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layers, as is seen (Text-fig.,H) from the finds to the north east of the Faroe Islands and on the south 

 east coast of Iceland (Broch 1903). As new localities must be added Northern Iceland (0fjord). On 

 the other hand, the specimens from Davis Strait, recorded by L,evinsen (1893) as Amalthaea islandica, 

 prove to belong to Corymorpha groenlandica (Allman). 



Corymorpha groenlandica (Allman) Broch. 

 1876. Monocaulus groenlandica, Allman, Diagnoses of new Genera and Species of Hydroida, p. 257, 



PI. IX, Fig. 78. 

 1893. Amalth&a islandica -)- Monocaulus groenlandica, L,evinsen, Meduser, Ctenophorer og Hydroider 



fra Gr0nlands Vestkyst, p. 151. 



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to 



200 m. ........ 6oom. ._._._._._. 1000 m. . iooom. 



Text-fig. H. Finds of Corymorpha glacialis in the Northern Atlantic. 



1899 Lampra atlantica -f Lampra purpurea, Bonnevie, Norske Nordhavs-Expedition, p. 20, Tab. II 



Fig. 4, Tab. Ill Fig. i. 

 1903 soda, Swenander, Uber die athecateii Hydroiden des Drontheimsfjordes, p. 6, Taf. 



Fig- i3- 



1909 arctica, Jaderholm, Hydroiden, p. 41, Taf. I Fig. 910. 



1909 Corymorpha spitzbergensis, Broch, Die Hydroiden der arktischen Meere, p. 140. 

 1915 groenlandica, Broch, Hydroiduntersuchungen IV, p. n. 



The hydrocaulus, when extended, attains a height of 100 mm; it is widest at the base, where 

 it is attached to the substratum by numerous rhizoids, and is gradually tapering upwards till close 

 below the polyp where the width reaches its minimum. The polyp has a wide base, surrounded by 



The Ingolf-Expedition. V. 6. 



