nothecæ), on Lille Hellefiskebanke off Sukkertoppen, Stat. 422 
(several large colonies), on Store Hellefiskebanke off Holstensborg, 
Stat. 100 and 371 (some large colonies with gonothecæ and smaller 
ones on Thujaria alternitheca), and 45 miles WSW of Egedes- 
minde (a few small colonies). Levinsen records the species from 
nearly the same places. Also known from East Greenland (Jå- 
derholm, Kramp). 
The species has a circumpolar distribution, being known from 
the arctic America, Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Franz Joseph 
Land, Russian-Sibirian Polar Sea, Alaska; it spreads southwards 
along the Atlantic coasts as far as the North Sea and the Kattegat. 
Halecium Beani Johnston. 
H. Beani Johnston 1847. 
Levinsen 1892. 
This cosmopolitan species was taken on Lille Hellefiskebanke 
off Sukkertoppen, Stat. 419 (one colony), 45 miles WSW of Egedes- 
minde, Stat. 199 (several colonies, with many female gonothecæ), 
and off the south coast of Disco, Stat. 180 (two colonies). 
Halecium labrosum Alder. 
H. labrosum Alder 1859. 
» Crenulatum Hincks 1874. 
» labrosum Levinsen 1892. 
” sm Jåderholm 1909. 
On Fylla's Banke off Godthaab, Stat. 400 (on Bonneviella 
grandis), near Fiskenæs, Stat. 465 (several smaller colonies), on 
Store Hellefiskebanke off Holstensborg, Stat. 100 (on Ascidiæ), and 
off the south coast of Disco, Stat. 180 (some small colonies). 
The species is. known from the arctic America and the Davis- 
Strait, distributed in the Polar Sea from East-Greenland, Spitzbergen, 
and Franz Joseph Land along the Russian-Siberian coast to the 
Ochotian Sea. Furthermore it oceurs on the Atlantic coast of North 
America and Europe, at the Azores and in the Adriatic Sea. 
