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Bay. -— According to Ritter-Zåhony (1910) who has thoroughly 
dealt with the occurrence of the species at Spitzbergen, it is abun- 
dant there in the shallow-water coastal region, fairly common in 
the upper water layers within the déep-water coastal region, spar- 
ingly occurring in the upper strata farther from the coast, and 
then mostly large and medium-sized individuals. He points out, 
that it was never captured by any haul fishing in the mesoplankton 
only (2: deeper than 200 m); it is unproved, therefore, that it is 
able to penetrate into the inesoplankton of the arctic waters, though 
it is not quite improbable that it does so occasionally. It is an 
interesting fact, therefore, that the "Tjalfe" has captured four large 
specimens in the Davis Strait (stat. 336) by a haul made with the 
ringtrawl with 1200 m wire, i. e. about 800 m below the surface 
of the sea (the depth of the bottom was 1040—1100 m). At this 
occasion the net was provided with a closing apparatus; it seems 
excluded, consequently, that the animals might have been captured 
during the hauling up of the net through the upper water layers. 
It is also excluded that they might have remained in the trawl 
from previous hauls. Consequently the catching of the four spec- 
imens proves, that S. elegans may be found, occasionally, in deep 
water far from land. 
With this exception all the specimens of $. elegans found by 
the "Tjalfe" (in any case as far as the material has been pre- 
served) have been taken in localitiss near the coast, viz. Umanak 
Fjord, west coast of Disco, Disco Bay, and three of the inlets of 
the southern part of the west coast. It is possible that the few 
non-preserved chaetognaths noted from Lille Hellefiskebanke (stat. 
79a, 81a, and 424) have belonged to this species. But as the 
specimens are few in number, and as no chaetognaths at all were 
taken by the numerous other pelagic hauls over the banks, we 
may state, that S. elegans very seldom occurs within the areas of 
the coastal banks of West Greenland. — The numerous pelagic 
hauls made in the fjords and gulfs seem to show, that S. elegans 
is, normally, only found in such inlets to which the water of the 
deeper parts of the open sea (Davis Strait or Baffin Bay) has un- 
hindered admittance. In such waters the species is, as a rule, very 
abundant. 
Ås to the depths from which the material has been brought 
