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that we have to deal with a form from the warmer Atlantic regions; both the finds are in fact from 

 near the north coast of Iceland. At the same time, however, it should be noted that both are situate 

 in water of positive temperature; at the "Ingolf" St. 127 no less than 5,6; it is thus not impossible 

 that the occurrence of the species here is due to larval transportation from the Danmark Strait. Arctic 

 the species certainly cannot be; even the one Aglaopheniid hitherto found in any number in arctic 

 water layers, Thecocarpus myriophyllutn (L,inne) is not indigenous there. We must therefore regard 

 the Aglaopheniid as on the whole as southern visitors in the colder northern seas. Halicornaria cam- 

 panulata must likewise be placed in this category; its true home, however, has yet to be discovered. 



Nematocarpus nov. gen. 



Singly or doubly pinnate colonies, the apophyses of the primary stem tubes bearing hydrocladia, 

 which in fully developed colonies are secondarily branched. All sarcothecse immobile. The secondary 

 hydrocladium is formed from the proximal sarcotheca branch on the primary, and stands in no relation 

 to the gonangia. The latter are not surrounded by any protective organs. 



This peculiar genus is known only in a single species, originally described as a Halicornaria 

 by All man (1874 p. 477). In Nutting's diagnosis of this genus (1900 p. 126) we find "Hydrocladia 

 not branched; hydrocladial internodes without septa". The latter point is of minor importance even 

 in distinction of species, but the first-mentioned character is also adopted by S tec how (1913 p. 43) 

 "Hydrocladien einfach". 



On the other hand, we may with some justification maintain that the genus Aglaoplicnopsis 

 (Fewkes) is based on forms with branched hydrocladia. We must, however, here note a great differ- 

 ence in comparison with Halicornaria ramulifera Allman; the secondary branches in Aglaopiifiiopsis 

 are hydrotheca-bearing phylactogonia, and stand thus in definite relation to the gonangia; in this case, 

 however, they have nothing to do with the gonangia, and do not develope into minor branches, as in 

 Aglaophenopsis, but into secondary hydrocladia of the same structure and appearance as the primary. 

 This difference is important, inasmuch as we should, as Bale already (1887) pointed out, establish a 

 new genus on the basis of the same. The nearest related genera are Halicornaria, Aglaophenopsis, 

 and Cladocarpus, where we often, especially in the two last, find the same structure of the gonotheca 

 as in the known Nematocarptcs species. 



Nematocarpus ramuliferus (Allman). 



1874 Halicornaria ramulifera, Allman, Report on the Hydroida .... Porcupine, p. 477, pi. 67, fig. 3. 

 1903 Halicornaria pluina, Broch, Die von dem norwegischen Fischereidampfer "Michael Sars" .... ge- 



sammelten Hydroiden, p. 8, Taf. IV, figs. 1521. 



Doubly pinnate colonies, with somewhat irregularly branched, polysiphonic main stem. The 

 primary tube is segmented, and has on the middle of each internodium a strong apophyse, directed 

 alternately to each side, and a pair of sarcothecse at the upper side of the apophyse; the sarcothecae 

 are adcaulinally split. From the apophyse proceeds a hydrocladium, bearing a hydrotheca on each 



