The Акл'опапа of East-Greenland. 495 



p. 260) notes this find as "Briareum grandiflorum Sars". The occur- 

 rence, however, in decidedly arctic surroundings, at the high lati- 

 tude of 75°, of an Alcyonarian otherwise only known from the warm 

 area of the Atlantic must seem at least very improbable; and already 

 LüTKEN evidently suspected the determination to be wrong, since he 

 in the "Manual etc." under his '■'Ainmothea arctica M. S." — al- 

 though with a query — quotes "Briareum grandiflorum Moebius" as 

 a synonym. To settle the question I asked Professor Brandt in Kiel 

 for permission to examine the original specimens of Moebius, and 

 he kindly sent them to me. In spite of their extremely bad preser- 

 vation they v^ere easily and without the least doubt recognized as 

 Eiinephthya glomerata. 



Like the preceding species E. glomerata is widely distributed, 

 probably circumpolar, arctic as well as boreal. It is, however, not 

 known off the Siberian coast east of the Kara Sea nor in the greater 

 part of the N. American arctic seas. It has been found at the northern 

 coast of Jones Sound, in Smith Sound', in Baffin Bay and Davis 

 Strait, and at the western coasts of Greenland from Jakobshavn 

 to Bredefjord; along the east coast of N. America from N. Scotia 

 to Delaware Bay (38°16' L. N.); in Danmark Strait, round Iceland, 

 Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Beeren Eiland; in the Barents Sea, the 

 Kola-Fjord, round Novaya Zemlya ; further in the North Atlantic and 

 in some of the Norwegian Fjords between Nordfjord and Varanger- 

 fjord. It occurs in bottom temperatures below as well as above 

 zero, and ranges from littoral regions to great depths in the open 

 sea — from с 10 to at least 800 fathoms (1497 fthms, Verrill). 



Eunephthya florida (Rathke). 



Gorgonia florida Rathke: Zoologia Danica. Vol. IV, 1806, p. 20, PI. 137. 

 Nephthya Rathkiana Ehrenberg: Die Corallenthiere des Rothen 



Meeres, 1834, p. 61. 

 — — {Gorgonia florida Rthk.) Storm : Bidr. Kundsk. 



Throndhjemsfj. Fauna. Kgl. N. Vid. Selsk. Skr. 

 1878, [1879] p. 23. 

 Alcyonium multiflorum Verrill : Notice rec. add. Mar. Invertebrata etc. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. II, 1879, p. 200. 

 Duua rosea -;- D. pellucida -f- D. paiera г D. florida Koren and 



Danielssen: Nye Alcyon, etc. Bergens Mus., 1883, 

 p. 1—7, PI. I-III. 

 — arborescens -j- D. aurantiaca -f D. frigida -\- D. glacialis + D. 

 spitsbergensis -- D. violacea -|- D. flava -\- D. cinerea 

 Danielssen: Alcyon. Norske Nordh.-Exp. 1887, p. 

 37—59; PI. Ill— V, VI, Figs. 1—29. 

 ' Teste Carter 1. c. p. 70. 



