Aleyonarian and Madreporarian Corals in the Museum of Bergen. 37 
”Miechael Sars”. 
eo EST NR Ea. 300) Me (9 FS) 0160. 
The locality is off the Norvegian coast and N.E. of Shetland, nearer 
to the latter than to Norway. 
This species has been found at Lofoten (Skraaven) by 
Sars, on the opposite side of the Vestfjord (Sagfjord, Økssund) 
by Nordgaard, and off the Norwegian coast by the “Voringen” 
(Norw. North Sea-Exp. 1876, St. 10, 61° 41’ N, 3" 19' E) and 
the “Michael Sars” (see above), in depths forms 200—600 M. 
(109—326 Fathoms) in most cases in a more or les fragmentary 
condition and together with Flabellum Mac Andrew; (to the 
latter all the specimens in the Bergens Museum had wrongly 
been referred). By the Danish *Ingolf”-Expedition it has been 
found on many localities S and SW of Iceland and in Danmark- 
Strait, in depths from 450—1135 Fathoms (but not in the Davis- 
Strait). Thus it seems widely distributed in the warm area 
of the northernmost part of the North Atlantic; but its distri- 
bution is still far more extended, in fact the widest hitherto 
known for any species of Madreporarian Coral. It seems not 
to have been found in the Mediterranean nor in the Red Sea (?); 
but otherwise it is recorded from the greater part of the 
Atlantic South as well as North of the Equator, from the Indian 
Ocean, and from many localities of the Pacific. Its bathymetrical 
range is exceedingly large: from 30 Fathoms (Bermudas) to 
2900 Fathoms (E of Japan), and the bottom temperatures vary 
correspondingly from 1" C. to more than 20". 
Fam. Oculinidæ M. Edw. et Haime. 
Lophohelia prolifera (Pallas). 
Madrepora prolifera Pallas: Elench. Zoophytorum. 1766, p. 307, 
= —— Linné: Systema nature. Ed. XII, 1767, p. 1281. 
pertusa L. (Ed. X, No. 36) Gunnerus: Om nogle Norske Coraller. 
Kong. Norske Vid. Selsk. Skrifter. Vol. IV, 1768, 
De aos No 1, PL TK, Fig 12. 
— prolifera Ellis & Solander: Zooph. 1786 p. MERE XOXO: 
Fig. 2—5. 
NE pertusa 0. F. Miller: Zoologia Danica. Ed. 1788, Vol. I, p. 31 
(sub Nereis pennata: ,,in argillosis et in Madrepora 
pertusa sinus Christianiensis juxta Stor-Skiæren”). 
