BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. IIANDL. BAND 27. AFD. IV. N:0 8. 63 



Localities: 



in 1898: 



stat. 26. lat. 77° 39' N., long. 1° 17' E., »the Swedish Depth», 

 depth 3200 m., bottom temp. — 1,4 C, Biloculina clay, 

 27/VII, six spec. 



in 1899: 



stat. 3. lat. 63° 3C' N., long. 0° 26' E., depth 1900 m. 2/VI, 

 nine spec. 



in 1900: 



stat. 21. East Greeuland, otf Kaiser Franz Joseph Fiord between 

 Bontckoe Island and Mackenzie Bay, depth 250 m.. mud, 



8/VIIT, det. LÖNNBERG. 



29. lat. 72° 42' N., long. 14 49' W., between Greenland and 

 Jan Mayen, depth 2000 m., clay with forarainifers. 27/VIII, 

 det. LÖNNBERG. 



lat. 73° 15' N., long. T 50' W., depth 3000—0 ra., ver- 

 tical net, many spec, det. Lönnberg. 

 lat. 72" 50' N., long. 3' 8' W., depth 2700—0 m., vertical 

 net, det. Lönnberg. 



lat. IV 18' N., long, 9° 20' W., depth 2000—0 ra., ver- 

 tical net, det. Lönnberg. 



This beautifiil species was first described by Buchholz 

 on a specimen floating on the surface not far from the pack- 

 ice in about lat. 74° N., off the East coast off Greenland. He 

 referred it to 'Pas\x>hcea, to which it has a certain resemblance. 

 On the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition it wa.s ob- 

 tained at 14 stations, all situated in the cold area between 

 about lat. 80 N. and lat. 63 S., and between the longitudes 

 of Spitzbergen, Beeren Island, Norway, on the on? side, and 

 East Greenland, Jan Mayen, Iceland, on the other. Särs 

 was then enabled to give a fuller description of this bathy- 

 pelagic decapod. In the same year, 1885, Smith reeords it 

 as also occurring in the deeper places of an area off the East 

 coast of United States, between lat. 35' 45' N., and lat. 40° 

 '2^' N., and between long. 67° 5' W. and long. 74° 31' W. in 

 depths ranging from 861 to 2949 fathoms. It was also ob- 

 tained during the »Fram» Expedition in about lat. 80° N., 

 long. 134' E. the tow-net having been lowered to a depth 

 of 300 metres. Särs' specimens were all captured in depths 

 varying from 452 to 1862 fathoms. The smallest depth from 



