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CRUSTACEA MALACOSTRACA. 



Occurrence. This species was taken by the "Ingolf at 5 places: 



Baffins Bay: St. 33: 67° 57' N. L., 55° 30' W. L., 35 fm., temp.o-8°; 8 spec. 



Davis Straits: St. 29: 65° 34' N. L., 54° 31' W. L., 68 fm., temp. 0-2°; i spec. 

 - 34: 65° 17' - 54° 17' - 55 - - 0-9°; 5 - 



North-West Iceland: Dyre Fjord; 3 spec. 



North of Iceland: St. 127: 66° 33' N. L., 2o°05'W. L., 44 fm., temp. 5-6°; 2 spec. 



In Malac. Groenl. I have mentioned a very large number of localities for this species: it goes 

 northward to Discovery Bay at 81 44' N. L. and is uniformly distributed along the west coa.st of 

 Greenland from Cape York to Cape Farewell; it was taken at all depths from ca. 5 fm. to 118 fm., 

 but a single occurrence at 200 fm. must (for reasons given) be considered as less certain. Since that 

 paper was written I have seen man\- specimens from various localities at West Greenland, but 

 neither these nor the data published by Ortmann and Ohlin increase our knowledge of the bathymetric 

 or geographical distribution of the species. F'rom the cast coast of Greenland I gave it in 1895 as 

 taken in Hekla harbour at 70° 27' N. L. in 1—3 fm., 10 fm., and 7—17 fm.; Ohlin gives it from 74° 10' 

 N. L. near Clavering Island, 13 — 21 fm. ; later, I have .seen specimens from the following East Green- 

 land localities: Angmag.salik, 65° 37' N. L., many specimens; 69" 44' N. L., 23°3o'W. L. in the eel-seine 

 in 3—0 fm., many specimens; Cape Tobin, 70° 23' N. L., 22° W. L., 57 fm., 2 specimens; For.sblad Fjord, 

 72°27'N. L., 25° 28' W. L., 90—50 fm., i specimen; Sabine Island, 74° 30' N. L., i8°45'W. L,., anchorage, 

 3 specimens. Buchholz had already given it from Sabine Lsland, 10—20 and 27 fm., and from Jack- 

 son Island (73° 34' N. L.); Koelbel notes it fnun Jan Mayen. Further, I have seen a number of speci- 

 mens from the west, north and east coasts of Icelaiul, l)ut none from the very south, which however 

 is certainly accidental as it is common at the Ficroes, having been taken in Vaag Fjord, Tveraa, 

 Trangisvaag, Svino, Kvannesund, Vestmaniiavn and off Nol.so; the depths were from 1—3 fm. and 

 down to 100 fm. 



Distribution. It cannot yet be settled if the species is circumpolar. At Norway it is found 

 at Lofoten and Finmark (G. O. Sars), from there eastward in the Murmau Sea, the White Sea (Birula) 

 and in the Kara Sea, 43 — 72 fm. (Ruijs), to the soutli-west coast of Nova Zambia (Hansen); it has been 

 taken in the Barents Sea in 140 fm. (Hoek) and is known also from Franz Joseph Land (Scott) and is 

 common at Spitzbergen (several atithors). It occurs, as mentioned above, at Grinnell Land, also at 

 Labrador and southward along the east coast of America to Cape Cod, 5 — 36 fm. (S. I. Smith). It has 

 further been taken almost midwa)' on the north coast of Alaska, in the Behring Straits, along the 

 west side of Alaska, at the Aleutians and north-eastern Siberia (Mary Rathbun, 1904); its occurrence 

 at California, Kamtschatka and north of the most eastern part of Asia as given by Owen, Ross, Stux- 

 berg I consider unreliable. Further, Brandt's statement of its occurrence in the Siberian Polar Sea 

 requires confirmation, and as it is far from common in the Kara Sea it is until further information is 

 forthcoming uncertain whether it is absent or not along the 120 degrees of latitude north of Asia. — 

 The greatest depth at which the species has been found with certainty is 140 fm. (Hoek). 



Remarks. The largest specimen is from West Greenland and measures 137 mm. from the tip 

 of the rostrum to the end of the telson. 



