22 Hector F. E. Jungersen. 
One of the specimens of Paragorgia presented to us is some 
three feet high, and some of Primnoa are nearly as tall“; and 
in V.'s Check-List of 1879 we find on p. 15 the name Para- 
gorgia arborea. The only other statements regarding its occu- 
rence at N. America which | have been able to detect are 
contained in the “List of collections made by the fishing ves- 
sels of Gloucester etc.“ communicated in the Report Comm. 
Fish and Fisheries 1879 (1882), where some 26 cases are 
enumerated of P. arborea having been taken by fishing vessels, 
in depths from 70 to ca. 400 fathoms, on the banks, and in 
the gullies between the banks, south of New Foundland, off the 
coasts of Nova Scotia, Maine etc. to off Cape Cod (between 
44° 24' and 42° 10' Lat. N., and between ca. 65° and 46° Long. W). 
If the statements found in the literature prove to be cor- 
rect, Parag. arb. further; inhabits part of the North Pacific. 
Nutting (1912, 1. c. p. 99) describes a Parag. nodosa Kor. & 
Dan. from 54° 30’ Lat. N, 179° 14' E, 344—372 Fathoms, and 
Kinoshita (1913, I. c. p. 32) mentions among forms of Para- 
gorgia from Sagami Bay one which he refers to P. arborea 
L., and another which he identifies with P. nodosa K. & D. 
Hickson described (1. c. p. 348) a P. arborea from Kodiak Island, 
Guli of Alaska, in every respect agreiing with Norwegian 
specimens. Finally Nutting in 1908 (1. c. p. 569) “records a 
P. nodosa Kor. & Dan.”, from Hawaii, off the Island of Kanai, 
423—438 Fathoms, which is said to agree “with the original 
description (by Koren and Danielssen) in every essential parti- 
cular, except in colour, which is bright coral-red with a white 
axis’. 
Besides other species of Paragorgia from Japanese waters 
have been named or described: P. regalis Nutting (1912, 
p- 100, PL. 15: fig: 1, Pl. 21, fig. 7) (off. Omai Saki rely io 
505 Fathoms) and P. granulosa, P. tenuis Kinoshita (nomina 
provisoria et nuda) (Sagami Bay, 1. c. p. 33). And also from 
the Indian Ocean a P. splendens is recorded by Thomson and 
Henderson (Alcyon. coll. “Investigator”. A Alc. of the Deep 
Sea. 1906, p. 20, Pl. I, fig. 5, PI. V, fig. 9, 14). and redesenbed 
and figured by Nutting (Siboga Expeditie, Monogr. XIII b’, 
T1911, py 16, PLATE ie 4): 
