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provided with such, as they have seen a zooid mider one of the preserved developed polyps). When 

 the authors attribute c cells in the developed polyps to their <. Gunner iw^ and fig^ure such a poKp 

 with a cell in fig. 9, it is to be observed that this figure cannot exactly be called a true representa- 

 tion of fact, nor does the description correspond with it. Kophobelemnoii has not a real calyx , nor has 

 this specimen ; only a superficial examination could so misinterpret the features arising from the different 

 degree of retraction of the polyp-bod\- and the tentacles. Otherwise, it will be found that the special 

 statements of the authors with regard to the form of the spicules, the strong equipment with spicules 

 of the tentacles and polyp-bod^•, the pigmentation of the pharyngeal sac and gastric filaments 

 etc., correspond exactly with the features in Kophobclciiuioii. It might be supposed that Danielssen 

 and Koren have never made a comparison with this form, as any one who compares the nGunneria - 

 specimen with a KopJiobclemnon {i.iiiocbii>), must be struck immediateh' by the similarity; even by a 

 comparison of the not quite correct figure 8 with the corresponding part of a Kophobelemnon of a 

 suitable size, the agreement will easil\- be seen; it seems to me superfluous, therefore, to enter into 

 any further details. 



Distribution and Occurrence. — The stations of the Ingolf extend the known territory 

 of the species considerably: 



St. 40: 62° 00' N. Lat., 21" 36' W. Long., depth 845 fathom.s, bottom temp. 3°.3 C. 

 10: 64^-24' 28^50' . 788 ^. 3^5 ' 



24: 63° 06' 56^00' >: » 1 199 » » 2°.4 ' 



28: 65° 14' 55° 42' ' 420 » » 3°.5 



The steamer Thor lias further added as new localities: 63° 05' N. Lat, 20° 7' W. Long., 557 

 metres (St. 167 of the . Thor , south of Iceland, m/_ 1903). Here 14 specimens were obtained, of which 

 the largest is 105""" long with 12 polyps, the smallest 50™™ with 7 polyps. Further: 62° 57' N. Lat, 

 19° 58' W.Long., 957 metres; here three specimens were taken: two small young stages with solitary 

 primary polyp, the one only 8'"'" long and very small, with one large and two quite small zooids; 

 the other 24"™ long, rather big (ca. 2""" broad), with a pol\-p-bud just appearing on the right side 

 and with many and large zooids; the third specimen 55""'" long, damaged, with several pohps and 

 large zooids. 



Apart from the coast-regions of Norwa>- where the Vest Fjord (ca. 67—68^ N. Lat) is given as 

 its northernmost occurrence, the species has not hitherto been known farther north than 60° iS'N. Lat, 

 in the Fseroe Channel (the .Triton» Exp. St. 8), whilst its most westerly occurrence on the European side 

 of the Atlantic did not extend much farther than 10° W. Long., west of Brittany (the Porcupine Exp. 

 1870; see Kolliker, Monogr. p. 370). Now its territory is seen to extend, not only to Iceland but acro.ss 

 the Denmark Straits and quite into the Davis Straits, west of Greenland; its occurrence there further 

 corroborates my supposition that the Kopkobrlcunwii occurring farther south on the east coast of 

 America belong to the same species. Formerly, it was known from many of the Norwegian fjords and the 

 adjoining coast-regions, viz. from the Vest Fjord and farther south throngli the channel of the Skager 

 Rak to the Christiania Fjord and to Bohusliin; also from many places in the Fa;roe Channel; off 

 Brittany; from the coast of Les Landes: from different places in the Mediterranean (Cape Beam, Nice 



The Ingolf-Expedition. V. i. iO 



