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Distribution. The species has several times been taken at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 26 to 57 fni. 

 (S. I. vSmith), in the St. Lawrence estuary, 30 tn 70 fni. (Whiteaves), at Labrador (Packard), lastly in 

 the Bering Straits, the Bering Sea over towards America and at Kamtschatka and in the Sea of 

 Ochotsk, 16 to 100 fm. (Mary Rathbun). 



Remarks. Uoflein iu "Fauna Arctica" has placed .S'. iiiacilriifa Y^r. as a synonym to ^'fF. pliippsi 

 Krover"; on the following page (p. 333) under X spiiins he writes however: "Betrachte icli aber das 

 o-esamte Material, so kan ich so viel LTebergange zu //. pliippsl feststellen, msbesonders zu den als 

 furo-ida and macilnita von Kroyer als besondere Arten beschriebenen Formen von phippsi, dass ich 

 glaube, es handelt .sich nur um eine x'\rt, welche dem Prioritjitsgesetze gemass deu Namen //. 

 spiniis Sow. tragen muss. Diese Annahme wird audi durch die ganz gleichartige Verbreitungswei.se 

 der fraglichen Species unterstiitzt". That H. pliippsi Kr. was the male, //. fitru-ida Kr. the female of the 

 same species had been made out many years before Doflein's work, but when he wishes to include 

 //. tiirgida Kr. and //. macilnita Kr. under //. spiiins Sow., that shows great lack of knowledge of his 

 subject and great hardihood. And the support given by the "gleichartige Verbreitungsweise" to the 

 view that there is here only a single species is indeed a broken reed, as the three species have a very 

 different distribution: X iiiacilcuta is only known from West Greenland and the waters on each side 

 of the most northerlv parts of North America, whilst both the other species are found for e.xample on 

 the northern parts of Europe, further S. fnrgida is certainh' more arctic in its distribution than S. spiuns. 



55. Spirontocaris turgida Kr. 



1841. Hippolyte turgida Kroyer, Nat. Tidsskr., 3. B., p. 575. 

 — — Phippsii Kroyer, — — — 



1842. — turgida Kroyer, Kgl. D. Vid. Selsk. math.-naturv. Afh., Niende Del, p. 3cxS, Tab. H, 



Fig- 57-5fi> Tab. Ill, Fig. 59-63. 

 I _ _ Phippsii Kroyer, Kgl. D. Vid. Selsk. math.-naturv. Afh., Niende Del, p. 314, Tab. Ill, 



Fig. 64 -68. 

 1879. — — vS. I. vSmith, Tran.s. Conn. Acad., Vol. V, ]). 73. 



Occurrence. The "Ingolf" has brought home this species from two localities. 



Baffin Bay: St. 33: 67°57'N. L., 55° 30' W. L., 35 fm., temp. o-8°; 2 spec. 



Davis Straits: The mouth of Ameralik Fjord at (lodthaab, 5—70 fm.; i .spec. 



I have given in Malac. (iroenl. a large number of localities for this species; the most northerly 

 was at 8i°44'N. L. at Grinnell Land (Miers), also along (.rreenland itself from 78° 17' to 60'' 43' N. L.; 

 the .species is stated to be common in from 2—4 fm. and out in ca. 25 fm., it was taken some few 

 times in depths from ca. 50 to 60 fm., but two statements of its occurrence iu 100 and 200 fms. at 

 Sukkertoppen I considered "ver\- doubtful", and I believe I am now able to say that 100 fm. is 

 probably correct, 200 fm. certainly incorrect. Later discoveries have not e.xtended tliis knowledge; 

 Ohlin and Ortmann show that the species is connnon between 76 and 79"' N. L, in 5 to 45 fm. -- .\t 

 East Greenland the species has been taken at Ta.siusak, 65'= 37' N. L., 37^34' \V. L., 5-19 f'"- <iinl in 

 the eel-seine, 9-0 fm. (Amdrup E-xp. and Kruuse), and at Ilekla Harbour in Scoresby Sound, 70' 27' X. L., 



