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the living colony is slated by Mr. Johansen to be "wine-red, the 

 stem brownish.". Now the colour, as usual with this species when 

 preserved in spirit, is uniform red or pink (the colour in this species 

 is due to red spicules, which keep their colour like those of f. inst. 

 Corallium, Gorgonia pinnata, Pennaiula phosphorea etc., while all 

 other arctic species of Eunephihya, possessing colourless spicules, either 

 completely lose their colour in alcohol or show a uniform yellowish 

 or greyish or brownish hue, more or less intense). 



Locality : S. of Cape Bismarck : St. 95 and 95 a, the sound be- 

 tween "Renskær" (76°41' N) and "Maatten" (76°42' N), 25— 50 fthms.; 

 19/7 1908. 



The late S. Jensen, Zoologist to the Carlsbergfond-Expedition, 

 has taken this species at the following places, farther south in East- 

 Greenland: Hurry Inlet (70°5Ü' N), 50 fthms., clay with stones; ^Vs 

 1900 (2 small colonies on shells of Area glacialis); Henry Land 

 (69°34' N), 20 fathoms, stones and algæ ; ^Vt 1900 (2 specimens, the 

 one fairly large); Ta si u sak (65°37' N), 25—30 fthms.; ^'/s 1899 (a single 

 large colony, ca. 50 mm. high). 



E. riibiformis is widely distributed in arctic regions; it seems 

 to be circumpolar, but hitherto it is not known from the greater 

 part of Arctic N. America nor from the N. Asiatic region east of the 

 New Siberian Islands, where — as far as I know — no thorough 

 investigations have been carried on, or from which at least nothing 

 has been published. It is mainly littoral or occuring in shallower 

 parts of the open sea, ranging from 15 to 180 fathoms, and is often 

 found where the bottom temperature is below zero. It has not 

 been found at the coasts of Iceland or in Danmark Strait, nor in 

 Baffin Bay and Davis Strait or at the coasts of Western Greenland. 

 At the eastern coasts of N. America it passes the arctic regions, 

 having been found at New Foundland and off Maine (Eastport). 

 Actually it is known from the following regions outside Eastern 

 Greenland : Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea, Novaya Zemlya, Kara 

 Sea, off the northern coast of Siberia including the New Siberian 

 Islands; Bering Strait and Arctic Ocean north of Bering Str. ; eastern 

 part of the Murman-Sea, Kola-Fjord and Porsanger Fjord (but in no 

 other fjord of Norway); further, on the American side, at the northern 

 coasts of Jones Sound (north of 76° N. L.), at New Foundland and 

 Maine. 



Eunephthya fruticosa (M. Sars, emend. Jungs.). 

 Alcijonium sp. Naturhist. Tillæg til Rink's Grønland Vol. II, 1857, 

 p. 105, No. 6. 



— fruticosum Mich. Sars: Bem. over norske Coelenterater. 



Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania 1860, p. 140. 



