| 68 Alf Wollebæk. [No. 12 
as the Byfjord outside Bergen (about 400 m.) up to a score of 
specimens have been sometimes taken in one haul. And eurator 
NORDGAARD has also brought back åa number of specimens from 
several fiords in northern Norway (Selbjørnfjord, Tysfjord, Malangen). 
It seems as if this species were chiefly found rather deeper 
down than P. borealis. While it is found generally in quantities 
at åa depth of 300—400 m. in the western fiords (NorpGAARD has 
even found it in Tysfjord at a depth of about 900 m.), I have 
never found it in the fiords of the eastern part of Norway, which 
are nearly always shallower. 
Size: P. propimquus is generally met with in sizes of 70— 
90 mm. The smallest berried specimens have a total length of 
60 mm. (measured from the margin of the telson to the tip of the 
rostrum). From the Radøfjord we have aå single example 150 mm. 
long, which shows that P. propmquus can attain the same size as 
borealis. : Still in general they are not so large. In the case of Pan- 
dalus borealis I have never found å berried specimen under 100 mm. 
Breeding-Season: The said large specimen 150 mm. long 
from Radøfjord was taken in the middle of October. It had its 
ovaries filled to almost the same extent as specimens of Pandalus 
borealis captured at the same place and date. From fiords in northern 
Norway we have ovigerous specimens taken in the period from March 
to the middle of April. The ova in these were as å rule highly 
developed. Of the large number of specimens taken in the 
western fiords in late spring and throughout the summer none 
were ovigerous. 
I therefore conelude that its breeding-season is much the same 
as that of P. borealis. In the northern parts of the country ovi- 
gerous specimens have been taken in the first part of April. In the 
southern fiords of Norway the larvae would by that time be already 
hatehed. 
| 
Reproductive organs: (Pl. XII, fig. 3). The largest coil 
in vas deferens (in å specimen from the summer, fig. 3 a, b,e, Å) 
has å nodiform appearance and is much more complicated than the 
same member in P. borealis and anmulicornis, but is not composed 
of so many windings as that of P. leptoceros var. Bonmiert. 
