Aleyonarian and Madreporarian Corals in the Museum of Bergen. 43 
off the coast of Spain and Portugal (off C. Finisterre, 360 
510 M., *IHirondelle” 1886; off Cezimbra, 400—600 Fthms. 
*Norna” 1878; off Lagos, 292 F., off Cadiz, 394 Fthm., *Por- 
cupine” 1870), and off Marocco, 128—651 Fthms. (“Porcupine”’ 
1870). It enters the Mediterranean, where it has been found 
in Golfe du Lion, 600—700 M. (Lacaze Duthiers), between 
Sicily and Maltese Islands, 224—266 Fthms. (*Porcupine” 1870), 
and in the Adria (Sebenico and SE of Pelagosa-Island, 485 M, 
*Pola”, teste Maranzeller). It has further been taken round 
the Azores, 927—1557 M. (*IHirondelle” 1887—88), at the C. 
Verde-Islands, 1694 M. (*Valdivia” 1898), and past the Equator 
in the South Atlantic at the Tristan da Cunha group (In- 
accessible Island and Nightingale Island) 90—150 Fthms., 
(*Challenger” 1873), the southernmost locality in the Atlantic 
hitherto recorded. 
On the American side of the Atlantic it has not yet been 
found in any of the waters of Western Greenland, but further 
south it occurs off Nova Scotia, 100—300 Fthms., and dead 
specimens have been taken here in 1060 Fthms. (*Albatross” 
1884); it is further recorded from off S. Carolina, 229 Fthms. 
(“Blake” 1880), off Florida, 195—315 Fthms. (*Corwin”, “Bibb” 
1867—69), among the Antilles, 350—450 Fthms. (*Challenger” 
1873), 291—874 Fthms. (*Blake” 1878—79), and—as the southern- 
most locality on the American side-—-near the Equator, at St. 
Paul's Rocks, 100 Fthms. (*Challenger” 1873). 
In the Indian Ocean it has been found east of St. Paul’s 
Island, 672 M. and off New Amsterdam, 496 M. (*Valdivia” 
1899).") 
The bathymetrical range is difficult to settle, as in several 
cases the specimens brought up from greater deep were dead, 
although of quite fresh appearance. At any rate really living 
specimens have been taken in depths from ca. 55 Fthms. to at 
least 422 Fthms. (100—800 M.)'). The bottom-temperature in 
1) Marenzeller, 1. c. p. 307, says that the occurrence in the Indian 
Ocean is new; neverteless Duncan, 1. c. p. 337, gives the distribution of 
L. prolifera as: Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Florida and Indian Seas; 
and Roule, 1. c. p. 316, says: ,on I a trouvée dans les Océans Atlantique 
Pacifique et Indien“; but neither of these authors do state their source. 
How far the species of Å. recorded from the Pacific (f. inst. L. tenuis Mose- 
ley, Philippines) are really different from L. prolifera, | am unable to decide 
