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7) Axarfjord. August i2th 1903. "Beskytteren", Gemzoe. i specimen, torn, probably 

 about 6 cm wide. 



8) Lat 66i4' N., Long. 1^28' W., Skjalfandifjord. July 2ist 1904. "Thor" stat 208 (04). 

 Pieces of several specimens. 



9) -- Lat. 66 15' N., Long. 233O' W., off Isafjord. June i5th 1903. "Thor" stat 134(03). One 

 specimen, in the collection of the Plankton Laboratory, Copenhagen. 



10) -- Dyrefjord. July i4th 1892. Lundbeck. i specimen 7 cm wide. 



n) -- Lat. 64o6' N., Long. 23i4' W., Faxebugt. July 2nd 1908. Depth 98 m. 65 m wire. "Thor" 

 stat. 45(08). -- A piece of the bell-margin with the outer part of a radial canal of a large specimen. 



12) -- Lat. 635i' N., Long. i629' W., M Y ri Bu gt. August gth 1904. Depth 40 m. "Beskytteren", 

 Gemzoe. - - Pieces of a large specimen, which must have been about 12 cm wide. On a 5 cm long 

 piece of the bell margin there are 115 well-developed and as many young and very thin tentacles; 

 the specimen must, accordingly, have had several thousands of tentacles. 



Faeroe Islands: 



13) - - Thorshavn. August i8th 1895. "Ingolf" Exp. - - Small pieces of several individuals of 

 different size and stage of development, treated with Flemmings solution. 



Norway: 



14) -- Borgundfjord near Aalesund. June 25th 1902. "Michael Sars", Ad. S.Jensen. -- Several 

 torn specimens, not very large. 



North Sea: 



15) - - Lat 5946' N., Long. oo7' W., east of the north-point of Scotland. May 7th 1905. 130 m 

 wire. "Thor" stat. 21 (05). In the collection of the Plankton Laboratory, Copenhagen. 



With the exception of the specimens from the localities 4, 9, and 15 the whole of the material 

 here mentioned is in the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. 



Further Distribution: 



North Atlantic Area, eastern part: 



Spitsbergen (Haeckel 1879, p. 131). 



Barents Sea (Linko 19043, p. 16 and 1904 b, p. 218). In the eastern (coldest) part of the Barents 

 Sea Staurophora is common in the open sea as well as in the neighbourhood of the coast; in the 

 western part it is somewhat scarce in the open sea, and in the summer it is almost never found near 

 the coast. In the unusually cold summer of 1899 it was, however, numerous in Kolafjord and in Eka- 

 terin Harbour. Towards the end of the year, on the other hand, it occurs regularly in the neighbour- 

 hood of the coast, and it seems then to breed in this region, young medusae being found here during 

 the first half-part of the year; towards the spring these young medusse emigrate towards the North. 



White Sea (Wagner 1885, p. 80; Birula 1896, p. 16). Wagner found several specimens, 6 

 12 cm wide, in the Solowetsky Bay in July 1880. 



Norway. According to M. Sars (1851, p. 158 and 1863, p. 339) the species is not rare at the 

 coast of Finmarken, where Sars found two specimens, 16 cm wide, in 0xfjord and Havesund in the 



