•''''■' I'HYCOCI-IHOMAC.K/V. — TUICIIODKSMII :.M 



Si'j>icn,hi'r: CajX' Verde Islands; Madeira; -liV N. HU' W. to 

 n N. f)!} W.; 20 N. 7;!' W. lo ;!S' N. 71" W. and thence 

 to \-l' N. r)7 W. 



(hinh,;-: 16" N. 70 W. to .".4 N. 74 W.; r)7'— f)'.) N. 27 — 

 21 \V,, rare. 



Xori'iiilicr: '.I S. ;>i- W. to the Canaries; Azores to 1.) N. 



:^>< W. 



Dfiviiiber: 2(1 S. 4r) \V. to 1i S. ."ig- VV.; Canaries; 'Ih' N. 

 r)2 W. to tU N. oS W.; Caribbean Son. 

 18U1) .Inf/narij: Hll — :!4- N. liV— 12' W. 

 Fcbniarii: ;-52 N. 47- W. 

 J/r//TA:'lS — 2V N. If)-— 1() W. 

 April: 2S — ;52- N. 75^ \V 



.//,„,•: fr— 7" N. 21—2;") W.; IT) N. ;")() \V to 21' N. 1-2' W. 

 Jnh]: 2H -2S- N, .% — 10- W. 



Temperature: 21.5, mean of IjVI obs., max. 2K.4, min. in. 



Salinity: ;-!r).4e, mean of 120 ulis., max. HS.54, min. ;!l>.2(i. 



Plankton-type. Occurs in the Mediterranean (Schroder). The 

 area of distribution is the whole tropical and subtropical Atlantic, 

 on the Northern hemisphere to the left of a line drawn from the 

 Canaries to Newfoundland. It occurs the whole year in the warm 

 current north of S. America and in the Sargasso Sea, appears, 

 although sparingly, in May north of lO" N., but reaches in August 

 a maximum between 40- — 15 \., where it remains sparingly in 

 October. In the last named month some rare specimens had drifted 

 nearly to Bo N. — 1). 



