68 



PENNATULIDA. 



Nr. 



St 47. 



Total length 



Length of peduncle 



niam. of the upper enlargement of the peduncle 



Length of a polyp 



Breadth of the naked dorsal streak 



m mm. 



245 



37 



5 



8 



2 



245 



37 

 5 



245 



32 



5 



II 



2 



240 



33 



5 



10 

 2 



8;- 



240 

 33 

 4 

 8-12 



2 



235 

 31 



4 

 8-9 



2 



II. 



31 

 5 

 7 



230 



32 



5 



230 

 28 



4 

 7 



Ajithoptilum miirrayi has originally been taken by the Challengers, south of Halifax (one 

 .specimen, sio""" long), 48° 8' N. Lat, 63° 39 W. Long., depth 1250 fathoms; later, it has proved to be of 

 frequent occurrence off the east coast of North America, partly at the same localities as the preceding 

 -species, in depths from 640—1362 fathoms (Verrill, Am. J. Sc. (3), vol.28, p. 220; U. S. Fish. Comm. Rep. 

 1883, p. 511). On the European side of the Atlantic, it was found almost at the same time at two 

 rather widely separated localities, viz. b\- the «Caudan; in the Bay of Gascony (depth 1410 metres, 

 45° 57' N. Lat., 6° 21' W.Long. (Paris), one .specimen, 400""" long), and by the dngolf' south of Iceland, 

 at four stations situated on almost tlie same line west to east between Greenland and the Fseroe Isles, 

 viz. St. 83, 62° 25' N. Lat, 28° 30' W. Long., 912 fathoms; St 40, 62"" N. Lat, 21° 36' W. Long., 845 fathoms; 

 St 65, 61° 33' N. Lat, 19° W. Long, 1089 fathoms; and St. 47, 61° 32' N. Lat, 13° 40' W. Long., 950 fathoms. 



Thus it is evident that the species belongs to the deep part of tlie whole northern Atlantic 

 inside the territory of the positive bottom temperatures. 



Fam. Kophobelemnoniche Koll. 



Kophobelemnon Asbjorns. 

 Kophobelemnon stelliferum (O. F. Miiller). 



Painatula stcUifera O. F. Miiller. Zoo). Dan. Prodr. 1776, Nr. 3076; Zool. Dan. 1788, p. 44, PI. XXXVI. 

 Kophobelemnon Millleri Asbjornsen. Fauna litt Norvegiae II, p. 81, PI. X, F'igs. 1—8. 



