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Occurrence. The "Ingolf" has taken this species at lo locahties. 



West Greenland: Godthaab Fjord, a small ebb pool; i specimen. 



West of Iceland: vSt. 9: 64° 18' N. L., 27° 00' W. L., Trawl, 295 fm.; i spec. 



North-East of Iceland: vSt. 121: 66° 59' N. L., i3°ii'W. L., Vertical net, 100— o fm.; 3 spec. 



East of Iceland: St. 103: 66° 23' N. L., 8°52'W. L., Vertical net, kxj-o fm.; 2 spec. 



- - — - 105: 65° 34' - 7° 31' — Trawl, 762 fm.; i si)ec. 



— - — - 58: 64° 25' — 12° 09' — Plankton net, 100— o fm; 3 s])ec. 

 Sonth-East of Iceland: .St. 57: 63° 37' N. L., 13° 02' W. L., Trawl, 350 fm.; i spec. 



— - — - 3: 63° 35' — 10° 24' — — 272 —;2 — 



North of the Faeroes: St. 140: 63° 29' ~ 6° 57' — — 780 — ; i — 



— - — - 141 : 63° 22' — 6° 58' — — 679 — ; I — 



In Malac. Groenl. this sjjecies is mentioned from West Greenland as taken at "Egedesminde 

 and Ritenbenk" as also Godhavn; later it has been found at Jakobshavn (Traustedtl; it thus goes 

 northwards here at least to 69° 13' N. L., perhaps to 69° 44' N. L. A specimen is present from 59^ N. L., 

 51" W. L., south-west from Cape Farewell. It was taken by the "Thor" and other investigators a 

 number of times on the west, south and east of Iceland, and it appears likewise in the fjords, being 

 taken in Skjalfandi on the north coast, in Mid Fjord, Seydis F'jord, Rode Fjord and Bern Fjord on 

 the east coast. It was taken b\' the "Ingolf", as noted above, somewhat to the north of the Faeroes, 

 but has hitherto not been found to the west, east or south of these islands. It was taken bv the 2""* 

 Amdrup Expedition at Jan Mayen, from which it was already noted by Koelbel, also at ca. 73' /X.Iy., 

 4° W. E. and ca. 74'/, N. L., 8'/., W. E. ; Ohlin gives it for several places along East Greenland between 

 ca. 7 1 '/a" and 73'/2° N. L., at the last-mentioned latitude in Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord. 



Distribution. The species has been taken at Shetland and twice at Scotland (Normam going 

 southward to ca. 55'/2 N. L. Further, it has been taken at several places in the North Sea and twice 

 in the Channel's western end off the Scilly Islands and still nune to the south towards the French 

 coast (Gough). In the northern Kattegat it has been taken once (Meinert); it is e.Ktremeh' frequent "off the 

 northern shores of Norway" (G. O. Sars), has been taken in tlie Kara Sea (Hansen), round about Spitz- 

 bergen both west and east side (Ohlin, Zimmer), as also at Franz Joseph Land (.Stebbing). On the 

 east coast of America it is known from the Gulf of St. Eawreuce, IJay of Fund\- and from there 

 southward to Vineyard .Sound (ca. 41'/, N. E.) (S. I. .Smith). 



It is this species which according to G. O. Sars aiii)ears at Finmark in such nuisses, that it 

 forms the chief food of the blue whale and sometimes the food of the green cod. It was twice taken 

 by the "Thor" in the young-fish trawl with respectively 15 and 40 meters line out; it was taken 3 

 times by the "Ingolf" in the vertical net from 100 to o fm. It appears from the.se 5 catches and from 

 the literature, that the species often lives in the upper wator-layer.s, but it is impossible at present lo 

 .say whether it lives as a rule or always in the open sea at a distance of less than 100 fm. from the surface. 



4. Rhoda Raschii M. .Sans. 



1864. Thysauopoda Ra.schii M. .Sars, FVirh. i Vid. Selsk. Christiania for 1S63, p. 83. 

 ! 18S2. ]Mi])hausia Kaschii G. ( ). Sars, I'-orli. i \'id. .Selsk. Clnisliauia for 1882, No. t8, p. 51. 



