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with regard to spiculation; the want of spicules in the tentacles of this species, stated by Kolliker, 

 is for instance in no wa\- a constant feature, and will rarel}', I think, hold good for young- colonies. 



Distribution. The species has been found on the Norwegian coast, at least from Trondhjeni 

 Fjord to into the Christiania- Fjord; also in the Skager Rak, in the deep channel of which it is evidently 

 numerous (many specimens, both large and small, have been taken in 1897 by Dr. J oh. Petersen; 

 comp. \'id. Medd. Nath. For. Kbhvn. 1898, p. i ; man\' .specimens have later been taken at the same 

 locality by the steamer Thor ); at Bohuslan; the we.st coast of Scotland, the Hebrides; midway 

 between the Hebrides and Sudero; the Fteroe Channel, in the warm area (among others by the «Michael 

 Sars>, 1902); the Atlantic, west of IJrittany (48° 26' N. Lat. 9° 44' W. Long., K611. Monogr. p. 369), and 

 nearer the coast of Brittany, as also off Arcachon (P.Fischer, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr., vol.14, P-34); ^l-''<> "^ 

 the northern part of the Bay of Gascony [e.Trichoptilnm sp. Roule, Camp, du ;Caudan», p. 307); the 

 Mediterranean (Golfe du Lion, Naples, Adriatic Sea). To these localities is to be added the American 

 side of the Atlantic [.F. aniiafa> Verr.) from Sable Island to in the Carribbean Sea (Verrill). 



The new localities, the stations of the < Ingolf Nr. 40, 62° N. Lat, 21° 36' W. Long., and Nr. 18, 

 61° 44' N. Lat, 30- 29' W. Long., and the station of the < Thor Nr. 167, 63" 5' N. Lat, 20° 7' W. Long., 

 accordingly extend the European distribution of the species in a wa\- that can only serve to bear 

 out my supposition of the identity of nniiata with quadraiignlaris. 



In the Atlantic the species is thus known so far, onl\- north of the equator and inside 

 the territory of the positive bottom temperatures '). The depths are given as from 10—30 fathoms 

 up to 769 fathoms; the above mentioned stations of the < Ingolf exceed the greatest depth hitherto 

 known, one being 845 fathoms, the other 1135 fathoms. According to what is stated above, the 

 species, outside the Atlantic, may occur at New-Zealand, at a depth of 700 fathoms; but at all events 

 it is certain that the genus Fiinicitlina belongs also to the Indo-Pacific Ocean, the young stages of 

 Leptoptilum and Trichoptihtiu having been taken there b\- the Challenger in two widely separated 

 localities, both south of the equator. 



Fam. ProtoptilidcE K611. 



Protoptilum Koll. 

 Protoptilum carpenteri Koll. 



PI. I, Figs. 2, 3. 

 Protoptiluvi Carpciitcrii Koll. Monogr. 1872, p. 374, PI. XXIV, Figs. 223, 224. 

 » abcrraiis Koll. Chall. Penn. 1880, p. 28, PI. VIII, Fig. 30. 



In one locaHty, south of Iceland, the Ingolf has taken one complete and five more or 

 less incomplete specimens of a Protopfiluiii which is to be referred to the form P. carprii/rri Koll. 



I) On PI. II, figs. 3, 3 a of the Cliall. Report on the .A.lcyonaria (vol. 31, 1S891 Wright and Studer — among the 

 Strophogorgisf, however — have figured a fragment of a ■iTrichopiilum , which, in their opinion, is perhaps a new species of 

 this <c gen-US . The verj- incomplete specimen has been taken at Station 143 of the .Challenger*, off the Cape of Good Hope. 

 The figure shows only three developed polyp-calyxe.s, and no incomplete polyps or zooids whatever, and just as little the form 

 of the calcareous axis; neither is anything said of the latter in the explanation. To judge from the figure the question may 

 be of a Funiczdina, but it is impossible to decide whether it is F. quadrangularis. 



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