The Alcyonaria of East-Greenland. 497 



At the western coasts of Greenland it has only been found in 

 one of the southernmost fjords, viz. Bredefjord, but in the open sea 

 off" Western Greenland, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, it has been 

 captured at several points between 70°42' N and 63°30' N and out 

 to 55°54' Long. W.; further it has been found in Danmark Strait^ 

 off the northern coast of Iceland, at Spitsbergen; in the North At- 

 lantic south and east of Iceland, round the Færoes, and off" Norway; 

 in some of the Norwegian Fjords from Nordfjord to Øxfjord, and in 

 the Kolafjord ; the southernmost locality hitherto recorded is off Achill 

 Head, Western Ireland. ^ 



The depth mentioned above for Turner Sound — 3 fathoms — 

 seems to be the lowest bathymetrical limit observed, while the 

 maximum depth lies between 600 and 700 fathoms; like the preceding 

 species it may be found where the bottom temperature is above 

 or below zero. 



Pennatulacea. 



Fam. Virgulariidœ Kölliker (emend. Jungersen 1904). 



Virgularia affinis Koren & Danielssen. 



Virgularia affinis Koren M. S. (name given by Koren 1855 in la- 

 belling the first specimen found in the Varanger- 

 fjord and preserved in the Museum in Bergen). 



— glacialis M. Sars M. S. (only on labels in the Museums of 



Christiania and Copenhagen on specimens found 

 1857 at Vadsö, Varanger Fjord). 



— — Kölliker: Die Pennatuliden. Abhdl. d. Sencken- 



bergisch. Naturf. Gesellsch. Bd. VII, VIII, 1872, 

 p. 198, PI. XIII, Figs. 116, 117. 



— Steenstriipii KöWikei; ibid. p. 199, PI. XVI, Figs. 128, 129. 



— affinis Koren & Danielssen: Contrib. to the natur. hist. 



of the Pennatul. living on the Norwegian coast. 

 Fauna littoralis Norvegiæ. Vol. Ill, 1877, p. 90, 

 PI. IV, Figs. 1—7. 



— — Grieg : Oversigt over Norges pennatulider. Bergens 



Mus. Aarsberetning 1891, No. 1, p. 11. 



^ The ^'AlclJonium miiltiflorum'' described by Verhim. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 

 p. 200, and mentioned again in Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish and Fisheries 1883 (1885) p. 

 533), seems to be identical with E. ßorida. Granted the correctness of this identi- 

 fication — of which I have not the least doubt — the known distribution of E. florida 

 in the western part of the N. Atlantic extends from Baffin Вал' to off the N. Ame- 

 rican east coast, at least to 44°06' Lat. N. 



