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Sårs 1865 (en Osti-acode. der hidtil kun er lunden langs 

 den norske Kyst paa en Dybde af 300 Favne eller der- 

 over). 



TTdbredelse. Denne arctiske Repræsentant for Slæg- 

 ten var hidtil kjendt fra Grønland og fra de norske Kyster. 

 Overalt er den kun sparsomt erholdt, enten som dode, iland- 

 di-evne Individer, eller udtague af Sælernes Maver. Af 

 Xordhavs-E.xpeditionens Individer vare de 3 optagne fra 

 Havet vestenfor Hammerfest: sandsynligvis er Arten ud- 

 bredt paa gunstige Localiteter over hele Polarhavets Dyb. 

 og vil med mere fiddkomue Redskaber oftere kunne er- 

 holdes. 



Fra Grønland havde Musæet i Kjøbenhavn, ifølge 

 Reinhardt sen., allerede i 1836 erholdt 6 Individer ft-a de 

 nordligste Colonier Omenak (Umanak). Ritenbank og Ja- 

 cobshavn. Senere er flere Exemplarer nedsendte til samme 

 Musæum fr-a Syd-Grønland. 



Fra de norske Kyster kjendtes tidligere blot 3 Indi- 

 vider, hvoraf det første var det, der al Strøm toges ved 

 Yolden i Sondmør i 1774; det andet hjembragtes til Ber- 

 gens Musæum, angivelig fra Hardangertjorden. af Stiftamt^ 

 mand Christie mellem Aarene 1830- og 1840. Det tredie, 

 der opbevares paa Universitets-Musæet i Christiania, er 

 indsendt fra Handelspladsen Hasvig ved Hammerfest, og be- 

 finder sig, ligesom foregaaende. i mindre god Stand, skjønt 

 ulige becfre, end Xordhavs-Expeditioneus Exemplar fra Stor- 

 eggen; sandsynligvis er ogsaa dette udtaget eller udkastet 

 af en Fiskemave. 



En anden Art, Scopehis respJendens, Rich. 1845. op- 

 1'indeligt beski"even ft'a Guineakysten, har i de sidst forløbne 

 Aar, 1879 og 1880, vist sig at være stationær i Trondhjems- 

 fjorden (63" X. B.), og adskillige Exemplarer ere allerede 

 fundne, hvoraf flere opbevares paa Musæerne i Trondhjem 

 og Chi-istiania '. 



Af en tredie nordisk Ai-t. Sc. Woyeri, Malm 1860. 

 er et enkelt Exemplar lunden i Maven af en Gadus morrhua 

 udenfor Skagen i 1856-. 



G. 0. Sårs 1865 (an Ostracod hitherto not met with 

 on the Norwegian coast at a depth of less than 300 

 fathoms). • 



Distribution. — The coast of Greenland and the 

 northern shores of Norway were the only locaHties in which 

 this Ai'ctic representative of the genus had previously been 

 met with, and but sparingly, for instance floating dead. or 

 washed ashore, or found in the stomachs of seals. Of the 

 individuals obtained on the Expedition. 3 were taken in 

 the open sea west of Hammerfest. Probably the species 

 occurs everywhere throughout the depths of the Polar Sea, 

 and with improved apparatus will no doubt be more fre- 

 quently, captured. 



According to Reinhardt sen., the Zoological Museum 

 in Copenhagen had obtained 6 individuals so far back as 

 1836, from the most northerly colonies in Greenland, viz. 

 Omenak, Ritenbank, and Jacobshavn. Subsequently, divers 

 examples were sent to the same Museum from South 

 Greenland. 



On the shores of Norway, but 3 individuals had pre- 

 viously been observed, one of which was the example 

 taken by Strom at Volden in Søndmør, 1774: the secorid, 

 stated to have been captured in the Hardanger Fjord, 

 was presented to the Bergen Museum» by the Stiftamtmand 

 Christie, between 1830 and 1840. The third, preserved in 

 the University Museum. Christiania, was sent from Hasvig 

 near Hammerfest; its state of preservation is far from 

 perfect, though better, than that of the specimen obtained 

 on the Exijedition from the Storeggen fishing-bank; probably 

 this individual too had been in a fish's stomach. 



Quite lately (1879 and 1880). another species, Scopehis 

 resplendeiis, Rich. 1845, originally described from the Guinea 

 coast, has been met with jis stationary in the Trondhjem 

 Fjord (lat. 63" N.). and sevei-al specimens, preserved in 

 the Museums of Trondhjem and Christiania,' have been 

 already collected. 



A single example of a third Northern species.. Sc. 

 hrbyeri, Malm 1860, was found in the stomach of a Gadiis 

 marrhna. taken ofl' the Scaw in 1856.^ 



' Forh. Vid. Selsk. Chia,' l->u, Xo. 8, p. X 



- Forh. Skand. Naturf. 8 Møde Kbh\ni. 1 SiiO, p. (ilT (Kbhvu. ISfil). 



' Forb. Vid. Selsk. Chra. 1S80, Xo. R, p. 3. 



- Forh. Skand. Xaturf. s Mpde Kbh\Ti. 1860, p. 617 (Kbhra. ISlil). 



