, 



and saud. 17/VI, »comraon, grayish-brown, colour varying as 



to the bottom». 

 » 5. lat. 75' 49' N., long. 24° 2.5' E., between Beeren Island and 



Hope Island, depth 80 in., bottom terap. — 1,^2', rocky 



bottom, 21 /VI, several spec. 

 » 16. Recherche Bay, between Reindeer Point and Fox Glacier, 



West Spitzbergen, depth 90 m., rocky bottora with soft, 



grayish-blue clay, 8/VII, one small spec. 

 » 17. Recherche Bay, the anchorage, depth O — 20 m., stony 



bottom, 13/VII, one spec. 



in 1899: 



Tromsö, depth 60 — 70 m., 22/VI, several spec, WuLFF. 



This well-known species has a very wide distribution in 

 the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. It has been obtained at 

 the foUowing places: in the North Sea oiF the coasts of Eng- 

 land, Denmark and Scandinavia, oiF Belgium and France, off 

 the Murman coast; in the Barents Sea, in the Kära Sea, off 

 Beeren Island and Spitzbergen, off Iceland and West Green- 

 land as far north as Grodhavn, off the coasts of New Found- 

 land and New England as far south as Cape Cod. According 

 to Brandt, it occurs also in the Sea of Ochotsk; but it is still 

 undecided if the specimens recorded by that author are quite 

 identical with the typical North Atlantic species.^ It also 

 depends on the settlement of this question as to whether we 

 are to regard it as circumpolar or not. Its main distribution 

 seems to be the North Atlantic where it occurs both on the 

 European and the American side, and goes into the Arctic as 

 far north as Spitzbergen and Godhavn, and southwards to 

 Belgium and the Atlantic coasts of France. 



It lives in shallow water, although sometimes occurring 

 in depths of 100 fathoms or more. 



As to the identity of this and the next species, I refer 

 the reader to Stebbing, Arctic Crustacea, 1. c. p. 2—4, where 

 he will find an historical review of the different opinions. I 

 am unable here, for want of material, to enter on a discussion 

 of the subject; but I must content myself with remarking that 



* According to Stimpson in Rathbun, 1. c. p. 97. not one of Hyas ara- 

 neus out of several hundred specimens of Hyas latifrons was found in a 

 collection from the Sea of Ochotsk and Kamtschatka. 



