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V. H. Brondsted. 



PORIFERA 



Glass I. Calcarea. 



Order 1. HoTïiocoela, 



Fam. Asconidae. 



Genus Leucosolenia Bow. 



Leiicosolenia coriacea Mont. 



1818. Spongia coriacea Montagu [21]. p. 116. 



1842. Grantia — Johnston [13], p. 183, PI. XXI, fig. 9. 



1866. Leucosolenia coriacea Bowerbank [3 b], p. 34. 



1872. Ascetta — Haeckel, [11], II, p. 24, Taf. 3, Taf. 5. 



1887. — — Fristedt, [8], p. 405, PL 22, fig. 1-2. 



3 specimens; color dark brown; greatest length ca. 18 mm., 

 thickness 1 — 2 mm. 



Station 63. Stormbugt, hard bottom, 20— 40 m. 



Geographical distribution: Cosmopolitan. 



Depth: 0— 1000 m. 



Order II. Heterocoela. 

 Fam. Syconidae. 



Genus Grantia Flem. 



Grantia arctica H. 



1872. Sycandra arc/zca Haeckel [11], p. 353, Taf. 55, fig. 1 a-v; Taf. 



60, fig. 15. 

 1883. Sycon — Polejaetr [22], p. 40, PI. Ill, fig. 5. 



1898. Grantia — Breitfuss [4], p. 302. 

 1898. _ _ _ [5], p. 21. 



3 specimens; greatest length 20 mm., breadth 10 mm.; one of the 

 specimens (from Station 95 c) with comparatively slender rhabdes, 

 but then a few more in each bundle. 



Station 68a. Off Cape Bismarck. 40— 60 m. 



— 72 b. Danmarks Havn. 10— 20 m. 



— 95. The sound between Renskæret and Maatten. 

 50— 100 m. 



Geographical distribution: Arctic circumpolar. 

 Depth: 20-2000 m. 



