438 



This curious species, the only one known of this genus with 

 diactinal megascleres, is not represented in our-collections. 



At North-Shannon (Die zweite deutsche Nordpolarfahrt ; 

 Schmidt 1. с). 



Asbestopluma Norman. 



A. pennatula 0. Schmidt. 



1875. Cladorhisa pennatula 0. Schmidt, Jahresber. der Comm. zur Unters. 



deutsch. Meere in Kiel für 1872—73, 119, Tat. 

 1, Fig. 14—16. 

 1887. Cladorhiza Nordenskiöldii Fristedt, Vega-E.xp. vetensk. lakttag. IV, 



455, PI. 25, flgs. 56-59, PI. 31, fig. 55. 

 1905. Asbestopluma pennatula, Lundbeck, The Dani.sh Ingolf-Exp. VI, 2,44, 



PL II, figs. 1—6, PI. X, figs. 4a— 0, 5—7. 



One specimen was taken on the Swedish arctic expedition 

 1883 at the East-coast of Greenland, depth 130 fathoms (Fri- 

 stedt 1. c), and one specimen and some fragments were taken 

 by the Ingolf-expedition on station 94, 64° 56' lat. N., 21° 36' 

 long. W., depth 204 fathoms (Lundbeck 1. с). 



A. cupressiformis Cart. 



1874. Esjjeria cupressiformis Carter partim, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 4, XIV, 



215, PL XIV, figs. 16a-f, 17-18, PL XV, 

 fig. 37. 

 1905. Asbestopluma cwpressiformis, Lundbeck, The Danish Ingolf-Exp. VI, 



2, 58, PL II, figs. 11 — 14, PL XI, figs. 

 4 a— f, 5. 



72° 40' lat. N., 20° long. W., depth 100 fathoms, 72° 27' 

 lat. N., 19° 50' long. W., depth 120 fathoms, and at the south 

 end of Jameson Land, depth 10—60 fathoms (The Ryder-ex- 

 pedition 1891—92) (Lundbeck 1. с). 



A. lycopodium Levins. 



1886. Esperella cupressiformis var. lycopodium Levinsen, Dijmphna-Togtets 



zool. bot. Udbytte, 364, Tab. 

 XXIX, figs. 12 — 1 3, Tab. XXX, 

 figs. 15, 16d. 



1905. Asbestopluma lycopodium, Lundbeck. The Danish Ingolf-Exp. VI, 2. 



62, PL II, figs. 15-17, PL XI, figs. 6a— d, 7. 



70° 32' lat. N., 8° 10' long. W., depth 470 fathoms (The 



