32 AXEL OHLIN, ARCTIC CRUSTACEA. 



18 (i 2. Ponto])hilus norvegicus M. Sars, Beinserkn. över Crangoninerne 



etc, 1. c. p. 188. 

 1864. Crangon (Pontophilus) norvegicus Goés, Crust. decap. mar. 



Sueciae., 1. c. p. 173. 

 1868. Pontophilus norvegicus idem, Bidrag til Kundskab etc, 1. c 



p. 242, Tab. I, Figg. 1—25, Tab. II, 



Fig. 17—37. 

 » G. O. Sars, Undersög. över Christiania- 



tjordens Dybvandsfauna, 1. c. p. 321. 

 » G. O. Sars, Dekapodernas Forvand- 



linger, III, 1. c. p. 153, pl. IV. 



stat. 41. lat. 75° 58' N., long. 13° 18' E.. 56 miles S.W. of South 

 Cape, Spitzbergen, depth 350 m., bottom temp. + 2,73° C., 

 grayish clay, 1 IX, one spec 

 » 42. lat. 73 3' N., long. 18 30' E., between Beeren Island 

 and Norway, depth 410 m., bottom temp. +2' C, gray 

 clay, 4^IX, five spec. 



This species was first sliortly described by M. Sars in 

 1861 on specimens from some places of the Western and 

 Southern fjords of Xorway and, seven years låter, fully re- 

 described by him and figured by bis son. Nothing new is 

 of eourse to be added to Michael Sars' concise and accurate 

 deseription. 



In its geographical distribution this species seems to be 

 confined to the North Atlantic. It not in frequently occurs in 

 the deepest hollows of the Norwegian fjords, as Christiania 

 Fiord. Sogne Fiord, West Fiord, Porsanger Fiord and Tana 

 Fiord. During the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition it 

 was also obtained at four other stations more or less far out 

 at sea; two of which are situated ofF the West coast of Nor- 

 way, and the others between Finmarken and Beeren Island. 

 It also occurs, according to Groés, at »Skårberget», the deepest 

 place (80 — 90 fathoms) in Grullmar Fiord, Bohuslän. But on 

 the other side of the North Atlantic it has also been recorded. 

 althouffh it seems here to be still more rare than on the 

 European. Thus Hansen enumerates it in his catalogue of 

 Malacostraca from West G-reenland from lat. 65' 35' N., long. 

 54' 50' W. depth 80 fathoms, and another specimen from 



