Videnskabelige Meddelelser
den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn
engene»
Bind 63.
Udgivne af Selskabets Bestyrelse.
Med 5 Tavler, 1 Kort og 59 Figurer i Texten.
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Syvende Åartis tredje Aargang. 70173
1912
Kjøbenhavn.
Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri.
1912,
Indhold.
Oversigt over de videnskabelige Møder i den naturhistoriske Forening
NA ER RR IS IS DRE BORRE EDER SEES FAE ERE RSD El
De i Sommeren 1911 af Foreningen foretagne Excursioner ........
Meddelelse om den Schibbyeske Præmie ..…...........:...........
J.C. Nielsen: Undersøgelser over entoparasitiske Muscidelarver hos
AÅrthropoder. (Med 9 Figurer i yen (Hertil Tavle I).
Th. Mortensen: Echinological Not ll. The central een
plate of the Echinoidea. IV. be midi hybrids of Echinoderms
(Med 1 Riber 1 Toxben).. sl li DEN DDS gaa EN
B. Sæmundsson: Bidrag til Kundskaben om de islandske Hydroider.
Ra ar se EK er Dige SEER BR NERE AE ERR
J.P. Kryger : Om Forekomsten af en Fugleedderkop, Atypus piceus
(Suls) EF Koh I Dark RE REDEN
H. Winge: Fuglene ved de danske Fyr i 1910. 28de Aarsberet-
ning om danske Fugle: (Med 1 ROD)
J.C. Nielsen: Mydæa anomala Jaenn., a parasite of South-American
birds. (Med 14F manen: lis in RES re REED ERR GER are
Th. Mortensen: Astroclon sone n. sp. Å new East Åsiatic
Borvalid. PRO NG SEDAN GEN
Hjalmar Ditlevsen: Danish me Nematodes. (Hertil Tavle
NE ERE re REE EET RE EH RSS RDS
Th. Mortensen: Astrochalcis micropus n. sp. Å new Euryalid from
the Phiippines, Prelimimnary Notice; 0. LL se ER NSG
R. Hartmeyer (Berlin): Ascidien aus dem Skagerrak, dem Trond-
hjemsfjord und von den Får Øer. (Med 3 Figurer i Texten)..
Forklaring af Tavlerne.
Tavle I. Svælgskeletter af Fluelarver. (Se Tavleforklaringen S. 26).
Tavle II—V. Anatomiske Figurer af Nematoder. (Se Tavleforklaringen
S. 255—256),
Den 28.
Den 11.
Oversigt
over
de videnskabelige Møder
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den naturhistoriske Forening
i Vinterhalvaaret 1910—11.
SÅ ken 1910. Professor H. F. E. Jungersen gav mr aeper;
m Slægten Solenostomus (Ichthyotomiske Bidrag III). (Se
tid etflgek »Ichthyotomical contributions. II. The veg ag
the Aulostomidæ, Syngnathidæ and Solenostomidæ. Vid.Selsk. Skr.
7. Ser, 8. 1910). Cand. mag. .K. Stephensen foreviste to snyltende
Krebsdyr af Familien Dajidæ paa Sergestes og Acanthephvra
fra Davisstrædet (,Tjalfe").
Paa Forslag af Professor Jungersen vedtoges det at gøre
hvert tredje af Foreningens videnskabelige Møder til ,Referat-
møde". Endvidere vedtoges paa Forslag af Dr. Mortensen at
ændre Betegnelsen for Foreningens Tidsskrift saaledes at der i
Stedet - den hidtil brugte Betegnelse »for Aaret...” sættes
Brad.
November. Dr. W. Sørensen holdt Foredrag om Bygningen
n hos vore Geraniaceer og deres Forhold under Mod-
ningen (se Afhandlingen ,Sur la structure du fruit de nos Gé-
raniacées". Overs. Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1911). Docent Raunkiær
bemærkede, at selv om Geraniacé-Frugtens Morphologi var urigtig
fremstillet i Literaturen, havde det sande Forhold dog været
kendt i over 20 Aar, idet han allerede i sin ,Excursions-Flora"
(1890) paa Basis af egne Undersøgelser havde formet Gerania-
céernes Familie-Diagnose i Overensstemmelse med det virkelige
Forhold. Dr. Kolderup-Rosenvinge spurgte, om Foredragsholde-
ren kendte Steinbrinck's Arbejder, som særlig gaar ud paa at
studere de Spændingsforhold, som betinger Opspringningen. Fore-
dragsholderen kendte godt disse Arbejder, men mente, at Stein-
brinck slet ikke havde set, at her var et Problem, Pater Breitung
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gav, paa Grundlag af tidligere Iagttagelser, Oplysning om
Griffelhalernes interessante Tilhæftning, som stærkt spændte
Fjedre, og om den forbausende Kraft, med hvilken de udslynger
Den 25. November. Referatmøde. Dr. Wesenberg-Lund foreviste
g af danske Vandtæger med Oplysning om deres Forekomst
Prosektor Brinkmann foreviste: 1) en Skærm til Mikroskoper til
Beskyttelse mod Fugtighed fra Aandedrættet; 2) en Methode til
Mærkning af Celloidinsnit (med reven Tusch); 3) Blodpræparater
(af Tragulus, Kamel og Proteus); gav Referat af Reuter's Arbejde
over en ny Kærnedelingsmodus, ,Merokinesis". Dr. Mortensen
foreviste nogle tørrede Asterider, conserverede saaledes, at Farven
var bevaret. Mag. Hj. Ditlevsen foreviste Syngamus trachealis,
fra et Fasaneri (Wilhelmsborg) og gav Oplysninger om denne
Iktes Biologi og den Sygdom, den foraarsager hos Fugle.
Den 9. December. Dr. Wesenberg-Lund meddelte Bidrag til Phryga-
neernes Biologi (se Afhandl. ,Uber die Biologie der Phryganea
grandis und uber die Mechanik ihres Gehåusebaues". Internat.
Rev. f. Hydrobiol. u. Hydrograph. IV. 1911). Stud. mag. P. Kram
gav Meddelelse om Laagets Bygning hos nogle Hydroider. (Se
Afhandl. ,Report on the Hydroids collected by the Danmark Ex-
pedition at North East Greenland", Medd. om Grønland, 45, 1911).
Den 20. Januar. Dr. 4. Bøving gav Meddelelse om anatomiske For-
old af Betydning for Proérustes-Larvens Aandedræt. Docent
Krogh fremhævede, at den vistnok lokale Sammenpresning af
Trachésystemet, som Foredrågsholderen havde oplyst at finde
Sted, maatte være af stor Betydning for den fuldstændige For-
nyelse af Luften i de finere Trachégrene.. Ved Kontraktion af
Respirationsmuskulaturen samtidig med Tillukning af Lukke-
apparaterne kunde Udtømning af Kirtelsekreter og 'Tarmindhold
bevirkes. Det var sandsynligt, at Trykkets Størrelse kunde naa
op over 2 Atmosfærer (ifølge Iagttagelser paa Corethra-Larven).
Prof. Jungersen spurgte, om Chitinskelettets Elasticitet alene
virkede som Antagonist mod den muskuløse Sammentrækning af
Bagkroppen. Foredragsholderen bekræftede dette. Dr. Wesen-
berg-Lund henledte Opmærksomheden paa Dytisc-Larverne, hvor
le Bugen er blød, og fremhævede, at disse i længere Tid (Vin-
teren) vistnok slet ikke respirerer ved Hjælp af Aandedræts-
bevægelser. (Jf, Afhandl. ,Uber die Respirationsverhiltnisse bei
unter dem Eise tiberwinternden Wasserinsekten, besonders der
Wasserkåfer und Wasserwanzen", Intern. Rev. f. Hydrobiol. u.
Hydrogr. III. 1910).
Den 3. Februar. Referatmøde. Dr. Wesenberg-Lund. foreviste forskel-
lige Dytisc-Æg. Assistent Sell foreviste Molluskskaller fra Tangan-
Jika-Søen, i hvilken Anledning Dr. Wesenberg-Lund gav en Frem-
Den 24.
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stilling af de nyere Teorier (Moore) om Tanganjika-Fauna'ens
Oprindelse. Dr. J. C. Nielsen foreviste nogle Muscide-Larver
snyltende i Fugle (se Afhandlingen ,Mydæa anomala Jaenn., a
parasite of South-American birds" i dette Bind). Dr. Mortensen
foreviste nogle naturlige Bastarder af Echinider (sé ,Echinologi-
cal Notes" IV i dette Bind). Lærer J. P. Kryger foreviste en
Fugleedderkop fra Hareskoven (se Afhandlingen S. 109 i dette
e
rørformede Spind. I dettes tragtformede, ydre Del laa forskel-
lige indfangede store Insekter, saasom run mEn eg og Mark-
græshopper, som udgør denne Edderkops B
Februar. Dr. Th. Mortensen holdt rang om Toffoltet hos
Echiniderne. (Se Afhandlingen ,Echinological Notes" III i dette
Bind).
Marts. Dr, V. Nordmann gav Meddelelse om Boringen ved
Skærumhede; det malakologiske Udbytte. (Danmarks Geol. Unders.
2. Række 25.).
Den 31. Marts. Referatmøde. Dr. 4. C. Johansen fremsatte ,Nogle
emærkninger om Muslingerne paa Vaderne ved
Graadyb i
skraaner nogenlunde stejlt nedad, og hvor Sandet derfor tørres
hurtig ved Ebbetid, træffes der i Reglen ingen Mollusker i det
Niveau, der ligger mellem dagligt Højvande og 2 å 3 ge under
dette. — Hvor Stranden skraaner meget langsomt nedad, ud-
tørres Bunden mindre ved Ebbetid, og baade paa irernil hol
Slikvaderne er der paa saadanne Steder adskillige Mollusk-
arter, der gaar tæt ind til Kystlinien, Arter som Littorina lit-
torea, Littorina rudis, Paludestrina stagnalis, Paludestrina ven-
trosa, Mytilus edulis og Cardium edule.
Muslinger, der lettest iagttages ovre paa Vaderne ved
Graadyb og Fanø, er den almindelige Blaamusling (My-
tilus edulis L.) og den almindelige Hjertemusling
(Cardium edule L.). Blaamuslingen hviler paa Havbunden
uden at grave sig ned i denne. Den kan her indtage meget
forskellige Stillinger, men hyppigst er det dens afrundede bageste
Del, der rager længst i Vejret. Den fæster sig ved sin Byssus
til Stene, Molluskskaller og andre faste Genstande, og Indivi-
derne viser en Tilbøjelighed til at klumpe sig sammen. Dens
Udbredelse er meget ujævn. Der findes store Strækninger paa
Sandvaderne, hvor den ikke forekommer, og der findes andre
Strækninger, hvor den er saa almindelig, at den danner hele
sammenhængende Kager. Dette er fortrinsvis Tilfældet, hvor
der findes noget Grus imellem Sandet. Dens Hyppighed er
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gennemgaaende størst i det Niveau, der ligger omkring dagligt
avvande og indtil et Par Fød under dette. — Den alminde-
lige Hjertemusling hviler undertiden umiddelbart paa Hav-
bunden uden at grave sig ned i denne. Man finder den f. Ex.
ikke sjelden i' Mytilushobene. Men i Reglen graver den sig et
lille- Stykke ned i Havbunden, ca. 1—3 Centimeter, hvad der
svarer omtrent til Længden af dens Siphoner. Den har en mere
jævn Udbredelse end Mytilus edulis, men der er .dog Omraader,
hvor den slet ikke træffes. Paa Slikvaderne kan man finde de
ganske unge Individer siddende paa Zosterabladene ligesom de
unge Individer; af Mytilus. — Macoma baltica L. er vistnok
lige saa hyppig påa Vaderne som den almindelige Hjertemusling,
og. ligesom denne træffes den dels hvilende paa Havbunden, dels
nedgravet i Sandet eller Slikken. Langt de fleste Individer findes
nedgravede, og de sidder her i ca. 2—10 cm Dybde. Paa Sand-
vaderne mellem Esbjerg og Maade Teglværk havde Foredrags-
holderen påd en halv Kvadratmeter fundet 36 nedgravede Indi-
ofte paa Havbunden under Zosteradækket. Voxne Individer af
Macoma baltica gaar ikke. slet saa nær op til Niveauet for dag-
ligt Højvande som-voxne Individer af de to foregaaende Arter.
Højere oppe end ca.1 Fod under dagligt Højvande var den ikke
truffet.— Den almindelige Sandmusling (Mya arenaria
L.) er ligeledes almindelig paa Vaderne- ved Gråadyb og Fanø,
men den gaar ikke saa højt op imod Kystlinien som de fore-
gaaende Arter. Først i et Nivvau,. der ligger 2 å 3 Fod under
Niveauet for dagligt Højvande, finder man dens Spor, og den
bliver e og mere almindelig fra dette Niveau ud imod
Lavvandsniveauet. Dens Hyppighed er imidlertid meget ujævn,
påa visse. Steder havde F. søgt den forgæves. Ganske unge In-
divider var truffet paa Slikvaderne, liggende paa Siden; men
voxne og halvvoxne Individer sidder dybt nedgravede i Sand- og
Slikvaderne, de store Individer indtil ca. 20cm nede i Hav-
bunden. Paa Sandvaderne ved Fanøs Nordøstspids var fundet
indtil 5 Individer paa '> Kvadratmeter. — Secrobicularia
plana D. C. er almindelig i den ydre Del af Vaderne fra ca. 3
Fod lgd modihyevelennn til Lavvandsniveauet., Man maa
grave i Sandet for at kunne paavise den. Den efterlader ikke
noget tydeligt E Acitekiebtlot mink i Sandet, naar den trækker
sine Siphoner ned, saaledes som Sandmuslingen gør det. Paa
Sandvaderne ved Nordøstpynten af Fanø tæt ved lsavvandsmærket;
var fundet 9 Individer paa Y2 Kvadratmeter, dybt nedgravede i
Sandet. Ligesom de fire foregaaende: Arter forekommer den
baade paa Sandvaderne og paa Slikvaderne.
De fem her nævnte Arter af ;Muslinger er de: for Vaderne
ved Graadyb karakteristiske Arter. Andre Muslinge-Arter havde
F. hidtil ikke truffet der ovenfor Niveauet for dagligt: Lavvande…
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te
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Under stærke Regnskyl 'oversvømmes Vaderne-af Regnvandet,
og de langsomt skraanende' Flåder kan da i Timevis' overskylles
af Vand, der er helt fersk eller næsten. fersk. De Mollusker, der
lever paa Vaderne udviser dér en vis Haardførhed overfor Paa-
virkning af lidet saltholdigt Vand, en Haardførhed, som disse
Arter maaske ikke oprindelig har været i Besiddelse af. Det er
da ogsaa karakteristisk at lægge Mærke til, at. de. fire af de fem
anførte Arter, Mytilus edulis, Cardium edule, Macoma baltica og
Mya arenaria er de af alle danske Saltvandsmuslinger, der kan
tage Ophold i det ferskeste Vand. Alle disse Arter af Salt-
vandsmuslinger — og ingen andre Arter — gaar helt ind gen-
nem Østersøen op i. den Bottniske. Bugt, hvor de lever i Vand
af en Saltholdighed fra ca. 3 til 6 Promille"). Ogsaa den te af
Arterne, Scrobicularia plana, kan leve i Vand af' ringe Salt-
holdighed, Den gaar i vore Farvande ind i den vestlige Øster-
søs østlige Del. Dens Fremtrængen mod Øst standser her ved
en Saltholdighed af ca.:10 Promille. "Imidlertid er det ret sand-
synligt, at denne udpræget sydlige Arts Fremtrængen mod Øst
i Østersøen ikke standses paa Grund af.en for ringe Saltholdig-
hed af Vandet, men paa Grund af en for lav. Temperatur i en
vis Tid af Aaret.
Tæt under Niveauet. for dagligt Lavvande kommer der ved
Graadyb en Række åndre Muslingearter til, saaledes bl. a. Ostrea
edulis (i de indenfjords Farvande), Mactra subtruncata
Mtg. samt. de tre borende Former Zirphæa erispata L.,
Pholas candida L. og Petricøla pholadiformis Lam.
En af disse Arter: Petricola pholadiformis er ny for den danske
Fauna og aabenbart nylig indvandret til vore Kyster:. Foredrags-
holderen fandt den. første Skal af denne Art paa Skallingens
Østside d. 10de Maj 1905 i en nylig opskyllet. Skaldynge. Se-
nere ;er--den bleven ret almindelig i: Graadyb, og:i' Sommeren
1910 fandt han 'dens opskyllede Skaller paa Skallingens Øst-,
Syd- og Vestside, saavelsom paa Fanø. Det lykkedes ham i
Fjor at tage den levende. Ved Fiskeforsøg, der udførtes med en
finmasket Skovltrawl. udfor Benknoldene paa Vestsiden af Skal-
lingen i Juli 1910 paa ca. 1'/» Meters Dybde, toges der en Del
fedt; Ler op i Travlen, i hvilket der fandtes..talrige Boremuslin-
ger, Det…viste sig, at disse nye tilhørte de to, Arter: Pe-
tricola pholadiformis og Zirphæa i
Petricola pholadiformis er en sida nen Art, der først
iden vyere Tid synes at være overført til Europa. Den op-
dagedes først i 1890 i England ved. Burnham-on-Crouch ved
Thames-Bugten?). Senere. har man , kunnet. spore dens Frem-
c. Nordgvist: Bidrag till kånnedomen om Bottniska vikens och norre Ostersjåns
mye renee: Meddel. af Soc. pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 17. 1890.
Kennard: On the Bute bbatieng of Petricola RAP SS ASER" kam Fre
i Soc. London, Vol. VIII S, 8. tå
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bå
trængen videre ind i Nordsøen. Den er angivet fra Belgien af
Dupuis & Putzeys, og i 1906 er den fundet af E. Wolf ved de
Øst-Friesiske Øer og af C. Boettger ved de Nord-Friesiske Øer,
bl. a. ved Sylt"). Det er derfor heller ikke saa overraskende, at
den nu er trængt frem ogsaa til de danske Kyster
r. Mortensen mente ikke, der var noget Bevis for, at de
fatkali, hvorunder de nævnte Arter lever paa Vaderne, virkelig
var Grunden til, at de kunde taale Brakvand; det kunde lige saa
vel — eller snarere — være en medfødt Egenskab hos dem. Docent
Stamm spurgte, om der var foretaget direkte Maalinger af Vandets
Saltholdighed paa Vaderne. Foredragsholderen erklærede, at skønt
der ikke var foretaget direkte Maalinger, tvivlede han ikke om,
at syre dér kunde være saa godt som fersk under Regnskyl.
Mag. Bardenfleth spurgte, om det ikke kunde være muligt, at
indikere helt kunde lukke sig i den Tid, der kunde være
Ferskvand over dem (højst 6 Timer). Foredragsholderen turde
ikke benægte dette. Cand. P. Krarup mente, at det, at en
isoleret Koloni af disse Dyr blev tvungne til at udholde Fersk-
vand, ikke kunde have nogen Forbindelse med Artens Optræden
i Østersøen, da man saa maatte antage, at det skulde være Un-
ger af netop disse Individer, der vandrede Skagen rundt derind.
Paa en Forespørgsel af Cand. Fr. Johansen meddelte Foredrags-
holderen, at hvor Vandets Saltholdighed er hyppige og stærke
Vexlinger underkastet, bliver Molluskfaunaen fattig. I Nyminde-
strømmen, f. Ex., hvor Vandets Saltholdighed førend Dannelsen
af det nye Udløb ved Hvide Sande varierede fra ca. 4/0 til ca.
33 9160, fandtes kun ganske enkelte Molluskarter. De fleste Salt-
vandsarter, der som Larver førtes ind i Strømmen ude fra Havet,
dræbtes af det udstrømmende svagt saltholdige Vand, medens
Ferskvandsarternes Udbredelse hindredes af det indstrømmende
Vand af høj Saltholdighed. I Nymindestrømmen fandtes den-
gang kun 7 Molluskarter: Mytilus edulis, Cardium edule, Macoma
baltica, Scrobicularia plana, Mya arenaria, Paludestrina stagna-
lis og Paludestrina ventrosa, altsaa de samme Muslinger og et
ar af de samme Sneglearter, som er karakteristiske for Vaderne
er: Graadyb og Fanø. — Dr. V. Nordmann spurgte, om Fore-
dragsholderen havde fundet Donax vittatus levende i Graa-
dyb. F. meddelte, at han ikke havde fundet den levende dér,
men derimod længere mod Nord ved Jyllands Vestkyst.
Inspektor W. Lundbeck foreviste nogle Insektgnav (af Træ-
bukke) i Bly (Hylotrupes bajulus L.). Dr. J.C. Nielsen foreviste
Larver af Daadyrets Svælgbræmse (Cephenomyia), ny for dansk
Fauna. Insp. Lundbeck gjorde opmærksom paa, i Anledning af
Foredragsholderens Ytring, at ,Bræmser" ikke længere repræsen-
Bøoetiger: Petricola rok gb! Lam. im deutschen Wattenmeer. 2001.
Bd. 1907.
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terede nogen systematisk Enhed, at disse Dyr dog staar hin-
anden.nær. Pater Breitung foreviste Larver af. Rensdyrets og
Kamelens Næse-Bræmser. — Professor V. A. Poulsen foreviste
et nyt Mikrometer. Docent Stamm Antennularia, ny for dansk
Fauna. Dr. Th. Mortensen refererede nogle nyere Forsøg med
kunstig Befrugtning af Echinoderm-Æg, ,en til Ceylon indført
Snegl" (Achatina), samt foreviste nogle Expl. af et Søpindsvin
(Colobocentrotus) fra Java.
Den 28. April. Cand. Fr. Johansen holdt Foredrag. om Ferskvands-
Dyreliv i Nordøst-Grønland. (Se Afhandl ,Freshwater-life in
North East Greenland". Medd. om Grønland, Bd. 45, 1911).
Dr. Mortensen bemærkede, at det var underligt, om Apus gla-
cilis virkelig skulde afsætte sine Æg paa Mos, da den dog nor-
malt gaar med dem i Rugepose; Foredragsholderen erkendte, at
han ikke havde klækket disse Æg, men mente dog ikke, at der
kunde være Tvivl om, at det virkelig var Apus-Æg.
Den 17. Januar foreviste Journalist J. Ervø i Studenterforeningens
Festsal for Naturhistorisk Forening, Dansk Botanisk Forening,
Dansk Geologisk Forening og Dansk Ornithologisk Forening
(Medlemmer med Damer) en ny Række af Schilling's Lysbilleder
af Natur og Dyreliv i Afrika.
Den 11. April holdt Cand. mag. Ad. $. Jensen Foredrag (for Medlem-
er med Gæster, i Studenterforeningens Bygning): ,Med , Tjalfe"
fra Umanak til Cap Farvel". ;
Beretning om de i Sommeren 1911 af Naturhistorisk Forening
foretagne Excursioner.
Søndag den 14. Maj. Ornithologisk Excursion til. Lyngby Skov ved
Årresø, sammen med Dansk Ornithologisk Forening. Leder Hr.
S. Saætorph
Fra Ølsted Station spadseredes til Lyngby Skov, hvor man besøgte
en Hejrekoloni paa henved 50 Par; fra Rederne blev nogle Hejreunger
hentet ned og beset og derpaa atter anbragt i Rederne. Efter at man
havde spist Frokost i Skoven spadseredes rundt om denne og videre forbi
Arresø, i hvilken nogle Graagæs og Lappedykkere saas, til Kregome, hvor
Hr. Gaardejer Anders Hansen gæstfrit "havde indbudt Deltagerne til at
nyde en Forfriskning. Sluttelig vandrede man til nogle Udsigtspunkter
ved Roskilde Fjord, sene man fra Kregome Station kørte tilbage.
Følgende 47 Arter iagttoges
Anas.boscas, Anser cinereus, Perdix cinerea, Podicipes cristatus,
Vanellus cristatus, Gallinago scolopacina, Larus ridibundus, Larus
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canus, Sterna hirundo, Ardea cinerea, Ciconia alba, Falco tinnunculus,
Columba palumbus, Cuculus canorus, Beidrooiptir sp.,
Corvus monedula, Corvus cornix, Hirundo riparia, Hirundo rustica,
Sitta ewropæa, Alauda arvensis, Stwrnus vulgaris, Troglodytes parvulus,
Accentor modularis, Parus major, Parus coeruleus, Parus palustris,
Sylvia curruca, Sylvia hortensis, Acrocephalus phragmitis, Phyllo-
pseustes trochilus, Motacilla flava, Motacilla alba, Turdus merula, Pra-
ticola rubetra, Ruticilla phoenicura,. Erithacus rubecula, Passer dome-
sticus, Passer montanus, Fringilla coelebs, Carduelis elegans, Ligurinus
chloris, Cannabina linota, Emberiza schoeniclus, Emberiza citrinella,
Emberiza miliaria. id
Søndag den 28. Maj var Naturh. Forening af Direktør Heilbuth ind-
budt til, sammen med Ornithologisk Forening, at aflægge et
Besøg paa Øen Egholm i Storebælt.
Fra Korsør sejlede man i et lille Dampskib over til Egholm, og iagt-
tog under Vejs bl. a. et Træk af Cypselus apus. Ved Landgangen paa
Egholm blev Deltagerne budt velkommen af Dir. Heilbuth. Angaaende
elve Øen henvises til den i Bindet for 1909, p. VIII, givne Beskrivelse.
Man genfandt de mægtige Skarer af ynglende Storm- og Hættemaager,
som fandtes ved Foreningernes forrige Besøg paa Egholm, i uformindsket
Tal, og disse to Maagearter dominerede fuldstændig Øens Fugleliv. Af
den store Havmaage fandtes nogle faa Par. Under Opholdet paa Øen
iagttoges et Træk af Hvepsevaager. Efter at man havde spadseret rundt
paa Øen og nydt dens herlige Natur og rige Fugleliv, spiste man til Mid-
dag hos Hr. og Fru Heilbuth, som med storartet Gæstfrihed havde ind-
budt den store Forsamling hertil. — Følgende 42 Arter iagttoges:
Tadorna cornuta, Somateria mollissima, Mergus serrator, Phasianus
colchicus, Vanellus cristatus, Hæmatopus ostreologus, Larus ridibundus,
Larus canus, Larus argentatus, Pernis apivorus, Syrnium aluco?, Co-
lumba palumbus, Corvus monedula, Corvus cornix, Hirundo Fitida,
Hirundo urbica, Alauda arvensis, Sturnus vulgaris, Troglodytes par-
vulus, Accentor modularis, Parus major, Sylvia curruca, Sylvia cinerea,
Sylvia hortensis, Acrocephalus palustris, Phyllopseustes trochilus, Phyl-
lopseustes sibilatrix, Hypolais icterina, Luscinia philomela, Motacilla
coelebs, Ligurinus chloris, Cannabina linota, Emberiza citrinella, Em-
beriza miliaria
Reder sted Æg eller Unger fandes af følgende 8 Arter: Tadorna
cornuta, Phasianus colchicus, Larus ridibundus, Larus canus, Larus
argentatus, Sturnus vulgaris, Turdus merula, Turdus musicus.
Reder under Bygning fandtes af Luscinia philomela og Sylvia hor-
tensis.
Å,.C.
En Excursion til Gurresø, som var ansat til Søndag d. 1. Oktober,
maatte opgives paa Grund af daarligt Vejr, De faa Deltagere, der havde
XIII
trodset Vejret, blev af Dr. Wesenberg-Lund, som skulde have ledet Ex-
cursionen, indbudte til at bese den Ferskvands-biologiske Stations Labora-
torium og Samlinger.
Den Schibbyeske Præmie.
Præmien for Aaret 1911 tildeltes Mag. sc. Henning E. Petersen for
hans Arbejde: ,Danske Arter af Slægten Ceramium Lyngbye". (Vid. Selsk.
SEE 7. RK. Bd. V. 1908).
Undersøgelser over entoparasitiske Muscidelarver
hos Arthropoder.
Af
Dr. J. 0. Nielsen.
Carcelia gnava Meig").
Udvikling.
Æ gget. Æggeskallen (Textfig. 1 og 2) er aflang, c. 0,75—1 mm.
lang, tilspidset i begge Poler, meget tynd og gennemsigtig. Over-
fladen er afdelt i en stor Mængde Felter, der undertiden, særlig
omkring Æggets Midte, er regelmæssig sekskantede. Æggeskallens
ene Pol løber ud i en traadformet Forlængelse, hvis Spids ind-
sænkes i en gennemsigtig Klump af et Kirtelsekret, som Fluen af-
sondrer ved Æglægningen og anbringer paa det Sted, hvor Ægget
skal afsættes.
I de fleste Æg, man træffer afsatte paa Værtlarverne, er Em-
bryonet vidt fremme i sin Udvikling, men jeg har et Par Gange
fundet Værtlarver med Æg, hvori Embryonerne var ganske uud-
viklede, saa at der ikke var Spor til Segmentering, ligesom Svælg-
skelettet og Trachéerne heller ikke kunde iagttages. Det er der-
for sandsynligt, at Æglægningen foregaar paa et Tidspunkt, hvor
Udviklingen endnu er temmelig langt tilbage.
1) Denne og de følgende Arter er bestemte af H. Kramer i Nieder-
oderwitz og Dr.Villeneuve i Rambouillet. Den sidstnævnte har ydet
mig stor Hjælp ved Adskillelsen af Carcelia-Arterne, og efter en
Undersøgelse af alle af mig klækkede Carcelier har .han meddelt mig,
at den Flue, som jeg i en tidligere Afhandling (Iagttagelser over en-
toparasitiske Muscidelarver hos Arthropoder, Kbhvn. 1909 p. 56) har
opført som Carcelia gnava B. & B. ikke er denne Art,. men derimod
C. comata Rond.
Vidensk, Meddel. fra den naturh, Foren, 1911. Bd, 63. 1
2
Æg af den ovenfor beskrevne Form er tidligere omtalt af
Townsend!) og Pantel?”) som forekommende hos Carcelia che-
loniæ Rond. Ifølge Meddelelse fra Dr. J. Villeneuve, som har
haft Pantels Eksemplarer til Undersøgelse, er denne Forfatters
Art identisk med C. comata Rond., hvis Udvikling jeg, som før
omtalt, har beskrevet under Navnet C. gnava. Jeg kan tilføje, at
de Æg, jeg tidligere beskrev som C. gnava's, ikke tilhører denne
Art, men en ubestemt Art, der lagde Æg paa Værter, der alle-
Fig. 1. DE 2.
af Carcelia gnava; Fig. 1. Haa
Fig. 2. paa Huden af Larven til ea sl, Sr,
rede var inficerede med Carcelia comata's Larver. Det er senere
lykkedes mig at finde de tomme stilkede Æggeskaller af C. comata
påa de Værter, hvoraf jeg klækkede Snylteren.
Larven i lste Stadium. Længde c. 0.5—0.75 mm. 2—11.
Leds Forrande og 9—11. Leds Bagrande med Tornbælter, der paa
9—10. Leds Bagrande dog kun findes paa Larvens Underside. Midt
paa Ilte Led findes et bredt og uregelmæssigt Tornbælte. Tornene
1) Townsend: AÅ record of results from rearings and dissections of
Tachinidæ (U. S. depart. of agriculture. Technical series No. 12.
art VI. 1908 p. 97).
?) Pantel: Recherches sur les diptéres å larves entomobies I. (La cel-
lule XXVI 1910 p. 98).
er stillede uregelmæssig imellem hverandre og deres Størrelse er
stærkt varierende. Svælgskelettets Spids er comprimeret, temmelig
stump og fortil bøjet. Svælgskelettet er paa Midten udvidet og
her for neden indbugtet; Svælgpladerne omtrent lige lange, de
øvre bagtil afrundede, de nedre afstudsede (Pl. I Fig. 1) Bag-
spiraklernes Atrium er meget langstrakt, den yderste Trediedel op-
adbøjet, endende med 2 meget smaa Knopper.
2det Stadium. Længde 2—3 mm. Forranden af 2—10.
Led med regelmæssige Tornbælter, der aftager i Størrelse bagud
og paa 6—10. Led er indskrænkede til Undersiden; 4—11. Leds
Bagrande med Bælter, der påa 4—10. Led kun findes paa Under-
siden; 12. Led paa Midten med et Bælte. Mundkrogenes Rod er
for- og bagtil udtrukket i Tænder, af hvilke den forreste er fremad-
og den bageste bagudrettet. Spidsen er slank og kun svagt
krummet. Svælgskelettet er fortil smalt; omtrent ved Forbindelses-
stykket imellem Svælgskelettets 2 Halvdele findes paa de øvre
Svælgpladers Rand et stumpt Fremspring. De øvre Svælgplader
er brede og jævnt afrundede, de nedre lidt kortere og bagtil ind-
bugtede (Pl. I Fig. 2) Forspiraklernes Atrium er langstrakt, ten-
formet med 3 eller 4 korte Knopper, der. er stillede i en lige Linie.
Hos den samme Larve kan der i det ene Forspirakel findes 3, i
det andet 4 Knopper (Tekstfig. 3). Bagspiraklernes Atrium ender
med 2 dybt adskilte langstrakte Knopper.
3die Stadium. Længde 9—14 mm. 2—11. Leds Forrande,
8—10. Leds Bagrande og hele 1lte Leds Bagrand paa Undersiden
med Tornbælter, 12. Led paa Midten med et Bælte. Mundkrogenes
Rod bærer fortil en i Spidsen indbugtet Knude og bagtil en af-
rundet Tap. Paa Inderranden findes en lille Tand. Krogenes Spids
er bred og svagt krummet. De forreste Svælgplader er fortil
smalle, vider sig derefter ud og er bagtil mere end dobbelt saa
brede som fortil. De øvre Svælgplader naar fortil med en bred
Forlængelse frem til Midten af de forreste Svælgplader ; bagtil er
de jævnt afrundede og ubetydelig længere end de nedre (Pl. I Fig. 3)
Forspiraklernes Atrium er kort og plumpt, lidt længere end bredt,
1+
4
smallere fortil end bagtil og fortil kileformet tilspidset. Det ender
med 3 eller 4 smaa Knopper, Antallet kan ligesom i 2Zdet Stadium
variere i den samme Larves 2 Forspirakler (Tekstfig. 4) Bag-
spiraklernes Ramme er sort og udsender 2 Broer, hvoraf den ene
er bred og gaffeldelt, den anden smal
og udelt. Broerne er sorte ved Roden,
lysere udadtil. — Aandefelterne er
langstrakte og lige, det midterste
kortest (Textfig. 5.) Gataabningen er
skudt frem til 12te Leds Forrand,
den omgives af 2 smaa halvmaanefor-
mede, lyse, brunlige Kitinplader.
Tøndepuppen. Længde 5.5—
3 mm. Bredde 3—4 mm. Formen va-
rierende, Forenden i Reglen noget
bredere end Bagenden, og Undersiden
noget fladere end Rygsiden, Led-
grænserne tydelige, men ikke ind-
skaarne. Overfladen fint tværrynket
eller ridset. Hverken For- og Bag-
spiraklerne eller Gattet fremstaaende.
De ydre Puppespirakler findes. som
Fig. 5 ganske svage, runde Forhøjninger ved
Carcelia gnava. Fig. 3. Roden af 5te Led.
2” Stadiums Forspirakel ?%5/,,
Fig. 4. 3' Stadiums agt
spirakel 70901,; Fig.
3” Stadiums Klee, 451, Carcelia gnava Meig. er tidligere
klækket af forskellige Spinderarters
Biologi.
Larver (Malacosoma neustria L., Stilpnotia salicis L. og Orgyia
antiqua L.). Jeg har iagttaget den ved Tisvilde, hvor den snyltede
hos de 2 førstnævnte Arter, og har her haft Lejlighed til gennem
flere Aar -at følge dens Optræden og dens Indvirkning paa et
Larveangreb.
Paa et Pilehegn optraadte i Juli og August 1905 et meget
stort Antal Sommerfuglelarver, tilhørende mange forskellige Arter
(Cerura vinula L. Smerinthus populi L. S. ocellata L. Notodonta
zigzac L., Malacosoma neustria L. 0.m.a.), ligesom der fløj en
Del Imagines af Stilpnotia salicis omkring og lagde Æg paa Pilene.
Den sidstnævnte Arts Larver kommer ud af Æggene om Efteraaret,
overvintrer, æder Pilebladene i Maj—Juni og forpupper sig i Slut-
ningen af sidstnævnte Maaned. Sommerfuglen er meget almindelig
her i Landet, og findes i de fleste Pileplantninger. I 1905 op-
traadte: den ikke i paafaldende stort Antal paa Pilehegnet, men i
de følgende Aar formerede den sig såa stærkt, at dens Larve i
1907 ganske afløvede Pilene. Jeg fandt i Begyndelsen af Juli en
Del fuldt udviklede Spindere, der var i Færd med Æglægningen,
og Pupper, der ikke — som under normale Forhold — var op-
hængte enkeltvis i samménspundne Blade" eller mellem Kviste og
Blade, men som fandtes samlede i store Klumper i løse Spind
imellem Grene eller i Grenvinkler. Paa Pilene krøb desuden et
stort Antal fuldvoksne Larver og mange mindre, ikke en Gang
halvvoksne, uden at kunne finde Næring. Hist og her saas tillige
døde Larver paa Jorden. Aarsagen til Spinderens stærke For-
mering var- tydelig nok den, at Larverne næsten ikke var angrebne
af Snyltere. Jeg foretog Klækninger med et temmelig stort Antal
Larver og Pupper og klækkede ingen Snyltehvepse, men et
enkelt Eksemplar af Carcelia gnava. -I 1908, i hvilket Aar jeg
ikke selv saa Pilehegnet, var efter andres Sigende Angrebet taget
af, men der var dog endnu flere helt afløvede Partier. Næste
Aar, 1909, besøgte jeg atter Hegnet og fandt, at Larvernes Antal
var betydelig mindre end i 1907, og at Hegnet var grønt. Ved
Prøver, der udtoges paa forskellige Steder af Hegnet, viste det sig,
at lidt over 50/0 af Spinderlarverne var inficerede med Snylte-
fluens Larver, nemlig i den sydlige Del 59 9/0, i Midten 66 %/o og
ved den nordlige Ende 47 9/0.
I Juli 1910 var Angrebet ganske ophørt. Der fandtes paa
hele Hegnet kun et ganske forsvindende Antal Spinderlarver. Efter
det betydelige Procentantal af Larver, der var inficerede det forrige
Aar, var det rimeligt at vente en stærk Nedgang i 1910; men
denne forekom mig for stærk til, at den alene kunde skyldes
Snylterens Virksomhed i 1909. Jeg undersøgte derfor Pilene nøjere
og fandt her Sporene af Snylterens Optræden i 1910, idet der
omkring påa Stammerne og Grenene fandtes en Del tomme Larve-
hude af yngre eller halvvoksne Værtlarver, af hvilke Snylterne
allerede var gaaet ud. Saaledes havde Snylterne nu faaet Bugt
med Angrebet ved at tilintetgøre Resten af Larvebestanden paa et
saa tidligt Tidspunkt, at saa godt som ingen af Spinderlarverne
naaede fuld Størrelse. Det er utvivlsomt, at den stærke Nedgang
i Spindernes Antal skyldes Snyltefluen; men det bør dog anføres,
at der sammen med denne i 1909 optraadte en Snyltehveps, der
dog kun spillede en ganske forsvindende Rolle, og at der i nogle
Spinderlarver fandtes Larver af Sarcophaga affinis Fall.
I en Pileplantning, der laa i nogen Afstand fra det ovenfor
omtalte Hegn, fandtes en Del Larver af Malacosoma neustria, af
hvilke en Del var inficerede med Larver af Carcelia gnava.
Snyltefluen afsætter i Reglen sine Æg paa Haarene af Stilp-
notia-Larven (Textfig. 1), sjældnere påa dens Hud (Textfig. 2); hos
Ringspinderlarven, der er svagere behaaret, findes Æggene derimod
hyppigere paa Huden. Begge Arters Larver træffes undertiden
med Æg paa Panden eller andetsteds påa Hovedet; en Gang
har jeg fundet et Æg fæstet til et Spirakel. Da Æggets Stilk
er stiv, og Ægget, medens Larven endnu ikke er krøbet ud, rager
frem, er dette ikke vanskeligt at finde paa Værterne, derimod kan de
tomme, sammenfaldne Æggeskaller være vanskelige nok at opdage
efter Larvens Fremkomst.
I denne Forbindelse kan anføres, at jeg har fundet Æg af en
anden Snylteflue paa Haarene af Larven til ÅAcronycta menyanthides
View. Disse Æg (Textfig. 6) var c. 0,5 mm. lange og 0,25 mm.
brede, ustilkede, tykskallede, stærkt hvælvede paa Oversiden og
flade paa Undersiden, langs hvilken de var fastklæbede til Vært-
larvens Haar. I et af Æggene fandt jeg en fuldstændig udviklet
Larve, hvis Svælgskelet viste den mest slaaende Overensstemmelse
med Carcelia gnava Larvens (Textfig. 7). Da Acronycta-Larven
forpuppede sig, før Snylterne var krøbne ud af Æggene, var der
ikke Lejlighed til at klække Fluen.
Carcelia gnava-Larven aabner Ægge-
skallen fortil og kryber ud; den bevæger
sig omkring udenpaa Værtens Legeme,
indtil den finder et Sted, hvor Indboringen
kan finde Sted. En Snyltelarve, hvis
Indboring jeg fulgte under Lupen, trængte
ind igennem et Hul midt paa et af
Værtens Rygled. Efterat Snylteren er
kommen ind i Værtens Legeme vandrer
den frit om; men samtidig med, at Fig. 6. Fi 7,
ig
den gaar over i det Stadium, hæfter Fig. 6. Snylteflueæg paa et
aar af Larven til Acro-
nycta menyanthides 29/3.
en Tragt, der i Reglen udgaar fra en Fig. 7. Svælgskelet af en
Ledhud; Tragten fortsættes af en Sæk, arve der fandtes i et saa-
dant Æg. %
og begge disse Deles Bygning svarer
den sig fast til Værtens Hudskelet ved
ganske til de tidligere beskrevne hos Ptychomyia selecta Meig.
Snylteren forbliver fasthæftet til Tragten, indtil den er fuldvoksen,
og ernærer sig først af Værtens Fedtvæv og senere af dens øvrige
Organer.
Med Hensyn til de Alderstrin, paa hvilke Værtlarverne an-
gribes, viste der sig en Forskel imellem Stilpnotia og Malacosoma
Larverne. De førstnævnte inficeres paa alle Alderstrin, ligefra
ganske smaa til fuldvoksne. Efter Værtens Størrelse udvikles der
i dem fra én til fire Snyltere. Inficerede Larver, der endnu ikke
har gennemgaaet sidste Hudskifte, fæster sig, kort forinden de
dræbes af Snylteren, med Gangvorterne fast til et Blad eller en
Gren og hænger slapt ned; de tømte og indtørrede Larvehude,
paa hvilke de Gangvorter, der er fæstede til Underlaget, er stærkt
udtrukne, forbliver siddende her efter Snylterens Udboring (Text-
fig. 8). De voksne inficerede Larver, der let kendes paa, at deres
Pletters normale hvide Farve er forandret til gul, begynder at ind-
spinde sig i et løst og uregelmæssigt Spind; Forpupningen begynder,
idet Larvehuden revner fortil, og Puppen trækker sig ud af Larve-
hudens sidste Led; længere naar
Forpupningen i Reglen ikke, da
Snylteren paa dette Tidspunkt
hidfører Værtens Død. Disse
= " inficerede Pupper har et meget
karakteristisk og let kendeligt
Udseende.
I sjældnere Tilfælde har jeg
fundet Snylteren i fuldt udviklede
Stilpnotia-Pupper. — Hos Mala-
cosoma har jeg kun truffet Snyl-
teren hos fuldvoksne Larver, trods
Fig. 8. det, at der paa de samme Pile-
En yngre Larve af Stilpnotia sa- træer, hvor disse levede, fandtes
licis, efter at Carcelia-Larven har
bo
mk skred tt, talrige ikke fuldvoksne Larver.
Hos denne Art sker det hyppigere
end hos Stilpnotia-Laverne, at Snylteren gaar over i Puppen.
De fuldvoksne Snyltelarver borer sig ud af Værten og for-
pupper sig i Jorden; i sjældnere Tilfælde sker dog Forpupningen
i Værtens Hud. Puppetiden er kortvarig. En Del Larver for-
puppede sig i Dagene fra ?/7 til 15/7, og Fluerne kom frem fra
7 fe SÅ.
Exorista blepharipoda B. & B.
Udvikling.
Larven i I1ste Stadium. Jeg har kun haft et Par af-
kastede Larvehude til Beskrivelse, og da de var stærkt sammen-
krøllede og beskadigede, kan jeg ikke angive Tornbælternes For-
deling; det kunde dog iagttages, at Bælterne var meget brede, og
at Tornene var stillede uregelmæssig imellem hverandre. Svælg-
skelettets forreste Parti er langstrakt, noget udvidet fortil og her
bøjet i en næsten ret Vinkel; bagtil findes et langstrakt, lystfarvet
9
Felt; de øvre Svælgplader er brede, de nedre smalle og såa korte,
at de ikke naar. tilbage til Midten af de øvre (Pl. I Fig. 4.) Bag-
spiraklernes Filtkamre er temmelig korte og brede, med svagt
bøjede Knopper.
2det Stadium. Længde 2—3 mm. 2—6. Leds Forrande
med brede og de følgende Leds med smallere Bælter; de sidste
Leds Bagrande med brede Bælter. 12. Led helt besat med Torne.
Mundkrogene er plumpe, Roden er for- og bagtil udtrukken i
tornformede Spidser. Spidsen er svagt bøjet, fortil udtrukket i et
Antal spidse Tænder. Svælgskelettets forreste Del er fortil til-
spidset, de øvre Svælgplader i Reglen fortil udtrukket i en tilspidset
Forlængelse; de nedre Plader er ligesaa lange som de øvre, med ind-
bugtet Bagrand (Pl. I Fig. 5). Paa hver Side af Mundaabningen
findes i Huden nogle smaa udadrettede Torne, og imellem disse et
Antal mørke Punkter (a). Forspiraklerne er kølleformede og ender
med 2 dybt adskilte Knopper. Bagspiraklerne er ligeledes kølle-
formede og ender med 2 dybt adskilte, langstrakte og bøjede Knopper.
Sdie Stadium. Længde 12—15 mm. 2—6. Leds Forrande
med Tornbælter, der gaar helt omkring Leddene, og 7—11. Leds
Forrande med Bælter paa Undersiden, 7. Led har dog undertiden
Spor, til et Bælte paa Rygsiden. 6—8. Leds Bagrand paa Under-
siden og hele 9—11. Leds Bagrande med Bælter; 12. Led besat
med Torne, undtagen umiddelbart bagved Gataabningen.
Mundkrogenes Rod løber fortil ud i en i Spidsen kløftet For-
længelse og bagtil i en meget smallere, bagudrettet, noget krummet
Torn. Mundkrogenes Spids er slank. Påa Inderranden findes et
svagt tandformet Fremspring, og omtrent overfor dette paa Rygsiden
et mindre Fremspring. De forreste Svælgplader er bredere bagtil
end fortil; Forbindelsesstykket findes umiddelbart foran Roden; de
øvre Svælgplader er brede, jævnt afrundede; fortil strækker en
smal Forlængelse sig op i Højde med Midten af de forreste Svælg-
pladers, De nedre Svælgplader er ubetydelig længere end de øvre
(Pl. I Fig. 6). Ligesom i forrige Stadium findes der et Parti
Torne påa hver Side af Mundaabningen; disse sidder paa et af-
10
rundet stærkere kitiniseret Felt, der passer ind i Vinklen imellem
Mundkrogens Spids og Rodens forreste Udvækst (a). Ialt findes der
7—12 udad- og nedadrettede, temmelig plumpe og
i Spidsen mørkt kitiniserede Torne; spredt over hele
Feltet findes desuden en Del meget småa Prikker
(Textfig. 9).
Forspiraklernes Atrium er delt i to Partier:
Fig. 9. — det indre er bredere end Trachéen og afrundet; det
Eworista ble-
phariphoda.
3. Stadium indre Del og som er forbundne med hinanden ved
Torngruppe fra Tværgrene; fortil findes flere mindre Grene, der hver
Mundaabnin-
gens Side. 2?20/,,
ydre Parti bestaar af 2 Grene, der udgaar fra den
ender med en Knop, der er aflang-oval og noget
bredere end Grenen. Knoppernes Antal er c. 10—
12, og de er i Reglen stillede i 2 paralelle Rækker (Textfig. 10).
Bagspiraklerne er temmelig tæt sammenstillede, ikke hvælvede,
noget længere end brede; Kitinrammen er bred og udsender ind-
ad en Bro, der omslutter Trachéaabningen. Fra denne Bro ud-
gaar atter 2 Broer over til Rammens modsatte Side;
herved deles Spiraklet i 3 Partier, der hver bærer
et slynget Aandefelt, af hvilke et af de ydre i Reglen
er brudt i 2 Stykker (Tab. I Fig. 7). Gataabningen
har Form som en lille oval Plade og findes skudt
frem til 1lte Leds Bagrand.
Tøndépuppen er fra 4—9 mm. lang og fra 21/2 Si i ry:
—Å4 mm. bred, større Exemplarer sorte, mindre brune, Eæorista ble-
stærkere hvælvet paa Rygsiden end paa Bugsiden og gh oregd
Forenden noget smallere end Bagenden. Ledgrænserne nen
tydelige, Overfladen fint og aabent tværfuret. Langs
Siderne findes en noget bugtet Linie af fine Punkter. bon
lerne er ikke fremtrædende og Bagspiraklerne kun svagt. De ydre
Puppespirakler mangler.
Biologi.
Eworista blepharipoda's Vært har hidtil ikke været kendt. Jeg
har fundet den hos 2 Acronycta Arters Larver. (4. psi L. og
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Å.tridens Schiff.) Disse Larver er fuldvoksne i September, og paa
denne Tid indsamledes ved Valby i 1908—1909 en halv Snes
inficerede Larver. Der var ikke ydre Mærker paa Sommerfugle-
larverne, der viste, at de var angrebne, og Snylterne opdagedes
først, da de som fuldvoksne krøb ud af deres Værter. Hver Sommer-
fuglelarve indeholdt fra 2—7 levende Snyltere i 3die Stadium, og
desuden fandtes hyppig enkelte i samme Stadium, der var pressede
ihjel af de andre. Igennem Huden af en Værtlarve, der conserve-
redes kort forinden Snylterne skulde til at bore sig ud, men som
endnu var i Live, kunde Bagenden af en Snyltelarve, der var i
Færd med at bore sit Udgangshul, skimtes. Tarmkanalen var stærkt
sammenpresset og helt tom, og Værten udfyldtes af 3 Ezxorista-
Larver, paa hvilke der
sad Flige af sammen-
presset og destrueret
Fedtvæv. Dette pille-
des forsigtigt af og
undersøgtes nærmere, og
herved lykkedes det at
finde velbevarede Larve-
hude af 2det Stadium
og Dele af I1ste Sta-
' Fig. ly
i Trachéstamme af Larven til Acronycta psi
diums med vedhæn- med Ezorista blepharivoda-Larvens Tragt. 99/7.
gende Svælgskeletter.
Snyltefluelarverne .laa tilsyneladende ganske frit uden at være
forbundne med Værten ved en Tragt, og Larvehude, der under-
søgtes efter at Snylterne var gaaet ud, var ganske tomme, selv
Hovederne var fuldstændig udtømte; kun hist og her fandtes ube-
stemmelige Cellerester og Rester af Trachéer. Ved Undersøgelse
af disse opdagedes Larvernes Tilhæftningssteder, Tekstfig. 11 viser
en Del af Sommerfuglelarvens Trachésystem, nemlig Grenen fra
Spiraklet ind til Hovedstammen. Paa det Sted, hvor Grenen ud-
munder i Hovedstammen, er denne gennemboret, og fra Hullets
Rande udgaar en mørkfarvet Kitintragt, Denne er af ringe Størrelse
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i Forhold til Larvens i 3die Stadium, og jeg er derfor ikke ganske
sikker paa, at disse er tilhæftede Tragten i den sidste Periode af
deres Liv; derimod viser den Omstændighed, at jeg har fundet
Resterne af 2det Stadiums afkastede Larvehude inde i de Fedt-
cellerester, der fandtes ved Tragten, at Larverne var fasthæftede
til denne, i alt Fald medens de skiftede Hud og gik over i 3die
Stadium. Værtlarven viste ikke Spor af Snylternes Æg, og det er
ikke muligt sikkert at afgøre, hvorledes Snylterne trænger ind.
De fuldvoksne Fluelarver borer sig ned i Jorden og forpupper sig
her. Pupperne overvintrer, og Fluerne kommer frem næste Sommer
i Juni Maaned.
Meigenia floralis Fall.
Udviklingen.
Ægget. Æggeskallen er 0,5 mm. lang, flad paa Undersiden,
hvor den er klæbet til Værtlarvens Hud og fladt hvælvet paa Over-
siden, uden Skulptur. Naar Ægget aflægges, er det endnu ganske
uudviklet, og straks efter Æglægningen kan hverken Tornvæbningen,
Svælgskelettet eller Spiraklerne iagttages paa Embryonet.
Larven i Ilste Stadium. Længde 1 mm.; Tornbælterne er
vel udviklede og bestaar af smaa Torne, der staar tæt sammen i
nogenlunde lige Rækker; 12te Led uden Torne; Svælgskelettet er
lyst brunligt og svagt kitiniseret. Randene noget mørkere. Tanden
er langstrakt, slank og svagt bøjet i Spidsen; de nedre Svælg-
plader staar stærkt ud fra de øvre, begge Par er omtrent lige
lange, de nedre er noget smallere end de - øvre og lige afskaarne
bagtil, medens de sidstnævnte er afrundede (Tab. I Fig. 8.) Bag”
spiraklernes Atrium er langstrakt, i Spidsen svagt kølleformet, med
2 vel adskilte Knopper.
2dét Stadium. Længde 2,5 mm. Forranden af 2—8. Led
med Tornbælter, der paa 8de Led kun findes paa Undersiden. Bag-
randen af Ste Led paa Undersiden med et svagt Bælte; påa
Bagrandene af de følgende Led tiltager Bælterne i Udstrækning
og Bredde og gaar paa 10—11. Led helt omkring Leddene. Tornene
staar i nogenlunde lige Rækker, Mundkrogenes "Rod bærer fortil
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en fremadrettet, i Spidsen lysere Knude og bagtil en lille, svagt
bagudrettet Tap. Spidsen er slank, den indre Del krummet, den
yderste næsten lige. Svælgskelettet er fortil mørkt og bagtil meget
lyst; de øvre Svælgplader er brede, foroven afrundede og bagtil
" svagt tilspidsede, den nedre Rand lige; de nedre Svælgplader er
betydelig kortere end de øvre (Tab. I Fig. 9). Forspiraklernes
Atrium er stærkt kølleformet og ender —— saavidt det har været
mig muligt at se — med 2 ulige store Knopper; den ene er
stærkt indskaaret i Randen og c. 5 Gange saa bred som den anden.
Bagspiraklerne er svagt kølleformede med to dybt adskilte Knopper.
3die Stadium. Længde 11—14 mm. Forranden af 2-—11.
Led med Tornbælter, der paa 6—7. Led er afbrudte paa Siderne
og påa 7-—11. Led tillige mangler paa Rygsiden. Bagrandene
af 5—11. Led med smallere Bælter; paa 5—8.
Led findes Bælterne kun paa Undersiden, 12te
Led er helt besat med Torne. Mundkrogene
er i Forhold til Svælgskelettet store; fra Roden
udgaar fortil under en omtrent ret Vinkel en
Udvækst, der udadtil bliver smallere og i Fig. 12.
Spidsen er svagt bagudrettet, og bagtil en Meigenia floralis.
mindre, bagudrettet, afrundet Tap. Mundkrogenes BAGE
Spids er jævnt krummet og udadtil meget smallere É ;
end det inderste Stykke; paa JInderranden findes et lille Hak
umiddelbart foran Rodens forreste Udvækst. De forreste Svælg-
plader er knap halv saa lange som Mundkrogene og meget smallere
end disses Rod; fortil er de noget tilspidsede. Forbindelsesstykket
findes ved Bagranden og er paa Midten noget fremtrukket. De
bageste Svælgplader er mørke ved Roden og lysere udadtil, de øvre
er smalle ved Roden og bliver omtrent dobbelt saa brede paa
Spidsen. Randene er lige og Spidsen jævnt afrundet, de nedre er
noget kortere end de øvre, svagt bøjede og dybt indskaarne i
Spidsen (Tab I Fig. 10). Forspiraklernes Atrium er cylindrisk og
bærer 8—10 Grene, der hver ender med en oval Knop. (Tekst-
fig. 12). Bagspiraklernes Bygning er noget kompliceret, (Tab. I
Fig. 11) Kitinrammen er bred og stærkt hvælvet, hvorved hele
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>
Spiraklet bliver stærkt fremstaaende. Indenfor Rammen findes 5
omtrent lige store Felter; Atriet deler sig i 2 Grene, hvoraf
hver gaar til et af de to Felter og atter her grener sig i flere
smaa Grene, der ender med en lille indskaaret Knop. Imellem
disse to Felter findes i Kitinrammen et blødhudet, liniedannet Felt,
der med den ene Ende munder ud i det tredie Felt, der i Midten
bærer Trachéaabningen. De 3 Felter er omgivne af en fin mørk-
farvet Kitinliste, og saadanne findes ogsaa ved Roden af Kitin-
rammen. Denne er brunsort, noget mørkere ved Roden end paa
den øverste Del.
Tøndepuppen. Længde 4—5 mm. Bredde c. 2 mm. Aflang,
omtrent lige stærkt hvælvet paa Over- og Undersiden. Segment-
grænserne og Tornvæbningen tydelige. Lyst brunlig, glat og
glinsende; Forspiraklerne fremstaaende. Bagspiraklerne findes som
" to divergerende Tappe noget opad paa Tøndepuppens Rygside. Gat-
aabningen ikke fremstaaende men tydelig som en stor afrundet, lys
Plade. De ydre Puppespirakler mangler.
Biologi.
Meigenia floralis Fall. er tidligere fundet hos 2 Bladbillelarver,
Crioceris quatuordecimpunctata F. og C. asparagi L. Pantel!)
har studeret dens Biologi og Udvikling i den sidstnævnte Arts
Larver; et Referat af hans Undersøgelser findes i mit før citerede
Arbejde. Jeg har fundet Snyltefluen hos en anden Bladbille-
arts Larver, Gastrophysa viridula de Geer. Denne hører her i
Landet til de sjældnere Arter, men optræder nogle Steder i Om-
egnen af København i store Selskaber paa Rumex. Den har mindst
2 Generationer om Aaret. I de første Dage af Juni 1909 fandt
jeg ved Ørholm talrige Biller i Parring og drægtige Hunner, men
endnu hverken Æg eller Larver. Den 23de Juni havde Billerne
afsat deres langstrakte, gullige Æg i Klumper paa Rumexbladenes
Underside; her saas desuden unge Larver, der sad i smaa Selskaber
E I Pantel: Surla biologie du Meigenia floralis (Bull. soc. Entom. de
France 1902. p. 56).
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i Nærheden af de tomme Æggeskaller, og ældre Larver, der fandtes
mere spredt. Blandt Bladbillelarvernes afstrøgne Larvehude, der
bliver hængende paa Bladenes Underside, opdagedes et ikke ringe
Antal, der bar hvide Flueæg, og nogle af Larverne havde ogsaa
saadanne fæstede paa Huden. Et Par Hunner af Meigenia floralis
sad paa Skræppebladene. Den 26de Juni fandtes Bladbillens Pupper
ophængte paa Bladenes Underside, og den 16. Juli var alle Larver
og Pupper forsvundne, medens en ny Generation af Billerne var
kommen frem, og Æglægningen allerede begyndt.
Kun en ringe Del af Bladbillelarverne var inficerede med
Snyltefluernes Æg. Jeg indsamlede ialt 79 Billelarver med Flueæg;
heraf var 36 endnu ikke fuldvoksne, nogle var ganske smaa og
andre stod lige for det sidste Larvehudskifte. I ingen af alle disse
Værter kom Snylteren til Udvikling, som Følge af, at Værterne skiftede
Hud, før Snylterne havde naaet at bore sig ind, og Æggene blev
strøget af sammen med Billelarvernes gamle Hude, til hvilke de
var fæstede. Ved Undersøgelse af Æg, der fandtes paa disse
Hude, fandt jeg i nogle fuldt udviklede Larver, hvis Svælgskelet
i flere Tilfælde var rettet imod Æggeskallens Bund, som om Snylteren
var i Færd med at bore sig ud igennem denne. Resten af Blad-
billelarverne — 43 — var fuldvoksne, heraf aabnedes til forskellig
Tid 17, af hvilke 3 indeholdt Fluelarver; i Resten af Billelarverne
var Snylterne endnu ikke trængt ind. De sidste 26 Bladbillelarver
hensattes til Klækning, og i Dagene fra 10.—16. Juli fremkom
10 Fluer og 16 Biller, idet Larverne, hvoraf disse sidste kom ud,
havde forpuppet sig, før Meigenia Larverne havde boret sig ind.
Det højst ejendommelige Forhold, at en saa betydelig Del af
Bladbillelarverne undgik at blive dræbt af Snylterne ved simpelt-
hen at skifte Hud, maatte naturligvis foranledige nogen Tvivl med
Hensyn til Iagttagelsens Rigtighed. Den Antagelse laa nær, at de
unormale Forhold, hvorunder Værtlarverne levede under Klækningen,
paa en eller anden Maade influerede paa Snylterens Udvikling, særlig
da Pantel havde fundet Snyltefluens Larver baade i yngre og
ældre Larver af Crioceris asparagi. Af en Undersøgelse ude i
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Naturen fremgik det imidlertid, at Forholdene var ganske de samme
her, idet en Del af de afstrøgne Larvehude, der fandtes fasthæftede
til Bladenes Underside og hidrørte dels fra yngre dels fra fuld-
voksne Larver, var besatte med Flueæg. Hvad der er Grunden til
dette Forhold er vanskelig forklarligt, og jeg skal kun fremhæve
en enkelt Betragtning, der muligvis kan give Forklaringen. Ved
de fleste Klækninger i større Stil af Larver med Snylteflueæg
hænder det, at enkelte Værtlarver skifter Hud, førend Snylteren
har boret sig ind; disse Værtlarver er saadanne, der staar umiddel-
bart foran et Hudskifte i det Øjeblik, Snyltefluen lægger sine Æg paa
den. Disse Tilfælde indtræffer hyppigst hos saadanne Snyltefluer.
hvis Æg bliver siddende i længere Tid paa Værterne forinden
Larvernes Indboring finder Sted. I disse Forhold er der en ikke
ringe Variation hos de forskellige Snyltefluearter, og Meigenia
floralis Fall. forekommer mig, som ovenfor anført, at være en Art,
hvis Æg aflægges paa et temmelig tidligt Udviklingstrin og hos
hvilken derfor Tidsrummet mellem Æglægningen og Larvens fuld-
stændige Embryonaludvikling og paafølgende Indboring i Værten
er usædvanlig lang. Snylterne havde saaledes endnu ikke den
29. Juni boret sig ind i Værtlarver, der var indsamlede den 23.
s. M. Da Bladbillelarvens Udvikling, som den foranstaaende Over-
sigt viser, gaar hurtigt for sig, er det forstaaeligt, at en stor Del
Snylteflueæg lægges paa et saa kritisk Tidspunkt, at Værtlarven
naar at skifte Hud, før Snylteren er kommen saa vidt i sin Ud-
vikling, at den kan bore sig ind.
Jeg antager, at denne Forklaring er rigtig, men det er dog
paafaldende, at jeg ikke fandt en Snylter i en eneste af de ikke
fuldt udvoksne Bladbillelarver. Selv om en saadan Indboring imid-
lertid havde fundet Sted, vilde Snylteren utvivlsomt være gaaet til
Grunde, da de mindre Bladbillelarver er alt for smaa til at afgive
Ernæring til Snylterens fulde Udvikling.
Af de 79 Larver bar de 75 kun et Æg og 4 to Æg. Disse
sad i Ledhudene imellem Thoraxleddene og de forreste Bagkropsled,
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i Reglen påa Larvens Overside henimod Siderne, i sjældnere Til-
fælde fandtes Æggene paa Værternes Bugside.
Med Hensyn til Larvernes Udvikling har jeg. intet at anføre
til Pantels Fremstilling. Jeg har fundet Larven i 1ste Stadium
frit inde i Værten; Zdet Stadium derimod sad fasthæftet til en
Tragt, der udgik fra en Ledhud paa Undersiden af Værtlarvens
Bagkrop. En Larve i 3die Stadium havde løsnet sin Bagende fra
Tragten og fandtes frit i Værten; den havde vendt sig saaledes,
at Forenden var rettet imod Tragten, medens Bagkropspidsen vendte
den modsatte Vej; Værtens indre Organer var ubeskadigede og
hele Fedtlegemet endnu ikke helt forsvundet; nogen Sønderrivning
af Værtlarvens Hud kunde ikke ses. Denne skete først sam-
tidig med Snylterens Forpupning, der oftest fandt Sted inde i Vært-
larven, og sjældnere i Jorden. Omtrent 14 Dage efter Forpupningen
kommer Fluerne frem.
Actia pilipinnis Meig.
Udvikling.
Larven i 3die Stadium. Larvens største Bredde falder
umiddelbart foran Bagenden, der er skarpt afsat og udtrukket i en
kegleformet Spids… Længde 6—8 mm. 3—11. Leds Forrande med
Tornrækker og 4—11. Led tillige med Rækker paå Bagrandene.
Bælterne bliver bredere bagtil paa Larven og lader her kun et
smalt Mellemrum paa Midten af Leddene frit for Torne. Bælterne
sammensættes af Smaarækker, der særlig bagtil er stillede meget
aabent og uregelmæssigt (Textfig. 13). 12te Leds Spids omkring
Spiraklerne med et Bælte af Torne i temmelig lige Rækker; her-
fra udbreder sig en Del uregelmæssige Smaarækker fremad hen-
imod Leddets Forrand. Tornenes Form er forskellig; fortil findes
langstrakte, meget smalle og spidse Torne, hvis Spids staar ret op
fra den afrundede Rod; henimod Larvens Bagende begynder der
imellem disse Torne at optræde andre, hvis Spids er kløvet saa-;
ledes, at der dannes 2 mere eller mindre skarpe, udadrettede Spidser,
imellem hvilke der atter kan optræde en enkelt lille, skarp Spids
Vidensk, Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. 1911. Bd. 63. 2
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(Textfig. 14). Der findes Overgange imellem de kløvede og de
enkeltspidsede Torne; .de største af de førstnævnte findes paa Under-
siden af 10—11. Led; dog er Tornene påa Bagranden af 1lte Led
og paa 12te Led alle udelte.
Fig. 13. Fig. 14.
Actia nens 3. Stadium Fig 13. Tornrækker. 75/4.
Fig. 14. Torne fra 11. Leds Rygside. 191;
Tornenes Udfarvning foregaar meget langsomt. Ved Hud-
skiftet udfarves straks Tornene paa 1lte Leds Bagrand og paa
12te Led, medens alle andre Torne endnu er usynlige; først naar
Larven er fuldvoksen, udfarves de andre Torne, først de udelte og
senere de kløvede. Mundkrogenes Rod er
smal, bagtil afrundet; fortil findes lidt foran
Roden en plump Knude, og foran denne et
lille tandformet Fremspring… Spidsen er jævnt
buet; de forreste Svælgplader er fortil saa
brede som Mundkrogenes Rod og bliver ube-
i tydelig bredere bagtil. — Forbindelsesstykket
' findes lidt bagved Midten af Pladerne; de
øvre Svælgplader er brede og jævnt af-
rundede; de er sorte med lysere Rande, idet
Fig. 15. den mørke Farve dog paa enkelte Steder
syret al atcorsR, naar helt ud til Randen. De nedre Svælg-
be plader er omtrent saa lange som de øvre.
Foroven findes tæt foran Spidsen en opadbøjet, afrundet Tap.
(Textfig. 15).
Forspiraklernes Atrium er ved Roden i Tværsnit rundt og
saa bredt som Trachéen, udadtil bliver det bredere og udflades
fig. 18) er kort og løber ud i 3
korte Grene, der hver bærer en af-
lang Knop (b). Grenene staar frit
frem i et Felt, der omgives af
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henimod Spidsen, bagtil er det stærkt indbugtet og ender fortil
med 6 Grene, der er korte og stillede i en lige Linie. Grenene
er buede udad og ender- hver med |
en oval Knop (Textfig. 16—17).
Bagspiraklernes Atrium (Text-
Fig. 17.
Spiraklets Kitinramme (a), der hos Fig. 16.
denne Art ikke slutter tæt omkring — Actia pilipennis 3. Stadium.
Forspirakel, Fig. 16 forfra,
z ' 1
Knopperne"). Gataabningen findes Fig: 17: fra Siden, 7597;
ved Forranden af 12te Led.
Tøndepuppen. Længde 5—6 mm. Bredde 2—2,5 mm. Farven
er sortebrun eller brunlig, stærkt
glinsende. Langstrakt, Oversiden
stærkt hvælvet, særlig bagtil.
Undersiden noget fladere. Seg-
mentgrænserne tydelige, men ikke
indskaarne. Overfladen glat og
Fig. 18. glinsende. Paa Oversidens 3—4
Actia pilipennis 3. Stadium. For- og 6—9 Led findes paa hver
spirakler, a. Rammen. b. Knop
c. Atriet. 175/3, Side et aflangt, indtrykt Felt og
langs ned ad Tøndepuppens Sider en Række lignende, mindre og
svagere Indtryk, der viser de Punkter, hvor Trachéstammernes
ol Efter at jeg har haft Lejlighed til paa et større Materiale af Actia-
Larven at undersøge Bagspirakler af denne Type, er, jeg kommen paa
det rene med, at det af mig tidligere (Iagttagelser over entoparasitiske
Muscidelarver 1909 Pag. 85) beskrevne Bagspirakel hos en Snylteflue-
larve fra en Lithobius, hvoraf jeg kun besad et Eksemplar, tilhører
den samme Type. Kitinrammen, som jeg da henførte til Atriet, har
intet med dette at gøre, men omgiver som hos Actia-Larven kun
dettes Grene; iøvrigt er Spiraklerne kun forskellige ved Grenenes
Antal. 3 hos Aetia-Larven, 8 hos Lithobius-Snylteren. Denne Over-
ensstemmelse i Bagspiraklernes Bygning tyder paa, at Lithobius-
Snylteren er Larven til Discochaeta Lithobii Giard, idet denne Slægt
er nær beslægtet med Actia.
ng
+
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oblitererede Sidegrene naar ud til Larvens Hud. Forspiraklerne
fremstaaende. Tøndepuppens Bagende er trukket ud i en stærkt
| fremstaaende, grovt rynket . Tap, som påa Spidsen
bærer de 2 Bagspirakler. Gattet er ikke fremstaaende,
men let iagttageligt som en lille, cirkelformet, skarpt
afsat Fordybning. De ydre Puppespirakler mangler.
Biologi.
Actia pilipennis Fall. er tidligere klækket af
flere forskellige Microlepidopterers Larver, bl.a. af
Fig. 19.
Retinia resinella L. og Retinia buoliana Schiff., hos
Ente tere. hvilke Arter jeg ogsaa har fundet den.
Bly, I Juli 1909 fandt jeg påa et begrænset Parti
af en yngre Bjærgfyrplantning i Tisvilde Hegn et ret stort Antal
Skud, der viste det for Buoliana-Angreb karakteristiske Udseende.
I Skuddene fandtes saavel Viklerlarver som Pupper og i en stor
Del af dem laa den lille Actia-Puppe ved Siden af den døde Vært.
Ved Dissektion af Retinia-Larverne og Pupperne fandt jeg
endvidere flere Actia-Larver i 3die Stadium. Snylterne var fast-
hæftede Værternes Hudskelet ved en stærkt fremtrædende Tragt
af sort Farve og laa i en tydelig Sæk.
Snyltelarverne bruger kun en mindre Del af Værtens Organer
til deres Ernæring, og dennes Form forandres som Følge heraf
ikke, efterat Snylteren har dræbt den og har boret sig ud. Efter
Udboringen forpupper Snylteren sig i Værtlarvens Gang i Fyrre-
skuddet, undertiden lige ved Siden af Værten, saaledes at Puppen
ligger i en dyb Indhuling i Værtens Krop. Puppetiden varer kun
ganske kort Tid, 83—14 Dage, og naar Fluen er kommet ud,
sprænger den Hul i Fyrreskuddet.
I hver Retinia-Larve kommer kun én Snylter til fuld Udvikling.
Actia pilipennis har mindst 2 Generationer aarlig. Ved Tis-
vilde kom Iste Generation frem af Retinia resinella-Gallerne i
Maj—Juni; denne Generation inficerer Larverne af RBR. buolinana,
der paa dette Tidspunkt er fuldvoksne, og næste Generation ud-
vikles i Juli. Hvor denne Generations Yngel anbringes, har jeg
ikke kunnet finde.
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Summary.
1. Carcelia gnava Meig.”).
This species was reared from Stilpnotia salicis and Malacosoma
neustria. On a willow hedge a great number of various cater-
pillars were seen in July and August 1905 and at the same time
some moths of Stilpnotia were observed there occupied with the
oviposition. The number of this species was not extraordinarily
great, but in the following years the number increased so much
that in 1907 the caterpillars had eaten all the leaves of the willows.
In June that year I found a great number of moths and at the
same time many pupæ, which were conglomerated in lose spins
among the leafless branches and not, as in normal cases, singly +
hided in a contorted leaf. On the willows also many full grown
and younger caterpillars were climbing in search for foot. The
Carcelia gnava was present, but in so small numbers that I only
succeded in rearing one single specimen from a great number of
the caterpillars.
In 1908 the number of caterpillars was somewhat decreasing
and in the next year 1909 most of the willows were green, still
the number of caterpillars was considerable. By means of proofs
from diverse points of the hedge it was found that a little more
than 50/0 of the caterpillars were infested with maggots of
Carcelia gnava. In 1910 only a few caterpillars were seen and
of these allmost all were killed by the parasites before they were
half grown.
The eggs of the fly are pedicelled, the chorion is thin and
transparent; the surface shows a network of ridges enclosing polygonal
areas. The posterior end of the shell is produced into a thread-
like prolongation, the end of which .is slightly dilatated and
1) The fly which I named Carcelia gnava in a previous paper (Iagt-
tagelser over entoparasitiske Muscidelarver hos Arthropoder Kbhvn.
1909) has been examined by Dr. J. Villeneuve, who kindly has
communicated to me, that it belongs not to this species but to
Carcelia comata Rond.
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bent in an angle. This end is immersed into a little cluster of a
secretion, by means of which the egg is attached to the host. As
a rule the fiy deposites its eggs on the hairs of the host, but
sometimes also on the skin").
At the time of oviposition the embryo of Carcelia gnava is
at a very little advanced stage of development, neither the tracheal
system, the spines or the pharyngeal skeleton could be observed.
The hatched maggot moves about on the host and penetrates into
it through a hole which is produced in its skin. In its first stage
the maggot lives free inside the host, but the maggots in 2” and
3' stages are connected with the integument of the host by means
of a chitinous funnel, which originates in most cases from a mem-
brane between two segments of the host.
In the case of Stilpnotia sacilis the fly deposites its eggs both
on younger and elder caterpillars. Corresponding to the size of
the host from one to four parasites can develop. The colour of
the markings, which is white in normal caterpillars, is turned into
a yellow colour in the infested specimens. The younger infested
caterpillars do not moult anymore, but fasten themselwes, when they
are dying, to a branch or a leaf by means of their suckers, and
the emptied skins remain for a long time on the trees. The full
grown infested caterpillars make a very rudimentary spin. The
larval skin bearsts on the foreend, and the pupa begins to emerge;
at this time, however, the host is killed by the parasites.. These
pupæ are very easily recognized by their strange form. In some
rarer cases I found the parasites in fully developed pupæ.
In the case of Malacosoma neustria I have only found the
parasites in full grown caterpillars, and that in spite of the fact
1) In this connection I think a short mention of another tachinid egg,
which I have found on the hairs of a caterpillar of Acronycta meny-
anthidis, may be of some interest. The dimensions of the egg were
0.50—0.25 mm., the upperside was rather strongly curved and the
lower side which was attached to a hair of the caterpillar quite flat.
om was not reared and beside the egg I only know the first
in which the pharyngeal skeleton shows the most striking
sandt radke to that of the maggot of Carcelia gnava
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that on the trees, where I collected the infested fullgrown specimens,
many younger were present, all of which were not infested.
The maggots transform to puparia in the ground; in very rare
cases in the empty skins of the hosts. I have seen maggots
pupate in the days from ?/7—15/7, the flies emerging from ?5/7—3/s
the same year.
Exorista blepharipoda B. & B.
I have reared this fly from the caterpillars of Acronycta psi L.
and A. tridens Shiff. The skin of the hosts shows no marks indi-
cating the presence of the maggots inside the body. In each host
may occur from 2—7 living parasites. After the emergence of
the full grown maggots all the organs of the hosts have disappeared.
By an examination of the respiratory system of the host I succeded
in finding the points, where the parasites were connected with the
hosts body. The chitinous funnel originates from a trachea and in
cases from the point, where the main trachea is connected with
the stigmatal branch.
The maggots transform to puparia in the ground and the flies
are reared next summer (f/6—27/6).
Meigenia floralis Fall.
Meigenia floralis is a parasite in the larvæ of a chrysomelid
beetle Gastrophysa viridula De Geer. On the 23th of July I saw
both younger and elder. larvæ with eggs of the fly and among the
moulted skins of the larvæ, which remain attached to the under-
side of the leaves, several were. noticed bearing egss. Only a
relatively small number of the larvæ were infested by the parasites.
In all I collected 79 infested larvæ. Of these 36 were not full-
grown; in not a single of these the parasite came to full development;
the host moulted before the parasites hatched out of the eggs,
and the eggs which were deposited on the skins were threwn off
together with these. The rest of the larvæ — 43 — were full
grown; of these 17 were dissected from time to time, and by
means of these dissections I sueceded in finding 3 parasites; in
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. the rest the parasites had not penetrated. The last part of the hosts
were put aside for rearing the parasites and in the days from the
10th—15th of July 10 specimens of Meigenia and 16 beetles emerged,
the larvæ which gave issue to the last named having passed into
the pupa stage before the parasites had hatched out of the eggs.
It seemed quite reasonable to suggest that the unnatural conditions
under which the larvæ had lived during the breeding had influenced
in some way on the development and caused so many of the hosts
to escape from being killed by the maggots simply by means of
moulting; but it is not so; as already mentioned I also saw the
same in the nature. The reason of this is somewhat difficult so
to explain and I shall only give suggestions. The embryos of
Meigenia floralis are at the time of the oviposition at a very little
advanced stage of development, and the space of time between the
oviposition and the emergence of the maggot rather long. On the
other hand the growth of the hosts is very rapid. Therefore it
is probable, that a great part of the eggs are deposited at so
critical a moment that the hosts reach their next moult, before
the maggots are mature to emerge from the eggs. I think that
this explanation is correct, but I shall only point out the strange
fact, that not a single of the eggs, deposited on younger hosts
gave issue to måaggots.
With respect to the life history of the maggots my investi-
gations have confirmed those of J. Pantel.
Åctia pilipennis Fall.
In the month of July I found on some young pinetrees a
rather considerable number of branches which were deformed by
Retinia buoliana. In the larval chambers I found the puparium
of Actia pilipennis lying close to the dead hosts, and by opening
some larvæ and pupæ I secured some maggots which were connected
to the integument of the hosts by means of very strong and con-
spicuous .funnels. Only a little part of the organs of the hosts
were consumed by the parasites and the host retains its form after
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the emergence of the parasites. The maggots pupate close to the
dead hosts, in the body of which they ordinarily produce a deep
excavation, which is quite filled up by the puparium. In each
host only one parasite develops.
Actia pilipennis is at least double brooded. At Tisvilde the
first brood was reared in May from Retinia resinella, and the flies
then infested the caterpillars of R. buoliana, which at that time were
almost fullgrown; from these the flies emerged in July and August.
Fig.
1
2
3
dr
5
6
Explanation of the figures in the text.
(p- S me. of Carcelia gnava on a hair of Stilpnotia sacilis.
(p. — on theskin o —
(p i eres Snake 2 stage: Anterior ranes
(p. — 3:
(p. É, == 3. — Pesteriir apirasle
(p.7) Egg of a not reared tachinid fly on a hair of Acronycta
menyanthides.
7 (p.7) The pharyngeal skeleton of a maggot taken out of the egg
figured in fig. 3.
8 (p8) Young caterpillar of Stilpnotia sacilis killed by Carcelia
gnava and hanging down from a branch after the emergence
the É
9 (p. 10) Exorista Sænorkeee, Spines from the side of the mouth.
10 (p.10) — 3” stage. Anterior spiracle.
11 (p. 11) Trachea of an Angels with a funnel of a maggot of
Ewxorista blepharipoda.
12 (p. 13) Meigenia floralis 3' stage. Anterior Den
13 (p. 18) Åctia pilipennis 3. stage. Rows of spines.
14 (P. 18) Actia seere Furcated spines from the dorsal side of
the llth 8
== eo
”-
15 (p. 18) Actia pilipennis g mage Pharyngeal skeleton.
16 (p. 19) — Anterior åerne
17 (p. 19) — 2 slå Sidewiev.
18 (p19) — — — … Posterior spiracle (Only the out-
pe of the border of the left spiracle have been drawn.
. border. b. respiratory knob"). c. atrium.
19 (p. 20) lå pilipennis Puparium.
I have formerly described a similar spiracle from a maggot parasitic
in a Lithobius. I supposed that the maggot belonged to Discochæla
lithobii a species which Giard had founded on flies reared from a
Lithobius. Now I think that this suggestion is highly probable,
because the Discochæta is closely related to Actia pilipennis.
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Explanation of Plate I.
Carcelia gnava Meig.
Fig. 1. 1' stage. Pharyngeal skeleton. 180/,,
—— FR As: 115
— 3. 3 — s= FEE melde
Exorista blepharipoda B. & B.
Fig. 4. 1” stage. Pharyngeal skeleton. ?15/;,
SEN AD DE NER ig ne sn Y
væ gk 6. 8' —æ — 45 f
og. sg SE Poaterior spirseles.…
Meigenia floralis Meig.
Fig. 8. 1' stage. Pharyngeal skeleton. 95/,.
$ 2 PH
jo ES: i lg
— ll... - — "" Posterior spiracles. 751,
23.—12.—1910.
Echinological Notes
by
Dr. Th. Mortensen.
III. The central (sur-anal) plate of the Echinoidea.
In a series of most interesting papers”) Dr. A. H. Clark
has recently treated different points in the natural history of the
Crinoidea in a very suggestive and ingenious manner, throwing
new and important light on many questions in the physiology,
phylogeny and morphology of Crinoids.
Among the conclusions arrived at bv Dr. Clark one of the
most startling is that of the near relationship between Crinoids
and Echinoids. Though I 'am here decidedly in opposition to my
excellent friend, as I have repeatedly emphasized in letters to
him, it was not my intention to enter on a literary discussion of
this matter, as a refutation of the reasons on which Dr. Clark
has founded this conclusion would necessitate a thorough treatment
of nearly the whole of the comparative morphology of the Echino-
derms; but for such a work, most interesting though it would be,
1) The homologies of the arm joints and arm divisions in the recent
Crinoids of the families of the Comatulida and the Pentacrinitidæ.
Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 35. 1908. — The non-muscular articulations of
Crinoids. American Naturalist. 48. Oct. 1909. — The affinities of
the Echinoidea. Americ. Natural. 43. Nov. 1909. — On the Origin
of the Crinoidal muscular articulations. Amer. Journ. Sec. 29, 1910.
— hy probable origin of the Crinoidal nervous system. Amer. Na-
. 44. Apr. 1910. — Remarks on the pentamerous symmetry of
ru SHEMKGE Amer. Journ. Sc. 29. Apr. 1910. — The phylogenetic
interrelationships of iho recent Crinoids. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 38.
May 1910. — On the Origin of certain types of Crinoid stems. Proc.
U. 8. Nat. Mus. 38. June. 1910.
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I cannot afford the necessary time, for the present at least. The
last of the quoted papers, however, contains a passage which has
made me think it appropriate to take up a single point for treat-
ment at present, the more so as this is one of the main points
in the question about the relationship between Crinoids and Echi-
noids, viz. the central (suranal) plate of the Echinoids.
In the quoted paper ,,0n the Origin of certain types of Cri-
noid stems" Dr. Clark says (p. 211) that I have criticized him
for homologizing the column of the crinoid with the sur-anal plate
of the urchins ,,0n the ground that the so-called ,,Palæoechinoidea”,
the oldest known echinoids, lack the sur-anal plate". It might
appear from this that the lacking of the central plate in the
Palæechinoids was the only reason which I could produce against
homologizing the central plate of Echinoids with the stem (or the
dorso-central) of Crinoids. This is, however, very far from being
the case; the Palæechinoids afford - only one of several reasons
against that homology; I may be blamed for having named only
this single point in my letter, but I may give the excuse that
it was a letter, not a scientific paper. — Thinking now (partly
through my fault) that the Palæechinoidea are the only forms of
Echinoids in which the central plate is lacking, Clark has done
away with this difficulty for the said homology through the follow-
ing reasoning: ,,In the structure of the test the ,,Palæoechinoidea"
are in certain ways far more specialized than any recent species,
and, as specialization is usually accompanied to a greater or lesser
degree with the suppression of more or less fundamental primitive
structures” it may be understood that the central plate has been
suppressed here. ,,I (Clark) assumed that, although te sur-anal
plate was usually retained in a more or less reduced form by
all recent types"), there was no reason for supposing that, were
the recent genera to attain multicolumnar ambulacral and interam-
bulacral areas instead of their more primitive bicolumnar areas,
1) The italics are mine.
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such an advance would not be accompanied by the dwindling and
disappearance of the sur-anal. Because the clavicles are small or
entirely absent in the mostly extinct Ratitæ, while in all cases
well-developed in the mainly recent Carinatæ we can not pro-
nounce them unessential features of vertebrate morphology".
This reasoning might, perhaps, be acceptable in case the
Palæechinoids were really the only Echinoids in which the central
plate is lacking — though several severe objections might be
raised against it; this being, however, not the case, the whole
argumentation falls short, and the only natural explanation of the
facts is to assume that the central or suranal plate has not yet
made its appearance in the Palæechinoids.
The plan of the present note is not to give a historical
account of the question, only to give a critical examination of the
central (suranal) plate in the different groups of Echinoids, in
order to show whether it is really an essential feature of Echinoid
morphology, ås maintained by Clark (in accordance with Lovén
and P. H, Carpenter), or it is a late acquisition in Echinoids,
developed independently here, not inherited from the ancestors of
Echinoidea, as I think (in accordance with A. Agassiz"), the Sara-
3388; Neumayr, Jaekel, Semon, Gregory, MacBride,
1) In the DE Er fermge lp. 15) A gassiz Says: »,Ås Loven
has well der Echinids (Cidaris and Salenia), we
find all the sk, we gen of the crinoidial character of the apical
system of the Echinidæ; the calyx being more and more unimportant,
though it always reveals its: typical features". Later on he has
changed his opinion on this matter. In his Monograph on Cala-
moerinus he declares that the apical system of Echinoids with a
single large suranal plate does not represent the primitive condition
and that this plate cannot be homologized with the central plate of
Crinoids. ,In the Crinoids the central area is occupied by a stem or its
representative, and it seems to me more natural to homologize this
central area of the Echini and of the Crinoids than. to attempt, as has
been done, to pick out a single anal plate of the Echini which does
not exist in many recent families, and probably not in many fossil types,
and homologize it with the central plate of Starfishes or of Ophiurans
and the terminal plate of the stem of the larval Comatulæ, as has
been done by Carpenter" (Op. cit. p. 69).
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Bather). Though this has already been done by several authors
(Lovén, Agassiz, the Sarasins, Neumayr), I think the
revision of the question given here will prove not to be superfluous,
partly in view of the several new facts brought forward of later
years, partly because my interpretation of some of the facts and
statements differs not inconsiderably from that of my predecessors.
The Palæechinoidea (— the name used in its wide
sense —) have no central plate, so far as known. In those forms
of which the apical system is known, there are circles of small
plates, arranged along the border of the anal area, and it seems
scarcely too hardy to suppose that they all had their anal system
built after this plan, without a central (suranal) plate. In the
Cystocidaroida the whole apical system appears even to be totally
wanting, a fact which, as is rightly pointed out by Gregory,
»appears fatal to the theory assigning a crinoid ancestry to the
Echinoidea" 1). and to the homology between the plates of the
apical system in Echinoids and those of the calyx in Crinoids.
A. Agassiz (Calamocrinus Diomedeæ. p. 72?) suggests that
»while it is true....that the apical system of the Palæchinidæ,
as far as the adult is concerned, presents no trace of the anal
plate so prominent in young Echinoids, and which is permanent
in Salenia, yet there is nothing to show that the young of those
genera did not possess, like the Euechinoidea, a single central
anal plate in their earliest stages". The facts known from the
other Echinoids, as set forth below, seem to me, on the contrary,
to show that there is no probability at all for supposing that the
young stages of the Palæechinoids did possess a single anal plate.
Agassiz also expresses this latter meaning later on in the same
paper (p. 83): ,,the history of the plates of young Cidaris .... is
decidedly opposed to this view". Thinking to have proved that
the young Cidaris has five radial anal plates (infrabasalia), he con-
1) I W. Gregory. On Echinocystis and Palæodiscus — two Silurian
Genera of Echinoidea. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. LIII. 1897. p. 132.
?) Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. XVII. 1892.
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U
cludes that ,,we are therefore justified in assuming that in the
Palæchinidæ there may have been in the young a similar radial
system of five plates". It may be stated that
the facts known of the anal plates in the Palæ-
echinoidea do not support this suggestion any
more than that of the presence of a primordial
suranal plate. In Bothriocidaris the outer ring
of anal plates is even decidedly interradial in Fi8- 1. Apical
er > system of
position, as shown in Fig. 1 (Comp. Jaekel: Bothriocidaris.
Uber die ålteste Echinidengattung Bothriocidaris. tk small outer plates
Sitz. ber. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin. 1894. p. 245). nottheocular plates,as
The Cidaroidea. The development of the eg okse BES
apical system has been described by Dåderlein, før"? After Jaekel,
A. Agassiz, Lovén and the present author. Dåderlein (Die
Japanischen Seeigel. I. Cidaridæ u. Saleniidæ. 1887. Taf. V.
Fig. 8, p. 28) describes and figures the apical system of a spe-
cimen of (Goniocidaris biserialis of 3 mm diameter. ,,Genital-,
Ocular- und Analplatten waren bereits gesondert; das Analfeld
(nicht gråsser als eine Genitalplatte) war von sieben Platten be-
deckt, die nach dem Verlauf der Nåhte deutlich
darauf hinwiesen, dass eine einfache urspring-
liche Analplatte erst in zwei, dann in drei Stiicke
zerfallen war, deren jedes sich nun weiter theilte".
(Fig. 2). It must certainly be agreed that this
young stage does not prove that there was ori-
Fig. 2. Apical
system of a young
Goniocidaris … up into several smaller ones, and the young stage
biserialis (3 mm). (4 mm diameter) of Plococidaris (Leiocidaris)
ginally a single anal plate, which later on broke
Dåderiiii) verticillata, which Dåderlein figures (Op. cit.
Taf. IX. Fig. 8) shows a quite similar arrange-
ment and number of the anal plates, and thus cannot prove anything
in this regard either.
Å. Agassiz figures in the ,,Revision of Echbini" Pl. Il. c.
fig. 8 the apical system of a young specimen of Dorocidaris
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papillata of 2,4 mm diameter: Though the limits of the plates on
the anal area are not distinctly shown in the figure, it is certain
that there is no trace of a primordial central plate, and Agassiz
so far rightly states (Calamocrinus, p. 74) that ,,there is nothing
known to prove that in the Cidaridæ the anal system is not in the
earliest stages covered by five plates, as in the Arbaciadæ it is
covered by four".
The above quoted descriptions of the anal system of young
Cidarids do not prove anything definite as to the question whether
there is originally a single large suranal plate or not, the spe-
cimens being already too old. It is through the embryos of
Austrocidaris canaliculata, Bhynchocidaris triplopora and Noto-
cidaris gaussensis that we have gained definite knowledge thereof,
all these species having care of the brood, so that stages young
enough to. show the first formation of the anal plates have been
comparatively easily obtainable.
Å pair of young specimens of Austrocidaris canaliculata are
figured on Pl. II. figs. 8—10 of the ,,Challenger" Echinoidea,
without showing, however, any details of the apical system. A more
detailed study of the development of the test of this species was
first given by Lovén, in his ,,Echinologica""), the result of his
researches being, as regards the anal system, that ,,in the centre
there is a small, clear, irregularly pentagonal space, covered by
the general integument (Pl. II. fig. 3). In another specimen (Pl. II.
fig. 5) this space has just been filled with the dorso-central disk
(Pl. II. fig. 6), a still delicate pentagonal lamina of reticulated
calcified tissue, with its thin margins now overlying, now under-
lying those of the costals, in its middle thickened and raised into
the beginning of a verruca".… (Op. cit. p. 5—6).
Here then it seems that the presence of a suranal (central)
plate in the Cidarids has been definitely proved; especially the
quoted fig. 6 of Lovén's paper seems convincing. Nevertheless
1) Bih. Sv, Vet. Akad. Handl. 18. 1892.
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it is not so. In the ,,Panamic Deep Sea Echini" (p. 4, fig. 15)
Å. Ågassiz gives a detailed figure of the anal area of a spe-
cimen 1,5 mm in diameter, showing ,,that in the youngest stages,
about the size of that examined by Lovén, there are already five
anal plates"; as shown by the figure (Pl. 13, fig. 6) there are
three outer, larger plates and two quite small ones inside these.
l have myself examined a specimen in exactly the same stage as
that figured by Lovén in the quoted Fig. 6, Pl. II, and can say
that the apparent large central disk is not really a single plate;
I found there three distinct plates, slightly overlapping with their
edges so that it could only be ascertained by a very careful
examination that it was not a single plate.
In ,,Die Echinoiden der deutschen Sidpolar - Expedition" 1) I
have figured (Taf. XI, Fig. 4) a young stage of Bhynchocidaris
triplopora showing the first development of the anal plates. It
shows a single small plate lying in the space left between the
five large genital plates; in another specimen two other small
plates had just appeared in the anal area. Evidently we "have
then here the same mode of development of the anal plates as
in Austrocidaris canaliculata, several small plates appearing almost
contemporaneously. Certainly one of these plates appears in Bhyn-
chocidaris a short time before the others; but it seems to be quite
unjustified to lay so much stress on this fact as to claim on that
ground alone the homology of this small plate with the central
plate of Salenids — or even with the dorso-central plate of Crinoids.
It is then not quite correct in the description of this developmental
stage, that I have moticed the first formed plate as ,,die Anal-
platte" (Op. cit. p. 11).
In the ,Wwork quoted I have described a young stage of 2 mm
diameter of another viviparous Cidarid, Wotocidaris gaussensis (p.
21). It is stated ,,dass ich am Analfeld nur eine Platte unter-
scheiden kann", As this statement seems contradictory to the
1) Deutsche Sidpolar-Expedition. XI. Zoologie II. 1909.
Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. 1911. Bd. 683. 8
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acts known from the development of Austrocidaris and Rhyncho-
cidaris, I have reexamined the question, the more so as I had
scarcely fully realised the morphological importance of this state-
ment, when that work was written, being at that time still not in
doubt of the correctness of Lovén's view, that a central plate
was typically present in the Cidarids. The reexamination of the
specimen showed the above statement to be correct; there was really
only one anal plate developed, occupying the whole — small — space
between the five genital plates. In two other specimens of the
same size, I find, however, in one three, in the other five or
perhaps six anal plates developed; they were of somewhat diffe-
rent size, which means that they are not developed quite contem-
poraneously; but the difference is so gradual that there seems not
the slightest reason to mark the first developed plate as a ,,cen-
tral" or ,,suranal" plate. The plates were found covering one
another with their edges so that it was only through dissociating the
apical system (by Eau de Javelle) under the microscope that it
became possible to determine the exact number of plates present. (One
of the specimens examined was sent to me from the Berlin Mu-
seum through Dr. R. Hartmeyer, for which I may here express
my gratitude).
A. Agassiz is inclined to lay some stress on the apparent
fact that ,,the first formed anal plates occupy a radial position;
that is, they occupy the same position which the so called infra-
basals do in Ophiurans and Starfishes according to .Carpenter and
Sladen”. — ,,These five radial plates always retain their prominence
in the full grown Cidaris, and have as good a right to be consi-
dered as infrabasals as the plates considered as such in the Ophiu-
ridæ and Starfishes by Carpenter and Sladen" (Calamocrinus, p. 74,
76). If this view were correct the early development of the anal
plates should certainly be expected to show these five plates
to begin nearly contemporaneously; this is, however, not the case.
It has been shown that in the Cidarids thus far studied more
elosely, the anal plates appear from the beginning in the number
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of one, two or three, sometimes five, and. they cannot at all be
said to be placed radially. 'Thus Pl. 13, fig. 6 of the »Panamic Deep
Sea Echini” shows only one of them radially placed, the two
others being decidedly interradial in position. We may then safely
drop the idea of a homology between the outer anal plates of
Cidarids and the infrabasals of Crinoids. It is evidently simply a
consequence of the fact that there is more room left in the corner
between each two genital plates that a more prominent anal plate
is generally found here.
It should further be pointed out that there is no indication
of any anal plate ever breaking up to form several smaller plates,
as suggested by Dåderlein in the sentence quoted above (p. 31).
The plates are seen to be each formed separately.
The Echinothuridæ, with their characteristic large anal area,
covered by numerous small plates, do not beforehand convey the idea of
a single plate covering the anal area from the first. Unfortunately
very little is known regarding the development of their anal plates;
upon the whole the young, postembryonal stages are not known of
any Echinothurid as yet, the youngest specimens known being 3
mm in diameter. A. Agassiz (Revision of Echini, p. 273. PI.
II. c. figs., 1—5) mentions and figures a specimen of that size,
which he refers to ,,Asthenosoma" hystrix. He gives, however,
no description of the apical system of the specimen, so it is of no
interest in this connection (— quite apart from the fact that its
identification is very uncertain —). The ,,Ingolf"-Expedition col-
lected several young specimens of Phormosoma placenta (Sigsbei),
the smallest of which were 3 mm in diameter. In the Part Il
of my work on the Echinoidea of that Expedition I have figured
(p. 24, fig. 1) the apical system of such a specimen, The anal
area is seen to be covered already by a considerable number of
plates; nothing here points towards the existence of a primordial
central plate. The figure is reproduced in Fig. 3.
In the ,,Panamic Deep Sea Echini", p. 75, Agassiz says
that ,,we may be justified in assuming that the anal system is in
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the Echinothuridæ as in the Cidaridæ covered by five small anal
plates". In the young Phormosoma placenta the anal plates do
not show any trace of
five radially placed plates
being the first to appear.
Ås seen from the figure
the outer circle of larger
plates shows a quite
irregular arrangement,
only one being radial
in position. In tlie quoted
place of the ,,Panamic
Deep Sea Echini" Agas-
siz refers to a figure
(Pl. 48, 2) of the apical
system of Phormosoma
Fig. 3. Apical fire of a young Phormo-
soma placenta, 3 mm in diameter. 78/4.
placenta, in which ,,there
seem to be five plates in the angles of the anal pentagon some-
what larger than the others". It may perhaps be possible to
point out in this figure five larger plates along the outer edge
of the anal area, hut these are placed off the genital plates,
viz. interradially; only at one of the oculars a somewhat larger
plate is seen.
It may thus be stated that the little we know as yet of the
development of the Echinothurids is decidedly not in favour of the
supposition that either a central plate or five primordial radial
plates are present in the young specimens.
The embryological development of the apical system in the
Diadematidæ is quite unknown. In the structure of the anal
system of the grown specimens there is nothing pointing towards
the existence of ) also mentions and figures a specimen of a parasitic fly,
whose larva was found in a wound on the head of a bird (Oriolus
cayennensis) in Guyana and im the same paper the author also
shortly records another somewhat greater maggot from the head of
Oriolus mexicanus. Blanchard is inglined to adopt the spe-
cific identity of the bred fly with Aricia pici of Macquard
notwithstanding some differences especially in the colour of the
abdomen, but the late Austrian dipterist Fr. Brauer identified it
with Mesembrina anomala Jaennicke, whose type is found in the
1) Th. Kirsch: Ueber zwei Fliegenlarven aus dem Nacken eines jungen
Sperlings. (Berliner entomol. Zeitschr. 11. Jahrg. 1867 pag. 245).
?) Léon Dufour: Histoires des métamorphoses de la Lucilia dispar
(Ann. d. la Soc. entom. de France 2. Sér. III. 1845 pag. 205)
3) Macquard: Notice sur une nouvelle espéce d'Aricia (Ann. d. la Soc.
entom. de France 3. Sér. I. 1853
1) Loew: Diptera menigt in insula Cuba collecta (Wiener entom. Mo-
natschrift V. 1861 pag
5) R. Blanchard: nd” å Tétude des Diptéres parasites (Troi-
siéme série. Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr. LXV 1896 pag. 652).
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collection von Heyden now in the possession of the museum of
Vienna.
In 1889 Meinert!) described as Philornis molesta n. gen.
n. sp. the 3' stage of a maggot occurring in subcutaneous sacs on
a nestling bird from Brazilia. This maggot is very similar to
Mydæa anomala but differs in some respects, viz. the anterior
pharyngeal sclerite being broader and without the strong spine on
the upper margin; still it is possible that the pharyngeal skeleton
of the Philornis when drawn has been lying in a position that the
spine has coincided with the anterior part of the sclerite, and thus
given the impression of the whole sclerite being broader. The
number of knobs in the anterior spiracles are recorded as 5 in
Philornis, while I have never seen more than 4 in the 3” stage
larva of Mydæa anomala. The general appearence and the po-
Sterior spiracles seem to be quite the same in both larvæ. — At
all events Philornis molesta and Mydæa anomala are closely re
lated species.
The synonomy of this species is thus the following:
Mesembrina anomala Jaenniche. Abhandl. herausgeg. v. d. Sen-
ckenb. naturf. Gesellschaft Vl1 1866—67, pag. 377.
Åricia pici Macq. R. Blanchard. Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr. LXV
1896 pag. 652.
" ? Aricia pici Macquard. Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr. 3. Ser. I. 1853
pag. 655.
? Hylemia angustifrons Loew. Wiener entom. Monatschr. V. 1861.
pag. 41.
? Philornis molesta Meinert. Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Forening
København 1889 pag. 304.
Here I may point out, that when the Katalog der palæark-
fischen Dipteren III gives Philornis molesta Mein. as synonymous
with Protocalliphora azurea Fall., this is only due to the authors
lack of knowledge of the Danish language. They have not realized
") Fr. Meinert: Philornis molesta, en paa Fugle snyltende Tachinarie
(Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Forening, København 1889 pag. 304).
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that Meinerts paper treats of a Brazilian species, and because
Emberiza miliaria is the only bird name mentioned — the Bra-
zilian bird .nestling, which contained the FPhilornis not being
identified — they have supposed, that it was the host of Pi-
lornis. This has caused them to believe Philornis a European
species, and with this wrong deduction it was very natural, that
they should make Philornis a synonym of Protocalliphora; but the
entire reasoning rests on a wrong conception, as Emberiza miliaria
has nothing to do with Påilornis but was merely mentioned inci-
dentally, referring to a communication of Collett on dipterous
larvæ found under the skin of a nestling of the named bird in
Norway.
26.—9.—1911.
Astroclon Suensoni n. sp.
Å new East Åsiatic Euryalid.
Preliminary Notice
by
Dr. Th. Mortensen.
In a collection of zoological objects made this year by Captain
E. Suenson in the Japanese Seas on repairing telegraph cables
there was, among several other interesting Echinoderms, a large
Specimen of a Euryalid which at once attracted my attention. On
a closer examination the specimen was found to belong to the
genus Åstroclon, which was established by Lyman for a single
specimen collected near the Kei Islands by the ,,Challenger" Ex-
pedition (Station 192. Lat. 5? 42'S., Long. 132? 25' E. 129 fathoms;
26: TX. 1874). " The …»Challenger" species, named by Lyman
Åstroclon propugnatoris, being still known only from the single
Specimen dredged by that Expedition, it was very interesting here
to find another specimen, and the interest was even considerably
åugmented through the fact that this specimen proved to be the
representative of another, quite distinct species. I shall give here
a preliminary description of this new species, naming it, in honour
of the collector
Astroclon Suensoni n. sp.
Diameter of disk 55 mm; width of arm near the disk 14—15
mm, height at the same point 12—13 mm.
Vidensk, Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. 1911. Bd. 63. 14
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The mouth angles bear at the apex a tuft of small, spine-like
papillæ, the middle ones being the longest; the outer ones are
only granules, and these granules continue to the edge of the
mouth, covering the sides of the mouth angles. The jaws bear a
bunch of papillæ-like teeth, bordered by some grain-like papillæ;
the teeth are well separated from the tuft of papillæ on the apex
of the mouth angles.
The underside is covered by a thick, finely granulated skin,
through which no plates can be discerned. The upper side of the
disk is covered by a more coarsely granulated skin, bearing
numerous, irregularly arranged, large, round, white tubercles, among
which one in the centre of the disk and one above the base of
each arm are the most prominent. At the edge of the interbrachial
spaces the limit between the coarsely tuberculated upper side and
the nearly smooth underside is marked quite sharply. The radial
shields appear as rather broad ribs, continuing about halfway to
the centre of the disk; at the outer edge they are raised con-
spicuously over the base of the arms. The radial plates themselves
are not seen through the thick covering skin. — The genital slits
are very large, as in Å. propugnatoris.
The arms are clad on their strongly arched dorsal side by the
same coarsely granulated covering as the disk, the large tubercles
continuing, without decreasing conspicuously in size or number,
until the first forking. From there they diminish both in size and
number, until beyond the third or fourth forking only one larger
tubercle is indicated on each arm joint, or, farther out, with more
irregular intervals. The smaller granules, on the other hand, con-
tinue still farther out, disappearing only on the outer, fine branches.
The rings of hooklets may begin between the first and second
forking, but are not regular till beyond the second forking. The
underside of the arm, which is almost flat, is covered by a rather
coarsely, but uniformly granulated skin. — The highly character-
istic deep tentacular pits are very conspicuous far out on the arms,
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gradually diminishing in size, until beyond the second forking they
disappear. The arm spines are short, thick, skinclad, with the
point somewhat thorny. They are arranged in transversal rows,
five in number in the larger basal part of the arm. On the joiuts
contained in the disk (7) their number is somewhat inconstant,
sometimes only 4, or even 2; on the. second joint there are only
2—3, on the first joint none. From the second forking the number
of the arm spines diminishes, until at the outer branches there is
only one; contemporaneously they become more slender, but they
are not transformed into hooks.
" Ås in A. propugnatoris the arms widen from the mouth
towards the edge of the disk, from there diminishing in width very
gradually outwards. The arms are somewhat unequally developed,
both as regards their size and the distances between the forkings,
as seen from the measurements of two arms given here:
Årm ÅA. Arm B.
Length from base to 1. forking ... 75 mm. 95 mm.
snes ae l. - 2. — ... 40—42 — 33 —
me en 2. - 8. — ... 14—58 — 40—15 —
These measurements also indicate that the two branches of a
forking are mostly of very unequal length.
The skin covering the upper side of the disk and the arms
is of a brownish colour which makes the large white tubercles the
more prominent.
The specimen was taken at lat. 32? 20' N., long. 1282 15' E.;
110 fathoms; bottom temperature 11,1? (52? F.). 17. V. 1911. It
Was, unfortunately somewhat damaged, two of the arms being
broken a little inside the first forking and another arm being
broken within the disk, but remaining attached by the dorsal skin.
Also the specimen of A. propugnatoris was somewhat similarly
damaged. It thus appears that the species of this genus are rather
fragile in spite of their stoutness.
14”
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The main characters distinguishing this species from A. pro-
pugnatoris are the large tubercles on the upper side of disk and
arms, the more coarsely granulated under side of the arms and the
granules covering the sides of the mouth angles. Further the dark
patches on disk and arms, so characteristic of AÅ. propugnatoris
are not found in the present species.
18.—10—1911,
Danish freeliving Nematodes.
By
Hjalmar Ditlevsen,
Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.
The present paper is a contribution to the knowledge of the
freeliving Nematodes of Denmark, a part of our fauna to which
almost no attention has been paid till now. It treats 59 species,
distributed on 21 genera. The great majority are land- and fresh-
water species. I have included a few marine littoral forms which
I met with accidentally, e. g. Rhabditis marina which Bastian
described in 1866 from Falmouth. 8 species have not been de-
scribed before.
Though the work is mainly faunistic there are included some
observations of biological and morphological facts. Such facts will
be found under the respective species.
All the animals dealt with were collected by the author.
Consequently the majority originate from the surroundings of Copen-
hagen. A smaller part was taken near the mouth of the Isefjord,
near Lynæs. The Jutland-forms I collected on a journey last sum-
mer (1910) at the expense of the Japetus Steenstrup fuud, for
which beg to offer my best thanks.
I am much indebted to the Carlsberg fund for the support it
has given my work by enabling me to procure suitable instru-
ments, and also for having paid the phototypic reproduction of
the plates.
I wish to thank Dr. de Man in Yerseke for the kindness
with which he has plåced at my disposal his great knowledge
whenever I have addressed myself to him.
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With our present knowledge of the Nematodes it is not pos-
sible to draw a sharp line between the freeliving and parasitic
forms. Thus we have the heterogene species with a parasitic and
a freeliving generation, forms as Angiostomum nigrovenosum, com-
mon in the lungs of frogs and Strongyloides intestinalis whose
parasitic generation lives in the intestine of man and mammals.
Then we have a number of species living in putrefying substances
and plant decay, many of which are transitional forms to parasitic
life. It is proved that several of these forms can occasionally
become parasitic; such cases are recorded from time to time in the
special medical literature. As to other species it is proved of late
that they can be found both as real entoparasites in plants and
free in the earth. That the number of these will increase con-
siderably in future is beyond doubt. Besides these partly or facul-
tative parasites and besides the Nematodes of putrefaction we have
for the rest the great number of species living free in earth and
water, which far exceed the other groups in number. As far as
our present knowledge extends, they are not parasitic though we
must say that the life of a great number of forms depends on
plants or particularly roots of plants. The supposition, generally
found in the literature that the majority of Anguillulines live in
putrefying substances is scarcely correct. Bitschli has already
objected to it; he writes: ,,Ich suchte diese freilebende Nematoden
mit ganz geringen Ausnahmen vergeblich in Wasser, Schlamm oder
Erde, die schon durch den Geruch sich als deutlich faulend er-
wiesen. Gewédhnlich fand ich den Schlamm stark riechender Ge-
wåsser ganz frei von unseren Thierchen, ebenso die schon angefaul-
ten Confervenmassen auf der Oberflåche derartiger Gewåsser. Eine
reiche Fauna unserer Thiere. entwickelt sich hingegen in reinem
und vorzugsweise fliessendem Wasser." The species found in putre-
fying substances are ordinarily quite distinct forms which are re-
presentatives of a few genera, the most common of which are
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Rhabditis, Diplogaster and Cephalobus. De Man, who in his
large Monograph exclusively deals with the ,.in der reinen Erde
und im stssen Wasser lebenden Nematoden” divides these in the
strictest sense of the word free-living forms, after the different soil
in which they live. He establishes five groups, namely:
Omnivage-Arten,
Wiesemnematoden,
Sandnematoden,
Brachwassernematoden,
Stisswassernematoden.
With the word ,,Brachwassernematvden" de Man indicates
the forms living in earth, saturated with brackish water; he tells
himself that the word is an abbreviation of ,,Brachwassererdenema-
toden", This sort of soil which is, of course, found to a great
extent in Holland has its own fauna containing forms which are
neither to be found in the sea nor in freshwater. The Sand-
Nematodes are especially found in dunes; the omnivaging forms
occur in all sorts of earth besides fresh-water and the sea. A fact
which would be of great interest to get explored, is the extension
downwards in the soil of the different species of Nematodes. It is
connected with the question of their dependence on the plants and
Could possibly also throw light upon their relation to organic sub-
stances in the earth as well as to other in the earth living
organisms.
Ås to collecting and preparation I shall notice the following:
I immediately put the gathered material wbich has to be examined
for Nematodes in tin-boxes or in glasses with tight-fitting covers
or corks; then it will not dry up and the animals will keep living
for a long time. This summer I have re-examined some of the
material which I gathered last summer on a journey in Jutland and
which has been standing during the winter in such boxes or glasses
and it proved that it still contained lots of Nematodes besides
Oligochetes, Tardigrades, Podura and larvæ of Insects, in short
the whole fauna which is commonly found in such material, ap-
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parently well and comfortable. — For the purpose of finding the
animals I employ quite flat glass-cups of c. 20 ctm. in diameter.
Here I pour water over the material and spread it over the cup.
It is not convenient to have too much of earth as it renders the
searching for the animals difficult; it is not easy especially to search
in fatty mould and clayey material. 'The glass-cup is placed on a
black underlayer, raised a little over it, on the turned cover of a
Petri-cup and then I begin the search by means of a good
lens. The animals are taken with a very fine needle — for the
smallest forms a pipette is employed, drawn out in a long fine
tip — and placed in a watch-glass with some water. From here
they are picked up and placed one by one on a slide for examina-
tion. Many of them being very agile — in that respect the various
species behave most differently — it is necessary to make them
immobile, and this is generally done by holding the slide for a
moment cautiously over a small spirit-flame; thereafter the cover-
slip is applied. which must be supported by wax or the like.
If these animals are to be prepared for study or for Museum
use it is preferable to mount them on slides on account of their
diminutiveness. Several fluids are recommended for fixation. De
Man employes a mixture of Glycerine 3 and acetic acid 1/3.
I have not succeeded in employing this and others have had the.
same misfortune; Orley thus says in his paper: ,,Die Rhabditiden
und ihre medicinische Bedeutung", that ,,solche Pråparate sehr auf-
hellen und schrumpfen". Jågerskjåld recommends in his paper
of 1901: ,,Weitere Beitråge zur Kenntniss der Nematoden" a mixture
of Alcohol 50 %/0, 70—90, Glycerine, c. 30—70 and glacial acetic
acid, c. one drop. Loos recommends mixtures of a similar com-
position (Zool. Anz. 1901) and Orley employs picro-sulphuric,
solution of corrosive sublimate and !/4 per cent solution of osmic
acid, —
I have tried for my preparations most of these reagents with
unequal results and moreover I have tried a number of other mix-
tures which I thought might be employed with success. These
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animals being, as known, provided with a very thick cuticula it is
of importance to find well penetrating fluids; this is not the case
with osmic acid. This fluid, in my opinion, can only be employed
upon diminutive species and in this case, in accordance with the
well known method employed on Protozoans, namely on the slide with
osmic vapour by holding the slide inverted over the mouth of a
bottle containing a 1 per cent solution of osmic acid, for five mi-
nutes. Ås far as my experience goes, the same fluid that can be
used for some forms cannot be employed with success on all. One
of the mixtures which has most satisfied me and which I used for
a long while is a mixture of a saturated solution of Picric acid
3 and glacial acetic acid 1. It has the advantage that it kills
the Nematodes instantly and that the animals always assume their
natural shape, viz. either stretched out or more or less curved, as
the stiff cuticula will permit, without incalculable torsions caused
by contractions of the muscles, which can be of the most disturbing
effect when the animals are to be mounted on the slides. The
mixture will also bring about a profitable differentiation so that
the nrgans, often even the nuclei of the cells will appear distinctly.
The weak point is that some shrinking is inevitable. I shall here
add, that 1 never — as is generally recommended — apply the
mixture from the edge of the cover-slip. I take the animal with
a needle and put it direct into a watch-glass, filled with the fixa-
tion-fluid.
On account of the above mentioned shrinking I have of late
employed the following mixture: Formaline, 6, Alcohol 90 Yo, 20,
glacial acetic acid, 1 and aqua destill., 40. This I find gives very
beautiful results. — Boiling with Alcohol after the method of
Loos, that has proved so excellent for the greater parasitic forms
is not applicable to the case under consideration. After fixation I
remove the animals into a mixture of Glycerine, 1, Alcohol 90 "Yo,
1, Aqua destill. 2 for evaporation, and thereafter they are mounted
on the slide in pure Giycerine or Glycerine-Gelatine.
In spite of all pains taken 1 have not succeeded in getting
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good preparations of all the species I have met with. Among
forms difficult to prepare I may name: 7ylenchus, Plectus, Ce-
phalobus and the smaller species of Diplogaster and Rhalbditis. On
the whole the larger forms seem to give the best results on pre-
paration, especially the Dorylaimi.
Monohystera dispar Bastian.
1865. Bastian, 1 c p 97: PE FX, fig. I and 2:
1873. Bitschli, — p. 63. Tf. IV, fig. 24 a and b. (M. crassa).
1884. de Man, — p. 41. Tf. III. fg. 12.
I have this species, whose male is not known, only from the
lake of Furesø, where it was taken .quite near the bank and in
the very edge of the water on roots of plants. I have only seen
a few specimens; it seems not to ;be so common in this country
as it is in Holland according to de Man. The individuals also
appear to be a little smaller. The length of the specimens, I have
measured, is 0,4—0,7 mm. I note here the dimensions of å
mature female that had one egg in the Mere, it was taken in
August 1900.
Zeiss Okularmikrom., Obj. C. Oc. 2.
Length 87 = 0,57 mm.
Oesophag. 19.
Vulva 55.
Tail 15.
Breadth 4.
The formula of de Man gives: a— 22, 2 = 42, 7 = 6.
Monohystera socialis Bitschli.
1874, Bitschli, p. 28. Tf. II. figg. 8 a—d,
Bitschli found this species very abundant in a brackish-
water basin named ,,kleinen Kiel” in the town of Kiel. Here the
animal lives essentially in the masses of Oscillaria. Buitschli
tells how, taking clumps of Oscillaria with water in a glass, he
saw a great number of the named species ,,wie Spinnweben zwischen
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den einzelnen Klumpen und an den Wånden des Gefåsses hinziehen;
andere ballen sich zu Klumpen zusammen, in welchen sich viele
Hunderte der Thierchen umeinander herumwinden". The description
Bitschli gives of the behaviour of this species reminds one of
other Nematodes of putrefaction, for instance Rhabditis and Diplo-
gaster, which forms it resembles as to the great number of eggs
which it produces. It is ovoviviparous, a fact that is often observed
among the Rhabditides, and the body of the female is frequently
swarming with large young.
I have found this species both in the Kalkbrænderihavn near
Copenhagen and at Charlottenlund. And even if I have not seen
it in such lots as Bitschli describes, my opinion is that it is
a rather common littoral-form which will appear in putrefying sea-
weed and which probably can be found all round our coasts.
Monohystera crassissima n. sp.
Pl. III. Figs. 14, 15, 22.
I found the species for the first time in July 1909 among
Conferves from a pool on the meadow near Øresund by Hellerup.
As the material had been standing for a few days in a Petri-cup
and began to putrefy I remarked that the individuals of the Nema-
todes increased conspicuously in number and after some days more
I had a regular culture. This only kept for a while; when the
putrefaction augmented the animals died rather speedily. Later I
have taken the species several times at the same locality but al-
ways only single individuals and I have not succeeded in my
attempts at getting a culture anew. I suppose that we here have
to do with a typical Nematode of putrefaction like MM. socialis
Biitschli, the single specimens I have met with later on being young,
immature individuals roamingabout.
The shape of this species is extraordinarily clumsy but it is
very agile and has some resemblance to diminutive fly-maggots,
which is particularly striking where it is found in abundance. It
has its average width about the middle of body and is tapering at
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the extremities. The cuticula is smooth, beset with long fine setæ.
The lateral organ is large, circular and, when seen in profile, rather
deep with a slight elevation in the centre; it is placed rather near
the anterior end (fig. 22). The tail is rather short and contains
three excretory glands debouching on its blunt rounded tip. The
mouth is slightly cup-shaped and rather flat. Oesophagus increasing
towards its proximal end, is here only a little thicker than near
the mouth. The glands on the limit between the intestine and
the oesophagus are not very conspicuous. The intestine consisting
of two rows of cells is rather dark-coloured and frequently contains
Diatoms. The ovary stretches far forwards in the body-cavity; on
the preparations it can be followed beyond the proximal end of
the oesophagus but then it tapers and is lost, so that it is
impossible exactly to indicate the limit. Unfortunately I have no
observations in that respect from living specimens. The anus is
situated about half-way between the vulva and the end of the tail,
a little nearer the latter. The vulva is forming a broad transverse
fissure and the vagina is placed vertically to the longitudinal
axis of the animal, not parallel to the rectum as often is the case
in this genus. The spicules of the male are very characteristic;
they are bent in an obtuse angle and being thickest in the angle
they have a dilatation proximal to this on the ventral side. The
tip is curved slightly upwards and ends bluntly. The distal
half is surrounded by a sheath-like apparatus, consisting of a very
thin membrane provided with two pointed tips stretching backwards
in the animal.
Zeiss Ocularmikrom. Obj. A. Oc. 2.
2? Length. 110 <= 1,7 mm. d' Length 90 =— 1,4 mm.
Oesoph. 20. Oesoph. 19.
Vulva 75. Tail 13.
Anus 95. Width 6.
Tal 25:
Width 8.
så a—14,8=5)2,7 =7.
The formula of de Man gives ne sonate re De
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Monohystera similis Bitschli.
1878: Bitscli, p/ 62 TV fg) 30'4— 0
1884. de Man, p. 40. T. III. fig. 11.
Referring to the descriptions which Bitschli and de Man'
have given of the species, I shall point out, that it is frequently
found in the Ordrup Mose in the pools near the gate which leads
to Dyrehaven at the house of the ;,Posemand". It lives here
especially among Lemna trisulca and on the roots of Hydrocharis
morsus ranæ. It is very agile with characteristic movements; it
swims by putting the body in a quickly swinging or oscillating
motion like the larvæ of certain gnats. When it has advanced a
little in this manner it stops short with the body stretched out
and lies as dead, till it after a moment resumes its movements in
the described manner.
Tripyla papillata Bitschli.
1873. Bitschli, p. 52. T. VI. fig. 35 a—b.
1884; de Man, p 47; TV. fø. 19,
This species has been taken in the Furesø and in the Lyngby
Sø where it seems to be very common. In the Furesø it occurs on
the roots of the plants in the edge of the water, in the Lyngby
Sø it was taken on the roots of Stratiotes aloides. Besides this a
single specimen was found in damp moss near the bank of a little
pond in Dyrehaven, near Springforbi.
Tripyla affinis de Man.
1884. de Man, p. 48. T, V. fig. 20.
De Man writes, that this species occurs in ,,die feuchte Erde
der Wiesen und Marschgrinde"; the Danish localities are all near
the sea or brackish water. It was taken on the meadow near Øre-
sund by Hellerup together with Oncholaimus thalassophygas de Man
and other typical ,,Brackwassernematoden"; other localities are Hunde-
sted and Lynæs, near the Isefjord, on roots of plants.
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Tripyla setifera Bitschli.
1873. Bitscehli; p. 51. T.VI. fig. 86 a—f
1884. de Man, p. 46. T. IV. 4ig..47.
Bitschli found this species on the roots of fungi in a wood,
de Man indicates both roots of plants in the moist meadows of
Holland and in mould. The only locality where it has been found
in Denmark is in swampy tracts of boggy land between Hulsig
and Kandestederne, near the Scaw.
Cyatholaimus intermedius de Man.
1884; de Man, p. 58. T.VL Å. 25:
In Lynæs were taken two females and one male. The females
have been collected near the harbour on roots of grass in a little
pond used as watering-place for cattle. The male originates from
roots of plants near the Isefjord. The male differs from the species
of de Man in having 6 præanal papillæ.
I note the measurements for a male and a female.
Zoiss Okularmikrom, A,, Og, 2:
d' Length 74 —= 1,1 mm. 2 Length 64 = 1 mm.
Oesoph. 9. Oesoph. 9.
iv re Vulva 28.
Width 2. Tail 7,
Width 2.
HE RR KE sml eh ere
e formula of de Man gives 9, a=32, $=7,r7— 9.
Spilophora glophila de Man.
Pl. IV. figs. 32 and 34.
1876. de Man, p. 85. T. X. fig. 40 a—Db.
1884, de Man, p: 58. T. VIL fig; 29,
This species has been collected on the meadow by Hellerup
near Oresund in a few specimens. It appears to differ inconspic-
uously from the illustrations of de Man in respect to the chitinous
thickenings of the mouth-cavity; the oral bristles also are relatively
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a little thicker on the specimens from Hellerup (see the figs. 32
and 34).
Chromadora Leuckarti de Man.
1884. de Man, p. 58. TF. VIIL fr. 30:
Å young specimen, female, taken at the Furesø 5. VI, 11.
There is certainly no doubt that it is the species named; it agrees
perfectly with the description of de Man. The animal is 0,8 mm
in length.
Zeiss Okularmikrom. Obj. C. Oc. 2.
Length 154 — 0,8 mm.
Oesoph. 19.
Vulva 62.
Fa 17,
Width 4. :
The formula of de Man gives: a— 32, 2=7, 7 = 8.
Chromadora Ørleyi de Man.
Pl. IV. figs. 35 and 37.
1884. de Man p. SX TV. fig SE
This species was also taken at the Furesø among plants in
the edge of the water, only once, but in many specimens. In a
male I have counted 16 præanal papillæ of the typical form. The
male spicules differ a little in form from the illustration given by
de Man in having a dilatation in its proximal end (see fig. 35).
Hypodontolaimus inæqualis (Bast.).
1865. Bastian, p. 166. T. XIII. fig. 223—225.
1874. Bitschli, p. 44.
1886. de Man, p. 66.
1888. de Man, p. 39.
1904. Jågerskjåld, p. 417.
This species seems to be common at the coasts of Oresund.
It has been collected in the ,,Kalkbrænderihavn" near Copenhagen,
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at Charlottenlund and Klampenborg among Ulva and Enteromorpha.
It is evident that it requires only a small degree of saltness as it
has been taken together with Onc/olaimus thalassophygas d. M. on
the meadow by Hellerup near Øresund.
Mononchus papillatus Bastian.
1865. Bastian, p. 101. Pl, TX, fig. 27-28.
18783: "Bitsch, -p. 76. P, II, fig, 19 4—Db.
1884. de Man, p. 64. T. IX. fig. 35.
Evidently this species is very common in Denmark; it has
been taken at Lynæs, at the Furesø by Frederiksdal, Lyngby Mose,
Charlottenlund and Kildeskoven. In Jutland it was collected at Kande-
stederne, in a pond among the dunes by Lønne and at Nymindegab
opposite to the mouth of Ringkøbing Fjord. It can by no means be
called ,,ziemlich selten" here such as de Man indicates it to be
in Holland. De Man notes that it occurs ,,in der feuchten Erde
auf Wiesen und Marschgriuden sowohl in Siisswasser- als in Brack-
wassergegenden"; this also agrees with its occurrence in Denmark.
A curious fact is, that it can be found both in sandy marshland,
among dunes and in fat mould.
The Danish form agrees almost perfectly with the description
of de Man, differing only in the fact that the chitinous list
situated in the cavity of the mouth opposite to the dorsal tooth is
slightly serrated, a fact which has not hitherto been observed.
Mononchus speectabilis n. sp.
Pl. II. figs. 17, 19, 27, 28, Pl. IV. fig. 36.
In March 1910 the author found in some material from the
meadow by Hellerup near Oresund several Mononchs resembling
highly the Mononchus papillatus, only conspicuously larger and,
what is the most remarkable, the males being about as numerous
as the females.
All the species of the genus Mononchus show the peculiarity
that they will float on the surface of the water as if their cuticula
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were greasy, If some material is spread in a flat glass-cup and
water is poured over it, the Mononchs will mount rapidly and be
lying on the surface dry and shining. This peculiarity I have only
observed in one genus besides the Monouchs, namely in the genus
Ironus. It seems to be a peculiarity of. these genera; I have seen
it as well in Jronus ignavus as in Ironus longicaudatus and it is
the case with all the species of Mononchus I have examined. It
is very remarkable and it has surprised me that it is mentioned
nowhere in the literature. In the case referred to, the Nematodes
suddenly swarmed to the surface of the water which was poured
out over the material in a glass cup: they resembled perfectly
diminutive steel-needles which had suddenly become alive, and it
Was now an easy matter — on account on the largeness of the
species — to pick them up and place them into a watch-glass.
The examination of the animals gave the following result:
the females reached the length of 4 mm, the males the length of
3,6 mm. As to form and aspect the animals agree in some measure
with the Mononchus papillatus. Behind the head the body is
inconspicuously constricted. The cavity of the mouth is about
twice as long as wide, the distal half being a little wider than the
proximal half in that this is tapering towards the oesophagus, in
the distal end of which it is ending pointed. In this way the
0esophagus is encompassing about the proximal third of the mouth-
cavity. The dorsal tooth is placed in the upper half of the mouth
and its apex is running obliquely inwards and forwards. The de-
Current edge of the tooth is visible to the: commencement of the
0esophagus. Opposite to the tooth is found a thickened chitinous
ridge the middle of which is serrated. Between this and the tooth
another chitinous list is seen without serration and relatively incon-
Spicuous. The shape of the cavity of the mouth is on account of
these lists prismatic, triangular in transverse section. The oeso-
phagus is very muscular and has a conspicuous chitionous intima,
which reaches a little way downwards into the lumen of the intes-
tine, a case not uncommon in the Mononchs. The vulva is placed
Vidensk, Méddel. fra den naturh. Foren. 1911. Bd. 63. 15
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a little behind the middle of the body; the ovaries do not reach
far; the postvaginal part does not reach the middle between the
vulva and the anus; the antevaginal part about a third of the
distance to the proximal end of the oesophagus. Usually are found
two eggs in the uterus, sometimes I have observed more, up to four.
The cells of the intestine are filled with oil-globules. The tail
is conical and pointed and always highly bent inwards, towards
the vent, getting the shape of a hook.
The male is inconspicuously more slender than the female and
increases from the point where the masculine papillæ commence, in
the way that the animal assumes its greatest circumference at
the anus. The bursal musculature is highly developed and the
numerous papillæ which are very prominent appear to have a lateral
position, forming two longitudinal rows between which the body of
the animal appears to be groove-shaped. The spicules are angular
and provided with a longitudinal list in their distal half; an ac-
cessory piece of a characteristical shape much resembling that of
M. tridentatus figured by de Man in 1876, T. XIII, fg. 50.
There is no doubt, that the form here described is closely related
to the M. papillatus, especially as a more thorough examination has
proved, that the M. papillatus is also provided with a serrated
list opposite to the dorsal tooth. The principal deviations between
the two forms are the following: 1) the difference of dimensions,
2) the position of the vulva which in M. spectabilis is situated a
little behind the middle of the body, in M. papillatus at the be-
ginning of the last third part of the animal; 3) the length of the
tail, which is more considerable in M. papillatus and finally the
fact, that the male of the M. papillatus is unknown, while the
male of the M. spectabilis is about as numerous as the female.
If the two forms should prove to be identical it must be
supposed that an alternation of generations takes place such as de
Man supposes with Trilobus, but for the present I find it most cor-
rect to consider the MM. spectabilis as specifically different from
M. papillatus.
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Zeiss Okularmikrom. A. Oc. 2.
Female. Male.
Length 250 — 4 mm. Length 228 — 3,6 mm.
Oesoph. 50. Oesoph. 46.
Vulva 135. Tåil..5;
Tail c. 8, Width 5.
Width 8.
For the female the formula of de Man gives: a = 31,
2=5, r— 5.
Mononchus brachyuris Bitschli.
1873. Bitschli, p.77. T. III & IV. fig. 20 a—e.
1884. de Man, p. 66, T. IX. fig. 37.
This species has in Denmark about the same distribution as
M. papillatus but it is decidedly more unconmmon. Hitherto I
have not seen the male, which for the rest is known. The species
is apparently fond of dampness like the other Mononchs. It was
collected on the roots of Menyanthes trifoliata in a bog at
Lynæs. Further it has been taken in the bog by ,,Vintapper-
gaarden", near Lyngby. In Jutland it was collected in the boggy
regions between ,,Hulsig" and ,,Kandestederne”, in a bog near the
»Kandestederne" and on roots of plants at the bank of a pond
between Nymindegab and Nørre-Nebel.
Mononchus macrostoma Bastian.
1865. Bastian, p. 101. Pl. IX, fig. 29—30.
1884. de Man, p. 63. T. IX. fig. 34.
Among all the Danish Mononchs this species has the widest
distribution; it has been collected at nearly all the places where I
have met with other species of the genus. It is one of the most
common of all our freeliving Nematodes. On Sjælland it has been
collected at the ,,Furesø", in the Ermelund, on roots of plants,
in Lyngby Mose, Hellerup Strandeng, Ordrup Mose, at Lynæs in a
bog near the plantation. Further it has been taken on the little
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island Egholm in Storebelt where it was found in abundance in a
little pool. In Jutiand is was taken on the northern shore of
the Scaw where it occurs in a ditch among the dunes near the sea;
at ,,Kandestederne" in a bog, and finally in the little pond at
Lønne near Nørre-Nebel. The male was observed only once, namely
in Ordrup Mose, Aug. 1909.
Mononchus dolichurus n. sp.
PI gå SR MIE
This exceedingly nice and characteristic form was found in
the wide boggy regions between Hulsig and Kandestederne in Jut-
land. In spite of an eager search in the material it has been
impossible for me to find more than one specimen, a female.
Though not still mature — the female organs are just laid down
and form a little sausage-shaped body which indicates the place of
the vulva not yet developed — the animal has a length of ca. 4 mm.
Thus it will probably prove to be larger than most of the other
species of this genus.
The front part which tapers very little is beset with two circles
of rather conspicuous papillæ; behind these the body is incon-
spicuously constricted as in M. spectabilis. The cavity of the
mouth, which in optical "section appears to be regularly barrel-
shaped, is probably prismatic and in transverse section triangular.
The dorsal tooth, which is relatively small and has its apex turned
downwards, is placed in the proximal half of the mouth-cavity; its
distance from the bottom is about the third of the length of the
former. Besides this tooth some inconspicuous conical prominences
are found partly opposite to the tooth, partly in the bottom of the
mouth-cavity. I count all in all seven. Oesophagus has the form
usually found in the Mononchs but has three or four inconspic-
uously developed lobes at its proximal end, a case not found in
other species of this genus (Fig. 11). The tail, after which I have
named the animal, is longer than in any species. of. this genus
hitherto known; it measures but 47/2 in the length of the animal.
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It is kept bent inwards towards the vent forming a regular cir-
cular arch. (fig. 10). The movements of the animal are very slow.
After having written the above, the material in which the
specimen dealt with was found has been re-examined and I
sueceeded in finding one specimen more, unfortunately also an
immature female being a little smaller than the individual which
was found at first. It gives no further information.
Zeiss" Okularmikrom. Obj. A; 00. 2;
Length 247 — 4 mm.
Oes. 62.
Vulva 148.
Tal 55;
Width 6.
The formula of de Man gives: 0—41, 2=4, 7 =4"/2.
Oncholaimus thalassophygas de Man.
1884; de Man,;slL-0: p/ 68 T; X fig 80.
1889. de Man, po T.YL: fig 1 ac:
There is not much to be said of the distribution of this
species in this country; it is very common on Hellerup Strandeng.
It occurs in pools that are by turns filled with water and dry. It
was collected on the roots of Scirpus and Aster tripolium and among
Conferves. Besides the named locality it has only been taken at
Dragør near the ,,Badehotel", a place resembling that at Hellerup.
The Danish specimens agree essentially with the specimens described
by de Man from the isle of Walcheren.
Oncholaimus viridis Bastian.
1865: "Bastian, 1 0-9. 187, Ph.XL fig 197 and 188.
Å form resembling the Oncholaimus viridis occurs abundantly
at our coasts. The different proportions do not agree perfectly with
what is known of this species. On the other side this is the only
one of the species with a single ovary of this genus described by
Bastian, to which it can be ranged with some reasonableness. I
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have not found it reasonable to establish for the present a new
species on it. It has been collected at Charlottenlund, in the ,,Kalk-
brænderihavn”" and at Lynæs among putrefying seaweed.
Zeiss' Okularmikrom. A. Oc. 2.
2 Length 292 — 4,7 mum.
Qes. 26.
Vulva 222.
Tail 3.
Width 4.
Oncholaimus oxyuris n. sp.
PETE fø 8, 9718, 185:
, This form, so far as I can see new to science, has been col-
lected on Hellerup Strandeng and later in Dragør, near the ,,Bade-
hotel". It appears to be closely related to Oncholaimus viridis
Bast. which it resembles in several respects, but it differs from this
species in having the tail rather different. in form. — The head is
truncate, with a circlet of 10 short, stout setæ. The length of the
pharyngeal cavity is about twice its width and provided with the
usual 3 teeth among which the ventral tooth is the larger. The
porus excretorius is placed at a distance behind the bottom of the
pharyngeal cavity equal to the length of the latter. The female organ
is unsymmetrical like that in O. viridis and stretches forwards in the
body; the uterus is rather spacious and is able to contain a con-
siderable number of eggs, up to eleven. The vulva is not prominent
as is the case in O. viridis. The tail is tapering considerably
behind the anus and the tip of the former is constricted to a little
finger-shaped appendage, curved towards the vent. The tail of the
male differs somewhat from that of the female and is on the ven-
tral side slightly spoon-shaped. The edge of this excavation is on
both sides beset with a row of very strong and stout setæ.
Between the spoonshaped excavation and the tip of the tail is
placed a postanal, domical papilla which is possibly double. The
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spicules are rather short, slender and slightly curved; no acces-
sory piece. :
As for the female the following measurements have been
taken on a specimen which de Man has had the kindness to
examine; the results of my measurements differ a little from those
of de Man; this difference is probably caused by the considerable
bending of the "animal prepared rendering exact measuring dif-
ficuli. I have found it correct to give my own results here.
The above mentioned deviations are insignificant.
Zeiss Okularmikrom. Å: Qé. 2.
? Length 250 =— 4 mm. c' Length 238 = 3,8 mm.
Oes. 35. Oes. 33.
Vulva 172. Tail c. 4.
Pal 5 Width 5.
Width 5.
. — 50, 2=7, y = 50.
SrTNg
De Man's formula | 3 aq væ 47, fm 1, p == 60.
Eurystoma terricola de Man.
1907: de an; KE: SE BYS EPE
This nice form has been collected in several specimens at
Lynæs, near the bank of the Isefjord, partly on the roots of
Salicornia and Atriplex partly among horse-manure, lying on the
beach. After de Man it occurs in ,la terre humide aux bords des
fossés d'eau saumåtre å Vile de Walcheren".
Enoplus communis Bastian.
1865. Bastian, p. 148. Pl. XIL fig. 164—166.
1866. Schneider, p. 57. T. IV. fig. 9—13 (E. cochleatus).
1874. Bitschli, p. 40. fig. 55 a—b.
Lynæs, on roots of plants in the edge of the water by Ise-
fjord; Dragør, near the Badehotel.
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Ironus ignavus Bastian.
PL TY. fig; 58.
1865... Bastian, p. 104. Pl. IX. fig. 34 a—b.
1876. Bitschli, p. 384. T. XXV. fig. :15 a—e.
1884. de Man, p. 70. T. X. fig. 40,
This species occurs rather abundantly in the Dyrehaven near
the Fuglesangsø. It lives here in black mud and damp mould
where it would be almost impossible to find it, if it had not the
same peculiarity as the Mononchs, namely to swim on the surface
of the water. If some mud is spread in a flat glasscup and water
is poured over it the animals will mount to the surface where they
can be easily collected by help of a needle. Later the species has
"been taken at the Furesø together with Dorylaimus stagnalis and
Trilobus gracilis, just the same species among which Bitschli has
collected it in the river of Main. The female organ, the character-
istic ring-musculature of which is discussed both by Bitschli
and de Man, I have taken the opportunity to figure. The dimen-
sions of the Danish specimens agree principally with those from the
river of Main.
I note the measurements of a female of middle size:
Zeiss Okularmikrom. Å. Oc. 2.
Length 213 — 3,4 mm.
Oes. 39.
Vulva 111.
Tail 18.
Width 4.
Phar. cavity 71/2,
The formula of de Man gives: a— 53, 2 =— 51/2, 7 — 16.
Ironus longicaudatus de Man.
1884: de Man, p; 71, T. XXXIV. fig, 140;
The I. longicaudatus occurs at localities much resembling
those in which J. ignavus lives; it has f. i. been taken in mud
from the Fuglesangssø in Dyrehaven. Further it has been colleeted
m a pool in Dyrehaven near Springforbi. In Jutland it was taken
in a trench between Nørre Nebel and Nymindegab with very fer
ruginous water.
While the male of 7. ignavus occurs about as abundantly as the
female this is not the case with I. Jongicaudatus; though I have
collected a lot of specimens I have not met with a single male.
I give the measurements for a female with two eggs in the
uterus.
Zeiss Okularmikrom. A. Oc. 2.
Length 166 — 1,2 mm.
Qes. 26.
Tail 40.
Vulva 66.
Phar. cavity 7.
Width 4.
The formula of de Man givos: a—1411, 2—6!l3, 7 = 4.
Trilobus gracilis Bastian.
Pl. III. figs, 16 and 20.
1865. Bastian, p. 99. Pl. IX. fig. 20—22.
1873. Bitschli, p. 53. T. IV. fig. 321 a—e, 23 a—b.
ISS DS Man, p. (5. T, XL BØ 43,
This exceedingly nice Nematode occurs in this country abundantly
in Furesø and Lyngby Sø. A single specimen has been taken in
the Bøllemose near Skodsborg. It appears as if the specimens
from the Furesø generally are a little larger than those from other
localities; they have been taken in the edge of the water on roots
of plants and often attain a length of 3 mm.
In one female specimen I have found a peculiar monstrosity:
The animal had two eggs in the uterus, one antevaginal and one
Postvaginal. But between the vulva and the anus occur four well
developed masculine papillæ of the shape characteristic for the
males of this species and in no respect to be distinguished from these.
No spicules are found and, as far as can be seen, no testes; apart
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from these papillæ the animal appears to be a female normally
developed.
As I have not seen any case of that sort in freeliving Nema-
todes mentioned in literature I have figured the organs dealt with.
Trilobus pellucidus Bastian.
1865, Bastian, p. 100. Pl IX. figs. 23, 24.
1884. "De Man, p. 76. T, XI. fig. 44.
This species is not rare in Denmark, but its distribution
is probably different from that of the above named species as
they have not been found together. I found the T. pellucidus in
a bog by Lynæs from which locality several specimens were
collected. Moreover it has been taken at the Kandesteder in Jut-
land, in sandy mould, and finally one specimen has been taken in
Ordrup Mose in water.
According to my experience it must be supposed that of the
two species of the genus Trilobus, Fr. gracilis is particularly a
freshwater- form while 7'r. pellucidus is attached to brackish
water. I may note therefore, that Bastian indicates gracilis
to be found ,,about the roots of Ruppia maritima from brackish
water" while pe//ucidus is found in ,,mud from bottom of ponds".
De Man notes that gracilis ,,bewohnt nicht nur die feuchte
Erde, welche von stissem oder brackischem Wasser durchtrånkt ist,
sondern auch das siisse Wasser selbst, in Gråben und Teichen".
Prismatolaimus dolichurus de Man.
Pl. III. fig. 18.
1384. 'De'Man; p 80/0 T/ XIL fig: 47:
I have seen this species only once among material from Ly-
… næs and only one specimen. It was found together with Mononchus
papillatus and Plectus granulosus on roots of plants originating
from the little bog behind the church. In this species there is a
peculiarity at the oesophagus which de Man does not mention in
his text but which is visible in his figure; this peculiarity con-
sists in a rather conspicuous constriction by which the proximal
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part of the oesophagus is separated from the other. In the
specimen from Lynæs this peculiarity was rather more conspicuous
than in that figured by de Man.
Cylindrolaimus tristis n. sp.
Pl. DI. 'figs. 21, 23, 26.
The only species of this genus which was collected here agrees
with none of the species described by de Man. I have taken it in
the Furesø for two years successively in the same locality, namely
between Hjortholm and the biological laboratory. It occurs on roots
of plants in the edge of the water. Its movements are exceedingly
Characteristic: It does not swim but it moves very slowly with the
most awful writhings, bending its body extraordinarily abruptly at
aå single or more spots as if intending to break it to pieces; at
the same time the animal is trembling as if very miserable
and piteous. I suppose these movements are. peculiar for the
genus partly because de Man has named one of his two species
C. melancholicus; it would be just as suitable for the species from
the Furesø; I consequently named this species C. tristis.
The species from the Furesø is considerably larger than the
two known from Holland; while the larger of these is a little more
than one milimeter long the Danish species measures almost two.
But it is relatively much more slender. The body is tapering
slightly forwards with a rounded head devoid of lips. I have not
been able to state if setæ are present, at any rate they are
exceedingly small and inconspicuous. The lateral organ placed near
the head is of a shape diverging from that known in the species
from Holland; in profile it has the shape of a narrow funnel
running obliquely inwards in the body, forming an angle of
nearly 45? with the long axis of the former. It is not to be
Seen in my figure which was drawn after a specimen prepared
Where it was not visible, I have only seen it on living animals
and always rather indistinctly. The oesophagus is long and increases
towards its proximal end. Its Chitin-intima, as also observed by
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de Man in the Dutch species, reaches a little way into the lumen
of the intestine. The vulva is forming a broad transverse fissure; the
female organ is single and extends forward in the animal. Uterus
contains never more than one egg, which is very large and cylindri-
form; in a female of the length of nearly 2 mm it measures 165”
in length. The tail relatively a little longer than in the former
described. species tapers evenly, ending with its apex rounded and
a little dilated with a distinct duct for the caudal glands.
All the specimens collected are females.
Zeiss:Okularmikrom. Obj.. C. Oc. 2.
Length 270 — 1,8 mm.
Pharyngeal cavity: 8.
Oesophagus 70.
Vulva 160.
Tail 20.
Width 4.
The formula of de Man gives: a = 67, 2=3, 7 = 1372.
Diplogaster rivalis Leydig.
1873. Bitsehli;-p 120; 7, XT. fr. 68: É
1876. — p. 871. :T. XXIII. fig. 5-a——b; and XXIV.
fig. 5.6;
1884. De Man, p. 86. T. XII. fig, 50.
1886. Orley, p. 42.
It was taken at Ordrup Mose, behind Christiansholm, in a
little pool filled with Conferves. I got both male and female, the
latter with large and lively young. The species appears to have
no wide distribution in this country.
Diplogaster fietor Bastian.
1865; Bastian, p; 116. PE X4 fig, 171178;
1884. De: Man, ps 88, T, XIII. fig, 51;
A male was taken at Lynæs, the length of which measures
1,2 mm.
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Zeiss Okularmikrom. Å. Oc: 2;
Length 76.
068::33.
Tail 9,
Width 1!/2.
Diplogaster longicauda Claus.
Clans Le 15884;
This species I have found in putrefying fungi in the Kilde-
skov together with a short-tailed form of the same genus which I
did not succeed in determining to species.
Diplogaster gracilis Bitschli.
1876. Bitsøhli; p8378. 7. XXIIL fik. a—€.
Also this species were collected in the Kildeskov in putrefying
fungi. It agrees with the D. longicauda in having the tail tapering
very much posteriorly and terminating in a long pointed extremity.
It is easily known by its female organ being unsymmetrical, with
the vulva placed a little before the anus. The male has an incon-
spicuously developed bursa and two long slender spicules, with a
scarcely visible accessory piece.
Cephalobus elongatus de Man.
1884, De Man; > 96. TICIV.. 8.57.
1906. Kati Marcinowski, p..215.
Only two species were found of the genus Cephalobus. C. elon-
gatus was collected in the Kildeskov in a putrefying stub. It appears
to me beyond doubt that it occurs- here as a veritable Nematode of
putrefaction; I kept it for weeks in a little glass filled with the
putrefying wood-mass in which the animals propagated lively. De
Man indicates that the species ,,bewohnt nicht nur die feuchte,
oder von siissem oder brackischem Wasser getrånkte Erde der
Wiesen und Marschgrinde, sondern auch den sandigen Dinenboden
an den Wurzeln der dort wachsenden Pflanzen". After - later
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examination by Kati Marcinowski it appears that this species
can also occur entoparasitic in plants. M. writes: ,,Nach den im
folgenden niedergelegten Beobachtungen lebt das Thier auch im
Korn keimender Getreidepflanzen, vermag auch in oberirdische
Pflanzenteile einzudringen und so zeitweise als Parasit zu leben.
Auch in Wasser, dem eine geringe Menge lebender und gestorbener
Pflanzenteile zugesetzt waren, sowie auf einer in Wasser auf Mohr-
ribenscheiben gezichteten Pilzkultur konnte C. elongatus nicht nur
wochenlang am Leben erhalten werden sondern pflanzte sich
auch fort”.
We have here one instance more of the peculiar ability of
certain nematodes to accomodate themselves to the most different
circumstances.
Cephalobus persegnis Bastian.
1865. Bastian, p. 124. Pl. X. fig. 104—106.
1884: De Mån, p: 92: TXU. fig. 52:
This species has been collected in the Kildeskov partly in old
stubs together with the above named species and partly among
putrefying leaves on the earth. Both species contained ripe eggs
in the month of February.
Pleetus cirratus Bastian.
1865, Bastian, ps 170 PL XX: HR 81 ånd 82.
1884: Dé Man, p. 170; TF XVD ÅR, 68,
A female has been taken at Lynæs, near Isefjord on roots of
plants. The uterus contained three eggs. I note the measurements
taken.
Zeiss Okularmikrom. A. Oc. 2.
Length 71 — 1,1 mm.
Oesoph. 15.
Vulva 33.
Tail 10.
Width 3.
After de Man's formula this gives: a =— 24, 2=5, 7 —= 7.
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Plectus granulosus Bastian.
1865. Bastian, p. 120. PI X;-fg./93-and 94
1873, Biischli, p. 92%, TI VE he. 47 hb ad FONDE BR:
47 a and c.
1884. De Man, pag. 107; T. XVI fig. 65.
This species is very common in this country. De Man indicates
it to be ,,omnivag" and it "is evident, that it is able to accomodate
itself to the most different localities. It has been taken at Lynæs,
on roots of plants near the Isefjord, in the Kildeskov among
putrefying léaves on the earth, in Frederiksdal, near the Furesø
and at Hellerup Strandeng on roots of plants.
Plectus parietinus Bastian.
1865. Bastian, p, 118. Pl. X fr. 79. 80:
1873. Butschli, p. 89. T. III. fig. 17, T. VIL fig. 46 a—c.
he 59, TOVE åg. 593;
1884. De Man, p. 109. TT. XVE fig. 67;
Also this species appears to be widely distributed here. It
Occurs in the Kildeskov where it has been taken among putrefying
leaves on the earth and at Hellerup Strandeng, amon; conferves
on damp sandy soil. On the little island Egholm in Storebelt it
was collected together with M'ononchus macrostoma.
Plectus rhizophilus de Man.
1884. Dé Mån, p. 118. T. XVIL: fig. 72
Å single specimen from the boggy land between Hulsig and
Kandestederne. |
Rhabditis brevispina Claus.
1884. De Man, p: 122. T. XVHI hg. 49:
Å Rhabditis taken in damp earth between Lynæs and Hunde-
sted I suppose to be identical with R. brevispina Claus. Several
Mature specimens were found together, all females. One of the
largest specimens attains a length of 1 mm.
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Zeiss Okularmikromn 40012:
Length 72 — 1,1 mm.
Oes. 10.
Vulva 26.
Tail 10.
Width 4.
Formula of 'de Man: 0—18, 2—6!/2, 17 =7.
Rhabditis terricola Dujardin.
1845. Dujardin, p. 240.
1873. Bitschli, p, 107, TXT, fig. 643—D., TX, fe, 614
1386: Urley, p.35 TD fr 1077:
This species was taken in the Kildeskov in putrefying fungi
and on a field between Hellerup and Charlottenlund in horse-
manure.
Rhabditis pellio Schneider.
1866. Schneider, p. 154.
1873. Bitschli, p. 112. T. IX. fig. 59 a—d. T. X. fig. 59 e.
1888. Orlov 9 883. T.L
In culture, established on dead lumbrici in earth I have got
this form several times. I have never taken it free in the earth.
Rhabditis marina Bastian.
FL He BE br ;
1865. Bastian, p. 129, Pl. X. fig. 60.—62.
Last year in thé month of April this species was taken at
the beech of Charlottenlund among putrefying sea-wced, Entero-
morpha and Ulva. Under the microscope it proved to be highly
pellucid, of a very nice form and of a size unusual in the group
of the Rhabditidæ.
The shape is rather slender, tapering at both ends. The cuti-
cula shows transverse striæ and under high magnifying powers also
longitudinal striæ. The mouth is surrounded with six inconspi-
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cuously prominent lips, devoid of papillæ; no setæ. The cavity of
the mouth has the same width throughout its whole length and is
prismatic; it measures about "/12 of the length of the oesophagus;
this contains an enlargement distinctly limited in the middle and
has the proximal globular bulbus provided with the usual valvular
apparatus. The intestine, the cells of which are filled with oil-
drops of various dimensions, is much larger than the oesophagus.
The porus excretorius is very indistinct and hardly observable;
it is placed a little behind the middle of the proximal half
of the oesophagus. Vulva which is placed slightly posterior to the
middle of the body is rather prominent and forms a broad trans-
verse fissure. The female organ is double; the uterus is very large
and the ovaries extend far forward and backward in the body. In
this respect individual differences occur; in many cases the distance
of the bending of the antevaginal ovary from the proximal end of
the oesophagus is equal to the half of the length of the latter,
often, especially in older females, this distance is much shorter.
The terminal ends of the ovaries nearly reach each other
Opposite to the vulva; in younger specimens there can be a con-
spicuous distance between them (fig. 4). The species is ovovivi-
parous, having in older specimens the large uterus abundantly filled
with lively moving young and ova in all stages of development
In the figure 4, of a young female, is seen a lot of shell-eggs two
of which are showing stages of cleavage. — The conical shaped
tail is not narrowing to a point as Bastian indicates but shows
under high magnifying powers a little globular dilatation (fig. 7).
No duct for caudal glands is seen.
In the male the bending of the-single testis reaches forward
in the body to a distance from the proximal end of the oesophagus
about equal to the length of the latter. The terminal end of the
testis is placed nearly at the middle of the body. The bursa en-
compassing the tip of the tail has on each side 2, 2, 3, 2 sup-
porting-rays. (figs. 1, 2). The spicules, each of which are showing
two longitudinal lists, are slightly curved and have a dilatation in
Vidensk, Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. 1911. Bd. 63. 16
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their: proximal half. -The-proximal end is obliquely'cut. off; an
accessory piece, triangular isosceles, is found (fig.' 3).
It is beyond doubt that this form, just as the other members
of the genus Rhabditis, is a nematode of putrefaction. They con-
gregate where seaweed, probably also see-animals lie. rotting.
Immediately after the material was collected it contained apparently
no Rhabditides; it is impossible that I should not have observed
this large form if it had been present in a tolerable number;
probably some larvæ must have been present, but at any rate
their number was so little prominent that they were not observed
under the examination. First when the material had been standing
for some time in my room in a glass-cup and I examined it anew,
it proved to be swarming with Rhabditis mårina in all stages of
development, in short, that I had got a culture of this species.
However a culture is not always so easily to be got. I have
attempted it several times.with a negative result; and a culture so
beautifully developed as the first time I have not latér succeeded
in getting. j
Zeiss Okularmikrometer A. Oc. 2.
Old female: Young female:
Length 195 — 3,1 mm. Length 100 — 1,6 mm.
Oes. 24. Oes. 18.
Vulva 100. Vulva, 55.
Tail 10. Tail: 6.
Width 8. Width 5.
Male:
Length 100 — 1,6 mm.
Oes. 16.
Width 4.
For the old female de Man's formula gives: a = 24, 2 = 8,
rr 191/2.
Åphelenchus sp.
All that I know about the genus Aphelenchus is that one
species occurs in Denmark, A female wasjtaken in”the Kildeskov
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the 20. 2. 10. After thawing weather ;for some days the lying
snow had partly melted and the earth under the trees was covered
with putrefying leaves; among these it was taken, only one
specimen, together with Plectus parietinus, Plectus granulosus and
Cephalobus persegnis. It did not appear to agree with any of the
species of de Man. Accidentally I lost the specimen under the
preparation and I have only these few notes and the measurements
taken on the living animal.
Length 871 2.
Oes. 79 -
Vulva 587 -
Tail 52 -
Width 19%
Spear . 13 -
Tylenchus Davainei Bastian.
1865; Bastian, p. 126, Pl; X. fig. 109—11.
1873. Bitschli, p. 37. T. I. and II. fig. 7 a—c.
1884, De Man, p. 151. T, XXIV. fig. 100.
I have only seen a few freeliving species of the genus Ty/en-
chus and of these species only a single or a few specimens. 7.
Davainei was taken in Ordrup Mose behind Christiansholm. It was
a mature female with one egg in the uterus and was found on
roots of grass in sandy clay, July 1910.
Tylenchus robustus de Man.
1884, De Man, p. 144. T: XXH. fig. 92.
This species was taken in the ,,Vintappergaarden"s Mose on
roots of grass, only a few specimens.
Tylenchus dubius Biitschli.
1873. Bitschli, p. 89: T£ H. fr. 9a—e;
1884. De Man, p. 145. T. XXII. fig. 98.
Hellerup Strandeng, a few specimens.
16"
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Dorylaimus obtusicaudatus Bastian.
1865; Bastian, 'p. 106: Pi: TX. fig) 41, 42:
1888 De Many; p767. TO XXVE fig: 108;
1906. — p- 1685, fg; 8; 9:
This specimen is exceedingly common and widely distributed.
De Man writes: ,,Ich beobachtete es iiberall, in allen Grinden
dieses Landes"; as to Denmark the same can be written. It was
taken in the following localities:
Lynæs N. of the plantation; Dyrehaven at the Fuglesangssø;
in the Kildeskov among putrefying leaves; Ordrup Mose, on roots
of plants; Hellerup Strandeng, on roots of plants; Vintappergaar-
dens Mose; Lyngby Mose, in moss; Eremitagesletten at Spring-
forbi. On Langeland it was taken at Hjortholm, on roots of moss;
in Jutland it was collected at Varde Aa; in a trench between
Nørre Nebel and Nymindegab; in a pond at Lønne; in boggy
land near Kandestederne; at Skagens Nordstrand in a ditch near
the sea. Only once I met with a male specimen which was taken
at Springforbi.
Dorylaimus intermedius de Man.
1884. De Man, p. 170. T. XXVII. fig. 113.
De Man writes about this species that the male is taken
more frequently than the female, a rather isolated fact in this
group. I have taken the species only twice, a male specimen at
Lynæs, in the bog near the plantation and a female in the
Kildeskov among putrefying leaves, in the month of February.
The female was mature with 3 shell-eggs in the uterus.
Dorylaimus eurydorys nm. sp.
Pl; HL fø 25; NV: fg. 80:
At Varde Aa I have taken a short-tailed Dorylaimus that, as
far as I can see, not has been described before. Unfortunately I
have not got a mature female and consequently the description can
only be deficient. The only two specimens which have been taken
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is a male of a length of 7 mm. and a young female measuring
4,6 mm.
The front end tapers considerably and the head-like
part is distinctly marked by a sharp constriction. The mouth is
surrounded by 6, nearly globular lips each of which is provided
with two rather prominent papillæ one superior and one inferior.
Very characteristic is the spear which has a considerable width in
its proximal end; it is rather short, narrowing quickly towards the
apex. The 0esophagus is slender in its distal third and increases
evenly in width. The tail which has the same shape in both sexes
is very short, conical with rounded end. In the young female the
ovary is just laid down; from its position the future place of the
vulva can be nearly judged to a little behind the middle of the
body. — There are 17 preanal papillæ in the male arranged in
five sets of 7, DD 3, 3, and one quite near the anus. The spicules
are rather large, slightly curved, thickest in the middle and provided
with two longitudinal lists; accessory pieces small and pointed in
their proximal end.
The two specimens were collected near the bank of Varde Aa;
they were very sluggish in their movements.
Dorylaimus rhopalocercus de Man.
1884 De Man, p. 169, PSXXVIL. fe: TEL
This form has been collected on a meadow near Hellerup on
roots of Bellis. De Man indicates that the species lives in ,,die
feuchte Erde unserer Wiesen und Marschgrinde".
Dorylaimus Carteri Bastian.
1865. Bastian, p. 106, Pl. IX. fig. 38—40.
1884; De Man, p. 177. T.OCXIK. fg 122.
It belongs to de Man's ,,omnivage Arten". It was collected
in Lyngby Mose, in moss; in Dyrehaven, near the Fuglesangssø
where it was taken in mud on roots of plants; in Dyrehaven
near Springforbi and in Ordrup Mose. In Jutland it was taken in
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a pond near Lønne at Nørre Nebel and in the extensive bogs
between Hulsig and Kandestederne.
… Dorylaimus acuticauda de Man.
BE "DO MANS 12793 TSK fig. 1924;
Séveral specimens were collected, both sexes, in Nymindegab
opposite to the mouth of the Ringkøbing Fjord. Depth of of the
Station No. Lat. N.… Long. W. Sa the gr ork bid Date
in Metres in Metres
152. 5? 00" 289 10' 240 400 19/6, 04.
286 (2 spec.). 61? 49 34" 11 1000 400 Pig 04.
124. 61? 04 49 38' 1075 500 231, 05.
89. 55? 09" 9935 1600 100 231, 06.
182. 90% 1 12? 05' 2200 150 41 06.
38 (3 spec.). 49? 27" 18? 38" 2600 400 11/, 06.
98 12220 ca. 1300 100 Sig 05.
sml spec.). Ken 8? 00 150 201, 05.
905 89 29" 2000 150 201, 05.
«TP ialfe”s St. egg
321. 609077 489267 ? (butmorethan 300 515 09.
2000)
3. Stages of Development of the Parasitic Copepod (Cyclops-stage
and ;
"Thors É e
Station No. TAN LohgiWw: KK by i gum rle Er;
in Metres tres
A.C Å ar SOE
80. ms 1140 500 16/1, 06.
93 (2 spec.). 49? mi 120 de ca. 1300 100 Ble 05.
B. Ist Pupal Stage.
285, 620 40' 189 46 1000 250 1/9 04.
80. 51? S4 He 1140 500 161, 06.
93. kor rar gg ca. 1300 100 5lg 05.
63, 48 09 89 36 2 ? 2
C. 2nd Pupal Stage.
88, 55? 05 12? 20' 2000 100 221, 06.
177. Pee mee 550 150 1/9 06.
76 (4 spec.). 49? 27" 188 2600 400 11/, 06.
178; f 12940 4000 500 lg 06.
"Thors T of
Station No. Vat.N. Long.W. es" apr ge Ng
D. 5rd Pupal Stage. in Metres in Metres
152. 65? 00' 289 10' 1240 500 19/1, 4.
285. 629 49" 189 46' 1000 ? 1lg 04.
88. 559 05" 128 29' 2000 100 221, 06.
80. 51? 34" 11954 1140 500 161, 06.
175. ed it: 119 41" 575 100 301. 06.
76. ri 189 38' 2600 400 11/8 06.
93 (2 spec.) eft 23' 122 20" ca. 1300 100 5lg 05.
E, 4th Pupal Stage.
230. 639 10' AP BI 1090 600 3/g 04.
88. 552 05' 122 20' 2000 100 Sig 06,
76 (3 spec.). 499 27" 139 38' 2600 400 11/g 06.
93 (7 spec.). 49? 23' 129 20' ca, 1300 100 Sl 05.
I. The Parasitic Copepod.
1. The adult female (Pi. I, Figs. 7—10).
The female parasite is sunk into the body of the fish, leaving
outside of the host its posterior part, which is larger or smaller
according to the age and development of the parasite. The infested
Scopelus glacialis are from 20 to 57 mm. in length, mostly less
than 30 mm. In most cases the parasite is seen projecting from
the dorsal part of tbe fish (i. e. above the lateral line), most often
in front of the dorsal fin (of the 22 specimens 16 penetrate dors-
ally, of these again 13 in front of the dorsal fin; 6 are attached
ventrally). The greater number is found on the right side (11 on
the right, 7 on the left side, 4 just in the middle line). With its
anterior part it penetrates through the body wall to the intestines
of the host; the posterior, visible part is largest and stoutest in
egg-bearing individuals, but the length of the hidden, internal
Part does not always correspond to that of the external: to reach
the intestines the individuals which protrude near the dorsal
middle line, especially those fixed behind the dorsal fin, have a
longer way to penetrate than those attached ventrally. In egg-
bearing females the external part is generally club-shaped; near
the surface of the fish it narrows more or less abruptly into a
slender stalk, sunk through a kind of vault of the skin deeper into
the tissues of the host; in length it varies from 3 to 7 mm., with
a largest diameter of from 1,5 to 2 mm. The position of the
genital openings, carrying the egg-strings, shows that the ventral
side of the parasite looks towards the surface of the fish. The
egg-strings seem rather variable in length: in one specimen, the
external part of which measured 4 mm. in length, 1,5 mm. in
breadth, they were only 7 mm., although quite complete; in another
specimen, where the external part measures 7 mm. in length, the
egg-strings — though deprived of their outer ends — are 22 mm.
They are cylindrical, the eggs fiat, arranged in a single row like
Coins in aå rouleau, — as in other Lernæidæ. The eggs are light
yellow or greenish-yellowish. The external part of the parasite is
generally somewhat chocolate-coloured from brown pigment, arranged
in smaller or larger specks and longitudinal stripes. Young in-
dividuals, still without eggs, appear unpigmented, whitish. Through
the cuticle part of the intestine, the ovaries, oviducts and cementing
glands may be seen. The part hidden in the tissues of the host is
yellowish with numerous drops of oil shining through. The length
and shape of this internal part varies a good deal. One specimen,
projecting near the middle line of the back in front of the dorsal
fin of a fish of 42 mm. length, reached through the muscles, past
the vertebral column, between two ribs to the small intestine; its
total length is ca. 13 mm., 7 hidden in the fish, 6 external; the
part passing the muscles form a slender stalk of ca. 5 mm. length.
Of another specimen, ca. 9 mm. in total length, and attached
between the right ventral fin and the posterior pectoral light-spot
of a Scop. glac. 33 mm. in length, about half the length appeared
externally, but the slender stalk which had only a thin layer of
muscles to penetrate, has only a length of 0,6 mm. Just inside
ghe body wall the parasite broadens evenly towards the anterior
end; following the curvature of the posterior appendix pylorica it
reached under the air-bladder and right lobe of the liver to tke
0esophagus. A third individual (still unpigmented and without eggs),
fixed near the back on a line with the root of the pectoral fin of
a fish, 55 mm. in length, only protruded with 4,8 mm. externally,
while 8,2 mm. were hidden in the host. It went nearly straight
down through the muscles, curved in front of the right pronephros
over the upper pharyngeal bones and had its anterior end lying in
front of the left pronephros, with the sucking apparatus close to the
jugular vein. The greater part of the internal portion of this spe-
cimen is narrow and slender.
In all specimens examined the anterior part sends out from
each side a large, clumsy process, generally shaped like a cushion
(Figs. 7, 8, pr.); sometimes more as a sausage (Fig. 10 pr.); be-
hind the processes follows an elongated, straight or curved portion,
tapering gradually into a stalk and at the same time acquiring a
more and more thick cuticle; outside the host it widens — some-
times abruptly — into the ovoid part, carrying the genital openings
with the egg-strings. Behind the latter a short conical part may
be more or less pronounced and feebly bent dorsally.
The anterior part with the two large lateral processes is the
cephalothorax; in front of the processes are seen two pairs of an-
tennæ, the mouth-sipho, maxillæ and one' pair of maxillipeds
(according to some authors = the second pair of maxillæ); immedi-
ately behind the cephalothorax a very short part of the elongated
Portion represents the abdomen (or thorax), composed of three, still
quite discernible segments; the two anterior of these are provided
each with a pair of feet, while an anterior pair of feet takes origin
from the cephalothorax. By far the greatest portion of the whole
Parasite is made up by the enormously developed genital segment,
ås in other Lernæidæ; the remaining part of the postabdomen,
probably only representing a single segment, is the above-named
small conical end. ;
Closer examination of the anterior part shows that most of
the Copepod-structure is pretty well preserved; the shape of the
dorsal shield is quite recognizable; below its anterior margin a
longitudinal thickened ridge to- strengthen the antennæ runs. from
the base of the latter to below the antennules: from here a similar,
but longer and curved, thickened line runs up over part of the
dorsal shield towards the middle line, without reaching its fellow
from the opposite side (Z, Fig. 8). No eyes are visible.
The antennules (a,) åre short, indistinetly segmented (probably
4 segments), along the front margin and at the distal end provided
with setæ; especially the distal ones are fairly long. The antennæ
(a,) åre cheliform, composed of 3 segments. The basal segment
is strengthened by chitinous ridges; the terminal segment or mov-
able finger of the chela is sickle-shaped, its point acting against a
fairly strong process from the middle segment; the latter has
between this process and the articulation for the terminal claw a
thin low crest or keel. Below the front end of the cephalothorax
protrudes the large sipho (si), strengthened at the base on each side
by a chitinous ridge, running backwards past the origin of the
maxillipeds (/, Fig. 8). The mouth-opening is funnel-shaped; the
margin of the funnel appears slightly haired owing to numerous
chitinous striæ radiating on its inner face; two small pointed pro-
cesses project from its dorsal wall (the upper lip); besides, the
points of the mandibles are seen in the interior of the sipho. The
outer portion of the latter, behind the funnel, is strengthened by
Chitinous rings, one of which is stronger than the others.
On each side of the base of the sipho is seen the maxilla
(mx) (maxillula), short, clumsy and ending with two strong setæ:
The maxillipeds (or second pair of maxillæ) consist each of 3 seg-
ments; the front margin of the basal segment carries a denticle,
about at the middle; distally on the outer side of the second seg-
ment is found a similar, but smaller denticle; the terminal segment
is sickle-shaped and obliquely striated (owing to densely set hairs
or lamellæ). A pair of second maxillipeds is wanting.
The large ””anchor-processes” (pr) originate below the margins
of the dørsal shield.
As in other Parasitic Copepods the foremost abdominal (or thoracic)
segment is coalesced with the cephalothorax. Three free terga for
the other abdominal segments are developed, decreasing in size
backwards, the hindmost being quite narrow. Generally, quite fine
transverse lines may be traced from the front margins of the terga
running across towards the ventral side; sometimes also a similar
line may be traced from the anterior segment, coalesced with the
cephalothorax.
Of the 3 pairs of abdominal (or thoracic) feet the two anterior
possess two rami, the last pair only one ramus (Fig. 10). Each
ramus is bisegmented. The distal segment carries 7 (that of the last
pair only 6) setæ with extremely delicate plumules; the outermost
Seta is shorter than the rest. The proximal segment carries one seta
on its inner corner; this seta is long on the outer ramus, short
on the inner. The basal segment of each foot has a seta at its
Outer end, just outside the articulation for the outer ramus. On
the ventral margin of the basal segment of the first pair, medially
to the origin of the inner ramus, is found a quite short seta. As
already stated, the first pair of feet originates from the cephalo-
thorax, the second from the first free abdominal segment, the third
from the second; while the third segment is without feet. Ventrally
between the feet sterna are developed, with a strong transverse
ridge joining the members of each pair. In front of the first pair
is a Y-shaped thickening on the cephalothorax; and behind the
last pair a thickened transverse line on the abdomen.
The elongated genital segment is densely striated transversely
(this structure disappears on treating with a solution of potash).
The genital openings are provided with strong chitinous lips
(Fig. 9, 0); between them a spot is always observed, possibly where
the copulatory openings have once been (Fig. 9%). The last post-
abdominal segment carries on each side of the anus a small wart,
evidently the furcal appendage, but completely devoid of setæ
(Fig. 9, 7).
Young stages, still unpigmented and pale, do not project with
more than ca. 0,8 to 2,5 mm. outside their host. Closer examin-
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ation shows that they deviate still less from the Copepod-shape
than do the adults. "I shall describe these stages later, comparing
them with the stages of metamorphosis which precede the state of
insertion into the body of the fish.
That our pårasite belongs to the family Lernæidæ is evident;
in many points it agrees with genera like Pennella, Lernæa, Ler-
næenicus and Peroderma. The 3 first-named possess 4 pairs of
abdominal feet, the two anterior biramous, the two posterior uni-
ramous; for this and other reasons the new parasite will hardly
be accepted into any of these genera; more likely it might be
included in the genus Peroderma, as the latter has only 3 pairs
of swimming feet; but as we shall see presently, various structural
differences seem to justify the establishing of a new genus and
species for our parasite. I propose for it the name: Sarcotretes
scopeli, and give the following diagnosis:
Sarcotretes n. g. Body elongated; the middle portion of the
genital segment constricted into a narrow, firmly chitinized stalk,
only the distal, claviform part behind the stalk projecting outside
the host; antennules linear; antennæ cheliform; one pair of maxilli-
peds; three pairs of abdominal feet, the two anterior biramous,
the posterior uniramous; three free abdominal segments with terga
and ventral sterna well developed.
S. scopeli n. sp. Cephalothorax with two large, thin-walled
(ventro-) lateral outgrowths; no other outgrowths present. Dorsal
shield fully preserved, oblong, with an upper chitinous curved line
on each side; other chitinous stripes under the front margin, and
along the base of the sipho; tergum of hindmost abdominal seg-
ment small and narrow.
Inserted into the body of Scopelus glacialis, the body wall of
which it pierces, penetrating to the alimentary tract.
The genus Peroderma was established by Heller (1865, 10,
p. 250) for the species P. cylindricum (1. c. Pl. XXV, Fig. 6), which
penetrates the lateral muscles of the Pilchard in the Mediterranean.
H.'s description and figure were rather incorrect and were improved
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by Richiardi (1875, 18 a). In the meantime Cornalia had
named the same parasite Taphrobia pilchardi (5) without deseribing
it better; both Heller and Cornalia only had one specimen at their
disposal, and that of Heller was damaged. Richiardi showed
that this parasite at its anterior end is provided with a system of
branched appendages; he described antennæ, maxillipeds, swimming-
feet etc. and gave a new diagnosis of the genus. Later (1881, 125)
Richiardi briefly described a second species, P. petersi, deeply
implanted into the body of Gobius buccatus C.V., and a third one
(1882, 18 c) P. bellottii, inserted into the branchial arterial stem
of Scopelus benoiti. "The latter species I think is identical with
that figured on Pl. II, Fig. 27, as this agrees in every essential point
with the short description by Richiardi (as far as I know, the more
complete description and the figure promised by R. (18c, p. 150
and 475) have never been published)"). I found this parasite in
humerous adult specimens on Scopelus giacialis and Sc. rafinesquii,
eollected by the Thor” in the western part of the Mediterranean,
in, and close to, the Straits of Gibraltar (on Station 99 of 96 speci-
mens of Sc. glacialis 28 were infested, of 46 specimens of S.
rafinesquii only 3; on Stat. 59 one specimen among 149 Sc. gla-
cialis, and one among 5 Sc. rafinesquii carried the same; and on
St. 61 (in the Strait itself) one of 2 S. rafinesquii)?). It is al-
Ways attached to the same spot of the host, namely under the
isthmus, with the posterior end, bearing the egg-strings, pointing
backwards and the ventral side looking towards the belly of the
) Brian (8, p. 94) repeats Richiardi's description, and only adds the
following: "Due esemplari sporgenti fuori dell' angolo boccale dello
Scop. caudispinosus Johs. furono trovati in Genova il 13 Maggio 1908”.
The figures, referred to, are Pl. VII, Fig. 2, and Pl. XIX, Pigs. 2—5;
but what is represented there has nothing at all to do with any
oderma whatsoever!
7) "Thor”s St. No. Lat. N. Long. W. Depth of capture — Date
. 36? 02 5? 16 150 Met. 231, 1910.
59. 369 2 49 21' 9—1200 — 21/8 1909.
61. Be 5 57 85 800 — 21/8 1909.
fish. All specimens examined had the richly branched system of
frontal” appendages inserted into the bulbus arteriosus, the latter
being distended to such degree, that it far surpassed in size the
ventricle (efr. Pl. I, Fig. 27 b and v). Nevertheless the infested
specimens looked quite as healthy and well nourished as those
free of the parasite.
The three species of Peroderma all possess branehed åappen-
BE dages from the front
—
mrs. end of the cephalotho-
1 . cv . ig
AR FR ):: guides, to Ri
i ER
chiardi's figures of P.
cylindricum the distance
between the second and
third pair of swimming
feet is very great, and
sm om this interspace are
found a pair of pecu-
liar Schitinous ridges;
no terga of abdominal
Pigt 1. Peroderøte: bellottis. segments are mentioned
Part of ventral side of body, between the two or figured. == Regarding
large lateral outgrowths. p,—p2: first to third
pair of abdominal (thoracic) feet; p,?: rudi-
mentary structure, perhaps representing the not been figured, it is
right foot of a fourth pair. said that 4 pairs of
P. petersi, which has
feet are present, following each other at short distances, and that
the egg-strings are ”spirally directed ” (after these statements the
species seems to me somewhat doubtful as a member of the genus
1) C. B. Wilson has (238, p. 458, Pl. LXXVI, Figs. 99—100) described a
"Lernæenicus medusæus” taken on Nannobrachium leucopsarum at
Monterey, Calif, which may belong to the genus Peroderma, as it
ery much resembles P. bellottii. But it is said to possess only 2
pairs of swimming feet, with single rami, and the author adds:
"No other appendages are visible”, and that no sipho is to be seen,
ese statements seem to me somewhat doubtful. The place on the
host is not mentioned.
Peroderma). P. bellottii, which I have examined myself, has only
3 pairs of feet developed; but behind the last pair a merely rudi-
mentary structure is seen, which may perhaps represent a fourth
pair. The 3 pairs are arranged with large interspaces (efr. text-
figure 1, pag. 12), in which small symmetrically scattered chitinous
pårcels åre found, looking like ventral parts of the segments, burst
from each other by the distension of the body during its growth.
"The feet, compared with those of Sarcotretes, are smaller and of
a somewhat different shape, and the same may be said regarding
the antennæ, first maxillipeds and sipho; further there is a vestigial
pair of 2nd maxillipeds (like those of Lernæa branchialis) about
midway between the first maxillipeds and anterior pair of feet;
the dorsal shield of the cephalothorax has quite another shape,
being distended and burst into pieces at the margins, probably a
Consequence of the greater development of the two lateral processes,
which are here somewhat asymmetrical and clumsily branched at
their outer ends. Only the first of the abdominal terga seems
preserved; it is here asymmetrically turned to the left side on a
slight swelling immediately behind the large processes. These
differences together with the presence of the branched "frontal"
aåppendages seem to me to .prevent the inclusion of my Sarco-
tretes in the same genus. Speaking generally, the latter shows more
likeness to the genus Lernæenicus, f. ex. L. encrasicholi (Turton)
which I know from my own examination!); but, as already stated,
this genus possesses four pairs of feet.
2. The stages of metamorphosis (Pl. II, Figs. 11-15, 22-26).
A. The vyoungest stage which I have found agrees in the
manin features mk the stage of Lernæa branchialis, which Claus
N This species has a short median outgrowth from the dorsal side of
the cephalothorax about at the level of the two large lateral processes,
and furthermore on the ventral side, in front of the needs a
pair of short, clumsy outgrowths. These structures as well as
maxillipeds and maxillæ have been overlooked by A. Scott (19 za
P. 94, Pl. II, Figs. 6—9).
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(4, p. 22, Pl. IV, Figs. 1—5) describes as "die erste Cyclopsform”
(the ""Cyclopid-stage” of Pedasehenko (17, p. 279)) and with the
"Cyclopsform” described by Wierzejski (22, p. 571, Pl. XXXII.
Fig. 4), found on the gills of Cephalopods and supposed by W. to
belong to a species of Pennella. I only succeeded in finding 3
specimens of this stage, probably arisen from a Nauplius or Meta-
nauplius (embryonic Naupliæ I did not find in the preserved egg-
strings, and consequently I was not able to isolate any). The spe-
cimen figured on Pl. II, Fig. 11—12 was found attached to the
left side above the pectoral fin of a young Scop. glacialis, only
12 mm. in length. The other two were both fixed on a Scop. gl.,
25 mm. in length, the one to the left ventral fin, the other to the
left pectoral. They were all attached by means of their strong eheli-
form antennæ. Evidently this stage is capable of active wandering
from one spot to another of its host, probably also of swimming
along for a while and attaching itself again. This seems to be
proved by the whole elegant Cyclops-shape, the proportionally large
swimming feet, the antennules etc. The length is between 0,448
and 0,5 mm. Of the specimen figured, ca. 0,5 mm., the elongated
ovoid cephalothorax makes up 0,352 mm., the rest 0,112. The
rostrum is curved downwards. The antennules are provided with
sense-hairs along their front margin and with long setæ distally,
at least of half the length of the cephalothorax. The antennæ are
strong and projecting, the stout basal segment almost vertically bent
against the cephalothorax; of their three segments the basal one is
nearly cylindrical and strengthened by chitinous ridges, while the
remaining two form a large chela, the longitudinal axis of which
is parallel to the cephalothorax. The terminal segment is a long,
elegantly awl- or sickle-shaped claw with a curved point, acting
against a sharply pointed process on the elongated second segment;
the latter carries at some distance another somewhat smaller hook.
The sipho is relatively short; lateraily it carries the maxilla (mx) with
its two stout setæ, and just above the root of the maxilla a fairly
long, slender appendage ending in a single long seta (md); this I
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take to be the mandibular palp. One pair of maxillipeds is present,
strong, 3-segmented (mp,); the basal segment has a small denticle
on its anterior margin; the terminal segment is a curved, søomewhat
compressed claw, obliquely striated laterally. The cephalothorax is
provided with chitinous thickened lines arranged as in the adult.
No eyes are visible. Behind the cephalothorax are 3 distinct ab-
dominal segments and one terminal, representing the postabdomen
and bearing on each side of the anus a well developed furcal
appendage with setæ (/). There are two pairs of strong swimming-
feet, the anterior originating from the ventral margin of the
Cephalothorax, the second from the first abdominal segment. Each
foot consists of a strong basal joint and two rami; each: of the
latter has only one segment with long setæ, provided with delicate
plumules. Each furcal appendage has 4 setæ, the two inner of
which, especially the innermost, are long and feathered.
Upon this "actively fixed” stage A, the Cyclops-stage, follows
a series of ”fpassively fixed” stages, probably representing as: many
"Moultings; they may be called ”Pupal stages”, as Claus has done
in the case of Lernæa branchialis, and Wierzejski with the
Corresponding stages of the Lernaeid, supposed to be a Pennella.
They åre more or less clumsy, with the abdominal feet adpressed
and provided — like the antennules — with more or less clumsy
setæ or devoid of such, according to the grade of development. The
antennæ are relatively short and clumsy chelæ, situated below an
elongated rostrum and evidently not fit for grasping. The fixation
is brought about by the rostrum; from the end of the latter pro-
jects an appendage with a terminal dise firmly cemented to the
skin of the host. This appendage is undoubtedly a hardened secre-
tion produced by glands in the front end of the cephalothorax; it
is firm like chitine, resisting like the cuticula itself the action of
Potash; a pear-shaped swelling marks it off from the rostrum proper.
I have not been able to see any composition of layers in the.
Swelling, like those observed by Claus in the pupæ of Lernæa
"branchialis, where the number of moultings may be judged directly
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from them; in all the present pupal stages I find the structure to
be identical.
The total number of pupal specimens found is 34; according
to grade of development, size, shape of the setæ etc. they may be
grouped into four stages, in the following designated as B, C, D
and E. The younger stages are less numerous in my material than
the older. All are attached by means of their frontal appendage to
Scopelus glacialis of 14 to 46 mm. length, mostly to young speci-
mens below 30 mm. Generally each fish has only one pupa attached ;
but in one case I found two different pupal stages (B and D) fixed
on the same host (on the right pectoral fin of a Sc. gl. of 28 mm.
length), which besides had a young female inserted in front of the
dorsal fin; in another case I found one pupa (D) on a Scopelus
which also carried a young female protruding in front of the dorsal
fin. In most cases the pupæ are attached to the fins (in 28 cases
of the 34), and especially to one of the ventrals (in 13 out of 28
cases), rarely to the body, and in the latter case mostly to the
belly in front of the ventrals; in one single case a pupa was found
on the margin of the right opercle. Evidently the pupæ do not
prefer the one side of the host to the other, half the number
being found on the right, the other half on the left side. Their
fixation is always a firm one; to liberate without -damaging them
it is safe to use a solution of potash. As in the adult and the
Cyclops-stage no eyes are seen in the pupal stages, opposite to the
case of Lernæa branchialis and the supposed Pennella-pupæ of
Wierzejski.
Stage B. (Textfig. 2 and 3.) The youngest pupal stage I
suppose to have been produced through the moulting of the Cyclops-
stage A. It is somewhat larger than the latter, measuring from
0,7—0,8 mm. in length; the cephalothorax alone 0,5—0,6 mm.
Behind the cephalothorax only two abdominal segments are seen,
followed by an unsegmented part, carrying the anus and very short
furecal appendages with 4 clumsy indications of setæ. The anten-
mules are clumsy, short, without segmentation, distally provided with
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some very short setæ.. The antennæ do not reach to the end of
the rostrum, their chelæ are weak and unfit for grasping. The
sipho is very large; the maxillæ and mandibular palps well devel-
oped, the maxillipeds long, their terminal claw clumsy. In some
individuals a second (posterior) pair of rudimentary maxillipeds
is present; these specimens are males. Chitinous ridges on the
£ 17
Fig. 2, First pupal stage (B) from ventral: and Fig. 3 from dorsal side.
a, antennule; a, antenna; md målene palp; mæ mazilla; mp, first
maxilliped; 1 chitinous thickenings; p;, Pe first and second abdominal
(thoracic) feet; furcal appendage.
Cephalothorax arranged as in the Cyclops-stage and the adult; the
Same is the case with all the following stages. Two pairs of ab-
dominal feet are present, both biramous and quite without setæ;
they are not distinctly segmented but slight incisions mark off a
basal portion and two parts of each ramus.
C. (Pl. II, Fig. 13.) The next pupal stage has a length of
Ca. 1 mm. (the cephalothorax alone being ca. 0,82 mm.). A third
aåbdominal segment is now indicated. The antennules, antennæ etc.
åre in the main like those of the preceding stage, but a third pair
Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. Bd. 64. 2
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of abdominal feet is now present as short, flattened appendages to
the second abdominal segment; a division into a basal segment and
ramus is indistinctly indicated. The distal setæ of the antennules
are somewhat larger, and the two biramous feet now show a set of
extremely short setæ; the furcal setæ are much as in the stage B.
D. (PI. II, Figs. 14, 23). The following stage is ca. 1,6 mm.
in length (the cephalothorax 1,12 mm.) Antennules, antennæ, maxilli-
peds and feet are still clumsy ; the abdomen has three distinet segments.
Third pair of abdominal feet has about half the length of the two
anterior pairs; the last abdominal segment is without feet as in the
adult. The segmentation of the feet is more marked than in the
preceding stage, the basal segment and two segments of the rami
being now quite distinct, most so in the anterior pair (cfr. Pl. II,
Fig. 23). The same number of setæ as in the adult are present,
and the setæ are now much more developed but still clumsy and
pressed against each other; the same is the case with those of the
antennules. Male specimens show the second pair of maxillipeds
(Fig. 14 mp,) as short, bent appendages about on the level with
the "elbow” of the first maxillipeds.
E. (Pl. II, Figs. 15, 24—26.) Stages of ca. 2 mm. length
(the cephalothorax ca. 1,36 mm.) seem to be the last pupal stages
producing the copulatory form. This may be concluded from the
following observations: 1) inside the cuticle of this stage is seen a
Copepod-form resembling the adult in many details; 2) a propor-
tionally great number of specimens of this stage has been found,
but not a single pupa of larger size or more developed. In this
stage the general shape of the body and its appendages are less
clumsy than in the preceding; all the setæ are much longer, the
segmentation of the feet more pronounced; the postabdomen — in-
cluding the future genital segment — is now about of the same
length as the abdominal segments taken together. The setæ appear
more free of each other, and those of the feet show delicate plum-
ules at their extreme, very thinwalled ends (Textfigure 4). En-
closed below the cuticle of this pupa another Copepod-form is seen;
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inside the pupal antennæ is distinctly seen a longer and more sickle-
shaped claw, quite resembling that of the adult parasite; in the
antennules and their setæ the corresponding structures are visible in
a more developed form; and in the abdominal feet are very con-
spicuous distinctly segmented swimming-feet, in every detail agreeing
with those of the adult; the long and elegant setæ with their deli-
cate plumules are ensheathed in the shorter and bigger ones of the
pupa (cfr. Fig. 24), and in the furcal setæ of the latter the longer
ones of the next form show plumules. Any genital openings I have
not been able to observe.
In casting off the pupal cuticle this enclosed
Copepod probably gives up the fixed condition. |
Ås young males and females they leave the / rig
empty pupal shells on their former host, swim
away and live for a while in a free state, in j
which they copulate. After copulation the | | | É
males probably die, while the impregnated ik IM MAJ,
females again seek the same species of fish
and take up the parasitic life anew, but in Fig. 4. Last pupal
; j i stage (E). Termiual
a more intense form: they pierce the skin of part of setæ of foot,
the fish and, gradually growing, penetrate showing extremely
through the muscles and reach by and by to delicate plumules.
the intestines of their host. The course of events here set forth,
I am sorry to say, is not founded on direct observation; but any
reader remembering the facts known from Lernæa branchialis will
Certainly find the above conjecture fairly plausible.
Directly observed are some early stages of the boring parasite,
the structure of which does not deviate very much from that of
the Copepod, seen enclosed in the pupa E. As before mentioned
they appear externally like small, pale cones of 0,5—2 mm. length,
protruding through the skin of Scop. glacialis. I have dissected
Out 3 specimens. The one has a total length of 6 mm.; it pro-
jected as a 2 mm. long, slender thread from the back, just in front
of the dorsal fin, of a fish of 57 mm. length; it was only inserted
ge
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into the muscles and did not reach the vertebral column; the mouth
and feet were turned towards the surface of the fish. The other,
figured on Pl. II, Figs. 16—18, had an external part of only 1 mm.,
peeping out of a pit in front of the dorsal fin of a Scop. glac. of
25 mm. length, It has pierced the whole musculature and reached
between two ribs through the peritoneum, on the inside of which
the mouth could be seen; the feet looked towards the vertebral
column. The total length is 4 mm.; the cephalothorax is about
1 mm (0,96 mm.), the 3-segmented abdomen 0,240, the remaining
ca. 3 mm. are almost entirely made up by the genital segment; the
latter is densely striated transversely, and by a very féeble furrow
indistinctly marked off from the end segment, carrying the small
furcal appendages devoid of setæ. The genital openings are recogniz-
able at the posterior boundary of the genital segment. Except the
elongation of the genital segment and the reduction of the rostrum
the shape of the animal is that of the stage inside the oldest
pupa E. The details of the strengthening ridges of the cephalo-
thorax and antennæ are the same through all stages, also those on
the sipho; but the mandibular palp of the larva and pupæ appears
now to have vanished.
The third specimen shows a step further towards the final
shape (efr. Pl II, Figs. 19—21). It projected in front of the dorsal
fin of a fish of 25 mm. length; the internal part perforated the
muscles, passed close to the vertebral column between two ribs
into the abdominal cavity, the mouth lying close to the left side
of the small intestine at the origin of the hindmost pyloric appendage.
The total length is 6 mm.; the cephalothorax 0,96 mm., the abdomen
0,277 mm., the rest ca. 5 mm. The genital segment is still more
elongated, and more swollen posteriorly than in the former, the
greatest diameter being 0,320 mm. while that of the cephalothorax
is 0,40. Between the genital openings is seen a chitinous spot,
probably where the copulatory openings are obliterated. The most
marked difference from the two preceding specimens is that the
lateral processes of the cephalethorax have appeared in the shape
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of thinwalled, wing-like outgrowths ventrally to the margins of
the shield; they reach from the level of the maxillipeds to the
posterior end of the cephalothorax.
II. The Hydroid.
Seven specimens of the Hydroid have been found; 3 of these
consist only of polypes, 4 carry besides sexual individuals. The
polypes are all of one kind, functioning at the same time as
hydranths and as blastotyles. They originate from a network of
anastomosing tubes united by a thin membrane. The membrane
and hydrorhizæ are without perisarc as well as the polypes. According
to the size of the colony the membrane coats a greater or lesser
part of the external portion of the Sarcotretes scopeli, described
above. As the latter always turns the ventral face, on which the
Hydroid is attached, towards the fish, a shelter is provided for the
Hydroid. Larger colonies cover the whole ventral face of the para-
Site and embrace more or less also of its sides, but leave most
of the dorsal face free; only round the base of the stalk the mem-
brane may close as a ring. Generally only adult, egg-bearing
Parasites carry the Hydroid; but in a single case a Sarcotretes,
which had evidently not yet formed egg-strings, was found provided
with a Hydroid-colony (Pl. I, Fig. 6). The youngest Hydroid found
had only a single, and still undeveloped polype, in which no mouth
Was perceptible (Pl. I, Fig. 4); another young colony contains 1
large and 4 smaller polypes (Pl. I, Fig. 5); a third has several
Polypes and coats most of the ventral face of its Copepod. In two
Colonies a single or a few polypes bear medusæ-buds; and in the
remaining two most of the fully developed polypes carry at their
base a number of buds in various stages of development, some of
them quite medusiform, showing two tentacles. Most richly pro-
vided appears the specimen figured Pl. I, Figs. 1—3; the medusæ
åre here so numerous and prominent that they are the first to
attract attention and determine the aspect of the whole colony.
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The polypes are completely devoid of tentacles; their mouth
is often expanded into trumpet-shape. When the mouth is expanded
the oral entoderm is everted to form the disc or trumpet. Im-
mediately below the disc is seen a narrow, feebly thickened ring,
consisting of cylindrical ectoderm-cells somewhat higher than those
of the rest of the body. Inside this ring thé entodermal circular
muscle-fibres are more strongly developed than in the remaining
part of the body, these fibres evidently acting as a sphincter.
When the mouth is closed, the ring-cells bound the mouth-pore.
The body is cylindrical or claviform,
sometimes goblet-shaped; the total
length ca. 1—1,5 mm., the diameter
from 0,048 to 0,176 mm. In the
outer ectoderm of the membrane
are numerous fairly large nemato-
cysts, but I have not been able to
detect any nematocysts whatever in
the ectoderm of the polypes. In
Fig. 5. reden Blend R the most developed colony (Pl. I,
Polype carrying medusæ-buds. p: Fig. 1) the largest polypes are found
polype; m: manubrium of medusa- on the ventral side of the parasitic
ek DA SE uk copepod turned flkide the fish
inside the bell and indicated as (therefore not shown in the figure).
seen through the latter. A proportionally great number of
these large polypes (1,5 mm. or somewhat more in length) do not carry
any medusæ-buds; but as a few of them bear a single large bud,
some others a few small buds at their base, no definite demarcation
between sterile and fertile polypes can be drawn, as already stated.
Towards the margins of the colony almost all polypes are fertile.
The distal part of those polypes which carry a great number of
medusæ-buds — up to ca. 20 — is generally very slender and easily
overlooked while more or less concealed among their buds (efr.
textfigure 5); but polypes with only a few or only small buds may
have quite the same shape as those without any buds at all.
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The medusæ-buds are found in all stages and sizes; the
largest ones show clearly that they will be set free as real medusæ.
Already tiny buds, of 0,160 mm. in diameter, have distinct rudi-
ments of two marginal tentacles; in larger buds these have quite a
considerable size but are still clumsy; nevertheless the tentacles
åre easily overlooked in many of the largest buds, because they
have been bent up and concealed inside the umbrella. In the latter
case the medusæ-buds appear elongated, fusiform (Pl. I, Fig. 2 me)
and at first sight do not resemble medusæ at all; in clearing with
glycerine or xylol etc. the marginal tentacles and the other medu-
sold structures are easily observed. There is a
short manubrium; no mouth is yet formed, neither
are there any indications of mouth-tentacles. In
transverse sections the cavity of the manubrium
is quadrangular; a narrow canal connects it
with the gastric cavity of the mother-polype.
The umbrella contains four distinet, wide and
simple radial canals, connected distally by a lø
ring-vessel; a velum is indicated as an outgrowth Fig. 6. Ichthyoco-
from the ectoderm of the subumbrella. ium sarcotretis,
The exumbrellar ectoderm contains numerous svebne Beg,
m: manubrium;
large nematocysts (ca. 0,004 mm. in diameter), r: marginal ten-
most of them arranged as a broad band across tacle.
the bell; this band may be distinctly seen already in quite young
buds. The tentacles originate opposite the distal ends of two radial
Canals; they are hollow, their cavity connected with the ring- and
radial vessel; no pigmented eye-spot is seen at their base. Between
the tentacles the margin of the bell shows a small projecting fold
at the ends of the other two radial canals, possibly indications of
å new pair of tentacles, developing after the liberation of the me-
dusa. Even in the most developed stage observed the tentacles
appear clumsy, finger-shaped, somewhat shorter than the bell (Fig. 3).
Sometimes they are bent in the way shown in textfigure 6; in this
Case they may be mistaken as going to branch into a group of two.
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The largest medusæ-buds are fusiform or cylindrical, attached to
the mother-polype by a pointed top. One of the largest measures
from the point to the margin of the bell 0,40 mm., to the bent
angle of the tentacle 0,490 mm., the greatest diameter of the bell
being 0,192 mm.; another measures from its top to the distal end
of the tentacle 0,62 mm. with a diameter of the bell of 0,232 mm.
Genital cells I have not been able to observe; probably they will
be found in the manubrium of later stages.
The facts mentioned clearly show that our Hydroid has to be
classified with the Gymnoblastic Anthomedusæ. Ås it does
not in every point agree with any other form known to me I pro-
pose to name it: 7chthyocodium sarcotretis. n. g., n. sp.
Besides Protohydra, Microhydra and the hydroid stage of Lim-
nocodium a few Hydroids are known, the hydranths of which are
completely devoid of tentacles. Among undoubtedly gymnoblastic
Anthomedusæ I have only found four mentioned; they are all
epizoic like our new form, a fact which seems to me of some
interest. Ichthyocodium shows most likeness to Hydrichthys mirus
Fewkes. This form was found in 1887 at Newport by Fewkes
(7 a and 5), growing on the skin of the fish Serio/a zonata Cuv.
The colony is attached by a thin flat membrane, containing a mesh-
work of tubes, to the skin of the fish in the neighbourhood of the
anus. The membrane is said to be leathery, but without perisarc.
From the tubes grow polypes of two kinds: 1) naked gonosomes,
like clusters of grapes, consisting of an axial stem the terminal
end of which is provided with a mouth-opening, and numerous
branches; the latter are of the same structure as the stem, but
closed terminally, where they carry clusters of medusæ-buds in
various stages, up to medusiform bodies with two clumsy tentacles.
The terminal part of the stem does not carry medusæ-buds, is
devoid of tentacles, and its margin is entire. 2) Filiform polypes,
supposed to be hydranths; they are described as flask-shaped bodies,
resembling the palps of Siphonophores or the spiral zooids of Hy-
dractinia (they are said to move in a similar way to the latter);
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they, too, are devoid of tentacles and (probably) possess a
mouth-opening, the terminal end sometimes appearing trumpet-
shaped. 3) The medusæ. The largest buds are elongated, cylin-
drical; in the fixed state they do not develop more than two,
clumsy tentacles; their surface is speckled with nematocysts (most
distinctly seen in the younger stages, still before the medusoid
shape is recognizable). When liberated — the fish was kept in an
aguarium, and great numbers of medusæ were set free — they at
first resemble a young Stomatoca (the medusa of Perigonimus),
having an ovoid, upwards rounded bell, four simple radial canals
and ring-vessel, and a proboscis with entire mouth. Later the
medusa acquired four tentacles, two new growing out in the inter-
space of the two first formed. When all four are fully developed
it resembles a Sarsia. In this stage, possessed of four long and
slender tentacles, the medusæ sank to the bottom and died.
If we suppose that the medusæ of Ichthyocodium, when set
free, also acquire four tentacles — which seems to me at least
probable — they would agree with those of Hydrichthys; in the
attached state, as buds, the likeness is practically complete. The
differences of some amount between Hydrichthys and Ichthyocodium
are the following: 1) the basal membrane in the first is firm, leathery;
2) the polypes are of two kinds, sterile and fertile ones; 3) the
medusæ-buds are clustered on the ends of branches or stalks from
the fertile polypes. According to the figures given by Fewkes
(the author does not give any measurements of the polypes, buds or
medusæ), the size of the colony in Hydrichthys surpasses that of
the largest Jchthyocodium found; but it is by no means impossible
that the latter may acquire a larger size and fuller development
than the specimen figured Pl. I, fig. 1.
"In 1907 R. E. Lloyd described a ANudiclava monocanthi
growing on the fish Monocanthus tomentosus trom the Andamana-
Sea (13). Like the preceding this Hydroid is attached by means
of a naked basal membrane, containing tubes from which naked,
claviform hydranths without tentacles grow (0,75 mm. in length) ;
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on their base they carry gonophores (generally each a single one).
Only so far is there a likeness to Ichthyocodium; for the gonophores
are not set free as medusæ but remain attached as sporosaes, re-
sembling those of C/ava, and in the same colony are found male
as well as female individuals.
In 1909 Miss Winifred E. Coward (6) described Pirlocodium
repens, epizoic on the Pennatulid Ptilosarcus sinuosus (Gray)
(captured by the Siboga-Expedition at 9? 03' Lat. S., 126? 24,5'
Long. E. in 112 Met. depth); it grows along the free edges of the
leaves. The colony is dimorphic having two quite distinct forms
of polypes arising from tubes enclosed in a basal membrane devoid
of perisarc. The hydranths or "”gasterozooids” are without tentacles,
naked, and possess a simple mouth-pore; they show no nematocysts
and reach at most a length of 0,373 mm. More numerous are the
"dactylozooids” (ca. 0,186 mm. in length), short and broad polypes
bearing at the terminal end four capitate tentacles crowded with
large nematocysts; mouth and internal cavity are lacking, the ento-
derm of the tentacles and body being solid and scalariform. The
gonophores arise from the base of the hydranths; they are described
as sporosacs but provided with traces of four radial canals and of
four rudimentary tentacles on the closed and rudimentary bell, the
superficial ectoderm of which shows nematocysts; the closed manu-
brium bears (female) genital cells. According to the description it
seems to me at least possible that these gonophores are not real
sporosacs but may carry their development further and eventually
be set free as medusæ. But even if this should not be the case,
I think Ptilocodium has no close relationship to Ichthyocodium, the
latter showing no dimorphism of the polypes; but Ptilocodium
apparently is closely allied to the Hydroid, which Kåkenthal
found growing on another Oetactinia. In 1909 Kakenthal de-
scribed a new Gorgonid from Japan, Anthoplexaura dimorpha (11),
on which he discovered this epizoic Hydroid (1. c. p. 24); he men-
tions polypes devoid of tentacles, and others provided with tentacles
(sections through one of the latter are figured 1. c. Pl. VII, Fig. 37),
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and medusoid gonophores (Fig. 38). Later Stechow has examined
in detail the same Hydroid (20 a, p. 31, Pl. II, Figs. 7—9); he
has given it the name Hydrichthella epigorgia and referred it to
the family Corynidæ. It is quite naked, without perisarc, with an
incrusting or cushion-shaped basal coenosarc; stolons are difficult
to see; the polypes are of three kinds: hydranths, devoid of ten-
tacles ("Fresspolypen”, 0,8—1,3 mm. in length), and two forms of
Wehrpolypen”, both without mouth: the one (0,5—0,8 mm. in length)
broader, with 4—8 short capitate tentacles in a simple whorl at
the upper end; the other (0,53—1 mm. in length) more slender and
resembling a long capitate tentacle. The sexual individuals are
described as ”"sporosacs”, attached singly by a short stalk to the
hydranths; the ova (male specimens have not been found) are en-
closed in the wall of a distinct spadix, and the envelope is pro-
vided with four distinct radial canals. Apart from the existence
of 2 forms of "dactylozooids” the likeness to Piil/ocodium appears
S0 evident, that a close relatienship can not be doubted. All spe-
cimens of Anthoplexaura from different localities and depths were
richly beset with this Hydroid. Stechow, as already mentioned,
has referred it to the family Corynidæ; and (20 b, No. 142, p. 152)
he has also pointed out the close relationship to Ptilocodium and
argues against the establishing of a new family for the latter. Also
Hydrichthys'is referred by Stechow to the Corynidæ; in so far as
this will prove to be well founded, our Jcathyocodium has to be in-
Cluded in the same family. Thus this family contains the three of
the above-mentioned four epizoic Hydroids devoid of tentacles.
It is mentioned above (p. 2) that the triple association of the
Hydroid IZchthyocodium with the Copepod Sarcotretes parasitic on
Scopelus glacialis is hardly quite an accidental one. I feel most in-
clined to consider it to be a new case of such regular associations —
in some way or other fixed by law — which are known to occur
among other Hydroids. That Hydroids in many cases may be found
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growing on living animals merely accidentally is well known. I may
refer to Alcock (2, p. 207) who has collected a series of examples.
From my own experience I might add a case, at first sight parallel
to that of Ichthyocodium, namely that of Obelia geniculata, which
I have seen flourishing on a Lernæa branchialis attached in the gills
of the common cod; a similar case is mentioned by Sæmunds-
son (21, p. 29). This Hydroid as well as those mentioned by
Alcock normally grow on quite other substrata; by accident they
may attach themselves to living animals, and they may occur on
very different organisms. If, however, a Hydroid is quite regularly
met with on the same animal — or a nearly related one — and
is only found there, we may be sure that we have before us some
kind of symbiosis, in most cases probably a form of commensalism.
To decide whether the association involves a reciprocal advantage
or is beneficial only to the one part is in most cases very difficult,
and a matter of mere conjecture. Alcock also mentions a number
of such regular combinations (1. c. p. 208), and he adds as a new
case that of Stylactis (Podocoryne) minoi, which he always found
attached to the skin of the fish Minous inermis, while other species
of Minous apparently were free of this Hydroid. Later the same
has been observed at Japan (Franz and Stechow (8), Stechow
20 a; Pl. IV, Fig. 8). That after Heath (9) Minous inermis also
may be found free of this Hydroid (Snyder is said by H. to have
captured several specimens uninfested) in my opinion does not alter
in any way the character of Stylactis minoi as a symbiotic form;
hitherto it has never been found on other substrata than the body
of a Minous. A somewhat similar association is described by
Heath (l. c.): of 37 specimens of the cottoid fish Hypsagonus
qguadricornis, captured in Puget Sound (Friday Harbor), 10 were
coated with Perigonimus pugetensis, a new species related to RB
vestitus Allm.
Ås a "triple-association” between a Hydroid and a Crustacean
parasitic on a fish, which perhaps is a regular one, I might men-
tion that of Eucope parasitica. This Hydroid is described by Al.
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Agassiz (1, p. 87) as found (more than once) on a species of
Pennella parasitic on Orthagoriscus mola; later the same Hydroid
was taken by Leidy (12, p. 165) on another Lernean Lernæonema
procera parasitic on Odontaspis littoralis "). Hitherto this Hydroid
has only been observed growing on Lerneans on fishes; but it is
very close to Eucope polygena, attached to quite other substrata,
and it seems questionable if this case is really different from that
of Obelia geniculata, mentioned above. At all events the special
interest which we at first sight might attach to the examples quoted
of associations between. Hydroids and Fishes, and still more to those
between Hydroids and Lerneans parasitic on Fishes, looses very
much when we consider the structure of the Hydroids in question.
None of these Hydroids, neither Stylactis minoi, nor Perigonimus
pugetensis, nor Eucope parasitica show any peculiar adaptation for
their occurring on a living animal, not in the least any more than
Obelia geniculata, usually found on quite other substrata; in no
respect do they carry the stamp of being transformed owing to their
peculiar” habitation. Whatever the advantage may be for the one
part of the association, the Fish or the Lernean, for the Hydroid
it will possibly be that of getting an easier access to food supply;
but the kind of food and the mode of grasping it I think must
be the same as that of their nearest allies not found on living
animals. ;
With Zchthyocodium, Hydrichthys and Nudiclava the case seems
to be different. In these Hydroids all the polypes have lost their
tentacles; probably because they get their food in another way and
take another kind of food than their nearest relatives”). I think
they depend in some way or other on the fish for food (the Para-
sitic Copepod in the case of Ichthyocodium only serving as attach-
1) Whether the "Campanularia” which Paul Mayer (15, p. 53) found
growing in great numbers on the filaments of a Pennella (filosa?)
parasitic on Xiphias gladius is identical with Eucope ibenugg Åg.
"I am unable to decide.
”) The absence of HEER in the polypes of Bklhyoeddiem seems
to point in the same direction.
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ment); but how, I am not able to decide. That they as true para-
sites should feed directly on the tissues of the fish is possible,
but seems less probable; neither in Hydrichthys nor in Nudi-
clava åre the hydrorhizæ sunk into the skin, and the latter
appears not to be affected by their presence (the same holds good
for the Scopeli carrying Ichthyocodium); more likely they are mess-
mates or commensals, feeding on leavings from the meals of the
fish or perhaps on the excrement of the latter. I may add that
I found no contents at all in the gastric cavity of the polypes of
Ichthyocodium which I have cut in sections.
Explanation of the plates.
List of reference letters.
ad = anus.
da; == aåntennule.
4g == antenna.
f = furcal appendage.
g —= genital segment.
1 = chitinous thickening.
m = manubrium of medusa-bud.
md — mandibular palp.
me = medusa-bud.
mp; == maxilliped of first pair.
mp, == maxilliped of second pair.
— maxilla,
0 — genital opening.
P = polype.
P1—P3 — first to third abdominal (thoracic) foot.
pr —= lateral outgrowth from cephalothorax.
v — marginal tentacle of medusa-bud.
så = sipho.
Plate I.
Fig. 1: Scopelus glacialis Rhdt. with the combined parasite, co: of
the Sarcotretes scopels (without egg-strings) and the Frk thyoondinmt |
sarcotretis. X c. 2.
: enltkged vi view of part of the same specimen of Sarcotretes (the
stalk and proximal part of the swollen external portion) with part
of the Hydroid-colony. me, = large medusa-bud having lost one
of its marginal tentacles.
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8:
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one of the largest medusa-buds. Zeiss Comp. Oc. 4, Apochr. 8.
codium, consisting of a single polype, still without mouth-opening
("Thor”'s station 124).
: the same part of another Sarcotretes Mu a young Hydroid-
colony of polypes of different sizes ("Thor””'s st. 93).
: posterior portion with the stalk and part of me internal portion
of a Sarcotretes showing a Hydroid-colony with several polypes
(only one carrying a tiny medusa-bud, me) and its ramified tubes
of the basal membrane ("Thor”'s st. 89). Zeiss Oc. 1, Obj. af 10.
: adult DER irebrnges with egg-strings ("Thor”'s st. 76). Zeiss
Oc. 1, Obj.
: anterior dk É th same, gr dorsal side, but somewhat obliquely
hr. 16.
("Thor”'s st. 76). Z. Comp. Oc. 4, Apoc
: posterior end of the same, gprkrnee aspect. ” chitinized spot, pro-
bably where the copulatory openings have been.
: anterior part of an adult Sarcotretes 9, rager aspect (,, Thors
8 and
st. 89). Eiarremalt as in Figs.
Plate Il.
See -stage (Å) of Sarcotretes ske from left side ("Thor”'s
t. 80). Z. Comp. Oc. 4, Apochr.
ip same, dorsal view.
second pupal stage (0), from right side. ("Thor”'s st. 177).
Z. C Oc. 4, Apochr. 16.
og
: third pupal stage (D), male specimen ("Thor”'s st. 80). Magnif.
as Fig,
: fonrth Sevål stage (E) ("Thor”'s st. 76). Inside the sipho is seen
part of the mouth-funnel of the enclosed copulatory stage.
: young female, ca. 4 mm. long; ag inserted we the body wall
of the fish ("Thor”'s st, 76). Z. Oc. 1, Obj. a"
: anterior part of ig same specimen, from fler side. Z. Comp.
Oc. 4, Apochr. 1
: posterior end of A body of the same, lateral view. Enlarg. as
the precedin
: young female, soll ke older than tbe preceding, from right side
Thor” ”s st. 76). Oc, 4 Oby. 3? 10
: anterior part of the same. de Comp. Oc. 4, Apochr. 16.
: same part, ventral aspec
: posterior part of first pupal stage (B), from below (stat. 80). Z.
8.
Comp. Oc. 4, Apochr.
: first pair of abdominal (thoracic) feet of third æde” stage (D) ;
same specimen as Fig 14, Z. Comp. Oc. 4, Apochr.
£ Jømtar. part of fourth Meng stage (E), ventral skål (st. 76),
same specimen as fig. 15. Inside the left foot of the first pair
(P,) are in the ye: of the same foot of the ln
copulatory stage. Z. Comp. Oc. 4, Apochr. 8.
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Fig. 25: right foot of second pair of the same specimen, from below. En-
larged as Figs. 23—24,
— 26: right foot of third pair of the same specimen, from below. As
Figs
—é oa
|
så
g Poole bellotsi Rich., 9 (without egg-strings), arge into
the arterial bulb b of the heart of Scopelus glacialis; v =
tricle; a = auricle; ar = stem of branchial artery. ("Thor” 's MÅ
DO FOF KOST, OH. ar 10:
The figures 1, 2, 4 and 5 are drawn by H. V. Westergaard, the
remaining by the author.
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Om fritbyggede Honningbireder i Danmark.
(On the nidification of honey-bees in the open-air in Denmark.)
af
Dr. phil. J. C. Nielsen.
Honningvireder, der i Lighed med de to tropiske Apis-Arter
Apis florea's og A. dorsata's Reder er byggede frit, d. v. s. hverken
i Kuber eller i hule Træer, men befæstede til Trægrene og saa-
ledes at Vokskagerne er ubeskyttede, forekommer meget sjældent.
Fra ældre Tid kendes kun en af Curtis 1) omtalt og afbildet Rede,
Som var fundet i England i Aaret 1838; i de senere Aar har Pro-
fessor E. L. Bouvier?) i forskellige Afhandlinger beskrevet fire
Saadanne Reder, to, der var byggede paa Træer i eller i Omegnen af
Jardin des Plantes i Paris, en fra Midtfrankrig og en fra Korsika.
Alle Rederne bestod af flere, 6—8, Vokskager, der var befæ-
stede til Grene og var mere eller mindre regelmæssigt byggede alt
efter Underlagets Beskaffenhed.
Ogsaa i Danmark er der i de sidste Aar fundet fritbyggede
Honningbireder.
En saadan opdagedes i Oktober 1908 i en Have ved Strand-
vejen omtrent en halv Mil nord for København og blev af Havens
1!) Curtis: British Entomology IV, 1823—1840, p. 391, Tab. 769.
7”) E. L, Bouvier: Sur la nidification d'une colonie d”Abeilles å Vair
libre (Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris 1905, p. 187). —
Nouvelles Observations sur la nidification d”abeilles å Fair libre (An-
nales de la Société Entomologique de France Vol. LXXV, 1906, p. 429).
es nids aeriens de Vabeille mellifique (nouveaux faits)
(Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1907, p. 294)
3"
36
Ejer, Grosserer A.S. Goldschmidt, skænket til den kgl. Veterinær-
og Landbohøjskoles zoologiske Samling, hvor den nu opbevares.
Reden (Fig. 1, 2), der bestod af fire nogenlunde parallelt byg-
gede Vokskager, var anbragt paa et Hestekastanietræ i temmelig
betydelig Højde over Jorden; over den dannede Træets Blade et
tæt Dække, og dens mod Nord vendte Side var dækket ved Træets
Stamme og Blade, medens dens sydlige Side var mere udsat. Reden
var fæstet til Undersiden af en Gren af Diameter c. 4 cm, hvis
indre (mod Stammen vendte) Del i Modsætning til den ydre, for-
grenede Del kun frembød forholdsvis sparsom Plads til Anbringelse
af Vokskagerne. Henimod Grenens Basis, hvor Kagerne var byggede
tæt op imod hverandre, indeholdt de Celler med ganske lave Vægge;
længere ude derimod, hvor de ogsaa var befæstede til Sidegrenene
og hvor Kagerne delvis var sammenbyggede (Fig. 2) var Cellerne
endog meget højere end normalt. De fire "Vokskager var omtrent
af samme Størrelse, nogle og tredive Centimeter brede og nogle og
tyve høje. I de to yderste og i en af de inderste havde Bierne
boret flere Smaahuller, hvis Diameter var indtil 3 cm. Vokskagerne
indeholdt hverken Dronninge- eller Droneceller; nogle ganske faa
Celler ved Basis af en af de midterste Vokskager indeholdt Honning ;
alle de andre var tomme.
Den anden Rede (Fig. 3, 4) fandtes i Begyndelsen af Juli 1911
i Frederiksberg Gymnasiums Skolehave og blev af Skolebestyrer L.
Otterstrøm givet til Universitetets zoologiske Museum. Den var
anbragt i en Højde af c. 2 Meter over Jorden paa den sydlige Side
af et Pæretræ og betæstet til en omkring dettes Stamme voksende
Kaprifolium. Den var, da den fandtes, saa stor som en Haand og
voksede i Løbet af Sommeren til en Størrelse af c. 38 cm i Højden
og c. 26 cm i Bredden; i September, da den fotograferedes, bestod
den af 6 Vokskager foruden en lille halvrund Kage, der var bygget
over de øvrige Kager, vinkelret paa disse.
Reden hvilede fornemmelig paa et Par tykkere, sammensnoede
Grene af Kaprifolien, men støttedes desuden af flere andre Grene,
hvoraf nogle helt omsluttedes af Vokskagerne; den nedre, Bagrand
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af disse var dybt indbugtet omkring nogle større Grene. " Vokskagerne
var, bortset fra den nysnævnte lille halvrunde Vokskage, parallelt
stillede. Af Fig. 3, der viser Reden skraat fra venstre, fremgaar,
at de to yderste Kager var sammenbyggede lidt nedenfor Midten;
påa samme Maade var den næstyderste Vokskage sammenbygget
med den tredie 0. s. v. Reden udgjorde som Følge heraf et sluttet
og solidt Hele.
Ligesom i den først omtalte Rede fandtes der i denne kun
smaa Celler; 'ganske faa af disse indeholdt Honning.
Som Billederne viser, sad Bierne i Mellemrummene imellem
Vokskagerne. Efterhaanden mindskedes deres Antal; i Slutningen
af Oktober fandtes der kun Bier i to af Mellemrummene. Den 24,
November blev Reden taget ind; den foregaaende Nat havde det
frosset, og en Del af Bierne var faldne til Jorden. I de to Mellem-
rum sad endnu omtrent 150 tilsyneladende livløse Bier, adskillige
med Forkroppen stukket ind i de tomme Celler, en Stilling, som
ogsaa de to fornævnte Forfattere har set, at Bierne indtog i de af
dem undersøgte Reder. Efter at Reden i nogen Tid havde været
anbragt i en opvarmet Stue, viste det sig, at de fleste af Bierne
dog ikke var døde.
De to beskrevne Reder er ikke de eneste her i Landet fundne
Exemplarer af fritbyggede Honningbireder. Docent R. H. Stamm
har meddelt mig, at han har været i Besiddelse af en Vokskage,
der var funden bygget til Undersiden af en Bøgegren og fæstet til
Bladene. Noget nærmere om denne Rede, dens Bygning og Finde-
sted kan desværre ikke nu oplyses.
Summary.
This paper deals with the specimens of honey-bee-nests con-
structed in the open air hitherto found in Denmark.
Figs. 1—2 show a nest, found in a garden ca. 2 miles north
of Copenhagen, attached to the underside of a branch of a horse-
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chesnut. The nest was composed by 4 honey-combs, whose dimen-
sions were nearly the same, a little more than 30 cm. in breadth
and between 20 and 30 cm. in height.
In Figs. 3—4 a nest, found in a garden at Frederiksberg
(Copenhagen) is represented; the nest was attached to the branches
of a honey-suckle, growing on a pear-tree, and consisted of 5 honey-
combs, which were mutually connected. The length of the nest
was ca. 38 cm and the breadth ca. 23 cm.
In both nests were found neither drone- nor queen-celis and
in both only few cells contained honey.
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Contributions to the biology of some North
Atlantic species of Eels.
By
Dr. Johs. Schmidt.
(With Plate III.)
In an article in "Nature”, 2158, 1911, I showed how the
common European Conger-eel (C. vulgaris) reproduces both in the
western and eastern part of the Mediterranean, mainly at or over
great depths, the early fry being found in quantities in the surface-
Water far from the shores. As the Atlantic material collected by the
Thor” and by numerous other Danish vessels in earlier and more
recent years has-now been worked up, some further information can
be given regarding the biology of this fish. From the same parts
of the Atlantic we have three other Leptocephali, namely, Conger
(Congromuræna) mystax, C. (Congromurænd) balearicus and Lep-
tocephalus lanceolatus, and these may also be mentioned here, The
Common Conger, as is well known, is a fish of great economic im-
Portance, the second and third are of no value as food-fishes, whilst
the adult of the fourth is as yet unknown; nevertheless, they are
all of no little biological interest, and the same is the case with
two other forms, Leptocephalus ingolfianus and L. Andreae, which
May be just mentioned here.
The older full-grown larval stages and the transitional stages
of the first three species have long been known, though from a few
isolated localities only. After Gill, Delage and Grassi and
Calandruccio hud shown that Leptocephali were the larvae of
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eels, their study became of much greater interest, but it must be
confessed, that the older descriptions of the Leptocephali are so
imperfect ånd unsatisfactory, that a certain determination of the
species from them is impossible; naturally, any attempt to discuss
the distribution of the species on such åa basis is still more im-
possible. It may be said that in addition to a good figure, the
main thing required in a careful description is the exact number
of myomeres. Grassi and Calandruccio pointed out that the
number of myomeres in the Leptocephali corresponds to the number
of vertebræ in the parent form, This fact I have frequently con-
firmed and we thus have a means of referring a Leptocephalus to
its parent species as well as of distinguishing between the different
Leptocephali, even when in other characters there is apparently no
difference. |
Though Delage showed that L. morrisii is the larva of Conger
vulgaris and- Grassi and Calandruccio, on confirming this,
added 'that several Leptocephali known from thé Straits of Messina
under various names are the larvåe of C. mystax and C. balearicus,
yet, up to the present time, figures and descriptions of tese three
Leptocephali which would enable us to distinguish them from nearly
related forms have not been published. I have found it nécessary,
therefore, to study the question anew from the very beginning in
the only way possible; namely, by counting the ' vertebræ in. the
larval and adult forms. In this way I have been able to determine
the larval stages occurring inside the territory investigated, which
includes the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic north of- ca.
20? NL. | ME
The 'full-grown larvae of the Conger-speciés mentioned differ
in regard to size. C. balearicus has the largest larva (ca. 20 cm.),
C. mystax the smallest (ca. 13 cm.), whilst the larva of C: vulgaris
may attain a length of ca. 16 cm. All three species have long
ribbon-like bodies with the anus far behind near the beginning of
the tail, nearest in C. balearicus, furthest away in C. vulgaris
(see figs. 1—6). ;
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The pigmentation, whose diagnostic importance in the Lep-
tocephali was sufficiently pointed out by the Italian Bellotti (1883),
is very characteristic and makes it possible to distinguish the three |
Species occurring in our territory at a glance. They all have
pigment along the gut, at the end of the tail and between this
and the anus along the base of the anal fin; but from the pigment
on the sides alone the species may easily be distinguished. Conger
mystax does mot have this pigment, C. vulgaris has a row of rather
large round spots and C. balearicus has short rows of fine points
on the boundaries between the muscular segments. C. balearicus
besides has large isolated patches on the dorsal margin which are
lacking in the other species. The number of myomeres which
corresponds to the number of vertebræ in the species in question is
also different, in C. vulgaris ca. 158, in C. mystax ca. 138 and
in C. balearicus ca. 130.
The ca. 1—2 cm. long larvae of C. vulgaris and C. mystax
have been taken by the <"Phor” in quantities in the Mediterranean,
but it was only by means of long series of intermediate stages, up
to å length when the number of vertebræ could be determined with
certainty, that we have been able to identify them. In figs. 2 and 4.
these stages of the two species are represented from specimens
which were so well preserved that they could be microphotographed.
It is easily seen from the figures, that the larva of C. vulgaris
differs from C. mystax by having a shorter snout and a lovger tail;
further, the pigment patches along the gut are much closer together
in the latter than in the former and C. mystax also has some
pigment spots at the point of the lower jaw which are wanting in
C. vulgaris. Of C. balearicus I have not seen stages smaller than
ca. 21/2 cm. and these are already so characteristic, owing to the
pigment on the sides, the dorsal pigment and the position of the
anus, that they cannot be confused with other species. A fourth
species of Leptocephalus, of unknown parentage, will be described
later; meanwhile, I may just | briefly discuss the distribution and
biological conditions of the above three species, for which both the
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Leptocephalus and adult stages' are known. The data are noted
on the accompanying charts.
1. Conger vulgaris: My article in "Nature" dealt in
the main with the Mediterranean and did not say anything
positive as to the spawning-places of the Conger in the Atlantic
except that they lie at great depths not far from the Straits of
Gibraltar. A further revison of the material bas thrown more light
upon this question. In the years 1903—06 the ”Thor” made
extensive investigations in the North Atlantic between Iceland and
Spain and found a considerable number of larvae of Conger vul-
gaåris, but they were all quite or almost full-grown and consequently
revealed nothing about the spawning-places of the species, their age
and the time they had heen floating in the sea being unknown.
It was therefore a great advance when we found larvae of
only 9 mm. in length in the Mediterranean, enabling us to say that
we were at or very close to the spawning-places. Furthermore, we
ascertained that Conger larvae in the course of half a year grow
Ca. 5 cm, which gave us the first definite point of support for the
determination of the age of any eel-larvae. By far the greater
number of larvae below 2 cm. were found over depths greater than
2500 m., even greater than 3000 m., and, as already mentioned, near
the surface. During the first days of July and the last days of
August investigations were carried out between the Balearic Isles
and Sardinia. The early larvae were found in quantities in August
but not in the beginning of July, and during the investigations in
December, January and February not a single larva smaller than
5 cm. was obtained in the whole Mediterranean. We may therefore
draw the conclusion that Conger vulgaris spawns in summer and
Spring in- the Mediterranean, somewhat earlier in the eastern than
in the western basin.
Thus the early larvae of the common Conger appeared to be
very easy to obtain; they are fairly slow in their movements and
åre found near the surface or right at the surface where they cau
be taken with any fine-meshed net slowly towed through the water.
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The half-grown larvae.of ca. 7 cm. im length also appeared to be
easily caught. There can be no doubt therefore that the reason
why we did not find the early and half-grown larvae during our
extensive investigations in 1903—06 west of the British Islands
ånd France and further to the north, must have been that they do
not occur there or, in other words, that the Conger does not
spawn in those parts of the Atlantic where the species
otherwise is so common. Through the discovery of larvae
1 cm. long we have already obtained an indirect confirmation of this
fact and, at the same time, the position of spawning-places of
the European Conger in the Atlantic have been found. These
larvae were taken during the latter half of July at the surface
over depths greater than 3000 m. and even greater than 4000 m.,
i. e. under quite similar conditions as in the Mediterranean. The
discovery of these larvae, the smallest of which, to judge from the
growth of artificially hatched Murænoid larvae, may be about three
weeks old at the most, enables us now for the first time to outline
with " certainty spawning-places of a definite eel-species. in the
Atlantic. According to the available data C. vulgaris spawns in
the; Atlantic between 30”? and 40? N. Lat., between
Europe and the Azores in places where the.depth
exceeds 3000 m. In our material there is no indication that it
spawns nearer North Europe and the British Islands and we must
therefore draw the conclusion that the Conger migrate south
and westwards from these regions in order to spawn,
in the same way as the fresh-water eel, a fact formerly pointed
by me. It is probable that the Conger migrates in order to
seek warm: and- very saline water. I am not able to say at what
depth the eggs are spawned. But when the early larvae are found
at the surface over depths of more than 4000 m., it seems much more
probable that the Conger spawns pelagically than at the bottom.
The occurrence of Conger larvae in the: Atlantic seems. to
agree véry well with what we know from the Mediterranean, thus
the 1—2 cm. long stages are found in the summer, the half-grown
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in the winter, so that the life-cycle is as follows: the Conger
vulgaris spawns in spring and summer in regions where the
depths are very great and the water warm and salt (above 36,00
9/00). During winter the larvae reach half their full size and in
the following spring and summer the metamorphosis takes place;
thus, they live pelagically for 1 to 2 years. The very long
duration of the pelagic life accounts for the fact that the larvae of
the Conger, like those of the fresh-water eel, are able to spread
over such wide regions.
Besides from the Atlantic and the Mediterranean I have seen
larvae of the same type as those of the common Conger from the
Inland Sea of Japan.
2. CU. (Congromuræna) mystax. This species belongs to the
Mediterranean, where however its larvae were formerly only known
from the Messina Straits. Our investigations have shown that they
occur everywhere in the Mediterranean, but outside this sea only a
few specimens have been found in the Atlantic not far from Gib-
raltar. The occurrence of the larvae shows that it spawns later
in the year than Conger vulgaris, i.e. later in summer and autumn,
at which times of the year the smallest stages are found, and it
is possible that this species spawns a little nearer the coasts than
Conger vulgaris.
Stromman mentions a form from the South Atlantic
(359 40' 8., 189 45' E.), which seems to be very closely related to
C. mystax,
3. C. (Congromuræna) balearicus. We have two fairly
modern descriptions of eel-larvae, by Stråmman (1896), and by
Eigenmann and Kennedy (1902). But only the latter is of
any use for a certain identification of the species. Stråmman
does not give the number of vertebræ, so that none of his species
1) I have described a Leptocephalus from the Atlantic under the name
of L. latus (Medd. Komm. Havunders., Ser. Fiskeri, Bind III, Nr. 6,
1909), but had overlooked the fact that this name was alrendy
occupied. I now propose the name L. jk tarller
C. (Congromuræna) balearicus: e Lar
(The specimens from the Atlantic = Leptocephalus Eckmani sense: emend.)
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W Older larvae (2—6 cm.).
Br T lanceolatus Stromman emend.
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can be determined with certainty, but through the kindness of the
authorities at the Zoological Museum of Upsala I have been able
to examine his type specimens; in this way it has been possible
to determine their characters and thus to avoid making new names.
On counting the vertebræ I found that his Leptocevhalus Eckmani
is identical with a species occurring in immense quantities in our
gatherings, especially in the Atlantic west of the Azores. In the
Mediterranean a very similar form was described many years ago
under the names of Leptocephalus diaphanus and Leptocephalus
inornatus. To determine whether the two forms from the Atlantic
and the Mediterranean had anything to do with each other, however,
necessitated a comparison of numerous specimens, including counting
of vertebræ. It then appeared that the two forms are very closely
related, so closely that it is doubtful whether they can be always
distinguished when the place of occurrence is unknown. The number
0 vertebræ is not absolutely different, as the same number may
be found in specimens from the Atlantic and Mediterranean, but on
an average the number of vertebræ in the form from the Atlantic
is 2—3 more than in the form from the Mediterranean. Further,
the head of the latter is a little stouter and the rows of pigment
Spots between the myomeres are a little more marked, containing a
few more spots. The Atlantic form is, numerically, by far the most
important of all eel-larvae in our collections, showing that it must
have a very wide distribution. It has been taken off the continental
slope of the western part of the Atlantic from Newfoundland to
Guiana and eastwards it ranges to near the Azores. It occurs in
largest quantities between 50? and 70% W. Long., taken at the
Surface over the greatest oceanic depths. H. M. S. Ingolf” which
has made collections for us, took no fewer than 477 specimens in
our Atlantic Leptocephalus specimens of C. balearicus, but the de-
seription of the two American naturalists is not sufficient to pens
an identification.
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a single haul of 1/2 an hour with a net of 1!/2 m in diam., near
60? W. and 25? N. According to our present investigations ”it
occurs between 15? and 43? N. and between 32? and ca. 75? W.
but it has not yet been taken east of 30? "W. Long. In the
Mediterranean we find a very closely" related but not quite
identical form; of' this the greatest number of larvae were
taken in the eastern basin (east of Italy): On the other
hand, we have larvae from the eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico,
which differ from the central Atlantic larvae by a lower average
number of vertebræ. Thus, in the North Atlantic region we
have 3 forms of C. balearicus, whose larvae can be distinguished
by a small average difference in the number of vertebræ. The
larvae living in the Western and central parts of the West Atlantic
have the highest number of vertebræ, whilst in the larvae from
the European and American Mediterranean (Gulf of Mexico) the
average is a little lower. 'Furthermore, we have specimens from
the Southern Atlantic and the Indian Ocean in the older Danish
collections, and in the collections of the "Albatross” from the Phil-
ippines I "have seen quantities of related Leptocephali. Conger
balearicus-like forms must therefore be "very widespread in the
warmer parts of the oceans. ,
AS our material does not contain smaller larvåe of this species
than 21/2 cm., it is impossible to determine the position of its
spawning-places in the Atlantic and even though the various sizes
of the larvae at different places over the vast region of occurrence
seem to indicate, that the spawning of the species is restricted to
certain parts, I prefer to postpone discussion of this question until
we have obtained more definite data. :
Lastly, I may just briefly refer to a fourth species of
Leptocephalus, which is represented in our collections by åa large
and valuable material. In old samples dating from Capt. Andréas
time, a Danish Captain who made pelagic collections for the Z00-
logical Muséum in Copenhagen between ca. 1860 and 1880, as also
in collections made during recent years for "Kommissionen for Hav-
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undersøgelser” by various Danish ships, there occurs a characteristic,
small Leptocephalus which at first glance resembles L. brevirostris.
The resemblance is however quite superficial and there can be no
question of. relation. Fig. 7 shows the external appearance; it will
be seen that the tail is pointed and the snout much longer than
in L. brevirostris. Furthermore, the myomeres have quite a different
shape and there is pigment on the tail. An examination of
Stråmman's type specimens of Leptocephali has convinced me
that it must be identical with his Z. Janceolatus, though this cannot
be recognized from his description. The present species has ca.
160 myomeres of which ca. 88 are preanal and my specimens vary
in length from ca. 1 to ca. 6 cm. Stråmman's largest specimen
was 33 mm. and not full-grown. The distribution is seen from the
Chart (p. 44); it has been found west of 30? W. Long., like C.
balearicus, but also in the deep, eastern part of the Atlantic near
30% N. L. A point of special interest is the discovery of larvae
1 cm. long in the central, deepest parts of the Atlantic.
These show that the species must spawn out here, as larvae of
1 cm. in length cannot have drifted very far from the spawning-
places"), Further, the discovery of such early larvae at the surface
1) The same is the case with a species of Nettastoma from the
Atlantic and with a species for which I propose the name Lep-
tocephalus ingolfianus. As may be seen from the figure 8 it
resembles C. mystaæ in shape, but is somewhat higher, and is easily
distinguished from this in lacking the pigment row along the gut.
(In L. ingolfianus pigment is only present near and at the end of
the tail.) The number of vertebræ is also different exceeding 150 in
L. ingolfianus. (In one specimen 79 mm. long I found 118 + 35 =
158 and in a smaller 120 + 35 — 155.) The present specimens
measure from ca. 1 to ca. 3 cm. in length and have been found in the
Atlantic SW of the Azores, at the surface over a depth of more than
3000 m.. (329 03" N., 399 00' W).
I am unable to say whether another species whose larvae occur
in our collections (see fig. 9) and which is related to Stromman s
L. tiluroides, also propagates in the deep parts of the Atlantic like the
parents of L. lanceolatus and ingolfianus, as we have not obtained
specimens less than ca. 7 cm. in length. Is has about 250 preanal
vertebræ and is further characterised by the presence of ca. 4 large
Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. Bd. 64. 4
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over great depths of the ocean, seems to exclude the possibility
that the species spawns on the bottom, 6000 m. below the surface
where the larvae were found.
The four species mentioned with Anguilla vulgaris, Anguilla
rostrata and Synaphobranchus pinnatus. compose the greater part of
our material. from the North Atlantic region. Postponing meanwhile
an account of the. biology and distribution of the last 3 species I
may sum up our results regarding the distribution of the other
four. According to the foregoing C. balearicus belongs apparently
to the western region (west of 30? W. Long.), though a form very
closely related to it occurs in the Mediterranean. In regard
to the others, C. mystaæx is apparently restricted to the Mediter-
ranean and adjacent parts of the Atlantic and our investigations with
the ”Thor” show that it spawns in the Mediterranean in summer
and autumn. C. vulgaris propagates both in the Mediterranean and
in the eastern part of the Atlantic between 30” and 40”? N. Lat.
but not off the shores of the British Isles or France, nor further
to the north or east; we may thus conclude that the Conger living
here, like the fresh-water eel, migrate south- and westwards in order
to spawn in warmer and salter water than they live in during their
years of growth. All the information obtained from our present in-
vestigations show that Conger vulgaris has a rather restricted
spawning-time in spring and summer.
L. lanceolatus occurs both in the western, central and eastern
parts of the Atlantic between ca. 25? and ca. 35? N. L., where it is
born in the central, deep parts of the ocean — a fact which also applies
to L. ingolfianus and most likely to many other murænoid species.
On the other hand my investigations in the Mediterranean
have shown that the dogma put forward by Grassi that all Murænoids
spawn in deep water (at least 500 m.) cannot be maintained. Ås
and distant pigment patches sublaterally in the front part of the
body. For this form I propose the name L. Andreæ in honour of
the late Danish captain who collected such a valuable material of
Leptocephali.
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far as the investigations go we may divide the murænoid species
into two groups: 1) those spawning in or rather over great depths
and 2) those spawning in shallow water. To the former belong
Conger vulgaris, C. mystax and probably also the fresh-water eel
(further the parent forms of L. lanceolatus and ingolfianus), to the
latter Muræna helena, Ophichthys serpens and other Ophichthys-
species, the eggs of which I have been able to identify. The
latter spawn in shallow water, inside the 200 or even the 100 m.
lime where their eggs and tiny larvae occur at the surface together
with larvae of true coastal forms.
January 1912.
Explanation of Pl1. III.
Fig. 1. RE vulgaris, length: MER Stat. 106, ?%/6 1910, 36? 88' NG
2 00' W., 65 meters wire 0
ed vulgaris; length: sår se Stat. 144, ?%/; 1910, 349 31' N.,
18? 40' E., 25 meters wire 0
== BB 64k esareeR mystat), me gi mm; Stat. 204, ?7/s 1910,
mel 52' N., 79 43' E., 65 meters wire 0
mk, C. (Congromuræna Mystad), length: og mm; Stat. 10, 75/2 1908,
379 21' N., 169 45' E., 25 meters wire out. :
C. (Con ghonuriid balearicus aff. = Leptocephalus Eckmani
Stromman, emend., length: 95 mm; Stat. 329, ?%/7 1911, 25? 82' N.,
52? 08 W., 35 meters wire out.
C (Corigroksurena) balearicus, length: 89 mm; Stat. 18, 7%/;>
1908, 399 45' N., 17? 30' E., 65 meters wire 0
. Leptocephalus lanordlndte Strimman, emend., length; 54 mm.;
Stat. 263, 76/5, 1911, 36? 49" N., 309 36' W., 47 meters wire out.
Leptocephalus ingolfianus Johs. Schmidt, n. sp., length: 79 mm.;
Stat. 310, ?3/; 1911, 32? 03' N., 39? 00' W, 17 meters wire out.
Leptocephalus Andreae Johs. Schmidt, n. sp-, length: 101 mm. ;
Stat. 331, ?5/; 1911, 359 50' N., 299 53' W., 35 meters wire out.
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The larval form of Chlopsis bicolor Raf.
By
Dr. Johs. Schmidt.
Tarough Grassi and Calandruccio's work, later continued
by Grassi, the larval forms of a series of Mediterranean eel-
fishes have become known. In some cases, certainly, the detailed
proof is wanting, but we have at any rate become acquainted with
most of the generic types of larvae through the investigations of
the Italian authors, and we may hope, according to Grassi's
statement in his latest paper of 1910, that the, so far, preliminary
notices will be followed by the long-expected, detailed proof.
The genera of Mediterranean eel-fishes still unknown in their
larval stages are Chlopsis and Todarus; regarding the genus Myrus,
Grassi and Calandruccio certainly state, that they have found
the larva, but they give no evidence or description. This may also
be expected in the complete work.
I propose to deal here with the larva of Ch/opsis, which is
not mentioned by Grassi and Calandruccio, but which has
been taken during my investigations with the ”Thor” in the Med-
iterranean,. As might be expected, it belongs to quite a different
type from the Mediterranean Leptocephali hitberto known, whilst,
on the other hand, larvae of the same type have also been found
in the Atlantic.
To describe the form is hardly necessary, as reference can be
made to the figure. At first glance the larva somewhat resembles
Leptocephalus brevirostris, but when we examine a little further
into details, we see at once, that the two forms have nothing to
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do with one another. I need not describe all details, but merely
point out the advanced position of the anus in all my specimens;
these vary from 3 cm. to a little over 6 cm. in length, and none
of them are as yet in process of transformation. Among the Med-
iterranean Leptocephali a similar position of the anus is only
known in the genera Saurenchelys and Nettastoma. The larva of
Chlopsis is further remarkable to a special degree for its pigmen-
tation. It possesses a similar row of mediolateral points to the
larva of Conger vulgaris, but.these are considerably smaller and
closer together than in the latter. As can be seen from the figure,
there is also a row of closely placed points along the upper part
of the gut. Further, a row of very fine points is present along
the posterior part of the anal fin.
The evidence that the larval form figured here belongs to
Chlopsis bicolor Raf. is contained first of all in the number of myo-
meres, which in 14 specimens were found to vary between 131 and
136, ca. 48 being preanal. This number excludes almost all the
eel-fishes known from the Mediterranean: Anguilla, Conger, Congro-
muraena mystax, Muraena helena, Myrus, Nettastoma, Saurenche-
lys, Ophichthys serpens, imberbis, hispanus and sp., in all of which
I have counted the vertebrae myself. There remain Muraena uni-
color, Todarus brevirostris, Ophichthys coecus, Congromuraena ba-
learica and Chlopsis bicolor. Of these Congromuraena balearica
(with C. mystad) is at once excluded owing to the fact, that my
material of this species contains all transitional stages between
metamorphosed, easily determinable specimens and the early larvae
(see fig. 2 in my paper of 1912), which are totally different from
the larva in question here. With regard to Ophichthys coecus,
though the number of vertebrae is unknown to me, yet this species
may be excluded owing to the fact, that the present larva belongs
to quite a different type from the other Ophichthys larvae and has
rays in all the unpaired fins. 7odarus brevwrostris I only know
from Facciola's and Supino's descriptions and figures, from
which its appears, that it has a much higher number of vertebrae
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than the present larva. There now remain Muraena unicolor and
Chlopsis bicolor of the eel-fishes known in the Mediterranean.
Aceording to Grassi the former has 136—140 vertebrae, whilst
the latter according to Supino has 133.
This shows already, that our larva belongs to Chlopsis and
the position of the anus so far forward also indicates this. This
position is found in C/lopsis, whereas in Muraena unicolor the
anus is placed further back, and we have no cases among Lepto-
cephali of the anus moving backwards during metamorphosis. The
position of the nostrils also corresponds to the condition in Chlopsis,
as also the tubular, anterior nostril, a feature that can be quite
well: detected in the oldest of my larval specimens. Lastly, the
structure of the tail in the larva agrees with that in C//opsis.
Both the last and second-last hypural elements are broad plates
the last bearing 5 or 4 and the second-last 3 or 4 rays.
Among all the characters I have examined, none stands in
the way of referring the larva to Ch/opsis; on the contrary, they
all show agreement. The fact that the larva has large pectoral
fins (without rays), whilst such are wanting in ChAlopsis, is not
different to what we find in the larvae of other eel-fishes without
pectorals, for example Nettastoma melanurum.
According to our investigations with the ""Thor”, Cålopsis
Occurs in all basins of the Mediterranean and it must be one of
the commonest species. (It seems to belong to the Muraenoids
which spawn in summer and autumn). It is remarkable, there-
fore, that the larva has not been found at Messina by the Italian
naturalists, who have made such rich collections of Leptocephali
there; but it does not occur either in the collections of Lepto-
Cephali from Messina, which I have at my disposal.
To the same type as the larva of Chlopsis bicolor belongs
Leptocephalus hyoproroides, described by Stråmman from the
western part of the Atlantic, of which I have had the opportunity
fo examine the original specimen through the kindness of the
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Director of the Zoological Museum at Upsala"). Quite similar
Leptocephali occur in collections made for Kommissionen for Hav-
undersøgelser by H.M.$S. fIngolf” at in the neighbourhood of the
Chlopsis bicolor Rat.
im length. "Thor” Stat. 156, 32? 24" N. Lat. 26? 51' E,
Long., July 30, 1910.
Larva 58 mm.
West Indies. These show, that the genus ChAlopsis is not restricted
to the Mediterranean, but is also represented in the western part
of the Northern Atlantic.
1) I may take sg opportunity to repeat, that the Leptocephalus des-
cribed by me in 1909 under the name of L. hyoproroides has nothing
to do with rrleeder s species of that name. I had overlooked,
that this name was already occupied and I have later given my species
the name Leptocephalus thorianus (see Zool. Anzeiger, XXXVI, 1910).
5. March 1912.
Report on the Malacostraca colleeted
by the "”Tjalfe”-Expedition, under the direction
of cand. mag. Ad. $. Jensen, especially at
W. Greenland.
By
K. Stephensen.
During the fisheries-investigations carried out by Mr. Ad. S.
Jensen in the Greenland seas, especially at S. W. Greenland, with
the Tjalfe” in the summers 1908 and 1909, a considerable
material of Crustaceans was collected, Especially bathypelagic
species and larvæ of such species are richly represented in the
collection, this expedition standing foremost among those, by which
such material has been brought to light. Itwas, however, by no means the
whole material of Crustaceans, which was preserved, particularly of
the more common species, the main object of the expedition being
fisherjes-investigations, not a general survey of the marine fauna.
The material contains in all 84 species and 6 species of larvæ.
The following species are new to science.
Cleonardo microdactylus. (No. 57).
Eusirus Tjalfiensis. (No. 67).
Munneurycope Tjalfiensis. (No. 80).
Holophryxus Acanthephyræ. (No. 84).
Besides these the following species are new to Greenland :
Longithorax fuscus H. J. Hansen.
Scina sp.
Cyphocaris anonyx "Boeck.
Metacyphocaris Helgæ Tattersall.
Katius obesus Chevreux.
Amphitopsis longicaudata Boeck.
Acanthoniscus typhlops G. O. Sars.
Janthe laciniata G.O. Sars.
Holophryxus Richardi Koehler.
A summary and discussion of the new localities in connection
with those previously known I have given recently in the Report on
the Malacostraca, Pycnogonida and some Entomostraca collected by
the Danmark-Expedition to North-East Greenland, in "Meddelelser
om Grønland”, vol. 45, 1912.
Some of the stations from the Davis-Strait having great
interest, a complete list is given here of all the species brought
home from these stations.
St. 322. 607 07'N, 48? 26" W, 3—5—-1909. 2000 m. wiré ou
Acanthephyra purpurea ca. 15spec. Boreomysis microps 7 spec.
Parapasiphae sulcatifrons 2 spec. Longithorax leve 1 spec.
Gennadas elegans 7 spec. yperia medusarum 1 spec.
Sergestes arcticus 4 spec. Euthemisto San essa 6 spec.
Thysanopoda acutifrons 30 spec. Cyphocaris anonyæ 5 spec.
i É
oessa longicaudata many spec. Metacyphocaris Helgæ 6 spec.
(em. 15 cm.? Munneurycope Tjalfiensis 1 spec.
EÉucopia unguiculata 5 spec. Holophryxus Acanthephyræ 1 spec.
Gnathophausia zoea 2 spec
St. 333, 68? 18' N, 54? 55' W, 7—5—1909. depth 1300 m.,
1530 m. wire out.
Acanthephyra purpurea 12 spec. Boreomysis microps ca. 20 spec.
Parapasiphae sulcatifrons 4 spec. Cyphocaris anonyæx 2 spec.
Gennadas elegans ca. 15 spec. Katius obesus 2 spec.
Sergestes etern 1 spec. Metacyphocaris Helgæ 5 spec.
Eucopia unguiculata ca. 25 spec. … Lanceola serrata 1 spec.
Sratkorkiken zoea 5 spec
St. 338, 647'01'N, 55? 30" W, 83—5—1909. depth 1185 m.
1500 m. wire out.
Acanthephyra purpurea 11 spec. Scina sp. 1 spec.
" Parapasiphae Hanen ons 5 spec. Cyphocaris must 2 spec.
Gennadas elegans 18 Katius obesus
Boreomysis microps ca. pm spec. or gdetsener Helge 2 spec.
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Sk 336. 647 06"N, 559% 78' W 82540009 depth 1040—1100 m.,
1200 m. wire out.
Acanthephyra purpurea 10 spec. Eucopia unguiculata 6 spec.
Parapasiphae sulcatifrons 6 spec. Gnathophausia zoea 7 spec.
Gennadas elegans ca. 25 spec. Boreomysis microps ca. 25 spec.
Sergestes arcticus 1 spec. Cyphocaris anonyæ 2 s
spec
Thysanoessa longicaudata 1 spec. — Cleonardo microdactylus 2 spec.
Decapoda.
1. Chionoecetes Opilio O. Fabr.
Cancer Phalangium ig res Fauna Groenlandica, 1780, No. 214
—…… Opiio O. Bale Køl Danske Vid. Selsk. Skrifter, Nye Sam-
ling, vol. 3, 1788; p. 185 TPE
seerne SR Kråyer, Naturh. Tidsskrift, vol. 2, 1838, p. 249.
Kråyer, Crust., in Gaimard, Voyage en Scand., 1846
(18492), Pl. 1
PN — M. Rathbun, tar U. S. Nat. Mus.,, vol. 16, 1893, p.
74, Pl. 4, fig. 5—7.
HE — A.M.Edwards & Bouvier, Rés. des Camp. Sc. ""Hiron-
delle”, Monaco, vol. 7, 1894, p.
Bel Hanoi, Ingolf" 1908, p. 12.
rn tr H. J. Hansen, V. Grånland 1887, p. 28.
(St. 100) 669 44'N, 56 08' W, ca. 175 fath. 5—7—1908. 3 spec
(St. 107) 689 20' N, 549 03" W, 220—280 fath. RB eles lse (the ca-
rapace 93 mm. > 93 mm
In Disko Bay and in Umanak Fjord considerable numbers of
this crab were taken in deep water (140—260 fms.), the largest
Specimen measuring 30 inches between the tips of the longest legs.
2. Hyas coaretatus Leach.
Hyas coarctatus Leach, Transact. Linn. Soc., London, vol, 11, 1815, p. mf
Cuvier, Rågne animal, Edit. acc. de planches grav., Cru
Fl. 32, fig. 8,
SE - fmd Middendorffs Sibirische Reise, vol. 2, 1, 1851, p. 81.
or Er Bell, 1858, . 35, with fig.
HEE SEE M. Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 16, 1898 p. 69.
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age coarctatus H.J. Hansen, ,,Ingolf” 1908, p. 15.
Ja V. Gronland 1877, p. 30
(St. 465) 629 58'N, 509 52' W, ca. 25 fath., 21—6—1909. 7 spe,
(St. 419) 65? 09' N, 539 38' W, 29 fath. aar Ga 1909. 1 spec
(St. 100) 66? 44' N, 56? 08' w, ca. 175 fath., 5—7—1908. ca. 20 spec.
3. Lithodes Maja L.
Cancer Maja Linné, Systema Naturæ, edit. X, 1758, vol. 1, p.
Lithodes arctica ng Régne animal, Edit. acc. de ak ikke RL
PE
FF Maja seg 1858, p. 165, with fig.
— arctica Bouvier, Ann. Sc, Nat. Boss ser. 7, vol. 18, 1891, p. 181,
PE 15 fø 7, is 12, fig,
STe de Bouvier, on: DS Å vol: . ze p. 24.
— HT. Hans my "Ingo, 1908,
es == — É Benisnd, 1887, i: 31.
x
(St. 100) 66? 44' N, 56? 08” W, ca. 175 fath., 5—7—1908, 1 spec.
Without locality, 1 sp.
4. Eupagurus pubescens Kr.
Pagurus pubescens Kråyer, Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk. naturvid.-math. Afh.,
, Yol: 7,:1888, p:
— — Kråoyer, Naturhist. Tidsskrift, vol. 2, 1838, p
— == — in Gaimard: blege my en Scandinav., tele aen,
PL 2 "Bø.
Eupagurus — + E. Krøyeri 8. 5, Smith, Transact. Conn. Acad. vol.
5, 1879. p. 47, 48.
— A. M. Edwards & Bouvier, Résult. d. Camp. Sc. "Hi-
rondelle”, Monaco, vol. 7, 1894, p. 74.
— åd Hansen, Trordk 1908, p. 27.
fr mr V. Grønland, 1887, p. 32.
(St. 177) 709 42" N, 549 48' W, 253 fath. 7—8—1908. 2 spec.
x
5. Munida tenuimana G. O. Sars.
Munida tenwimana G. O. Sars, Da Selsk. Forh., Christiania 1871 (1872),
47.
BE Es Ibid. 1882, No. 18, p. 44, Pl. 1, fig. 6.
æ pe Appellåf, Die Decap. Crust., Meeresfauna Y. Bergen,
Heft 2—3, 1906, p. 139—49, Pl. 2, fig. 2.
nar — H. J. Hansen, Ingolf” 1908, p. 34, Pl. 2, fig. 4 a, Pl. 8,
fig: 1a.
(St. 429) 639 54" N, 539 15" W.' 988—1400 m. trawl. 8—6—1909. 3 spec.
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6. Munidopsis curvirostra Whiteaves.
Munidopsis curvirostra Whiteaves, Ann. Journ. Science ser. 3, vol. 8, 1874,
; 212.
men == S, J. Smith, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 10, 1884,
p. 21 (no description), Pl. 8, fig. 2, 3, 3 a.
vig longirostris A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, Exp. Sc. "Travail-
leur” le as bra 9 Crust. Decap. vol. 1, 1900,
p- 4, fe 1 PL BOER 0.
Sy AE curvirostra H. f Hilde «Tngolf”, 1908, p. 86, pl. 8, fig. 2.
(St 387) 649 05'N, 559 20'W, 1100 m. 8—5—1909. 1 spec.
(St. 408—10) 649 14' N, 559 55' W, 839 m. 2—6—1909. 3 spec.
(St, 302) 649 40' N, 569 37' W, 720—775 m. 2—6—1909. 2 spec.
6. Scleroerangon boreas Phipps.
Cancer Boreas Phipps, Voyage towards the North Pole, 1774, p- 190, Pl.
12, fi
vig, I
”Crangon — Kråyer, Naturhist. Tidsskrift vol. 4, 1842, p. 218, Pl. 4,
fig. 1—1
Seler kedelig Boreas H. 5. manke Sae 1908, p. 47.
”. Grønland, 1887, p. 33.
(St. 371) 669 44' N, 569 16' W, ca. 150 fm. 20—5—1909. 1 spec. (72 mm.)
(St. 100) 669 44' N, 56? 08' W, ca. 175 fm. 5—7—1908. 1 spec. (73 mm.)
The great depths have some interest, as H. J. Hansen (In-
Solf, p. 48) writes: "It was taken at all depths from ca. 5 fm. to
118 fm., but a single occurrence at 200 fm. must... be considered
as less certain”,
8. Sabinea hystrix A. Milne-Edwards.
Paracrangon hystrix A. Milne Edwards, Ann. Sc. Nat-, ser. 6, Zool., vol.
11, 1881; 9.6.
"Sabinea princeps S. J. mur Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 10, 1882,
p. 38, PL 8 BE:
Si hystrix, HJ Rib Ingolf”, 1908, p. 51.
(St. 337) 649 05' N, 559 20" W, 1100 m. 8—5—1909. 1 spec. (110 mm.)
9. Nectocrangon lar Owen.
Crangon lar Owen, Zool. of Capt. Beechey's Voyage, 1839, p. 88, Pl. 28, fig. 1.
legge. obysr, Naturh. Tidsskrift, vol. 4, 1842, p. 255, Pl. 5, fig. 45—62.
Nectocrangon lar + N. dentata M. Rathbun, Harriman Alaska-Exp., 1904,
p. 137 with figs.) (teste H. J. Hansen, Ingolf).
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Ne etoerangon las lar H. J. Hansen, ves 1908, p. 49.
. Grønland, 1887, pp 5%,
(St. 183) 69? 19' N, 529 56" W, 78 fm., 10—8—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 179) 699 29' N, 559 26'W, 116 fm., $—8—1908, 1 spec.
10. Spirontocaris spinus Sow.
aner spinus Sowerby, Brit, Miscellany, 1806, p. 47, Pl.
moppon ER Sowerbei Lg Danske Vid. Selsk, math. SHE Afh., vol.
p. 298, Pl. 2, fig. 45—54.
— … 8pinus ba ore kd Arch f. Zool., Supplbd. I, Crust., 1882,
p. 15, Pl. 1, fig. 4—7,
— — Birula, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. St. Pétersbourg, vol.
1; 1899; p. 50, hø 1
jr neeke spinus H. J. Hansen, «Ingolf, 1908, p.
— Kemp, Decap. Ireland, 1908 1910), 103, Pl], 14, fig. 1.
Hipøelvt — . H.J. Hansen, V. Grønland, 1887, p. 41.
(St. 371) 669 44' N, 569 16' W, ca. 150 fm. 20—5—1909. 1 spec.
11. Spiroøntocaris Gaimardii H. Milne-Edwards.
Hippolyte Gaimardii H. Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. 2, 1887,
p. 378.
mi le — + H.gibba Kråyer, Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk. math.-
naturv.-Afh., vol. 9, 1842, p. 282, 288, Pl. 1, fig. 21-30,
Pl. 2, fig. 31—37,
Euales obses J. Thallwitz, Bennet Studien 1891, p. 23.
Hippolyte Gaimardii Åppelléf, Decap. Crust., Meeresfauna v. Bergen, Heft
—8, 1906, p. 122, Pl. 2, fig. 4.
Spirontocaris — H. J. Hansen, Ingolf” 1908, p. 56.
Hippolyte Rg V, Grønland, 1886, p. 39.
(St. 183) 699 19' N, 529 56" W, 78 fm. 10—8—1908, 7 spec.
(St. 179) 69? 29' N, 55? 26" W, 116 fm. 8—8—1908, 6 spec.
The largest specimen, from St. 179, is 93 mm. long. On
one spec. the rostrum is bent upwards about as in Pandalus
propinquus. All the specimens have a large curved process on the
third abdominal segment, except the smallest specimen (44 mm.),
which has but an inconsiderable tooth.
12. Spirontocaris macilenta Kr.
;ØAppolyte macilenta Kroyer. Naturh. Tidsskrift vol. 3, 1841, p. 574.
— Kgl. Danske Vid, Selsk. math.-naturvid. Afd.,
vol. 9, 1542, p. 305, Pl. 2, fig. 55—56,.
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Hippolyte macilenta S. J. Smith, Transact. Conn. Acad. vol. 5, 1879,
il,
P
Spirontocaris — H. J. Hansen, Ingolf” 1908, p. 60.
Hippolyte — — V, Grønland, p. 43.
(St. 100) 66? 44' N, 569 08' W, ca. 175 fm. 5—7—1908. 1 spec.
(St. 183) 699 19” N, 529 56' W, 75 fm. 10—8—1908. 7 spec.
(St. 179) 69% 29' N; 559 96'N, 116 fm. 8—8—1908, 5 spec.
The species seems to be very rare at W. Greenland (H. J.
Hansen 1. c.). 3 of the spec. from St. 179 are infested with Paryæus
abdominalis, and on one spec. from St. 100 Bopyroides hippolytes was
found; till now the species was, not known as a host for any of
these Bopyridæ.
13. Spirontocaris turgida Kr.
Hippolyte turgida + H. Phippsii Kråyer, DE Tidsskrift vol. 3, 1841,
Ty ds : sk Vid. Selsk. math.-
valid Afh., id 9, 1842, p. 308, 314, Pl. 2, fig. 57—58,
Pl. 3, fig. 59—68.
Phippsii S.J. Smith, Transact. Conn. Acad., vol. 5, 1879, p. 73.
Søiesistnenrdi turgida H. J. Hansen, Ban 1908, p. 61.
Hippolyte Phippsii V. Grønland 1887, p. 48.
(St. 165) 629 58' N, 50% 52" W, ca, 25 fm. 21—6—1909. 8 spec.
On one spec. the Bopyrid Phryæus abdominalis was found.
14. Spirontocaris polaris Sab.
Alpheus polaris Sabine, Suppl. to the App. of Capt. Parry's Voyage, 1824,
p. 288, PL 2, fig, 5—8.
"Hippolyte polaris + H. borealis Kroyer, Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk. math.-
naturvid. Afh., vol. 9, 1842, p. 324, 330, Pl. 3, fig. 74—
81, PE 2 fr 82.
BE — 8. J. Smith, Transact. Conu. Acad. vol. 5, 1879, p. 80.
Amazo Pfeffer, Jabrb. wiss. Anst. Hamburg, vol.3, 1866, p. 36, fig. 6.
Syirontaceris Polaris H.J. MARSSR: Preis 1908, p.
Hippolyte . Orøulskd 1887, p. 48
(St, 465) 629 58' N, 529 52' W, ca. 25 fm. 21—6—1909. ca. 60 spec.
(St, 419) 659 09' N, 58? 38' W, 29 fm.. 6—6—1909. 1 spec.
(St. 371) 669 44' N, 56? 16' W, ca. 150 fm. 20—5—1909. 1 spec.
One of the specimens from St. 465 is infested with Bopyroides
hippolytes.
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15. Pandalus borealis Kr.
Pandalus borealis Rey, er, ra Tidsskrift vol. 2, 1838, p. 254.
Ibid., Ny Række, vol. 1, 1845, p. 461.
— — —" m in dl Voyage en Scand., 1846 (18492),
Grust, PL 6, fig. 2:
SE See — G. O. Sars, Fa on Norw. Fish- and Marine-Invest.
vol. 1; 1900;-No0. 8; p: 81, Pl 9—10,
- — HJ. Haran: gr 1908, p. 10.
sæ Eg V., Grønland, 1887, p. 49.
The Channel outside Nanortalik (ca. 60? N), 6—9—1909. 5 spec., from
stomachs of Gadus ogak
(St. 341) 649 34'N, 539 20" W, 200 m. wire, 9—5—1909. 9 spec.
(St. 183) 69? 19' N, 52? 56' W, 78 fm. 10—8—1908. 2 spec.
The specimens from St. 341 have very large eyes.
This shrimp was otherwise taken very often, sometimes in great
numbers, as e.g. W. of "Store Hellefiske” bank, where in a depth
of 175 fms. many liters were taken in one haul with otter-trawl;
the largest specimens measured 15.5 cm. in length (30 cm. with
the antennæ).
16. Pandalus propinquus G. O. Sars.
Pandalus propinguwus G.O. Sars, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania 1869 (1870),
148.
el — S. J. Smith, Rep. U. 8. Comm. Fish and Fisheries
1885 (1886) Pl. 13, fig. 1.
sa Calman, Ann. Ma må Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. 3, 1899,
p. 32; Pl 1:—4, fig. 2.
== — H. J. Hansen, in såe 1908, .p:. 72.
Ee Kemp, Decap. Natant, Ireland, 1908 (1910), p- 89,
Pl 11, fig. 1—4,
(St. 429) 63? 54' N, 589 15” W, 988—1400 m. trawl. $—6—1909. 1 spec.
17. ÅAcanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edwards.
Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edwards, Comp. Rend. Ac. Sc. Paris,
vol. 93, 1881,
”Miersia Agassizii S. J. Smith, Bull. Mus. Conp: Zool vol: 10; 188% P- 68
11, fig. 5-7, PL 12, fig. 1-4
” Acanthephyra purpurea Kun. Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest. 1905 part
1 (1906), p.4—16, Pl. 1, Pl. 2, fig. 1—3 (ubi Litt.
et Syn. ):
HEE — H.J. Hansen, "Ingolf" 1908, p. 75.
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Acanthephyra purpurea Kemp, Decap. Natant. Ireland, 1908 (1910) part
19:96.
(St. 322) 60? 07' N, 489 26' W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909. 15 spec.
(St. 333) 689 18' N, 549 55' W, 1580 m. wire, 7—5—1909. 12 spec.
(St. 338) 649 01' N, 559 30' W, 1185 m. wire, 3—5—1908. 11 spec.
(St. 336) 649 06, N, 559 18” W, 1040—1100 m., 1200 m. wire, 8—5—1909,
10 spec.
H. J. Hansen (l. c.) mentions the species from 6 stations, but
he has only 1 spec. from each stat. Kemp (1908, 1. c.) mentions
the species from 32 stations (6 of which are from the Danish in-
vestigations steamer ””Thor”), but he has, as Hansen, from most
of the stations only 1 specimen; the largest number from a single
stat. is five, and that is but a single occurrence.
One of the specimens from St. 322 is infested with Holo-
Pphryxus Acanthephyræ K. St. (fam. Dajidæ) (No. 84).
18. Pasiphae tarda Kr.
inte tarda Krøyer, Naturh. Tidsskrift, ser. 2, vol. 1, 1844— . 453.
— … in Gaimard, Yørage en Bonds SerÅ (1849)
Crust., Pl. 6, fi
Pasiphae norvegica M. Sars, Bidrag til Kiindskaten om Kristianiafjordens
auna, Nyt Magasin f. Naturvid, vol. 15, 1868, p. 282, Pl. 4,
På. 5, fig. 81, fig. 87—
SE tarda & 2, Bars, Oversigt af Norges Crust., Vid. Selsk. For-
? bandl: Kristiania, 1882, No. 18, p. 48.
Men — H.J. Hansen, Ingolf” 1908, p. 78.
Sa — — V. Grønland, 1887, p.5l.
EN — Wollebæk, Decap. Crust. 1—2, Bergens Musæums Aar-
bog 1908, No. 12, p. 72, Pl. 13.
— K. Stephensen, Revideret Fortegn. over Danmarks marine
Arter Decap., DR Berenne Naturh. Foren. Køben-
havn 1909 (1910) p. 2
Er — Kend, re Natant. DR nd 1908 (1910) p. 39—42, Pl.
4, fig. 8—
me princeps S. J. snyd) Rep. Decap. Crust. Albatross” East coast
U. 8., Rep. U. 8. Fish Commission 1882 (1884) p. 381,
PL 5 fø, 2,
SS — 8.J. Smith, Report on the Decap. Crust. Albatros”
Eastcoast U.S., Rep. U. lg re mmission 1885 (1887),
p- 609, 612, 613, 617, 619, 6
=. — … Kemp, Decap. Natant. ireland, won (1910) p. 42—47,
Pl. 4, fig. 1—7.
Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. Bå. 64 ; 5
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(St. 15) 58? 08' N, 399 24' W. 500 m. wire, 26—5—1908. 2 spec.
(St. 76) 63? 49' N, 589 277 W, 1300 m., 1300 m. wire, 23—6—1908. 1 spec.
(St, 429) 63? 54' N, 53? 15' W, 988—1400 m. 8—6—1909. 1 spec.
(St. 407—08) 649 14'N, 55? 55' W, 839 m. clay, 2—6—1909. 1 spec.
Kemp (l. c. 1908 (1910) p. 42—43) has given.a synopsis
of the characteristics of P. tarda Kråyer and P. princeps 8. J.
Smith. Kråyer has published his description in Danish, and it
seems that owing to this foreigners have not been able to read his
description; otherwise Smith would probably not have founded P.
princeps ås a new species. In order to show the great agreement
in the descriptions of Kråyer and Smith, I have made the
following synopsis of the most important characters.
P. tarda Kråyer. |. P, princeps $. J. Smith.
(Naturhist. Tidsskrift, ser. 2, (Report U.S. Fish Commission
vol. 1, 1844—45, p. 453 seq.) for 1882 (1884), p. 381 seq.)
1. "The carapace, which is about | 1. The pleon exclusive of the
1/3 of total length or half as long | telson is about one half longer
as the pleon including telson, is — than the carapace”, (Carapace
very much compressed”. (From | 75 mm., pleon excluding the tel-
Kråyer's fig. in Gaimard: | son 112 mm.).
Voyage en Scandinavie, the car-
apace is seen to be 39 mm., abdo- |
men excluding telson 59 mm.). |
2. "On the dorsum of the ca- | 2. "The dorsum of the carapax
rapace is seen a sharp, but | is rounded except for about å
smooth carina, which goes about | third of the length anteriorly,
to the hinder edge of the cara- where it rises into a carina ter-
pace, terminating anteriorly in minating in a short, mucronate
a little, mueronate and very much — and obliquely upturned rostrum
compressed rostrum, that .... overhanging, but projecting
projects a little the anterior edge | scarcelv as far forwards as the
of the carapace”. front itself, which is prominent
though rounded in outline as
seen from above'.
3. "The antennal scale is large
. »lengthened ovate (more than
3 times as long as the breadth),
3. Antennal scale is.... scar-
cely a third as broad as long,
| and the outer edge arcuate and
apically rounded, without spi- |
(the length is (in the
in Gaimard: Voyage)
17 mm., the breadth 4 mm.).
4. "The abdomen is provided
along the whole middle line of the
nes)”
fig.
dorsum with a very conspicu-
ous carina.”
5. (Telson) "The tip is strongly
cut into aåa sharp angle”.
6. (Second pair of pereiopods).
The second joint has on the
lower edge towards the end 3
(about the third joint
Kråyer says nothing).
spines”
terminating in an acutely tri-
angular lamellar tooth” (scale:
length 29 mm.) breadth 8.8 mm.).
4. "The second, third, fourth
and fifth somites are dorsally
carinate, the fourth and fifth most
conspicuously. The sixth somite
is.... compressed, but scarcely
carinated dorsally”.
5. (Telson) "The tip (is) divided
by a narrow sinus”.
6. "The second pair (of pereiopods)
are armed with a few small
spines along the lower edge of
the propodus, and the lower
distal angle of the carpus is
| produced into a sharp spine,
but åre otherwise nearly like
the first pair... (smooth, naked
and unarmed”).
1) About this G. 0. Sars writes (Christiania ve Selsk. Forh. 1882, No.
18, Oversigt af Norges Crustaceer, p. 48) translation from Nor-
wegian): "IT have had opportunity myself ar examine the type-speci-
men of Kråyer in the Copenhagen-Museum and have convinced my-
self that the spine in the auntennal plate originally has been grenen
but has accidentally been broken in the present specimen”. — At th
present moment (1912) we have in the Zoological Museum in Købte.
havn (Copenhagen) only the mentioned specimen from the time of
Krøyer, provided with the following note (in the hand writing of
J. C. Schiådte), ""Pasiphaé tarda Kr. Sydl. Grønland; Jørgensen
Kr.” Unquestionably it is this specimen, about which Kråoyer writes
(1. e., 1844—45; the foot-note p. 455) "in one of the specimens the
eafinå anteriorly had an incision, that made, so to når: two humps;
but this seems to be caused by an accidental damage”.
5<
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Ås it may be seen the agreement is very close. The differ-
ences are not greater, than that they may be ascribed to indi-
vidual variations (we must remember, that Kråyer had but two
specimens, Smith even but one specimen).
The Zoological Museum in Copenhagen has a very large
material, towards 1000 specimens of P. tarda Kr., of which the
greater part has been captured in the Skagerak. To convince myself,
that there were no specimens of F. princeps Smith in the material,
that hitherto (by H. J. Hansen in "Ingolf" 1908 and by my-
self in "Vid. Meddel. Naturh. Foren.”
Kbhvn. 1909) has been determined as P.
tarda Kr., I have examined each of
the specimens, but the result has been
quite different from what might be
expected, as will be seen from the
following.
SAT E Kemp is right, that a great part
P.t, P ø of the specimens may be referred to
Fig. 1. Dorsal view of the one of the two principal forms; but as
6th abdominal segment of
Pasiphae tarda and Pasi-
Pphae princeps. are combined with numerous interme-
diate links.
Rostrum varies so much, that it can not be used as a distin-
guishing character. The best characters are, according to my investi-
gations, the sixth abdominal segment, the antennal plate and the
spines of the basis of the second pereiopod; but these spines are
not to be found in specimens smaller than 25—40 mm., and even
in larger specimens their number is varying. G.0O.Sars says (1. c.
1882, p. 48) "the number of spines in the two first pairs of per-
eiopods is a characteristic too inconstant to be considered as 2
real specific characteristic'". Nevertheless we may in most cases
use the characteristic of Kemp (l. c. 1908 (1910) p. 42—43) to
separate the two "species” (specimens more than 30—40 mm. long).
Besides I have found a characteristic, that I have not seen
my investigations have shown, they
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described anywhere in the literature, viz. the carina in the sixth
abdominal segment. This carina goes in the specimens, that from
the antennal plate and the second pereiopod are to be ascribed to P.
tarda, just to the hind edge of the segment (fig. 1), but is in the hinder
part divided into two almost parallel carines; in P. princeps the
hinder part of the segment is simply compressed without any
carina (fig. 1).
That the proportion in the length of antennal plate, carapace
and abdomen cannot be used, appears from the following measurements ;
the specimens are determined from the shape of antennal plate, cara-
pace and sixth abdominal segment) (the measurement are in mm.)
P. tarda
| |
É i Abd
Locality Total ein i me Carapace | rerk Aalen
Skagerak Eg get 12 25 46
70 , 10 21 40
me 79 12 24 44
Su 68 95 20” 4 80
re: 11401 14 SE ul
629 49' N, 189 46' W. 75 11 B8 | 42
P. princeps.
| | Abdomen
fan Total length | for ren Carapace | excel. Såldon
mn >= mm minen == |
S. Greenland (Kriger s |
ype—specimen of |
ARE ng 108 imperfeet | — 38 se
672 19'N, 159 52" W. 605" 5 38
659 28' N, 279 297 W. VG 0 RR KR ø
Even the form of the antennal plate may cause some diffi-
culty. Thus I have seen one, otherwise somewhat typical P. tarda
from the Skagerak, whose right antennal plate is as in P. princeps,
whilst the left has the same form as in P. tarda (Kemp 1. c.….
1908 (1910), pl. 4, fig. 9); but from the measurements (antennal
plate 10,5, carapace 23, abdomen excl. telson 38) it might be
determined as P. princeps.
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Of P. norvegica M. Sars, that in all essentials is like Kemp's
description of P. tarda, G.O.Sars writes: (1. c. 1882, p. 49) "there is no
doubt that the species P. norvegica described by my father... is
identic with the species of Kroyer”. That upon the whole the
single specimens determined by Kroyer as P. tarda suit the de-
seription of P. princeps, is evident from the agreement of the descrip-
tions of Kråyer and Smith, and as the two '”species” are com-
bined with intermediate links, we must unquestionably obliterate P.
princeps Smith as species and take the name but as syn. of P.
tarda Kråyer.
19. Parapasiphae sulcatifrons S. J. Smidt.
Parapasiphae sulcatifrons S.J. Smith, Rep. Comm. Fish and Fishery for
882, (1884) p. 384 Pl. 5, fig. 4, Pl. 6, fig. 1—7
— 2 H. J. Hanser, ”Ingolf” 1908, p. 79.
ME orn — Kemp, 1908 (1910), p. 47, Pl. 5.
(St. 322) 60? 07' N, 48? 26' W, 2000 m., wire, 3—5—1909. 2 spec.
(St. 3338) 689 18' N, 549 55" W, 1300 m., 1530 m. wire, 7—5—1905. 5 spec.
(St, 338) 649 01'N, 55930 W, 1185 m., 1400—1500 m. wire, 8—5—1909.
5 spec.
(St. 336) 649 06' N, 55? 18" W, 1040—1100 m., 1200 m. wire, 8—5—1909.
6 spec.
(St, 348) 649 35' N, 569 18' W, 900 m. wire, 11—5-—1909. 4 spec.
New to W. Greenland. The largest specimen is from St. 333
and is 71 mm. long.
20. Gennadas elegans S.J. Smith.
Amalopenæus elegans S. J. eee Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. 10, 1882,
so. 1; p. 87, Pl, 14, fig. 8—14, Pl. 15, fg. 15
"Gennadas — NavEe Rés. Comp. Sc., Monaco, fasc. 88, (Pénéides),
1908, p. 25 (distrib. ), p. 28 (key to the species of
the genus) p. 35 (Syn. ger: litt.).
Bouvier, Bull. Mus. Océan. Monaco, No. 80, 1906.
Amalopenæus — — Calman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. 11, 1908,
. 416.
Gennadas — H. J. Hansen, "Ingolf" 1908, p. 81.
"Amalopenæus — Kemp, 1908 (1910), p. 14, Pl. 1.
— — H.J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 52.
£
ei
(St. 322) 60? 07" N, 489 26' W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 7 spec
(St. 434) 629 58'N, 549 15” W, 1660 m., 1500—1200 m. wire, 5—6—1909,
7 spec.
(St. 388) 639 18' N, 549 55" W, 1300 m., 1530 m. wire, 7—5—1909, 15 spec.
(St. 76) 632 49'N, 539 27” W, 1300 m., 1000 m. wire, 23—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 338) 649 01' N, 55? 30" W, 1185 m., 1400—1500 m. wire, 8—5—1909,
13 spec.
(St. 336) 649 06' N. 559 18" W, 1200 m.…. wire, $—5— 1909, ca. 25 ne
(St. 408) 649 14' N. 552 55' W, 839 m. (trawl), 2—6—1909, 1 s
(St. 348) 649 35' N, 56? 18” W, 900 m. wire, 11—5—1909, 6 ing
It is very interesting, that the ”Tjalfe” has taken so many spe-
cimens at each station; in Ingolf” H.J. Hansen mentions but
one specimen from each station; only at 2 stations were taken 2
specimens. The material from the "Tjalfe" thus fully confirms, what
Bouvier says (Bull. Inst. Océanogr., Monaco, No. 97, 1907, p.
47—46): fle Gennadas élégans est 1'espéce la plus commune du
genre: il fut considéré comme une espéce rarissime aussi long-
temps qu'on se borna aux péches sur le fond; mais, depuis V'em-
ploi du filet vertical, surtout de celui a grande ouverture, il appa-
råit trés commun et doit étre considéré comme un des éléments les
plus caractéristiques de la faune bathypélagique dans nos régions.
En Méditerranée, præs des iles Baléares, et au centre de V'Atlantique,
dans les régions des Sargasses, certains coups de filet nous donnérent
jusqw'å trente spécimens de ce joli Pénéide. Au-dessus de 1000
metres, on ne rencontre guére que les larves de l'espåce; au dessous
apparaissent les adultes qui, d'ailleurs, ne semblent jamais se tenir
sur le fond”.
21. Sergestes areticus Kr.
Sergestes arcticus misse Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk. Skrifter, 5. Række,
aturvid.-math. Afd., vol. 4, 1859, p. 240, fr 3, fig. 7,
Pl. 5, fig. 16.
mr —… HJ. Hansen, «Ingolf” 1908, p. 82 (ubi litt. et syn.).
HE me — Wasserloos, Zur Kenntnis d. Melomernken von Serg.
arct., Zool. Anzeiger, vol. 33, 1908, p. 327, with figs.
Fe — Kemp, 1908 (1910), p. 30, Pl. 8, fig. 13—19.
KER — HJ, Hansen, V. Grenls 1887, p. 52.
1. the stage Sergestes Rinkii.
(St. 1 a) 599 25" N, 229 56' W, 175 m. wire, 12—5—1908, many spec. (1 cm.?)
(St. 1 b) — — surface — (5 cm.)
. adults.
(St. 15) 58? 08' N, 399 24" W, 500 m. wire, 26—5—1908, 15 spec.
(St. 1a) 59? 25' N, 229 56' W, 175 m. wire, 12—5—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 321) 60? 07 N, 48? 26' W, 600 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 10 spec.
(St. 322) 2000 m. wire, 4 spec
(St. 434) 629 58" N, 549 sw, 1660 m., 1500— 1200 m. wire, 3—6—1909,
1 spec.
(St. 30 a) 63? 04" N, 56? 32" W, 500 m. wire, 7—6—1908, 15 spec.
(St. 30 b) 70 m. wire ja spec.
(St. 338) 63? 18'N, høj 55 W, 1300 m., 1530 m. wire, 7—5—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 336) 649-06' N, 559 18' W, 1040— 1100 m., 1200 m. wire, 3—5—1909,
1 spec.
(St. 346) 649 22' N, 56? 00" W, 800—400 wire, 10—5—1909, 1 spec.
The material states, that the species lives at W. Greenland;
hitherto its occurrence there was doubtful (Krøyer).
The specimen from st. 346 in infested with Ho/ophryæus Bichardi
Koehler (fam. Dajidæ) (No. 83).
Euphausiacea.
22. Thysanopoda acutifrons Holt & Tatt.
Thysanopoda pectinata H. J. Hansen, Bull. Mus. Océanogr., Monaco No.
0, 1905, p. 16, fig. 12.
=k acutifrons Holt & Tattersall, Rep. Sea and Inland Fisheries,
Ireland, 1902—03 (1905), pt. 2,. app. No. IV, p-
, 134.
En — H. J. Hansen, Bull. Mus. Océanogr. Monaco, No.
42, 1905, p. 22.
— — Holt & Tattersal, Fisheries, "igen Se. Invest.,
1904, pt. 5 (1906), p. 8, Pl.
ak H. J. Hansen, ng ol” lse, 5 84.
— Zimmer, Nordisches Plikkten VOL 6, 1909, p. 6,
fig.
ry — iksaropkidilise Oetiskne: Plankton-Exp., vol. 2, G. b. 1893, p. 9.
non — pectinata Ortmann, ibid., p. 10.
(St. 15) 58? 08' N, 399 24" W, 500 m. wire, 26—5—1908, ca. 40 spec.
(St. 322) 60? 07'N, 489 26' W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, ca. 30 spec.
(St. 76) 68? 49' N, 589 277 W, 1300 m., 1000 m. wire, 23—6—1908, 1 spec.
New to W. Greenland.
23. Meganyctiphanes norvegica M. Sars.
Thysanopoda norvegica M. Sars, Forh. Skand. Naturforskermøde 1856
(1857), p. 169.
Nyctiphan — G. O. Sars, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania 1883, p. 24.
Blak jekbkane norvegica Holt & Tattersall, Rep. Sea and Inland Fi-
sheries, Ireland, npPeg, pt 2, NB. 1V,
(1905), p. 105, 135, PI.
— — H. J. Hansen, "Ingolf" 1908, p. 85.
— — Zimmer, Nordinslés ane vol. 6, 1909,
p. 8, fig. 8-9,
Nyctiphanes — Zimmer, Fauna arctica, vol. 3, 1904, p. 419.
(St. 15) 58% 08'N, 399 24" W, 500 m. wire, 26—5—1908, ca. 35 spec.
(St, 9) 589 38" N, 359 55” W, 600 m. wire, 17—5—1908, ca. 15 spec.
(St.3) 589 39” N, 309 50' W, surface, 14—5— 1908, 3 spec.
(St. 303) 599 28' N, 33? 05' W, surface, 26—4—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 1a) 599 25' N, 229 56" W, 175 m. wire, 12—5—1908, 2 spec.
(St. mb 609 07' N, 48? 26' W, 600 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 10 spec.
(St. 322) …= 000 m. wire, — 7 spec.
(St. 302) 60? 10' N, 289 13' W, surface, 25—4—1909, ca. 20 spec.
24. Thysanoessa inermis Kr.
— Rhoda inermis Kr. + Thysanoessa neglecta Kr.
(See H. J. Hansen, The genera and species of the order Euphau-
siacea, with account of remarkable variation. Bull. Inst. Océanogr.,
Monaco, No. 210, 1911, p. 8—13, 38).
" A. Forma Rhoda inermis.
Thysanopoda inermis Kråyer in Gaimard, Voyage en Scand., Crust. 1846
(18492). Pl. 7, fig.
”Huphausia… —… G.0.Sars, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania 1882, No.
18, p. 9, 51, PL 1, fig. 15.
Boreophausia — G.0O. Sars, Norske Nordhavs-Eip. …, Crust.. 1886, p. 13.
Rhoda
— ne Ane: Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 5, 1900,
P-
me — SEE Fauna re dan 3, 1904, P- 420.
Fe —'i H.J. Hansen, "Ingolf" 1908, p.
sæ — Zimmer, Nordisches Hume a vol. 6, 1909, p. 11,
2.
Boreophausia — H.J. Hansen, V. Gronland 1887, p. 58.
(St. 428) 659 03' N, 549 16' W, 120, 100 and 80 m. wire, 7—6—1909, 1 spec.
14
B. Forma Thysanoessa neglecta Kr.
Thysanopoda neglecta Krøyer, in Gaimard: Voyage en Scand., Crust.…
1846 (1849?) Pl. 7, fig. 3.
=Thysanoessa borealis G.O.Sars, Forh. Vid. Selsk., Christiania 1882, No.
dB, p. 9, 52. PL 1 he. 16—18.
rr peges Zimmer, Fauna arctica, vol. 3, 1904, p. 423.
— H. J. Hansen, "Ingolf" 1908, p. 89.
— — … Zimmer, Nordisches Plankton, vol. 6, 1909, p. 19,
fig. 28—29.
— — … H.J, Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 54.
(St. 9) 58? 38” N, 35? 55" W, 600 m. wire, 17—5—1908, 1 spec.
25. Thysanoessa longicaudata Kr.
Thysanopoda longicaudata Krøyer, in Gaimard: Voyage en Scandinavie,
Crust., 1846 (18492), Pl. 8, fig.
- Thysanoessa tenera G. O. Sars, res Vid. prer Christiania 1882, No 18
p- , Pl. 1, fig. 19—20
— MER NDEER Falk Peuna patrd vol. 3, 1904, p. 424.
HE 0 ven Holt & Tattersall, Rep. Sea and Inland Fisheries,
Ireland, 1902—03 (1905), pt. 2, App. No. 2,
p. 107, 138, Pl.
15:
om: — H. J. Hansen, "Ingolf" 1908, p. 88.
FEE — Zimmer, Nordisches reel; ren 6, 1909, p-
bd
ER Beg HJ "Hage V. Grønland 1887, p. 54.
(St. 11) 5729 41'N, 359 28' W, surface, 20—5— 1908, 2 spec
(St. 281) 579 51' N, 439 577 W. 500 m. wire, 29—9—1908, 15 spec.
(St. 285) 579 51' N, 439 48' W, 1000 m. wire, 29—9—1908, 15 spec.
(St. 286) 57? 59' N, 41? 21' W, 80—200 m. wire, 30—9—1908, ca. 35 spec-
(St. 23) 589 01'N, 51? 36' W, surface, 1—6—1908, 3 spec.
(St. 13) 589 08” N, 39% 10' W. 40m. wire, 26—5—1908, many = ar
(St. 15) 5839 08' N, 399 24" W, 500 m. wire, 26—5—1908, many me, Jag
150 cm.2).
(St. 278) 589 16” N, 479 12” W, 200—80 m. wire, 28—9—1908, 20 spec.
(St. 308) 58% 20' N, 41? 12" W, 1000 m. wire, 28—4—1909, 20 spec.
(St.5) . 58? 23' N, 349 41' W, surface, 16—5—1908, 2 spec.
(St.6) 589 24'N, 342 53' W, surface, 16—5—1908, 10 spec
(St. 292) 589 24" N, 309 35' W, 500 m. wire, 3—10—1908, nn) ne pet
(St.7) 58? 33'N, 359 49" W, 150m. wire, 17—5—1908, ca. 1000m2
(St.9) 58933" N, 359 55' W, 600 m. wire, 17—5—1908, ca. 100 cm.
(St. 313) 58? 38" N, 46? 13" W, surface, 29—4—1909, ca. 35 spec.
(St.2) 589 40' N, 309 40" W, surface, 14—5—1908, ca. 35 spec.
(St. 19a) 589 41 N, 499 44" W, 100 m. wire, 31—5—1908, 15 spec.
(St. 19b — 200 m. wire, — 5 spec.
(St. 316) 589 59" N, 50? og Ww, 500 m. wire, 1—5—1909, 35 spec.
(St. 276) 59% 18' N, 51? 00" W, 80 m. wire, 27—9—1908, 15 spec
(St.12) 59? 25' N, 229 56' W, 175 m. wire, 12—5—1908, mas sp. (30 cm.3)-
(St. 1 b) — — surface, many sp. (5 cm,2).
(St. 298) 59? 41' N, 259 02' W, 500'm. wire, 6— 10—1908, 1 spec
(St. 321) 609 07'N, 489 26' W, 600 m. wire, 3—5—1909, many bo. (50 cm.2).
(St. 322) — 2000 m. wire, many sp. (15 cm.32).
(St. 326) 629 05' N, 539 av W, 100 m. wire, 6—5—1909, many sp. (15 cm.2).
(St. 270) 629 21'N 519 31' w. 84 fath., 80 m. wire, 2:—9—1908, 10 spec.
(St. 329) 629 36'N, 54? 12' W, pelagic townet, 6—5—1909, 3 spec.
(St 330) surface, 6—5—1909, many spec. (30 cm.?
(St, 30 a) 680 04 04' N, 56? 32' W, j Da wire, 7—6—1908, many sp. Aa
(St. 30 b) 70 m. wir many sp. (100 cm.).
(St. 4833) 639 05'N, 549 av W, "tres wire, 9—6—1909, 20 spec.
(St. 31 a &c) 639 11' N, 569 23' W, pelagic townet, 7—6—1908, 40 spec.
(St. 33 b) 639 25' N, 549 34" W, 200 m. wire, 3—6—1908, many (3 cm.?).
(St. 76) 63949'N, 539 27" W, 1300 m. 1000 wire, 23—6—1908, 3 spec.
(St. 336) 64? 06' N, 55? 18” W, 1040—1100 m., 1200 m. wire, ill Tyne,
spec.
(St. 405) 649 25' N, 56? 12” W, 100 m. wire, 2—6—1909, many (3 cm.?).
(St. 42) 65 083' N, 549 16” W, 80, 100, 120 m. wire, 7—6—1909, many (4 cm.?).
(St. 196 d) 68% 40' N, 53? 12” W, 350 m.wire, 17—8—-1908 many spec. (4 cm.?).
26. Rhoda Raschii M, Sars.
onen Raschii M. Sars, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania, 1863, p. 853.
Euphausia G. O. Sars, ibid. 1882, No. 18, p. 9, 51.
Kleidaekid —… Norman, Rep. Fish. Board Scotl., vol. 4, SAN p. 156.
Ehoda — … Zimmer, Fauna arctica vol. 3, 1904, p
— H.J. Hansen, "Ingolf" 1908, p
"Boreophausia — … Zimmer, Nordisches Plankton, Val k 1909, p. 11 (fig.).
Thysanopoda — Vanhåffen, 1897. vol. 2, Pl. 1, fig. 1, p. 381 (nomen
nudum) (coloured fig.)
Boreophausia — H.J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 53.
(St. 11) 579 41'N, 359 28" W, surface 20—5—1908, 1 spec
(St. 297) 59? 10' N, 272 44' W, pelagic townet, 4—10—1908, 8 spec.
(St. 329) 629 36' N, 549 12" W, pelagic townet, 6— —1909, 1 spec.
(St.30a) 639 04” N, 569 32" W, 500 m. wire, 7—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 341) 649 34' N, 539 20" W, 200 m, wire, 9—5—1909, 0a. 50 spec.
(St. 196 d) 689 40' N, 539 127 W, 350 m. wire, 17—-8—1908, 4 spec.
Tassiusak at Egedesminde, from the stomach of Gadus ogac, 12—8—1908,
many spec. (40 ccm.)
(St. 171) 709 41' N, 529 07" W, 386 fath., 800 m. wire, 6—8—1008, 1 spec.
(St, 172) 709 42" N, 529 14" W, 450 m. wire, 6—8—1098, 8 spec.
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27. Nematoscelis megalops G. O. Sars.
Nematoscelis megalops G. O. Sars, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania for 1888,
od, DØ
" Fu ze) — Challenger SLÆk vol. 13, p1 57,
127, Pl. 23, fig. 5—10, Pl. 24.
eng — H. J. Hansen, Bull. Mus. Océanogr., Monaco, No.
30, 1905, T;
ren gar Zimmer, Yautiå arctica, vol. 3, 1904, p. 425.
Så — H. J. Hansen, "Tngolf” 1 0.
= gr Sibogn-Belizor. 1910, p 106
(St. 15) 58? 08' N, 399 247 W, 500 m. wire, 26—5—1908, Å spec.
(St. 9) 58? 33' N, 359 55" W, 600 m. wire, 17—5—1908, 1 spec
(St. Ta) 59% 25"N, 229 56' W, 175 m.' wire, 12—5— med 9 SS (2 909
ova).
As recorded above 2 of the specimens from St. 1a carry their
ova. In "On propagation and early development of Euphausiidæ”
in "Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab”, vol. 20, 1898, No.
11, p. 9, G. 0. Sars mentions but 4 species carrying their ovisacs,
viz. Nyctiphanes Couchii (see also Holt & Tattersall, Schizop. from
the N.E. Atlantic Slope, Ann. Rep. Fish. Ireland, 1902—03, No. 4
(1905) p. 104, Pl. 17, fig. 2), N. australis, Nematoscelis microps
and Stylecheiron carinatum. Sars says "it is.... very probable,
that these cases are quite exceptional, and that in the far greater
number of Euphausiidæ the ova are at once ejected into the water”.
I have from the literature not been able to find later additions
to Sars' list,
Fig. 2. Nematoscelis megalops with ovisac.
Nematoscelis megalops carries, as is shown by the figure (fig- 2), its
ova in an ovisac pointed in front; seen from below it seems to be
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composed of two parallel ovisacs and has about the same form as
from the side, and it has about the same length as the carapace.
The ova are (in alcohol) yellow, the diameter is 0,45 mm.
Mysidacea
28. Gnathophausia zoea Will.-Suhm.
uontepergeler zoea re egene) ns vol. 8, 1873, p. 401 fig. 1.
EX Tra . Linn. Soc., ser. 2, vol. 1,
1875, 9. 83, PL 3. fø, Se 15.
y sy — G.0O.Sars, Challenger ER Zool., vol. 18, pt. 37,
1885, p. 44, Pl. 6, fig. —10.
u Fz Willeitiocsii G. O. Sars, Bil: p. 38, Pl. 5, fig. 1—6.
rev zoea Zimmer, Kanisaher Plankton, vol. 16, 1909, p. 54.
(wit
8).
ØEN — H.J. Hansen., ”Tngolf” 1908, p. 98.
En — —- Siboga-Schizop., 1910, p. 17.
(St. 322) 609 07'N, 489 26' W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 2 spec
(St. 484) 629 53" N. 549 15” W, 1660 m., 1500—1200m. wire, 9—6—1909,
12 spec.
(St. 32) 632 16' N, 55? 52" W, surface, mæ night) 8—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 333) 639 18'N, 549 55' W, 1580 m. wire, 7—5—1909, 5 spec.
(St. 76) 639 49'N. 539 27" W, 1300 m. 1600 m. wire, 23—6—1908, 9 spec.
(St. 386) 649 06' N, 55? 18” W, 1040—1100 m., 1200 m. wire, 8—5—1909,
spec.
(St. 344) 649 29" N, 559 487 W, 1040 m., 1200 m. wire, 10—5—1909, 4 spec.
The largest specimen is from St. 322 and is 70 mm. exclusive
of the rostrum (which is broken). In Ingolf” H. J. Hansen men-
tions the species from 9 localities; but he has from no station more
than 1 specimen.
29. Eucopia unguiculata Will.-Subm.
Charalaspis unguiculata Abt eget neg Transact. Linn. Soc., ser. 2,
vol. 1. ; Pk
(partim) Euecopia australis mi O. Sars, Challanosr Report, Zool., vol. 13,
t. 37, 1885, p.. 55, PL. 9—10,
y — SEE aeg H. J. Hansen, Bull. Mus. Monaco, No. 42,
1 p 8
Des ER BE ting" 1 1908, p.
Zimmer, Nordisches Plankton, vol. 6, 1909,
p. 87, fig. 5
FH. J. Hansen, Siboga-Schizop, 1910, p. 20.
78
non Eucopia australis Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., Crust., vol. 1, 1852, p.
609, p. 40, fig. 10 (teste Zimmer, 1. c.)
(St. 322) 609% 07' N, 489 26' W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 5 spec.
(St. 333) 639 18' N, 542 55' W, 1300 m., 15830 m. wire, 7—5—1909, ca.
25 spec.
(St. 336) 64 06” N, 55? 18” W, 1040—1000 m., 1200 m. wire, 3—5—1909,
6 spec.
In "Ingolf" H.J. Hansen mentions but a single specimen
from the Davis-Straits (61? 50' N, 56? 21' W, 1435 fm.).
30. Boreomysis tridens G. O. Sars.
Boreomysis tridens G.O. Sars, za nen Forh., Christiania, 1869 (1870),
P-
sr em — == MRRDEN Norges Mysider, III, 1879, p.
Pl 14,
- — H.J. Hansen, "Ingolf" 1908, p. 100.
— — Zimmer, ruger Plankton, vol, 6, 1909, p. 59,
fig. 91—
(St. 402) 649 40' N, 569 37” W, 720—775 m., trawl, 2—6—1909, 10 spec.
32, Boreomysis nobilis G. O. Sars.
Boreomysis nobilis G. O. Sars, Archiv f. Math. og Naturv., vol. 4, 1879,
28
p i
"Boreomysis nobilis G. O. Sars, Norske Nordhavs-Exp., Crust., 1885, p- 54,
Pl. 5, fig. 22-28
Ea — Ohlin, 1901, p. 70, fig. 3.
— — … Zimmer, Fauna arctica, vol. 9, 1904, p. 452.
NEN — H. J. Hansen, Ingolf 1908, p. 101.
— — Zimmer, Nordisches Plankton, vol. 6, 1909, p. 56, fig.
83—86.
Fa — … H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 214.
(St. 431) 689 24' N, 589 10' W, 892 m, trawl, 9—6—1909, 2 spec.
(St. 337) 649 05' N, 529 20' W, 1100 m., trawl, 3—5—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 407—08) 649 14' N, 559 55" W, 839 m, clay, trawl, 2—6—1909, 10 spec.
(St. 125) 699 17' N, 529 14" W, 550 m wire, 16—7— 1908, many spec. (100 cm?).
(St. 171) 70% 41' N, 529 07' W, 386 fath., 800 m wire, 6—8—1908, many spec.
(100 cm?).
32. Boreomysis microps G. O. Sars.
Boreomysis microps G. O. Sars, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania for 1885,
9
=Boreomysis nobilis G.O. Sars, ener es Zool., vol; 18, pt. 37,
5, p. 185, Pl: 38, fig, 7—10.
— subpellucida H. J. Hansen, Bull. Mus. Océanogr., Monaco, No.
30, 1905, p. 8, fig. 5—8.
ra microps, Zimmer, Fauna arctica, vol. 3, 1904, p. 431.
— — Nordisches Plankton. vol. 6, 1909, p. 55, fig.
79—82,
VER — …… HH. J. Hansen, Ingolf 1908. p. 103.
(St, 322) 609% 07'N, 489 26' W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 7 spec.
(St. 434) 62? 58' N, 549 15' W, 1660 m., 1500—1200 m. wire, 9—6—1909,
spec.
(St. 333) 639% 18' N, 542 55' W, 1300 m., 1530 m. wire, 7—5—1909, 20 spec.
(St. 338) 649 01' N, 55? 30' W. 1185 m., 1400—1500 m. wire, $—5—1909,
20 spec.
(St. 336) 64? 06' N, 55? 18” W, 1040—1100 m., 1200 m. wire, 8—5—1909,
25 spec.
(St. 346) 649 22" N, 56? 00' W, 800—400 m. wire, 10—5—1909, 25 spec.
(St. 348) 649 35' N, 56? 18' W, 900 m. wire, 11—5—1909, ca. 20 spec.
New to W. Greenland.
33. Longithorax fuscus H. J. Hansen.
5 ete hak ed fuscus H. J. Hansen, Ingolf 1908, p. 103, Pl. 5, fig. 1.
— Zimmer, Nordisches Plankton vol. 6, 1909, p. 125,
fig. 240—453.
(St. 322) 60? 07” N, 48% 267 W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909. 1 spec.
(9,17 mm., very imperfect).
New to Greenland. — Only 4 specimens of this species are
known, viz, besides the specimen from the '"Tjalfe”, 3 from the following
localities: 61% 30' N, 17? 08” W, 1800 m. wire (S. of Iceland) (H.
J. Hansen Ingolf"), 49? 27' N, 1839881 W, 2600 m., 2800 m. wire
(H. J. Hansen, ibid.), and 50? 59” W, 117 52” W, 900—1064 fms.,
temp. 15,49 C. (W. of Ireland) (Tattersall, Fisheries, Ireland, Sci.
Invest., 1911. p. 52).
34. Meterythrops røbusta S. I. Smith.
Meterythrops robusta S. 1. Smith, sgronng Conn. Acad, vol. 5, 1879, p.
93, Pl. 12, fig. 1
"Parerythrops — G. 0. Sars, 5 Norges Mysider, III, 1879,
p.. 98, PL: 39.
mp: — Zimmer, Fauna arctica, vol. 8, 1904, p. 445.
80
Meterythrops robusta Zimmer, Nordisches Plankton. vol. 6, 1909, p. 85,
fig. 168—72.
— — H. J. Hansen, Ingolf 1908, p. 106.
non — — … Holt & Tattersall, Rep. Sea and Inland Fisheries,
1902—03 (1903), pt. 2, App. No.4 (is Parerythrops
obesa, see H. J. Hansen 1.c., p. 107, Meterythrops
robusta).
(St. 196 d) 68? 40' N, 539 12' W, 410 m., 350 m. wire, 17—8—1908, 1 spec.
35. Mysis oculata O. Fabr.
Cancer oculatus O. Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, 1780, p. 245.
— Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk. Skrifter, Ny Sam-
ling, vol. 1, 1781, p. 565, fig.
Mysis oculata Krøyer in Gaimard, Voyage en Scåndinkvie, Cruiat: 1846
(1849?) Pl. 8, fig. 2—
— — — Naturhist., Tidsskrift, 3. Række, vol. 1, 1861, p. 13.
"— — … G. 0. Sars, Monografi Norges Mysider, III, 1879, p. 69, Pl. 31.
— —"… Zimmer, bens arctica, vol. 3, 1904, p. 461.
— — ordisches Plankton, vol. 6, 1909, p. 160, fig.
lg 54,
— + HJ Hansen, Sen, 1908, p. 114.
SEE DEN V. Grønland 1887 i, p. 214.
Vaskebugten close by Ritenbenk, from the stomach of Gadus callarias,
29—7—1908, many spec. (ca. 15 cm2).
Cumacea.
36. Diastylis Goodsirii Bell.
Alauna Goodsirii Bell, in Belcher, Last of the arctic vorngen; vol. 2, 1855,
p. 403, Pl. 34, fig. 2.
"Diastylis — H. J. Hansen, Dijmphna —Togtets zool.-botan. Udbytte,
1887, p. 241, PL 29 fig, 5, PL 28, 871.
må — … Zimmer, Fauna arctica, vol. 1, 1900, p. 422.
……— — G. 0. Sars, Account, vol. 3, Cumac., 1900, p. 54, Pl. 41.
— — … H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 206.
(St. 369) 669 45' N, 569 30' W, ca, 200 fath., trawl, 20—5— 1909, ca. 20 spec.
37. Diastylis spinulosa Heller.
Diastylis spinulosa RE Denkschr. d. K. Akad. d. Wiss., Wien, Math.
naturwiss. Cl., vol. 35, 1878, p. 28, Pl. 1, fig. 5.
— — menn Nieded. Arch. f. Zool., Supplbd. 1, 1882, p. 25.
— nodosa G.0. Sars, Norske Nordhavs-Exp., Crust. 1885, p. 61,
PL 7, fig, 1.4:
81
rare Skaane O. Sars, Account vol. 3, Cumaec., 1900, p. 55, Pl. 42.
mer, Fauna arctica vol. 1, 1900, p. 225.
e« — H. J. Hanseni V. Grønland 1887, p. 205.
(St. 369) 66? 45' N, 569 30' W, ca. 200 fath., trawl, 20—5—1909, 4 spec.
Amphipoda.
38. Scina sp.
(St. 338) 649 01'N, 55? 30' W, 1185 m., 1400—1500 m. wire, 8—5— 1909,
. 1 spec., very imperfect.
The genus is new to Greenland.
Genus Lanceola.
Key to the species: Stebbing in Biscayan Plankton, part 2,
Amphip. & Cladocera, Transact. Linn. Soc., London, 1904, ser. 2,
Z001., -vol. 10, part. 2; p.: 29.
39. Lanceola serrata Bovallius.
Lanceola serrata Bovallius. On some forgotten genera among eget
(& Svenska Akad.
FT — — Arctic and Antarctic Hyperids, Pale Been
tionens vet. Iaktt., vol. 4, 1887, p. 554
Fu — EJ Amphip. Hyper, part I, 1. Kgl. Sspnska Vel
Akad. Handl, vol. 21, 1887, No.5, p. 34, Pl
5, fig. 2—
(St. 338) 68% 18' N, 549 55' W, 1300 m., 1530 m. wire, 7—5—1909, I spec.
(St. 344) 64? 22' N, 559 48" W, 1040 m., 1200 m. wire, 10—5—1909, 1 spec.
?40. Lanceola Sayana Bovallius.
Lanceola Sayana Bovallius, On some forgotten genera among the Amph.
Crust., Bihang Kgl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl.,
vol, :10,.1885, No. 14, p. 7; PL 1 fø 1
une — Bovallius, Kgl. Svenska Vet. Akad. R, vol. 21, No. 5,
! 1887, p: 30, PL 4 PL 5, fig. I
FE — . Chevreux, Amphip. de 1'» Hirondelle«, Rée: Camp. Sci.
; fasc. 16, Monaco, 1900, p. 134, Pl. 14, fig. 10
(Coloured fig.).
my — . Vosseler, sæ d. Plankton-Exp. I, EO NEES S
Mitt. Kønigl. Natur-Kabinet, Stuttgart, N
17, 1901, p. 127
Vidensk. Meddel, fra den naturh. Foren. Bd. 64. SR 6
82 z
Lanceola sayana Stebbing, Biscayan Plankton, Amphip. and Cladoc.
ransact. Linn. Soc. London, Zo0ol., vol. 10,
pt. 2, 1904, p. 29—
(St. 434) 622 58' N, 54? 15' W, 1660 m., 1500—1200 m. wire, 9—6—1909.
1 spec.
I am not quite sure that the determination is right, the
specimen being somewhat imperfect; but, if it is, as I believe, L.
Sayana, the species is new to Greenland.
Lanceola sp.
(St. 1b) 59? 25' N, 22? 56' W, surflace, 12—5—1908, 2 spec
(St. 434) 62? 53' N, 54? 15' W, 1660 m., 1500—1200 m. wire, 9—6—1909.
1 spec.
I have not been able to determine these 3 specimens, partly
because they seem to me to be not full-grown, partly because they
are somewhat imperfect.
41. Hyperia medusarum O. Fr. Miller.
Cancer medusarum O. Fr. Miiller, Zool. Dan. Prodromus, 1776, No. 2355,
P- is
Hyperia spinipes Boeck, Skandinav. og Arkt. Amphip, 1873—76, p. 81,
Pl. 2, fig.
— …… medusarum Bovallius, Arctic and Antarctic Hyperids, VegrrEr-
itionens vetenskap. Iaktt. vol. 4, 1887,
560, Pl. 42, fig. 26—33.
df mme — G. 0: Rg grene vol. 1, Amphip., 1895, p. 7,
Ph 8 2 2
rs — H. J. Hansen, ig: nlkad 1887, p. 86.
(St. 11) 57241'N, 35? 28' W, surflace, 20—5—1908, 2 spec.
(St. 285) 57? 51' N, 43? 48" W, 1000 m. wire, 29 —9—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 15) 58? 08' N, 39? 24" W, 500 m. wire, 26—-5—1908, 3 spec.
(St. 6) 58? 24'N, 34? 53' W, surflace, 16—5—1908, 3 spec
(St. 312) 589 38'N; 469 13' W, mars townet, 29—4—1909, aA spec.
(St 818): — surflac 1 spec.
(SÉ 89) 58988 N, 859 55 W, prsgeg wire, 17—5— 1908, 5 spec.
(St. 19b) 58? 41'N, 49? 44" W, 200 m. wire, 3.—5—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 1a) 59? 25'N, 22? 56' W, 175 m. wire, 12—5—1908, 3 spec.
(St. 1b) surflace — 2 spec.
(St. 322) 60? OVN, 48? 26 W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 270) 62? 21' N, 51? 31' W, 84 fath., 80 m. wire, 240.1908, I spec.
(St. 329) 629 36' N, 54? 12" W, pelagic townet, 6—5—1909, 4 spec.
83
(St. 434) 629 58' N, 549 15” W, 1660 m., 1500—1200 m. wire, 9—6—1909,
1
spec.
(St. 423). 65? 08' N, 549 16' W, 80, 100, 120 m. wire, 7—6— 1909, Dybe,
(St. 30a) 63% 04” N, 569 32' W, 500 m. wire, 7—6— 1908, i spec.
(St. 30b) — — 70 m. wire spec.
(St. 76) 63249" N, 589 sam W, 1000 m. wire, SS DE 1 spec.
From the literature we cannot see, if the species hitherto has
been taken at W. Greenland; in V. Grønland 1887 H. J. Hansen
mentions it from Greenland without special locality, and Bovallius
(1. c.) mentions it but from ”coasts of Greenland”.
42. Hyperoche Krøyeri Bovallius.
Metoecus Medusarum Krøyer, Grønlands Amfipoder, Kgl. Danske Vid.
Selsk. math. ageren Afhandl., vol. 7, 18838,
288, Pl. 3, fig.
Tauria — Boeck, Skand. og uges Amphipoder, 1873—76,
p-
Hyperoche Krøyeri + H. Liitkeilis Bovallius, Året. and Antarct. Hyperids,
en NE vet. Iaktt., vol. 4,
1887, p. 564, p. 565, Pl. 44, fig. 63-71.
Fo Krøyeri G. O. Sars, Account, vol. 1, Sker pege p. 9, Pl. 4,
— medusarum H. J. Hansen, V. brøkland 1887, p
(St. 11) 57241'N, 359 28" W, surflace, 20—5—1908, 2 spec.
(St. 23) 58? 01'N, 51? 36” W, surflace, 1—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 229) 64? 20' N, 53% 03" W, 80—120 m. wire, 29—8— 1908, 7 spec.
(St. 405) 64? 25' N, 56? 127 W, 100 m. wire, 2—6—1909, 1 spec.
43. Parathemisto oblivia Kr.
Hyperia oblivia Krøyer, Grønlands Amfipoder, Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk.
naturvid.-math. Afh., vol. 7, 1838, p. 296, Pl. 4, fig. 10.
Parathemisto abyssorum ren eger, Crust. Amphip. boreal. et arcet., Vid. Selsk.
Forh. Christiania, 1870, p. 86.
za oblivia G. O. Sars, gone af Norges Crust., ibid., 1882,
218 p. 10, PL 5, fr 1
"Parathemisto obliven G. O: Sars, pømd, vol. 1, Frej ren p. 10,
PIL. 5, fig. 1.
vi abyssorum + Hyperia Latreillei (partim) H. J. Hansen,
V. Grønland 1887, p. 59, 56.
6t
84
(St. 10) 57937'N, 35? 17” W, surflace, 20—5-—1908, 3 spec.
(St. 321) 60% 07' N, 48? 26' W, 600 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 30a) 63? 04 N, 56? 32' W, 500 m. wire, 7—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 76) 63949'N, 53? 277 W, 1300 m., 1000 m. wire, 23—6— 1908, 1 spec.
(St. 196d) 68? 40' N, 532.12' w, 410 m., 350 m. wire, 17—8—1908, 1 spec.
(St, 125) 699 17' N, 529 14' W, 550 m. wire, 16—7—190 many spec.
(5 cm3)
(St. 171) 70941'N, 52? 07' W, 386 fath., 800 m. wire, 6—8—1908, 15 spec.
(St. 172) 70? 42' N, 529 147 W, 450 m.wire, 6—8—1908, many spec. (5 cm.).
44. Euthemisto compressa Goés.
Themisto compressa vhs Crust. Amphip. Spetsberg., Kgl. Svenska Vet.
kad. Forh., 1866, No. 8, p. 538, Pl.41, fig. 34.
. Parathemisto — mel Crust. A Amphip. boreal. et arctca, Vid. Selsk.,
Forh., Christiania 1870,
”Euthemisto — G. 0. Sars, Account, vol. å Amphip., 1895, p. 12,
Pl 5, fø,
(partim) — — — H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 59 (confounded
with E. bispinosa Boeck).
(St. 10): 572 37' N, 35% 17" W, surflace, 20—5—1908, 10 spec
(St. 11) 57941'N, 35? 28' W, surflace, 20—5—1908, manyspec. (25 cm.”).
(St. 281) 572 51' N, 489 57" W, 500 m. wire, 29—9—1908, many spec.
(20
cm.?).
(St. 285) 57? 51' N, 48? 48' W, 1000 m. wire, 29—9—1908, many spec.
(25 cm.?)
(St. 286) 57? 59" N, 412 21' W, 80—200 m. wire, 30—9—1908, many spec.
(25 cm.?).
—
St. 23) 58? 01' N, 51 36' W, surflace, 1——6—1908, 9 spec.
(St. 15) 58? 08" N, 399 24' W, 500 m. wire, 26—5—1908, many pa
(25 cm.?)
(St. 278): 589 16' N, 479 12 W, 80—200 m. wire, 283—9—1908, many pre
(10 cm.?).
(St. 308) 58% 20" N, 419 12” W, 1000 m. wire, 283—4—1909, 8 spec.
(St. 5) 58? 23'N, 349 41' W, surflace, 16—5—1908, 10 spec.
(St. 6) 58? 24'N, 349 53' W, surflace, 16—5—1908, many spec. (20 cm.?).
(St. 292) 58? 24' N, 30% 35' W, 500 m. wire, 3—10—1908, many spec. 3
(5 cm.”).
(St. 4) 58927" N, 33? 03" W, surflace, 15—5—1908, 10 spec:
(St. 25) 589 32'N, 519 11' W, surflace, 2—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 9) 58? 38'N, 85? 55' W, 600 m. wire, 17—5—1908, , spec.
(St. 312) 589 38' N, 462 137 W, Pelskis townet, 29—4—1909 1 =
(Bk 513) 3 s
(St. 2) 58%40' N, 30940 W, en id 51008, tøusy FE 10 cm.”).
(St. 19b) 58? 41' N, 49? 44" W, 200 m. wire, 31—5—1908, 2 s
(St. 316) 58% 59" N, 509 28" W, 500 m. wire, 1—5—1909, han 0 (5 cm.?).
85
(St. 1a) 59925" N, 229 56' W, 175 m. wire, 12—5—1908, many spec.
0 cm.2).
(St, 1b) — surflace, — så ing
(St. 303) .599 28' N, 83? 05" W, rr SE 26—4—1909, 8 spec.
(St. 298) 59? 41'N, 25? 02" W, 500 m 'e, 6—10—1908, 3 spec.
(St, 321) 60? 07” N, 48? 26" W, 600 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 15 spec.
) Sae RE 20 m. > spec
(St. 301) 609 10' N, 289 13” W, pelagic townet, 25—4—1909, 3 er.
(St. 326) 629 05" N, 53? 41' W, 100 m. wire, 6—5—1909, 2 spec.
(St. 329) 629 36' N, 549 12" W, see townet, 6—5—1909, 12 spec.
(St. 330) En se urflac 2 spec.
(Sk; 29). 629 45' N. 57 TW. SR 7—6—1908, Bug spec
(St. 30a) 639 04' N, 56% 32" W, 500m. wire, 7—6—1908, mens pen. gen cm 3).
(St. 30b) — 70 m.
(St. 31a) 63? 11” N, 56? 28 W, Br Bar, F— 6—1908,. 1 spec.
(St. 33b) 63? 25'N, 549 34" W, 200 m. wire, $—6—1908, 6 spec.
(St. 37b) 639 47'N, 529 12" W, 100 m. wire, 9—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 76) 639 49'N, 539 27" W, 1000 m. wire, 23—6—1908, 7 spec.
(St. 229) 649 20' N, 539 03' W, 80—120 m. wire, 29—8—1908, many spec.
oem).
(St. 423) 659 083” N, 549 16 W, 80, 100, 120 m. wire, 7—6—1909, 1 spec.
45. Euthemisto bispinosa Boeck.
Themisto bispinosa itrr, Crust. Amphip. boreal. et arctica, Vid. Selsk.
Forh., Christiania, 1870, p. 8.
"Euthemisto — G. sa tig Account, vol. 2, Amphip., 1895, p. 14, Pl.
6, fig.
(partim) — — compressa is A. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 59 (E. E
spinosa Boeck and E. compressa Goés are co
founded).
(St. 23) 58% 01' N, 519 36' W, surflace, 1—6—1908, many spec. (12 cm.?).
(St. 15) 589 08'N, mal 24' W, 500 m. wire, 26—5—1908 sneg (7cm.?).
(St. 278) 589 16' N, 479 127 W, 80—200 m. wire, 28—9—1908, 2 spec.
(St. 308) 589 20' N, me: 127 W, 1000 m. wire, 28—4—1909, 2 spec.
(St. 25) 58932'N, 51911' W, surflace, GE rs 5 spec.
(St: 813) 589 38' N, 469 13" W, 29—4—1909, 6
(St. 19a) 589 41''N, 499 44" W, 100.m. wire, 31— 7155-1908, 4 spe.
(St. 19b) — 200 m. wire,
(St. 316) 589 59' N, 509 og Ww, 500 m. wire, 1—5—1909, 9 spec.
(St. 276) 59? 18” N, 519 00' W, 80 m. wire, 27 —9—1908, many spec.
(15 cm.2).
(St. 298) 59 417 N, 259 02' W, 500 m. wire, 6—10—1908, 3 spec.
(St. 270) 629 21' N, 519 31' W, 84 fath., 80 m. wire, ens me
cm.”
86
(St. 329) 62? 36' N, 54” 12' W, pelagic townet, 6—5—1909, 3 spec.
(St. 330) 62? 36' N, 549 12' W, surflace, 6—5—1909, 3 spec.
(St. 29) 62? 45' N, 57? 11' W, surflace, 7—6—1908, 10 spec.
(St. Son 63? 04" N, 56? 32" W, 500 m. wire, 7—6—1908, many spec. (30 cm.?).
(St. — — 70 m. wire, — 2 spec.
(St. tig; 639 49' N, 53? 27' W, 1300 m., 1000 m. wire, 23 —6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 229) 64? 20' N, 53? 03' W, 80—120 m. wire, 29—8—1908, 8 spec.
46. Euthemisto libellula Mandt.
Gammarus Lzibellula ce Observat. in hist. nat. et anat. compar: in
ere Groenl. factæ, 1822, p. 32.
Themisto arctica —+ fo crassicornis Krøyer, Grønlands Amtipoder, Kgl.
Danske Vid. Selsk. naturv. math. Afh., vol. 7, 1838»
p. 291, Pl. 4, fig. 16, p. 295, Pl. 4, fig. 17.
— libellula Boeck, Skand. og Arkt. Amphip., 1873—76, p. 88.
Euthemisto + E. Nordensktåldii Bovallius, Arct. and. Antarct.
Hyp., Vega Exp. vet. Iaktt., vol. 4, 1887, p. 569,
Pl. 46, fig. 90—96, p. 570, Pl. 47, fig. 104—10.
HE mo — G. O. Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip., 1895, p. 13,
PE GB I:
HET eg H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 60.
(St. 25) 59982" N, 519 11' W, surflace, 2—6—1908, 5 spec.
(St. 7) 58988'N, 35940" W, 150 m. wire, 17—5—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 312) 589 38'N, 469 13" W, pelagic townet, 29—4—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 321) 60? 07' N, 48? 26' W, 600 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 2 spec.
The channel at Nanortalik, from stomachs of Gadus, 6—9—1909, 7 spec.
(St. 521) 61% 42' N, 499 46' W, 260 m., 100 m. wire, 9—7-—1909, 15 spec.
(St. 329) 62936'N, 549 127 W, pelagie townet, 6—5—1909, many, very
little spec. (1 cm.?).
(St. 29) .62945'N, 57? 11' W, 7—6—1908, 10 spec
(St, 30a) 63? 04'N, 569 32" W, gl m. wire, w 6—1908, 3 spec.
(St. 30b) — spec.
br an, 65? EN, 50" 2 W, dø hpikg st 7—6— file 5 spec.
SE: 81
(St. 37b) 68947' N, 52% 12" W, 100 m. wire, 9—6—1908, 4 spec.
(St. 76) 63? 49' N,- 53? 27" W, 1300 m., 1000 m. wire, 23—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 69) 63? 58' N, 58? 28" W, 600 m., surface, 22—6—1908, spe: ER
( cm.”).
(St. 405) 649 25' N, 562 127 W, 100 m. wire, 2—6—1909, many, very little
spec. (1 cm.”).
(St. 423) 65? 08' N, 549 16” W, 80—100—120 m. wire, 7-—6—1909, many
spec. (15 cm.”).
(St. 196d) 68? 40' N, 53? 12" W, 410 m., 350 m. wire, 17—8—1908. many
spec. (150 cm.J)-
(St. 125) 699 17'N, 52? 14' W, 550 m. wire, ma Års many spec.
(75 cm2)-
87
(St. 124) 699 17” N, 529 14" W, 150 m. wire, 16.—7 .—1908, many spec. (5 cm.3).
(St. 171) 70% 41' N, 52? 077 W, 386 fath., 800 m, wire, 6—8—1908, many
(St. 172) 709 42' N, 529 147 W, 450 m. wire, 6—8—1908, many figen (15 cm,2).
In "V, Grønland” 1887 H. J. Hansen mentions the species
only from 5 localities (ca. 642—77? 40' N).
47. Socarnes Yahlii Kr.
Lysianassa Vahlii Krøyer, Grønlands Amfipoder, Fe: teret Vid. Selsk.
33.
mye Mar math. Afh., , 1838, p
Anonyx — — n Gaimard: ale en Åre in 1846
(18492) Pl 1 6 1
=Socarnes — G.0.Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip. p. 45, Pl. 16, fig. 2.
— — Stebbing, Tierreich, p. 57 (ub
ge — … H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland ryg i . 62,
St. 465) 629 58' N, 509 52" W, 25 fath., 80 m. wire, 21—6—1909, 2 spec.
48. Hippomedon abyssi Goés.
"Lysianassa abyssi Goés, Crust. Amphip. Spetsberg., Ofvers. hænge For-
handl., vol. 22, 1866, p. 519, Pl. 37, fig.
Paratryphosites — Stebbing; Tierreich, p. 43 (ubi litt.).
éppomedon … — H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 66.
St. 118) 699 17" N, 529 50" W, clay-bottom, ca. 225 fath., trawl.,
15—7—1908, 7 7 spec.
49. Cyphocaris anonyx Boeck.
Cyphocaris anonyr Boeck, Crust. Amphip. boreal. et aretica, Forh. Vid.
Selsk., Christiania, 1870, p. 104.
== SER — ma og arkt. Amphip., 1873—76, p. 141, Pl
6,
£. —… micronyx Stebbing, see Report, vol. 29, 1888, p. 656,
Er — Chevreux, Amphip. . . . del'Hirondelle, Result. Camp.
sc., fasc. 14, Monaco 1900, p. 164, Pl. 14, fig. 11
(coloured fig.).
im sitrer Stebbing, Tierreich, p. 29.
mA H.J. Hansen, V. Sibeleid 1887, p. 66.
(St. 322) 609 07' N, 489 26" W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 5 spec.
(St. 434) 629 53” N, 549 157 W, 1200—1500 m. wire, 9—6—1909, 2 spec.
(St. 30a) 63? 04" N, 56? 32 W, 500 m. wire, 7—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 333) 63? 18' N, 549 55" W, 1300 m, 1530 m. wire, 7—5—1909, 2 spec.
(St. 338) 649 01' N, 559 30' W, 1185 m., 1400—1500 m. wire, fee,
spec.
88
(St. 336) 64? 06' N, 55? 18” W, 1040—1100 m., 1200 m. wire, $—5—1909,
ec.
28
(St. 346) 64? 22' N, 56? 00" W, 400—800 m. wire, 10—5—1909, 2 Blog
(St. 348) 649 35' N, 56? 18' W, 900 m. wire, 11—5—1909, 1 spec.
New to W. Greenland. In V, Grønland 1887 H. J. Hansen
mentions the species from 30 miles S$. 0. to Cap Farewell, 300 fath.,
but not from W. Greenland.
50, Metacyphocaris Helgæ Tattersall.
Metacyphocaris Helgæ SOREN Pelagic Amphipoda of the Irish SeESak
ope. Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1905,
[v (1906), p. 29; PL 3, fig. I, PL 4, fig: ver.
(St. 322) 60? 07' N, 48? 26' W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 6 spec.
(St. 333) 63? 18' N, 54? 55" W, 1530 m. wire, 1300 m., 7—5—-1909, 5 spec.
(St. 338) 649 01'N, 55? 30" W, 1185 m., 1400—1500m. wire, 83—5—1909,
2 spec.
New to Greenland. Tattersall (l.c.) mentions 17 spec. from
4 localities at W. Ireland.
51. Åristias tumidus Kr.
Anonyx tumidus Kråycr, iu Gaimard, Voyage en Scand., Crust., 1846
(18497?) PL 16, fg..2.
sæ — Karcin. Bidrag, Naturhist. Tidsskrift, Ny Række,
2, 1846, p. 16
vol. . 16, 40.
"Aristias — G.0.Sars, Account, vol, 1, Amphip, 1895, p. 49, Pl.
SE sk me. Sender p- 49 (ubi litt.)
, V. Grønland 1887, p. 67.
non TER ENAS tumidus Bear Kgl. lt Vet.-Akad. Handl., n. ser.,
vol. 3, 1859, no. 1. p. 41:
(St. 465) 629 58'' N, 50? 52” W, ca. 25 fath., 21—6—1909, 1 spec.
52, Alibrotus littoralis Kr.
Anonyw littoralis Kråyer, in Gaimard: Voyage en Scand., Crust., 1846
(1849?) Pl. 13, fig. 1.
— litoralis sigte; Karcin. Bidrag, Naturh. Tidsskrift, Ny Række,
vol. 1, 1845, p. 621; vol. 2, 1846, p.
=£ Alibrotus littoralis ix, i Sars, Account, vol. 1, pres 1895, p. 102
g: 2.
"MEE rart ksenle Er RReeE: Tierreich, p. 33.
Onisimus H. J. Hansen, V. Grånland, 1887, p. 73.
Kangerdluarsuk (61? 50' N), from stomachs of herrings, 23—6—1909, man)
spec. (15 cm.).
89
53, Katius obesus Chevreux.
” Katius obesus Chevreux, Description d'un Amphipode (Katius obesus nov.
gen. et sp.) Bull. Mus. Océanogr., Monaco, No. 35, 1905
Be — … Tattersall, Pelagic Amphipoda of the Irish Atlantic slope,
Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. invest., 1905, pt. 4 (1906), p. 29.
(St. 15) 58? 08' N, 399 24" W, 500 m. wire, 26-—5—1908, 22 spec.
(St. 322) 609 07' N, 489 26' W, 2000 m. wire, 3--5—1905, 2 spec.
(St. 434) 629 53' N,-549 15' W, "1600'm., 1200—1500 m. wire, 9—6—1909,
7
(St. 333) 63? 18” N, 549 55' W, 1300 m., 1530 m. wire, 7—5—1909, 2 spec.
(St. 338) 649 01'N, 55? 30' W, 1185 m., 1400—1500 m. wire, 8—5—1
(St. 410) 64? 14'N, 55? 55” W, 839. m., trawl, 3—6—1909, 1 spec.
New to Greenland.
Most of the specimens from the Tjalfe” measure 25 mm.
(the specimen of Chevrenx is 12 mm.), and where the colour is
preserved it is bright scarlet. Hitherto but two specimens of
the species were known, viz., from 36? 17'N, 28? 53' W, 3410 m.,
0—3000 m. wire 1 spec. (Chevreux l. c.,), and 50 miles N. to W.
of Eagle Island, Co. Mayo, 1200 fath., 1 spec. (Tattersall 1. c.).
54. Pontoporeia femorata Kr.
Pontoporeia femorata Kråyer, Nye nordiske Sl. og Arter af Amfip.,
kykteds Tidsskrift, vol. 4, 1842, p. 158.
SE, — n Gaimard, Voyage en Scand., Crust.,
1846 8499) PI 28, fif, 2
i Bog — " G. 0. Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip. 1895, p. 123,
Pl. 41, fig. 1
E — Stebbing, Tistreick. p. 128 (ubi. litt.)
ses — H.J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 80.
(St. 118) 699 17” N, 529 50' W, clay-bottom, ca. 225 fath., trawl, 15—7—1908,
! 1 spec.
55. Stegocephalus infatus Kr.
Stegocephalus inflatus Kroyer, Nye nordiske Sl. og Arter af Amfip.,
Naturh. Tidsskrift, vol 4, 1842, p. 150.
vane — … Krøyer, in Gaimard, Voyage en Scand,, Crust.,
1846 (1849?) Pl. 20, fig. 2.
Å lekg —"G.0. Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip, 1895, p. 198,
Pl. 69.
190
Sne Rene Stebbing, .Tierreich, p. 91 (ubi litt.)
H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 87.
(St. 397) 669% 42'N, 569 127 W, 130 fath., trawl, 31—5—109, 1 spec.
(St. 370) 66? 45' N, 56? 23" W, ca. 175 fath., trawl, 20—5—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 177) 70% 427 N, 542 48' W, 253 fath., trawl, 7—8—1908, 1 spec.
The spec. from St. 397 is 37 mm., the two other are but a
little smaller.
56. Metopa pollexiana Sp. Bate.
Montagua pollexiana Sp. Bate, Rep. Brit. Ass. f. the Adv. of Sc., 1855,
, omen nudum).
= Metopa — G.0.Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip., 1895, p. 269,
PI. 95,
ren norvegica Stebbing, Tierreich, p. 177 (ubi litt).
— pollexiana H. J. Hansen, V. Gronland 1887, p. 92, Pl. 3, fig. 5.
(St. 52) Kugssukfjord (Godthaabsfjord), 156 fath., trawl, 15—6—1608,
ca. 25 spec.
57. C€leonardo microdactylus n. sp. (fig. 3—4).
(St. 336) 649 06' N, 55% 18” W, 1040—1100 m., 1200 m. wire, 8—5—1909,
2 spec., 2.
Upon the whole we know 6 species of the genus C/eonardo,
viz. C. (Tritropis) appendiculatus G. 0. Sars (Norske Nordhavs-Exzp.
Crust. I, 1885, p. 194, Pl. 16, fig. 3), C. dongipes Stebbing (Chal-
lenger Report, Zool., vol. 29, p. 959, Pl. 86), C. Neuvillei, C. lon-
girostris, C. spinicornis and C. biscayensis Chevreux (Bull. Inst.
Océanogr. Monaco, No. 121, 1908, p. 1-—12 (all the four species),
fig. 1—6). Knowledge of the species is very defective, for they
are bathypelagic and known in but single specimens; of most of
the species we know but one sex.
As I have given figs. of all the appendages (except the pleo-
poda) I shall give but a very short description.
Length 7 mm.
d' unknown. — 2Q: The head with rostrum a little shorter
than the first segment; this is somewhat longer than the following
ones, The eyes are distinct, rather large and uncoloured. The side-
plates 1—4 rounded below. Pereion is inflated, the back rounded
SE
and the segments 1—2 have a distinct, but low dorsal carina as
in C. appendiculatus; the postero-lateral corners on these 3 seg-
ments acutely produced... Telson has about the same form as in
the other species (unknown in C. appendiculatus). The antennæ
Fig. 3. Cleonardo microdactylus.
åre about half as long as the body; ant. 1 a little shorter than
ant. 2. In antenna 1 the first joint is stout about as in C. lon-
gipes; the second joint is of equal length, but much narrower; the
third very short. In antenna 2 the ultimate joint in the peduncle
is a little shorter and narrower than the penultimate; flagellum
92
a little shorter than the peduncle. The form of the oral parts
may be seen from the figs. In the two gnathopoda the 5th joint
has about the same form as in C. Z/ongipes.… Pereiopoda 1—5 have
the usual form, but in p. 3—5 the dactylus is not half as long
ALMA
.
Cs 2
Fig. 4. Cleonardo microdactylus.
as the 6th joint; in the other species the dactylus always is at
least half as long as the 6th joint, in some of the specimens some-
what longer. The pleopoda have the usual form. The form and
length of the uropoda may be seen from the fig.
58. Paramphithoé pulchella Kr.
Amphitoe pulchella myrde in Gaimard, Voyage en Scand., Crust. 1846
849?) Pl. 10, fig. 2.
=Paramphithoe elske G. O. Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip., 1895, p-
346, Pl. 122, fig. 1.
Neopleustes pulchellus Stebbing, Tierreich, p. 312 (ubi litt.).
Paramphithoe pulchella H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 119, Pl. 5, fig. 2.
(St. 40c) 63? 48' N, 529 23' W, 194 m., trawl,. 10—6—1908, 1 spec.
59. Paramphithoé bicuspis Kr.
ADRRRDE bicuspis Krøyer, Grønlands Amfipoder, Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk
math. naturvid. Afh., vol. 7, 1888, p. 273, Pl. 2, fig. 10.
93
”Paramphitoe bicuspis ke O. Sars, mg ng vol. 1, Amphip., 1895, p. 349,
123, fig.
Neopleustes . — Se nyrk TSAR ls p. 313 (ubi litt.).
Paramphithoe — H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 122.
(St. 465) 629 58'' N, 50% 52” W, 25 fath., 21—6—1909, 10 spec.
60. Epimeria loricata G. O. Sars.
Kokssrkg loricata G. O. Sars, hev et nes nova, ET et Mat. og
rvid., vol. 4,
les — — Hebe vob i in rel p. 368,
PI. 129 "2. 3
ER — Stebbing, Tierreich, p- 322 (ubi litt.).
Sa —"" H J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 126.
(St. 431) 63? 24" N, 539 10' W, 892 m., trawl, 9—6—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 396) 669 41'N, 569 17” W, 150 fath., trawl, 31—5—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 397) 66? 42' N, 569 12" W, 130 fath., trawl, 31.—5—1909, 1 spec.
The largest specimen (St. 397) is 38 mm. long.
61. Åcanthonotosoma inflatum Kr.
Acanthonotus inflatus Krøyer, Nye nord. Slægt. ap mm af Amfip, Naturh.
Tidsskrift vol. 4, 1842,
= Vertwmnus — rider, Crust. Amphip. RE. Ofvers. Kgl. re
Vet. Akad. Fårh., se hal pgn re ble MER re:
ne mee Stebbing, Herreidh
Acanthonotosom H. J. Hansen, V. aeklled 188%;p. 127.
(St. 143) Outside the Mudderbugt (Disco) 128 fath., trawl, 22—7—1908, 1 spec.
62. Åcanthonotosoma serratum O. Fabr.
iscus serratus O. Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, 1780, p. 262, No. 237.
" Acanthonotosoma serratum G. O. Sars, Bones vol, 1, Amphip., 1895,
p. 374, Pl. 131, fig. 1.
Acanthonotozoma — Stebbing, og p. 218
Acanthonotosoma Ek H. J. Hansen, V. Grblsid 1887, p. 127.
(St. 465) 629 58' N, 509 52" W, 25 fath., 21—6—1909, 1 spec.
63. Acanthozone cuspidata Lepechin.
Oniscus cuspidatus Lepechin, Tres Onisc. spec. deseript., Acta Acad. Scient.
Imp. Petrop., 1778, pars 1, p. 247, Pl. 8, fig. 3.
94
= Acanthozone cuspidata G. O. Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip., 1895, p.
130.
? Paramphithoe hystrix Stebbing: Tierreich, p. 325 (ubi BER
Acanthozone cuspidata H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 128.
(St. 143) Outside the Mudderbugt (Disco), 128 fath., trawl, SE se
a. 20 spec.
64. Parapleustes latipes M. Sars.
Amphithoe latipes M. Sars, Oversigt ov. Norges Arkt. Krebsdyr, For-
andl. Vid. Selsk. Christiania 1858 (1859), p. 139.
£ Parapleustes latipes G. O. Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip., 1895, p. 360,
27
Pl a4
Sympleustes — Stebbing, Tierreich, p. 317 (ubi litt.).
Amphitopsis:… — H.J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 135, Pl. 5, fig. 4,
(St. 367) 66? 22' N, 57? 16' W, 686 m., dredge, 19—5—1909, 1 spec.
65. Syrrhoe erenulata Goés.
Syrrhoe crenulata mg Crust. Amphip. Spetsberg., Ofvers. Kgl. Svenska
Akad. Forhandl., 1866, p. 527, Pl. 40, fig. 25.
re Em, i. ad Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip. 1895, p. 390.
PI 186,
En — Stebbing, Tierreich, p. 282 (ubi litt.).
ER — H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 103
(St. 465) 629 58' N, 50? 52” W, 25 fath., 21—6—1909, 3 spec.
66. Pardalisca cuspidata Kr. (non Buchholz).
Pardalisca cuspidata Krøyer, Nye nord. Sl. PÅ fck af Amfip., Nat.
Tidsskrift, vol. 4, 1842, p.
ze: — G. O. Sars, Account, vol i nere 1895, p. 403,
Pl. 141, PL 142, fig. 1
mm mm slebne. ER p- 228 (ubi litt.).
ig me = H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 148.
non — STE Buchholz, Swehs nn epienn mee eg vol. 2,
Crust: 1874, p. 306, Pl. 1, fig. 3, Pl. 2, fig. I
. (=P, abyssi Boeck, teste Stebbing, fellenn p. 222).
(St. 465) 629 58' N, 50? 527 W, 25 fath., 21—5—1909, 2 spec.
67. Eusirus Tjalfiensis n. sp.
(St. 171) 709 41' N, 529 07” W, 386 fath., 800 m. wire, 6—8—1908, 1 spec.
At the mentioned locality the Tjalfe” has taken one specimen,
unfortunately rather defective, of a new species of the genus Eusirus.
Fig. 5. Eusirus Tjalfiensis.
Total length 38 mm.
Of the known species of the genus it is most like E. Ccuspi-
datus Kr., but it differs chiefly in the following regards. The eyes
åre almost quite invisible. The pereion segment 7 has no tooth
im the dorsal line, ånd the pleon segments 1 and 2 are evenly
Tounded on the hinder lateral corners. The convex lateral margin
of the posterior edge of the pleon segment 3 seems to have
Some single small teeth. The telson is most like that in E. Holmi
H. J. Hansen. The gnathopoda 1—2 are long and slender, about
as in E. Holmi. The pereiopoda 1—3 are quite lost; the perei-
Opodad 4—5 are sonly partly preserved. The specimen seems to
be a d'; at all events it has no marsupial plates.
Ås may be seen the description is very imperfect, for only
one specimen was brought home, and this single specimen was very
defective, as is said above; but in the figures I have given all
details to be seen without dissection.
96
68. Eusirus Holmii H. J. Hansen.
fEusirus Holmii H. J. Hansen, Dijmphna- HR zool.-botan. Udbytte,
1887, p. 224, Pl. 22, fig.
— — Stebbing, Tierreich, p. Eb: (ubi litt.).
(St. 363) 66? 21' N, 57% 04" W, 680 m., 800 m. wire, 18—5—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 171) 709 41" N, 529 077” W, 386 fath., 800 m. wire, 6—8—1908, 1 spec.
New to W. Greenland; but the species has been taken at E.
Greenland (70? 32' N, 8? 11' V, 470 fath. (H. J. Hansen, Meddel.
om Grønland, vol. 19, 1895, p. 128); this locality is not mentioned
in Stebbing, Tierreich).
69. Apherusa glacialis H. J. Hansen.
"Amphitopsis glacialis H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 137, Pl. 5, fig. 6.
Apherusa Stebbing, Tiefreich, p. 307 (ubi litt.).
(St. 324) 60? 07 N, 48? 26' W, pelagic i 3—5—1909, 1 spec.
(Ht 3). 600 m 4. spec.
" (St. 465) 629 58' N, 509 sø! W, ca. 95 hver 21—6—1909, 1 spec.
Like the specimens of H. J. Hansen those from Tjalfe” are
also very imperfect: all have some legs or the antennæ broken.
70. Amphitopsis longieaudata Boeck.
Amphitopsis longicaudata Boeck, Forh. Skand. Naturforsker-Møde, 1861,
663.
P i
pA - G. O. Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip. 1895, P-
PE 161.
re — Stebbing, Tierreich, p. 289 (ubi litt.).
(St. 143) Outside the Mudderbugt (Disco), 128 fath., trawl, 22—7—1908,
ca. 35
New to Greenland.
71. Gammarus locusta L.
Cancer locusta Linné, Fauna Suecica, Edit. altera, 1761, p. 405, No. 2042.
"Gammarus locusta G. O, Sars, Account, vol. 1, Amphip. 1895, P. 499,
PL L PE 178, fø £L
FR — … Stebbing, Tierreich, p. 476 (ubi litt.).
sa —… H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 144.
97
(St. 28) 58? 01' N, 51? 36' W, surface, 1—6—-1908, 1 spec
(St. 521) 61? 42' N, 499 46' W, 260 m., 100 m. wire, 9—7—1909, 3 spec.
(St. 484) 629 58' N. 549 15' W, 1660 m., 1200—1500 m. wire, 9—6—1999,
1 spec.
(St. 30a) 639 04" N, 569 327 W, 500 m. wire, 7;—6—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 30b) 70 m. wire spec.
(St. 433) 639 05' 5 N, 549 av W, 120—180 m. wire, 9 61999, 8 spec.
(St. 425) 640 24' N, 58? 05" W, 80—120 m. wire, $—6—1909, 5 spec.
(St. 425) 65? 08' N, 549 16" W, 80—100—120 m. wire, 7—6—1909, 1 spec.
The localities from the "Tjalfe" show that this species can
live pelagically at a much greater distance from the coast, than has
been known hitherto. G. O. Sars (1. c., p. 500) writes ,,.... this
species is .... met with in the littoral and sublittoral regions.
It. also occasionally descends . to greater depths, at least to 50
fathoms, and in some places occurs in great abundance among de-
caying algæ, accumulated on the bottom...”. H.J. Hansen says
(1 c., p. 145) ,,a couple of times it has been taken in the Davis-
Strait in the surface” (without locality), but he believes that
Ordinarily it lives on the bottom at 0—5 fath.; he is of the opinion
that localities on 60, 100 or 200 fathoms are not certain.
272. epe setosa Boeck.
Huploops setosa Boeck, Crust.. Amphip. bor. et arct., Forh. Vid. Selsk.
Christiania 1870 (1871), p. 228.
ie mm — 6.0. Sars, Account vol. 1, Amphip., 1895, p. 194, Pl. 68,
fig. 1.
8-
Aeg — Stebbing, Tierreich, p. 117 (ubi litt.).
se — H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 153
(St. 367) 66922" N, 579 16" W, 686 m., dredge, 19—5—1909, 1 spec.
My determination is not sure, because the specimen is some-
what imperfect and has lost the setæ of the dorsal surface.
75. Unciola erassipes H. J. Hansen.
hele pressen i J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 165, Pl. 6, fig. 6.
tebbing, Tierreich, p. 679.
(St. 367) 669 22' N, 579 16" W, 686 m., dredge, 19—5—1909, 2 spec.
7
Vidensk, Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. Bd. 64.
98
Isopoda.
74. Calathura brachiata Stimps.
Anthura brachiata ER Marine Invertebr. Grand Manan; Smithson.
trib. to Knowl., vol. 6, 1854, p. 43.
£Calathura — G. OD: Sars, Åteotint vol. 2, Isop., 1900, p: 46, PIL 19;
fig.
— branchiata Richardson, Isop. of N. Am., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus,
54, 1905, p. 72, (ubi litt. ) fig. 56—57.
brachiata H. K Hanen NE Grønland 1887, p. 181.
(St. 367) 66? 22' N, 57? 16' W, 686 m., dredge, 19—5—1909, 6 spec.
75. ålga psora L.
17 E SD 636.
Sars, Account vol. 2, Isop., 1900, 3 . 24.
på — Richardson, Isop. af N. måge ferne: U.S. Nat. Ma No. 54,
1905, p. 168 (ubi litt.), fig.
— —… H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland rn p. 183.
Oniscus elg Linné, Systema Naturæ, edit. X, vol. 1,
>= Æ ga RER
(St. 396) 669 41' N, 569 177 W, 150 fath., trawl, 31—5—1909, 2 spec.
(St. 397) 669 42" N, 569 127 W, 130 fath., trawl, 31—5—1909, 6 spec.
All the specimens were taken free-living on the bottom.
76. Alga ventrosa M. Sars.
Æg ventrosa M. Sars, Vid. Selsk. Forh., Christiania, 1859, p. 154.
G. O. Sars, Account vol. PA oboer; 1900, p. 64, PL. 26, fig. 3.
Richardson, Isop. of N. Am., Bull. U. S, Nat. Mus. No. 54,
1905, p. 187 (ubi litt.), veg 173—74.
— Nordenskidldii; H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 184.
(St. 397) 669 42'N, 569 12" W, 130 fath., trawl, 31—5—1909, 1 spec.
(free-living)-
77. Åreturus Baffini Sabine.
Idotea Baffini Sabine, Suppl. to the re: to Capt. Parry's Voyage, 1824,
. 228, Pl. 1, fig. 4—
"Arcturus — G. O. Sars, Norske Northsts Bop … Crust., 1885, p. 97,
PI. 9, fr.
— mm Rislaiedsor Poe of N. Am., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. dd,
1905, p. 337. (ubi litt.), fig. 367—68.
—… —… H. J. Hangen, V. Grønland 1887, p. 188.
(St. 100) 669 44' N, 56? 08' W, ca. 175 fath., trawl, 5—7—1908, 1 spec.
99
(St. 107) 689 20' N, 54903" W, 220—289 fath., trawl, 9—7—1908, 4 spec.
(St. 199) 68? 28' N, 549 477 W, 184—245 fath., trawl, 13—8—1908, 2 spec.
The two largest specimens (St. 107) are 55 mm. (body) + 68
mm. (ant.) and 45 mm. + 78 mm.; the specimen from St. 100
measures 47 mm. + 70 mm.
78. Åcanthoniseus typhlops G. O. Sars.
” Acanthoniscus typhlops g al Sars, Norske Nordhavs-Exp., Crust. 1885,
9, Pl. 10, fig. 27—30.
(St. 431) 639 24' N, 589 10' W, 892 m., trawl, 9—6—1909, 1 spec.
New to Greenland. Hitherto it was known only from W. of
Lofoten, 68" 20 N, 10940' E 457 fath, =£ 07? C. (Sats, LC):
79. Janthe laciniata G. O. Sars.
Janie laciniata G. O. Sars, Mar Selsk. Forh., Christiania 1872, p. 92.
Account vol. 2, Isop., 1900, p. 101, Pl. 41.
(St. 481) 689 24' N, 532 10' W, 892 m., trawl, 9—6—1909, 1 spec.
(St. 369) 66% 45' N, 56? 30 w, ca. 200 fath., trawl, 20—5—1909, 1 spec.
New to Greenland.
80. Munneurycope Tjalfiensis, n. gen. n. sp. (figs. 6—8).
(St. 322) 60% 07'N, 489 26' W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 1 spec. (Cc).
The specimen is very like Munnopsis (2?) Murrayi Walker
(Ann. Mag. Mat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. 12, 1903, p. 227, Pl. 18, figs.
1—6; Tattersall, Isop., Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest. 1904 pt. 2
(1905), p. 24,73, Pl. 5, fig. 8, and Tattersall, Nordisches Plankton
vol. 6, Lief. 14, 1911, p. 190, figs. 8—14); but though it is very
imperfect, not only the larger part of antennæ and pereiopoda being
lost, but also otherwise being damaged, it is yet certain that it
is another species.
Both species differ from Munnopsis typica G.O.Sars (Sars:
Account vol. 2, 1900, Isop., p. 133, Pl. 57—58) in the somewhat
regular lanceolate outline, the hinder part of the body being not
V lig
100
suddenly narrower than the first segments. In regard to the man-
dibles (figs. 7—8) the specimen from the Tjalfe” is very like Munn-
opsis longicornis H. J. Hansen (Ergebnisse d, Plankton-Exp., vol.
2Gc, Isop., Cumac. und Stomatop., 1895, p. 8, Pl. 2, fig. 1—1d),
whilst the mandibles in M. typica are quite different from these.
Walker gives no fig. of the mandibles of
M. Murrayi (Tattersall has a fig.: Fisheries,
Ireland, Sci. Invest. 1904 pt. 2, (1905) Pl. 5,
fig. 8); but he writes (1. c. 1903 p. 228) ,,;man-
dibles with a prominent molar expansion and
divided cutting edge as in M. Zongicornis Hansen;
" palp very large and prominent, with a lamellar
terminal joint. As G.O.Sars has pointed out,
Munnopsis longicornis Hansen differs in the struc-
ture of the mandibles from the generic descrip-
tion, as does the present species" (MM. Murrayi).
The sculpture of the dorsal surface is very
like that in M. Murrayi; the few differences may be
seen from the fig. (fig. 6). Of ant. 1 the mutual
length of the joints is quite another than in M.
typica, Ath and 5th joints being longer than
Fig. 6. the others. Also the flagellum is different, Ist
Munneurycope joint being very short and the second very long;
Anikeneis the other joints (only 6 are preserved) are about
4 times longer than their diameter. Of ant. 2 only two joints of
the stem are preserved; they are of about equal length. Labrum
is very prominent, has the usual form and 3 cross-furrows. The
oral parts agree very well with those in M. Jongicornis and M. Murrayi,
whilst the mandibles as mentioned are very different from those in
M. typica, Of the 4 pairs of ambulatory legs only some single
joints are preserved. Of the natatory legs the 4 first joints are
preserved; the 4th joint has the same form as in M. Murrayi and
is a little broader than in M. Jongicornis, but much broader than
101
in M. typica. The uropoda (fig. 7, U.) are half as long as the
caudal segment; the second joint 4 times as long ås the first.
Lenght 8 mm. The colour is (in alcohol) black-brown, except
the caudal segment, which has no colour and is pellucid.
Aa
Fig. 7. Munneurycope Tjalfiensis.
Though M. Tjalfiensis is known but from a single, very imper-
fect specimen, it may be seen, that it is very closely allied to MM.
longicornis, M. Murrayi and a third species not mentioned above,
viz. M. oceanica Tattersall (Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest. 1904,
102
pt. 2, (1905) p. 23, 72, Pl. 5, figs. 1—7, and Tattersall, Nordisches
Plankton vol. 6, Lief. 14, 1911, p. 187, figs. 1—7), whilst it is
very different from M. typica. The form of the body, the mandibles
and the natatory legs which (probably) have the same form as in
the genus Eurycope, are such essential differences from Munnopsis,
that it seems to me
necessary to establish
a separate genus for
it, for which I propose
the generic name
Munneurycope. This
genus besides com-
prises the 3 species
M. longicornis H. J.
Hansen, /M. Murrayi
Walker, and MM. ocean-
ica Tattersall. I can-
not agree with Tattersall who is of opinion (1. e. 1904 (1905), p. 24)
thatall these species belong to the genus Munnopsis G. O. Sars. How
the relationship is to the 3 species of F. Beddard in Challenger
Report, Isopoda, cannot be decided; but it must be taken for
granted that Sars is right, when he says (Account, vol. 2, Isopoda
1900, p. 133) ,,it is, however. somewhat questionable, if all these
species are actually referable to the present genus" (viz. Munnopsis).
Md. Ms. I
Fig. 8. Munneurycope Tjalfiensis.
Cutting edge of Md. and Mx. 1.
81. Phryxus abdominalis Kr.
Bopyrus abdominalis Krøyer, Naturhist. Tidsskrift, vol.3, 1840, p. 102-12,
289-99 2
— — — in Gaimard, Voyage en Scand., Crust., 1846
3 (1849?), Pl. 29, fig. 1
Phryxus — G. 0. Sars, Account vol. 2, lags 1900, p- 215,
Pl. 90-91.
E = Richardson, Isop. of N. Am., Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mu-
seum, No. 54, 1905, p. 500 (ubi litt.), fig- 550-52.
i — HL J. Hansen, V. Grønland 1887, p- 196.
103
(St. 465) 622 58" N, 509 52" W, ca. 25 fath., Heks, 1 spec
n Spirontocaris haben
(St. 179) 699 29' N, 559 26' W, 116 fath., trawl, s-8- 1908,3 s
n Spirontocaris is dilegkn:
The species was hitherto not known from Spiront. macilenta ;
Sars (1. c.) mentions as hosts 8 other species of gen. Spirontocaris
and 3 species of gen. Pandalus.
32. Bopyroides hippolytes Kr.
Bar yrus Hippolytes Krøyer, Srælseds Amfipoder, Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk.
naturvid.- æ ath. Afh. vol, 7, 1838, p. 306,
NE — —… in rer Vovsge en Scand., Crust. 1846
(1849?) Pl, 28, fig.
=Bopyroides — . O. Sars, Account vol. 2, fab. 1900, p. 199, Pl. 84,
fig. 2.
== — Richardson, ne of N. Am., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.
, 1905, p. 567 (ubi litt, fig. 628-37.
Gyge == HJ; ner i Grønland 1887, p. 197.
(St. 465) 629 58” N, 509 52” W, ca. 25 fath., 21—6—1909, 1 spec.
on Spirontocaris polaris.
(St. 100) 669 44' N, 569 08' W, ca. 175 fath., 5—7—1908, 1 spec.
Spirontocaris macilenta.
This species like Phryæxus abdominalis was hitherto not known
from Spiront. macilenta; Sars (1. c.) mentions as hosts 3 other
species of gen. Spirontocaris.
Fam. Dajidæ.
The characters for the family see G. O. Sars, Account vol. 2, Isop. 1900,
p. 221.
Å synopsis of the genera (partly also of the species) is given in
Stebbing, A history of Crustacea, Recent Malacostraca, The inter-
national scientific series, vol. 74, 1893, p. 398—400. — A short
Synopsis (with litt.) is given by H. Richardson in Proc. U. S. Nat.
Mus. vol. 33, 1908, p. 689 and (without litt.) by Koehler in Bull.
Inst. Océangr. Monaco, No. 196, 1911, p. 31—34.
104
Synopsis of the species (the genera are in chronological order).
1. Dajus Mysidis irhøkrå w 7» ren enlig eee en Scand., Crust. 1846
9?) PL-28, fig. 1—2 PL 29, fø: 1
ea Em & Og Bie Account vol. 2, følg 1900, Pl. 2253,
Pl. 93—94.
c= —… Richardson, Monograph of Isop. N. Am., Bull. U. S.
Nat. Mus. No. 54, 1905, p. 573 (ubi litt.), fig. 688.
In the some of Mysis oculata or M. miæta;
aretic, length 4 m
x
BY
Dajus Siriellæ G. O. Sars, Challenger Report, Zool. vol. 13, 1885,
Schizop., p. 220—21, Pl. 38, fig. 12—14. »Attached to the
ventral face of the trunk posteriorly on a few specimens of
Siriella Thomsoni Milne Edwards, both males and females,
in the latter lying partly within vest marsupial pouch, as was
also the case with Dajus Mysidis.
ag
Aspidophryxus peltatus G. O. Sars, Oversigt af Norges Crust. I, Vid.
Selsk. Forhandl., Christiania 1882, p. 72, PL
2, fig. 12—
or — S sk nn Adeouit vol. 2, Isop. 1900, p. 228,
SE == rate En Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest.
1904, pt. 1 (1905), p. 76, 82.
DÆ En — Nels Plankton, vol. 6, 1911
(Lief. 14), p. 244, fig. 139—44,
p: 290, 283—87.
— … Sarsii Giard & Bonnier, Epicarides de la fam. ve Dajidæ.
Bull. Scient. France et Belgique, 1889, p. 266.
Length 3 mm. On the carapace of Erythrops or £ Gaden
Mysidopsis didelphys or Parerythrops obesa. Norway (Sars),
Scotland (Scott), Ireland (Tattersall). Dr. Th. Mortensen has
taken the species on Erythrops (pygmæa?), Kristineberg
zool. St. (Gulmarfjord, Bohuslin), 60 m., 11—1—1910.
4. MERE frontalis Bonnier, in Koehler: Isop. nouveaux de lå fam.
Dajides. Bull. Inst Océanogr. No. 196, Monaco 1911,
p- RR fig. 1—7. — The larva: Tattersall: RR Plank-
ton, vol. 6, 1911 (Lief. 14.), p. 291, fig. 288—
Length 1,4m. On rostrum of Siriella re. 349 N, ie
89 10' W, surface. He
5. Notophryxus ovoides G. O. Sars, Oversigt af Norges Crust. I, Vid.
Selsk. Forh., Christiania, 1882, p. 71, Pl. 2, fig.
—11.
er — -G. 0. Sars, Account vol. 2, Isop. 1900, p.226, Pl. 95.
— — Tattersall, Nordisches Plankton, vol. 6 (Lie. 14),
1911, p. 252, fig. 156—61, p. 266, fig. 192.
Length 3,5 mm., on tis abdomen of Amblyops abbreviata, Norway.
105
6. Notophryxus laterelke G. O. Sars,. Challenger Report, Zool., vol. 13,
1885, Schizopoda, p. 220, Pl. 38, fig. 9—10. On the gills of
Nematoscelis megalops, Svath Atlantic.
7. =Notophryxus clypeatus G. O. Sars, Norske Nordhavs-Exp., Crust. I,
18
Lebtophryæie clypeatus G. O. Sars, Crust. et Pycnog. nova,
rodromus, Archiv f. Mathemat. og Naturvid., Kristiania 1379,
P. 436. Length 5 mm.; on the dorsal stride of the carapace
eudomma roseum, W. Norway (63? 10' N, 5? 0" E, 763 m.).
? Notopryss z (N. clypeatus G. O. Sars?) Tattersall, Isop., Fishe-
eland, Sci. Invest. 1904, pt. 2 (1905), p. 76. On Pseud-
md roseum, S. W. Ireland.
8. =Notophryxus globularis G. O. Sars, Challenger Report, Zool., vol. 13,
chizopoda, p. 220, Pl. 38, fig. 11.
— — vore Nordisches Plankton, vol. 6, 1911
Lief. 14), p. 255, fig.
On the dbait surface of the stk jaoe of Thysanoéssa
gregarta, North Pacific.
9. ” Heterophryxus appendiculatus G. O. Sars, Challenger Report, Zool.
vol. 13, Schizop., 1885, p. 220, Pl. 38, fig. 8.
+H. app. Tattersall, Isop., Jorn Ireland, Sci. Invest. 1904, pt. 2,
(1905), p. 77, Pl. 11, fg. 1—4.
H. app. Tattersall, Nordisches Plankton, vol. 6, Lief. 14, 1911, p. 247,
46—49.
Om Euphausia pellucida (and E. Miilleri?). Cape Verde-
Isles (Sars), Mediterranean (Lo-Bianco), Bay of Biscay (Fowler),
W. Ireland (47? 14'N, 79 58' W, Tattersall).
10. Branchiophryæzus nyctiphanæ urna Zool. Anzeiger vol. 20, 1897.
; 88, hg. 2 ort en in Journ. Royal n redå
Soe, London 1897, pt. ”
; Length 1,4—2 mm. lg tø gills of Meganyctiphanes
norvegica. Golfe de Gascogne.
11. Branchiophryxus Caulleryi Koehler, Isop. nouveaux de la fam. des
Dajides, Bull. Inst. Océanogr. Monaco, No. 196, 1911, p.
26—30, fig. 18—21.
Length 0,72 mm. On gills of Stylechetron longicorne.
12. Prodajus lobiancoi Bonnier, in Lo Bianco: Le pesche abissali esseguite
e F. A. Krupp col yacht Puritan nelle adiacente di Capri ed
Be altre localitå del Mediterraneo. . Mitt. Zool. Stat. Neapel,
. 16, 1903, p. 260 (no fig.).
Pr. løb. ali Comptes Rendus Séances Acad., Paris, vol. 136, 1£
108 (no fig.).
mæ,
mn
em
pa
an
Lom
m
em
|
en
æ
en
rd
eg
106
ikngpe enn Tattersall, Nordisches Plankton, vol. 6, Lief. 14,
3 p. 249.
"i ngth 2 mm. In the marsupium(?) of Gastrosaccus
Normani, Mediterranean.
=Prodajus ostendensis Gilson, Bl. sc. France et Belgique, tome 43,
19099; 9—92, PL 1—
"Po HL J: gg Vid. Medd. Nat le Kbhv. 1909 (1910), p
221—24, PL 3, fig. 3, Pl. 4, PI.
PS æt Datter: il, Noniikehiet Plankton, i Pa Lief. 147.1911, p: 25K
114150—55, p. 265, fig. 190—91
Length 3,5 mm. In the mk En of Gastrosaccus
spinifer, North Sea.
Zonophryxus retrodens Richardson, U. S. Fish Commission Bull,
1903, p. 51—52, fig. 4—5.
Length 11,5 mm. Hawaiian Islands. Host unknown.
Zonophryxus trilobus Richardson, Department of commerce and labor,
Bureau of fisheries; document No. 736, Washington 1910, p-
" 41, fig. 39.
Length 14 mm. Philippine Islands. Host unknown.
Zonophryxzus Grimaldiri Koehler, Sell, Inst. Océanogr. Monaco, No.
196, 1911, p. 16—22, fig. 13—14.
Logik 16 mm. (immature). 369.14' N, 89 06" W, Host
Heterocarpus Grimaldii
” Holophryxus alaskensis Richardson, U. S. Fish Commission, Bull.
vol. 24, 1904 (1905), p. 220—21, fig. 8—10.
H. al. Richardson, Monogr. Isop. N. Am., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No.
54, 1905, p. 576, fig. 639—41.
Length 10 mm. Alaska. Host unknown.
" Holophryxus Giardi mure Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1908,
p. 690—92, fig.
H. G. Richardson, Pi. v. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 37, 1909 (1910),
su TØS,
Hog SE Debat of commerce and labor, Bureau
fisheries, document No. 736, Washington
1
Length 39 mm. On the dorsal surface of the carapace
of Gennadas borealis. Bering Island, Philippine Islands.
"PeeRRt else californiensis Richardson, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. vol.
, 1908, p. 692—94, fig. 4—5.
H. cal. Biehandson, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. vol. 37, 1909 (1910),
P-
led ca. 20 mm. (2) On the dorsal surface of Pasiphæa K
pacifica. California.
107
[Sa
2
re Richardi Koehler, Bull. Inst. Océanogr. Monaco, No.
g 1, p. 23—26, fig. 13—17; — see also No. 83-a., p. 108,
tal sp. (H. Richardi Koehler?) see No. 83-b., p. 109.
21. Holophryxus Acanthephyræ n. sp., see Nr. 84, p. 112.
22. Arthrophryæus beringianus Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol.
88, 1908,.p. 6 3, fig. 6—7.
Length 14mm. On Eucopia australis. Bering Island.
Ro
Gå
Colophryxus novangliæ Fastepren, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 34,
908, p. 391—92, fig, 1—8.
Length 5 wm. ABB Island. Host unknown.
Dø
rse
Prophryxus alascensis Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 37,
1909 (1910), p. 124, fig. 47—
Length 2,3 mm. Alaska. Host unknown (a Schizopod ?).
[50]
pt
Allophryxus ruber Koehler, Bull. Inst. Océanogr. Monaco, No. 196,
—16, fig. 3—12. ;
Length 6,5 mm. 43? 04'N, 199 42' W, 0—1500 m.; 46?
31' 20" N, 59 13' W, 0—1750 m. Host unknown.
The male is known in the following species.
Dajus mysidis. Prodajus ostendensis
Notophryxus ovoides. Zonophryxus retrodéns
Aspidophryxus peltatus Holophryxus californiensis
se lis
Heterophryæus appendiculatus Colophryxus novangliæ
Branchiophryxus nyctiphanæ (no tig.) Allophryxus ruber
ET Caulleryi
The larva is known in the following species.
Dajus Mysidis Branchiophryæne nyctiphanæ (no fig.)
Notophryxus ovoides Caulleryi
Aætdophryanet peltatus Prodajus ostendensis
frontalis Holophryms Acanthephyræ (see p. 115, fig.
19—21.)
Besides these H. J. Hansen in Ergebnisse d. Plankton-Exp.
d. Humboldt-Stiftung, vol. 2, &, ce, 1895, p. 22—27 and p. 45—46,
Pl. 2, figs. 3—6, Pl. 3, figs. 1—2, has described 6 larvæ of unknown
Species and states that Dr. v. Schab has two not-described larvæ
from the Guinea-coast.
108
Holophryxus Richardi Koehler (figs. 9—10).
Holophryxus Richardi Koehler, Isop. nouveaux de la fam. des Dajides
provenant des campagnes de la ,Princesse Alice",
Bull. Inst. rebet tere No. 19 911,
23—26, figs. 15—17.
(St. 368) 669 21'N, 579 04" W, 680 m., 800 m. wire, 13—5—1909. 19
At the station mentioned above the ,,Tjalfe" has taken a spec-
imen of Holophryxus Richardi. "The specimen from the ,,Tjalfe" is
about 21/2 times longer than that of
Koehler (1. c.) viz. 9 mm. long and
4 mm. broad. Though on account
of the difference in size there are
ig. Fig. 10.
Holoyhryæns BAA Holophryxus Richardi.
ntral vicw. Dorsal view (a little from the left)
and lateral view (from the rigth)-
great differences, it is evident that the two specimens belong to
the same species, as may especially be concluded from the form
of the appendages on the 5th pair of incubatory plates (oostégites).
A detailed description I find superfluous, as all, that I have been
able to see, may be seen from my figs; and a close examination
was impossible, as I had but one single specimen; for this reason
I cannot render a nearer account of the antennæ and the oral parts.
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lst antenna seems to have 2 joints. Also 2nd antenna seems
to be two-jointed, but is much bigger; on the Ist joint a little
bud-like process may be seen. The oral parts are not visible,
not even the tip of the mandibles, which generally project a little.
There are 5 pairs of incubatory plates; but what seems to be the
third pair is the 4th, the third pair being concealed by the 4th.
The 5th pair have in the hind part a crest, on the left plate with
8, on the right plate with 6 teeth; such crests åre also to be
found in the other specimens of the genus Holophryæus from the
»Tjalfe'" (No. 83b and 84), but are not described in any other species.
The left incubatory plate of S5th pair is, as shown in the fig., di-
vided into two lappets, which seems to be caused by accidental
molestation.
The colour is (in alcohol) pale yellow.
Neither the male nor ova were found.
The host is unknown. A specimen of Eusirus Holmii (No.
68) is the sole Crustacean brought home from this station, and
though it was not probable that a Dajid should be a parasite on
an Amphipod, I have closely examined this specimen, but it has
no traces showing that it has been the host of the parasite, But
from the journal it may be seen, that at the stat. mentioned were
taken a Mysid (probably Boreomysis microps), Gennadas elegans
and Sergestes arcticus; all these animals not being preserved I
have not been able to find the host; for the rest see the next
Species, No. 83b! ;
83b. Holophryxus sp. (H. Richardi Koehler ?) (figs. 11—14 [13 partly]).
(St. 346) 649 297 N, 562 00" W, 400—800 m. wire, 10—5—1909. 19 on
Sergestes arcticus.
From this stat. the ,,Tjalfe" has brought home a Holophrytus,
14 mm. long, 5,5 mm. broad. The form is the same as in the other
Species of the genus, but somewhat more lengthened.
Articulation of the antennæ is not visible; but the tip of
the mandibles may be seen to project a little. Only 3 pairs
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of incubatory plates åre visible, viz. 2nd, 4th and 5th pairs; close
to the hind edge of the 5th pair a pair of little acuminated appen-
dages are to be seen, and on the hind edge of the right plate (but
not on the left) a little bud-like prominence may further be seen.
Each of the crests on the Sth pair of plates seems to have 12
teeth. The 5th pair of plates are very large and contiguous in
the middle line; this I cannot understand otherwise than that the
animal is mature, though it has no ova. — Ova or d were not
found.
Fig. 11. Holophryxus (Richardt ?).
Dorsal, ventral and lateral view.
The colour is (in alcohol) pale-yellow.
The appendages on the Sth pair of incubatory plates I ap-
prehend as showing that this specimen is the fully grown female
of H. Richardi, and this I base on the following. (For the sake
of convenience I call Koehler's specimen stage 1, the two others
(from the ,,Tjalfe" St. 363 and 346) stage 2 and 3).
1. The cephalon projects in stage 3 still more than in stage
2, stage 1 has in front of the cephalon a broad projecting part;
formed partly by the first pair of coxal plates. In stage 2 the
. cephalon only projects a little midte the projecting part. In se :
LITT
3 the cephalon is more distinctly bilobate ihan in stage 2; in
stage 1 the cephalon is rounded without any trace of a furrow.
2. The size of the specimens
ke EON is enlarged (stage 1 3,7 mm.
14
mm.), but the relative breadth
(==
[ls]
oo
long, stage 2 9 mm., stag
is diminished (stage 1 2: 3,7 mm.
— 1:1,85; stage 2 4:9 mm.
sæts Babe stage 3 14: 5,5 mm.
==: 1.2:2,55),
3. Each species of Dajidæ
Q i å ; has, as far as we know, only one
Fig. 12, Holophryxus (Richardi?). : å :
The GLA single species as host (excluding
Dajus Mysidis), and here the
host probably in all 3 cases was Sergestes arcticus. Stage 1 was
taken 33? 41' N, 36? 55' W, 0—2500 m., thus in the territory of
distribution of Sergestes arcticus (see H. J. Hansen, Ingolf 1908,
"23
p. 82); stage 2 was taken together with Sergestes, and stage 3
Was found fixed to Sergestes.
Fig, 13. Holophryxus Acanthephyræ on Acanthephyra purpurea
(above) and Holophryxus (Richardi?) on Sergestes arcticus (below).
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The 3 specimens giving thus together a very distinct series
of development, I think there is no doubt that they all belong to
the same species.
The relation to the host is not mentioned for any Dajid; the
authors only mention the place, where the parasite is fixed. The
specimen from the »Tjalfe" St. 346 was, as shown in figs. 13—14,
fixed on the hind part of the dorsal surface of the carapace of the Ser-
gestes with the cephalon turned towards the abdomen of the host,
just as H. Richardson has figured Holophryxus Giardi and H.
californiensis. The carapace of the Sergestes has dark holes from
the mouth and pereiopoda of the parasite (see fig. 14); also it
may be seen, that the Holophryxus has
removed its legs 2 or 3 times (together
with its growth ?).
As the parasite is fixed quite super-
ficially to the host, some very interesting
questions arise. Does the parasite only
Fig. 14. live as long as the time between two cast-
Kes mee MR ADKOS ings of the skin of the host? Does it
of Sergestes arcticus with 2 '
the marks of the mouth Prevent the host from casting the skin ig
and pereiopoda of To answer these questions is quite 1m-
Holophrytus (Richardi?). possible at the present moment.
84, Holophryxus Åcanthephyræ n. sp. (fig. 13 [partly], 15—21).
(St. 322) 609 07'N, 489 26" W, 2000 m. wire, 3—5—1909, 1 spec. (9) om
Acanthephyra purpurea.
As I have had but one single specimen, a closer examination
and dissection was not possible; therefore the following description
can not give all details.
Length 22 mm., breadth 12,5 mm. i
The specimen is very like H. californiensis from Califorma
(H. Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 33, 1908, p. 692—94,
figs. 4—5). From Miss Richardson's very short description and
her indistinet photographkie fig. it cannot with security be datere …
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ined, that the specimen from the ,,Tjalfe" is mot. H. californiensis,
and moreover I have no male. But the circumstance, that the host
belongs to quite another genus /H. calif. lives on Pasiphæa pacifica),
and that the locality besides is W. of America, seems to me to
prove, that the specimen from the ,, Tjalfe" is a new species.
The form is ovate and somewhat skew, the left side being a
little longer than the right. The cephalon cannot be seen from
below; it is very small and has a little longitudinal furrow, but is
Fig. 15.
Holophryxus Acanthephyræ. Dorsal, ventral and lateral view.
not really bilobated; at each side of the cephalon there is a little
Tounded prominence. On the dorsal surface of the thorax just be-
hind the cephalon 2 transversal furrows are visible; otherwise
there is no trace of "segmentation of the thorax (seen dorsally)
exclusive of the existence of 4 longitudinal streaks on the dorsal
surface, somewhat recalling the segmentation of the abdomen in the
Paguridæ. The abdomen projects from the thorax as in the other
Species. The coxal plates are the sole true trace of segmentation.
There are 5 pairs of coxal plates corresponding with the 5 pairs of
Pereiopods; the 4 first pairs are separated from the thorax by a seam,
and the two plates of the first pair are connected by a frontal
margin lying under the céphalon and forming the anterior boundary
Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. Bd. 64 8
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of the oral area. There are very slight seams between the coxal
plates exclusive of those between the two last pairs; the fifth pair
åre very small.
Fig. 16. Holophryxus Acanthephyræ. The oral area.
The ventral surface is, exclusive of the hindpart, somewhat
concave. The oral area with the pereiopods is rather small and
about semicircular. The antennæ seem to be articulated, the first
Fig. 17. PE ml rug Acanthephyræ.
d part from below.
pair in 3, the second pair in 5 joints; but it is not excluded that
the apparent articulation is in reality simple folds. Between the
antennæ the tip of the mandibles is visible. The gnathopod lies
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between antenna 2 and the first pereiopod and is quite un-
articulated. The 5 pairs of pereiopods have about the same form
as those in Zonophryxus Grimaldii (Koehler, Bull. Inst. Océanogr.,
Monaco No. 196, 1911, fig. 13, p. 17); they seem to have but 5
joints, and the 4th joint is quite globular. Only two pairs of in-
cubatory plates are visible, and it has been impossible without
dissection to examine if there are more plates. The hind-plates
have the usual crest, each with about 14 teeth; inside the teeth
some embryos are visible. The abdomen has no traces either of
segmentation or of pleopods or uropods.
The colour is (in alcohol) reddish 3: e is
brown spotted with yellow. gg EM
The specimen was fixed to the "+ ” sek
host (see fig. 13) quite as Holophryxus | > i
sp. (No. 83 b), but somewhat obliquely 5" .
towards the right side of the host; "/ i
there was a large spot as trace of the 8
mouth of the parasite, and it may be bål
seen, that this has changed its place
1 mee FE sb ns Ds
No male was found. The marks of the mouth
The space within the incubatory — and pereiopoda, an
plates is quite filled with embryos. sm eet sd teter alg
These are pale-yellow, 0,2 mm. long.
On account of the colour a closer examination of the larvæ was im-
Possible without special preparation. But Prof. H. F. Junger-
Sen who has a great experience in preparatory-methods, has kindly
Prepared for me some specimens with potash and pyrogallic acid;
for this I owe him my best thanks, for otherwise I would not have
been able to give good figures with all details.
The larvæ are very like partly those of Dajus Mysidis (G. O.
Sars, Account vol. 2, Pl. 94, larva), partly those of Clypeoniscus
Meinertii (Giard et Bonnier, Bull. Scientifique France et Belgique,
Vol. 25,1893, p.421;Richardson, Monograph of Isopoda N.-America,
8s=
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Bull. U. S. Nat.-Mus., No. 54, 1905, figs. p. 580). The body is
curved ventrally and consists of cephalon and 12 segments. There
is no trace of an eye. The Ilst antenna is small, short, bud-like,
Fig. 19. Holophryxus Acanthephyræ, larva.
Ventral and dorsal view. The pereiopoda and pleopoda are removed
(the shaded parts).
apically acuminated and with a spine on the outerside. 2nd an-
tenna is about as long as the body, three-articulated, and has some
small spines (see the fig:).
Through the oral cone the
mandibles are visible. At
each side of the oral cone
a gnathopod is seen of about
the same form as the per-
eiopoda of the adult animal.
Gnathopoda of this form are
to be found in the Crypt-
oniscian-stages of the Da-
jidæ, but they are never
Fig. 20. Holophryxus Acanthephyræ, found in other larvæ of Da-
larva. Lateral view a little from below. jidæ of. the stage figured;
this does not prove that they do not exist in the othér known
larvæ, but they are, even with the excellent preparation made. by
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Prof. Jungersen, very difffcult to see. — The ventral surface
has 6 lamellæ (one for each of the 6 pairs of pereiopoda) and a
large scutum (on the abdomen). The pereiopoda are thick and
apparently immobile; on the innerside close to
the tip they have a little bud-like process. When CE.
made transparent the pereiopoda of the next larval
stage are to be seen through the skin, and within
the bud-like process a claw is seen, quite as in Acanthephyræ,
the adult animal (fig. 21). There are 5 pairs of larva. A pereiopod.
cleft pleopoda; they have a constriction about midway "and are
perhaps 2-articulated; but the articulation is not distinct. They
have rather long natatory setæ. The uropoda are cleft, unarti-
culated and have no setæ.
It has been found unnecessary to give a longer description,
all details being seen from the figs.
Larvæ of a Decapod (Pandalus propinquus?) (figs. 22—31).
(St. 30b) 68? 04'N, 569 32” W, 70 m. wire, 7—6—1908, ca. io spec.
(1. and 2. stage).
(St. 37b) 639 47'N, 529 12" W, 100 m. wire, 9—6—1908, 2 ln (2. stage).
(St. 229) 649 20' N, 539% 03" W, 120, 100 and 80 m. wire, 29—8—1908,
. 10 spec. (5. stage).
(St. 428) 659 03'N, me mA, 120, 100 and 80 m. wire, 7—6—1909,
. 60 spec. (25 spec, 2. stage, 35 spec. 3. stage).
(St. 196d) 689 40' N, se 12 W, 350 m. wire, 17—8—1908, ca. 40 spec.
(4. stage).
(St. 124) 699 17' N, 529 14' W, 150 m. wire, 16—7—1908, ca. 25 spec.
(2. and 3. stage).
l.st (known) larval stage (figs. 22—30, st. I).
The total length 7 mm. )
The body is very slender. The carapace inclusive of the ro-
strum is about one third as long as the; total length. Rostrum is
half ås long as. the carapace; it is slender and spiniform, without
any denticles. In the- middle of the dorsal surface of the carapace
there is a little blunt prominence; the antero-lateral corners are
apically pointed. The posterior division of the body has 6 seg-
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ments and gradually tapers distally. The abdominal segments have
no dentition exclusive of telson. Telson has the usual form and
Fig. 23. The larva of Pandalus propinquus (?): carapace of stage 1—5.
is deeply emarginated at the hind edge with the usual 7 pairs of
spines; all the spines are somewhat broken apically. Through the
skin the incipient formation of the uropoda may be seen.
The eyes are somewhat applanated; they surpass somewhat the
sides of the carapace.
TES
All the appendages exclusive of the pleopoda and uropoda are
present, The ist and 2nd antennæ have about the same form as
in the I1st larval stage of Pandalus borealis (G. 0.Sars: Account
of the postembryonal development of Pandalus borealis…. .; Report
Fig. 24. The larva of Pandalus propinquus (?):
telson and uropoda of stage 1—5.
on Norwegian Fishery- and Marine-Investigations, vol. 1, 1900,
No. 3, Pl. 1, figs. 3—4); the most important difference is that the
stem of 1st antenna has a little joint apically. Also the man-
dibles and the maxillæ have about the same form (Sars l. c., Pl. 1,
figs. 6—7); through the skin the mandibles and 2nd maxillæ of
the next stage may be seen. The same agreement will be found
in regard to 1st and 2nd' maxilliped (Sars l. c. figs. 10—12); but
3rd maxilliped has the usual form and is not dilated as in Pan-
dalus borealis (Sars 1. c. fig. 12); besides it has 7 joints. (1. stage
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of P. borealis has but 4 joints). "'The' greatest difference, however,
obtains in regard to the pereiopods. All the'pereiopods are. rather
Fig. 25. The larva of Pandalus propinguus (2):
: antenna 1—9 of stage 1—5.
large; 1st to 3d pairs are deeply cleft, 4th and 5th: pairs have
only the endopodite.
Pandalus borealis has no known larval stage totally corre-
sponding with the'lst stage of the larva from the "Tjalfe"; stage
2 (Sars 1. e. Pl. 2, figs. 1—3) is the best corresponding, but it has
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no traces of 3rd to 5th pereiopod, and: 2nd pereiopod is but a
little, bud-like body.
Stå St.lV. St.
Fig. 26. The larva of Pandalus propinquus (?):
the mandible. of stage 1—5.
LL Se
Fig, 27, The larva of Pandalus propinquus (?):
1. max. of stage 1—5.
2nd (known) larval stage (figs. 22—30, st. II).
Total length 9 mm. ;
The carapace has obtained one supra-ocular tooth. Through the
larval skin the incipient formation of the. articulation between the
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6th abdominal segment and the telson may be seen as also the
now cleft uropoda. The telson has now 8 pairs of spines.
The ist antenna has acquired 3 joints in the stem. The
oral parts are about as in the I1st stage; but 1st—3rd pereiopod
have now all the usual 7 joints (in the I1st stage they are un-
Fig. 28. The larva of Pandalus propinpuus (?):
2. max. of stage 1—5.
articulated), and their exopodites have 9 pairs of setæ. Also 4th
and 5th pereiopod are articulated; but the Sth pair has but 6
joints, and the articulation is very indistinct. The pleopods are
little uncleft appendages.
3rd (known) larval stage (figs. 22—30, st. 111).
Total length 10 mm.
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In the fore-part of the middle-line of the carapace there. are
3 little teeth; but they are not to be found in all the specimens.
lst antenna is unaltered, but flagellum in 2nd antenna is longer
than the squama, though this is considerably increased in length,
and the peduncular part (of the flagellum) is well defined, but has
only å single joint; the terminal part is still unarticulated. The
Oral parts are about unaltered. The pereiopods are somewhat length-
ened; 2nd pair are now cheliform, and Sth pair have 7 distinct
joints. Abdomen has 7 joints, and the uropoda are free.
4th (known) stage (figs. 22—31, st. IV).
Total length 12 mm.
The carapace has 4 teeth in the middle lime. The S5th ab-
dominal segment has a little tooth at each side of the hind edge.
The telson is very much altered; it is in the distal part not much
broader than in the forepart, and it has but 7 pairs of spines, the
2 pairs of which are placed at the side-edge.
The antennæ and the oral parts are about as in the pre-
ceding stage; but in 2Znd maxilla the exopodite is much more
developed, especially its hinder lappet. The exopodites of the
pereiopoda have 10 pairs of setæ, and the pereiopoda are some-
what lengthened in comparison with the preceding stage. The
pleopoda are now cleft, but have a trace of articulation. The endo-
podites of the uropoda are about as long as the exopodites.
5th (known) stage (figs. 22—31, st. V).
Total length 19 mm.
The rostrum has 11 teeth, 1 of which is but a little from
the tip and 3—4 on the carapace. The telson is about linear, has
8 pairs of spines, and is not emarginate at the tip.
In the 2nd antenna the peduncular part of the flagellum has
2 joints, and the flagellum itself is unarticulated, but is somewhat
damaged in all the specimens. The orål parts are about as in the
preceding stage. The pereiopoda are still more lengthened than
in the 4th stage, and the 4th—5th pairs are very like the
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same legs in the Ist postlarval stage in Pandalus borealis (Sars
1,6., Pl. 1, fig. 1). The pleopoda are now articulated.
| Fig. 29. The larva of Pandalus propinquus (?):
'maxillipedes and pereiopoda of stage 1—3 (in st. 2—3 the exopodites
are not drawn with exception of that in mxp. 1).
Ås may be seen, it is evident, that all the larvæ belong to
one species.
From "the rostrum and the 1st—2nd pereiopoda in the last
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stage it may be concluded, that this species must belong to the
fam. Pandalidæ, and this fam. has [in the Greenland seas but 3
Fig. 30. The larva of Pandalus propinquus (2):
maxillipedes and pereiopoda of stage 4—5.
Species, viz. Pandalus borealis, P. Montagui and P. propinquus.
The development of the two first-named species is described by G. O.
Sars (1. c.); but the development of P. propinquus is quite un-
known. When compared with the figs. given by Sars the agree-
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ment with the larvæ from the
Tjalfe” is very distinct; the most
important discrepancy is that the
larvæ from the "Tjalfe” have no
exopodite on the 4th pereiopod; P.
(| borealis has this exopodite, but
SLIVP. 2. SLVPA StYA2s from Sars' description it seems,
that P. Montagui and P. /Panda-
The larva of Pandalus propin- lina) brevirostris never acquire it.
quus (?): Pleopods of st. 4—5.
Ås, besides, P. propinquus has been
taken in the deeper parts of the Davis Strait (by the "Ingolf"
and the "Tjalfe”), it seems very probable that the larvæ must be-
long to this species.
Mysis-stage of a Decapod (Spirontøcaris sp.!) (fig. 32).
(St. 465) 629 58' N, 509 52” W, 25 fath., 21—6—1909, 5 spec.
In "Report on the Malacostraca, Pycnogonida and some Ento-
mostraca collected by the Danmark Expedition to North-East Green-
Fig. 32. Larva of Spirontocaris sp. (?).
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land”, in.,,Meddelelser om Grønland", vol. 45, 1912, p. 522, Pl.
43, figs. 31—39, I have described a larva taken in Danmarks Havn
(ca. 77? N, E. Greenland), 0—20 m., 19—9—1907.
Unfortunately the Danmark Expedition has taken but a single,
badly preserved specimen. The specimens from the "Tjalfe” are
better preserved and show, that the telson has a little spine at
the hind corner. There is a little difference in regard to the man-
dibles, and the flagellum in the 2nd antenna has no trace of ar-
ticulation; in all other regards the specimens from the "Tjalfe”
fully correspond with that from the Danmark-Expedition. In the
specimen figured the uropoda are somewhat shorter than the telson;
in the other specimens they have the same length as the telson.
Brachyurid larva, 1st Zoea (fig. 33).
(St. 193) 589 41'N, 499 44' W, 100 m. wire, 31—5—1908, 1 spec.
(St. 465) 629 58' N, 509 52" W, 25 fath., 21—6—1909, many spec. (1 cm.?).
(St. 464) The mouth of the Fiskenæsfjord, 80 m. wire, 21—6—1909,
many spec. (50 cm.?).
(St. 30b) 639 04” N, 56? 32" W, 70 m. wire, 7—6—1908, ca. 25 spec.
(St. 37b) 639 47'N, 52912" W, 100 m. wire, $—6—1908. many spec.
(5. cm.2).
(St. 1964) 68? 40' N, 539 12" W, 410 m., 350 m. wire, 17—8—1908, 1 sp
(St. 124) 699 17'N, 52914" W, 150 m. wire, 16—7—1908, many spec.
(T cm).
(St. 125) — == 550 m. wire, — 1 spec.
At the localities mentioned above the 1st Zoeastage of a
Crab was taken. The larvæ are in some points very like the larva
of Hyas araneus (Williamson, Rep. on larval and later stages of
certain decapod Crustacea: Fisheries, Scotland, Sci. Invest. 1909, 1.
(Decbr. 1910), p. 13—15, Pl. 1, figs. 1—2; Pl. 5, figs. 70—78, 80—81).
In other points they are very like the 1st Zoea of Cancer pagurus
(J. Pearson, Cancer; Transact. Liverpool Biol. Soc., vol. 22, 1908
p. 461, Pl. 13, figs. 85—87); the appendages are in about the
Same stage of development, and the telson has about the same
form and the same number of spines: but the lateral spines of the
Carapace of the larvæ from the "Tjalfe" are longer, and on the
abdominal segments there are lateral spines as in the larvæ of
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Hyas araneus. (sée above) and as in the last zoea-stage of the
American species Cancer irroratus (S. I. Smith, Metamorph. of
lobster and other crust.; U. S. Commission of Fish, and Fisheries
1871—72 (1873); p. 530, PL: 8, fig. 37). "Smith does not give
Fig. 35. Brachyurid-larva (L. a. = labrum).
any detailed description or fig. of the 1st Zoea; "but the existence
of åa pair of dorsal spines on the 5th abdominal segment in his
fig. seems to be the sole -discrepancy not due to the difference
in age. —
Description of the larva.
The length between the tips of the rostrum and of the dorsal
spine 2 mm. The rostrum is about twice as long as the carapace
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without spines; the dorsal spine is somewhat longer than the ros-
trum and about twice as long as the lateral spines. All the 4
spines on the carapace- are almost straight and are in the distal
part furnished with setæ. The carapace is somewhat globular; at
the forepart of the under-edge there is at each side a rather deep
incision behind which 4 setæ are fixed, The eyes are very large
and have black pigment; nowhere else is pigment to be seen.
Antenna 1 is an unarticulated conical appendage with 5 (?)
long setæ; but the number of these is difficult to determine as
they most frequently lie close to one another. Antenna 2 is un-
articulated; the exopodite is between 3 and 4 times as long as the
endopodite, which has 3 setæ on the tip. A little distally to the
place where the endopodite is fixed, but on the other side, the
exopodite has a little prominence; for the rest it is furnished
with small setæ like those on the spines of the carapace. The la-
brum has the usual form. The mandibles have no palp; the form
of the mastigatory part may be seen from the fg.; but the 4 little
rounded teeth are in several of the specimens not to be found.
Maxilla 1 has no palp, but has the usual 3 lobes; the lst lobe,
the basal lobe, is rather broad, with 6 short, ciliated setæ; the
mastigatory lobe is longer and narrower and has 6 setæ somewhat
longer than those of the basal lobe. Maxilla 2 has the usual form
with a large exopodite; palp and endopodite have 2 cleft lobes. In the
lst pair of maxillipeds the endopodite has 5 joints; it is a little
Shorter than the two-articulated exopodite that has 4 long natatory
Setæ at the tip. Also in the 2nd maxilliped. the exopodite has 2
Joints and 4 natatory setæ, but the endopodite is short and has
but 3 joints. There are no traces of the 3d maxilliped. The
pereiopods are short unarticulated appendages; the Ist pair are
cleft. Of the pleopoda and uropoda there are no traces, and ab-
domen has but 6 segments. On the middle of each side of 2nd
and 3rd abdominal segment there is a spine that is large and
Curved and there are long straight lateral spines on the hind
edges of 3rd, 4th and 5th abdominal segments. Two little
Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. Bd. 64. 9
130
bristles are placed dorsally on each abdominal segment. The telson
has the same number of spines and about the same form as
Williamson's fig. of Hyas araneus (l. c. fig. 70), but the hook
in the hind-edge is narrower, being rounded acute-angled.
Compared with the 1st zoea of Cancer pagurus the larva de-
scribed above differs, besides in regard to the abdominal segments,
also in some small details in the appendages. Greater is the agree-
ment with ist zoea of Hyas araneus (Williamson l. c., Pl. 5
fig. 73), especially in regard to the abdomen; but the greatest
agreement seems to me to be with the larva of Cancer irroratus.
If the larvæ from the "Tjalfe" really belong to Cancer irroratus,
they have a very great interest; for the adult Cancer irroratus is
never found at Greenland, but lives at the east coast of N. America.
Of the mentioned crabs only Hyas araneus lives at Greenland.
Larva of Munida Bamffica Penn.
Munida rugosa G. O. Sars, Bidrag til Decapodernes Forvandling II, År-
chiv f. Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, Christiania 1889,
p. 178, PL 6.
(St. 292) 58? 24' N, 30? 35" W, 500 m. wire, 3—10—1908, 1 spec.
The larva belongs to the stage drawn by Sars (Il. c.) fig. 12.
Larvæ of Munida (tenuimana G. O. Sars?) (figs. 34—36).
(St. 281) 57? 51' N, 489 57" W, 500 m. wire, 29—9—1908, 3 spec.
(St. 285) 57? 51' N, 439 48' W, 1000 m. wire, 29—9—1908, 2 spec.
(St. 278) 589 16” N, 479 12” W, 80—200 m. wire, 28—9—1908, 3 spec.
(St. 292) 58? 24' N, 309 357 W, 500 m. wire, 3—10—1908, 1 spec.
At the stations above the Tjalfe” has taken some larvæ be-
longing to a species of Munida. Some of the specimens belong
to a stage between the stages figured by Sars (Munida rugosa 1.
c. 1889), some of them to a stage corresponding to the older of
Sars's larvæ; the younger larvæ have no traces of pleopoda and
are 11 mm. long (incl. rostrum), the older 14 mm. Ås my figures
will show, there is in most regards a very good agreement with
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Sars” figures; but I have not been able to find the two little
teeth on the dorsal surface of the abdominal segments in spite of
very close examination. In the specimen figured of the older larva
the hinder lateral corners of the carapace reach to the hind-edge
Msp .
Fig. 34. Larva of Munida (tenuimana?), older stage.
of the 6th abdominal segment; in the other specimens they are as
long as in the specimens drawn by Sars. Butin all the specimens
the exterior spine on the corner of the telson is relatively much
longer than in the species described by Sars; as this difference
" fully corresponds with the specific character in the genus Galathea
(Sars 1. c., p. 174, Pl. 5, fig. 3, 15, 26; — the specific character
"ag
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in the squama of the genus Galathea [Sars Il. c., p. 173, Pl. 5,
fig, 3, 6, 19] is not to be found in the genus Munida, the squama
in all stages and in both species having about the same form—),
I find reason to believe, that these specimens belong to another
species than that described by Sars.
Fig, 35. Larva of Munida (tenuimana?) older stage.
The telson has in the specimen figured 7 setæ in the en side
of the hook, 8 in the left side.
During a cruise in the summer 1911 has with the Danish
Fisheries-investigation-steamer ”Thor” in the Skagerak (57” 09'N,
79 16'E, 25 miles NNW.1W. to the light house Lodbjerg, 44 m-)
Dr. Th. Mortensen collected a large number of larvæ of Munida,
and about all these larvæ totally correspond with the younger larvæ from
the Tjalfe” (the other larvæ belong to M. Bamffica). M. tenuimana
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Fig. 36. Larva of Munida (tenuimana?) younger stage.
Al the figs. are from specimens from the Skagerak except the fig. of
A. 1—2 (from a specimen from the "Tjalfe”).
being very common in the Skagerak, whilst M. Bamffica is seldom
(of the latter species the Danish Fisheries-investigation-steamer
"Thor” has taken but a single specimen, see my paper: Revideret
134
Fortegnelse over Danmarks marine Decapoda, Vidensk. Meddel. Na-
turh. Foren. København 1909 (1910), p. 274), and as we have
only the two named species in the Skagerak, I mean, that also the
larvæ from the "Tjalfe” belong to Munida tenuimana.
Abbreviations of literature.
Bell 1853, = Bell, British stalk-eyed Crustacea. 1853.
H. J. Hansen, V. Grønland — H. J. Hansen, Malacostraca marina Groen-
landiæ occidentalis. Oversigt over det vestlige Grønlands
Fauna af malakostrake Havkrebsdyr; Vid. Meddel. Naturh.
Foren. Kjbhv. 188
H. J. Hansen, Ingolf = H. J. Hansen, Crustacea Malacostraca I. The
Danish "Ingolf”-Expedition, vol. 3, part 2, 1908.
Kemp, Decap. Ireland, 1908 (1910) =— Kemp, Pecaboda Natantia of the
coasts of Ireland. Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest. 1908, I.
10
(1910).
Ohlin 1901— Ohlin, Aretie Crustacea collected during the Swedish arctic
ne 1898—1899, II. Decap., Schizop.; Bihang K. Svenska
t. Akads. Handl., vol. 27, Afd. 4, 1901.
Stebbing, Ashe raneg Støbbing, Amphipoda I, Gammaridea; Das Tier-
! reich, Lief. 21, 1906.
All the figures are from drawings by the author except fig. 13
(photograph).
20—5—1912,.
Some small Leptocephalids from the Atlantic.
By
Cand. mag. H, Blegvad.
During my time of service onboard H. M. S. ,, Ingolf" on a
cruise to the Danish West-Indies in the winter of 1910—11, I was
enabled, by the generosity of the Royal Navy department, to under-
take pelagic hauls with a plankton-net on the way from Europe to
the West-Indies and back.
The main purpose was to examine the distribution of the larvæ
of Echinoderms, and the material of this kind collected will be
dealt with by Dr. Th. Mortensen.
In addition, although the plankton-net measured only "/2 meter
in diameter, and each haul lasted only about 10 minutes, I caught at
” Several places in the Atlantic Ocean some Leptocephalids or larvae
of Murænoids. Three of these — though I do not venture at present
to point out their relations to distinct species of Murænoids — are
of special interest, inter alia on account of their small size. I
give here therefore figures and a short description of these 3
Leptocephalids.
I. The smallest one, which has a length of 19.8 mm., was
caught the 14th of November 1910 at 4 0'clock a. m. at the
Surface of the sea at 21? 34' lat. N., 297 50' long. W. Accord-
ing to the kind communication of Dr. Johs. Schmidt, who has
examined this Leptocephalid, it represents a species hitherto un-
described; I propose to name it in honour of Dr. Joh. Hjort,
who was the first to find young Leptocephalids of Anguilla vulgaris
South of the Azores.
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Leptocephalus Hjorti n. sp.
Fig. 1 is a photograph in 5/3 times enlargement. Fig. 2,
which represents the same specimen, drawn with prism, shows
the extension of the pigment.
This consists of apparently black,
but in reality brown, mostly
branched chromatophores, which
chiefly follow the chorda and the
Fig. 1. 5-38: upper margin of the alimentary
canal, as shown in the figure.
On two places only, at a distance of respectively 6 and 11 mm
from the point of the snout, there are great, branched chromato-
phores on the under side of the alimentary canal. At the tip of
Fig. 2. 04 51 L
the tail the chromatophores form a continuous row above and below
along the base of the tail fin. For the rest the form of the body is
— as in other Leptocephalids — very strongly compressed. The
vertical fins are little developed; in the extreme part of the tail
fin only embryonic fin rays are
to be seen. Interspinal elements
are still wanting. The pectoral
fins are nearly rudimentary.
Fig. 3 shows the head; the lower
jaw is more projecting than the
Fig. 8, 17:1. upper, which has 6 forward point-
ing teeth on each side; the hind-
most tooth is very small (not shown in the figure). In the lower
jaw only 5 projecting teeth are seen on each side. All the teeth
are long, straight and pointed, except the 2 foremost in the upper
and lower jaw; these have namely a slight curvature at the
&
137
base and are fastened, as figured, repectively outermost at the
upper side of the upper jaw and outermost at the underside of the
lower jaw.
The number of segments (myomeres) is about 182, or about
113 præanal and 69 postanal segments.
The greatest height of the body is gr ses 2,3 mm.
Distance from the point of the. snout to anus ...... 16,75 —
Bengt of the. head; s038s so skeder Ser ag, 1,3 —
Distance from the point of the snout to the anterior
margin og ENE GE le ll SE MEN | 0,8 —
1hnmieter Of 1hO OR LA aa Sonne ER NE SE 0,4. —
II. Fig, 4 is a photograph
of the next smallest Leptocepha -
lid; its total length was 21,5
mm. This specimen was cap-
tured at the surface on 26745'
lat. N. 59? 35' long. W. at
7 o'clock p. m. the 6th of March
1911. The body is compressed, the tail end tapering. Fig. 5 shows
Fig. 4. 5:38,
the distribution of the — very few — dark brown chromatophores
Nig, 5 -BQ: 7.
Fig. & FK
on the tip of the tail. No pigment else is seen on the animal.
The pectoral fins are small; embryonic fin rays are developed far
forward in the vertical fins, but interspinalia are not yet visible.
Fig. 6 represents the head with its powerfully developed teeth. The
Upper jaw has on each side 3 smaller teeth behind and 4 larger
teeth in front. The lower jaw has on each side only 2 smaller and
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4 larger teeth. All the teeth are projecting, the 2 foremost in
the upper and lower jaw have a slight curvature and are, as was the
case with the above mentioned specimen, fastened respectively at the
upper side of the upper jaw and the underside of the lower jaw.
The number of segments is about 163 in all, or about 88
præanal and 75 postanal segments.
Th grentest height of. fle. body 18600370 og ok gg 3,1 mm.
Distance from the point of the snout to anus....... 19,2 —
Leoneth of the Bed ls vin søn ses henne ge 3,6 —
Distance from the point of the snout to the anterior
tret of (he ore SS Ruy N RER 1,0 —
Diameter Ok he BES IE re EG 0,7 —
Fig. 7. 3;2,
III. The third Leptocephalid (Fig. 7), which has a total length
of 42,5 mm., probably belongs to the same species as No. II, but
Fig & ØEN
Fig. 9. 7:1.
represents an older stage of development. They were both caught
at the same place and at the same time. The form of the body
of specimen No. III is very similar to that of specimen No. II;
the tail end only is not so pointed. Tho pigment is, as shown in
fig. 8, a little more developed, but otherwise, quite as in specimen
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No. II, confined to dark brown chromatophores on the tip of the
tail. The pectoral fins still have embryonic fin rays, which is also
the case in the vertical fins, but distinct interspinal elements are
now developed to the number of about 112 in the anal fin and
about 140 in the dorsal fin; (damage of the fins caused some
difficulty in the exact counting of the interspinalia).
Fig. 9 represents the head, which is not so distinctly marked
from the body and has a more depressed form than in the above
mentioned specimen. In the upper jaw there are 4 smaller and 8
larger teeth on each side, but the foremost tooth, which has a
slight curvature at the base and is fastened outermost at the upper
side of the upper jaw, was broken and is not figured. The lower
jaw has 3 smaller and 8 larger teeth on each side. For the rest
the teeth are exactly as those mentioned above.
The number of segments is about 91 præanal and 67 post-
anal, or about 158 in all.
he greatest height bf fhe body BR, 1. 7,1 mm.
Distance from the point of the snout to anus........ 34,0 —
XeBeth of fle head 3,3 —
Distance from the point of the snout to the anterior
margin Gk Uh er ss ES 1,8 —
xhAtaber GE TAG SYES DL ser R: 0,8 —
In ,,Leptocephalids in the University zoological museum of
Upsala" by Dr. Pehr Stråmman, a species is described under the
name Leptocephalus lanceolatus, which agrees in several regards with
My specimens Nos. II and III; unfortunately the number of segments
is not indicated. Meantime Dr. Johs. Schmidt in his recently
published ,,Contributions to the biology of some North Atlantic
Species of Eels" (Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Forening København, Vol. 64.
1912), after having examined the type specimens of this species,
gives the number of myomeres as ca. 160, of which about 88 pre-
anal. After this it can scarcely be doubted that my specimens
Nr. II and III are really this species.
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It is stated that pigment is quite absent in Dr. Strøm-
man's Leptocephalus lanceolatus, but this can be caused, without
doubt, by an insufficient preservation.
I am indebted to Docent R. H. Stamm for his assistance in
photographing the Leptocephalids, and to the Officers of the ,,Ingolf"
for their kind help onboard; in particular I would thank the Captain
of the ship, Commander C. V. E. Carstensen, and Lieutenant
Godfred Hansen for their kindness and interest in my work
during the whole voyage.
19—7—1912.
Fuglene ved de danske Fyr i 1911.
29de Aarsberetning om danske Fugle.
Ved
R. Hørring.
Med et Kort.
I 1911 indsendtes fra 32 af de danske Fyr til Universitetets
zoologiske Museum 923 Fugle af 68 Arter faldne om Natten i Træk-
tiderne. Sikker Efterretning haves om 2117 artsbestemte faldne
Fugle, idet Prøver af disse ere indsendte. Ifølge Fyrmestrenes
Opgivelser er endyderligere opsamlet c. 855 faldne Fugle, hvoraf
c. 510 vare Drosler. Nøjere Efterretning haves saaledes om c. 3000
Fugles Død ved Fyrene. Endelig meldes fra Fyrskibene, at over-
maade mange Fugle ere faldne i Søen efter at være dræbte ved
Fyrruderne. I det hele er der sikkert faldet mindst 4000 Fugle.
De Fyr, hvorfra Fugle indsendtes, vare: Graadyb Fyrskib,
J. S. Ibsen Fyrskibsfører (42 Fugle fra 20 Nætter); Vyl Fyrskib,
J. S. Jensen Fyrskibsfører (85 Fugle fra 35 Nætter);. Horns Rev
Fyrskib, H. Sonnichsen Fyrskibsfører (29 Fugle fra 4 Nætter);
Lyngvig Fyr, P.A.Larsen Fyrmester (50 Fugle fra 26 Nætter); Lod-
bjerg Fyr, P. S. Pedersen Fyrmester (48 Fugle fra 8 Nætter);
Hanstholm Fyr, H. Roed Fyrmester (15 Fugle fra 3 Nætter);
Rubjerg Knude Fyr, J.C. Boysen Fyrmester (28 Fugle fra 2 Nætter);
Hirtshals Fyr, H. Hinrichsen Fyrmester (11 Fugle fra 1 Nat);
Skagen Fyr, G. H.E, Wielandt Fyrmester (39 Fugle fra 6 Nætter);
Læsø Trindel Fyrskib, P. V. Eriksen Fyrskibsfører (50 Fugle
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1911.
fra 14 Nætter); Læsø Rende Fyrskib, P. C. Grumsen Fyrskibs-
fører (40 Fugle fra 13 Nætter); Østre. Flak Fyrskib, N.C. Knud-
sen Fyrskibsfører (83 Fugle fra 23 Nætter); Anholt Knob Fyrskib,
T. A.M. Andresen Fyrskibsfører (38 Fugle fra 23 Nætter); Anholt
Fyr, J.P. Nielsen Fyrmester (102 Fugle fra 7 Nætter); Schultz's
Grund Fyrskib, P. Larsen Fyrskibsfører (78 Fugle fra 10 Nætter);
Fornæs Fyr, A. Kruse Fyrmester (1 Fugl); Hjelm Fyr, A. P.
Jensen Fyrmester (3 Fugle fra 1 Nat); Thunø Fyr, C. Kjeldsen
Fyrpasser (2 Fugle fra 2 Nætter); Sejrø Fyr, N. J.%. Nielsen
Fyrmester (7 Fugle fra 2 Nætter); Nakkehoved Fyr, W. Schultz
Fyrmester (2 Fugle fra 2 Nætter); Lappegrunden Fyrskib, J. C.
Jensen Fyrskibsfører (1 Fugl); Drogden Fyrskib, N.J. Kromann
Fyrskibsfører (2 Fugle fra 2 Nætter); Stevns Fyr, L. D. A. Wedén
Fyrmester (31 Fugle fra 5 Nætter); Sprogø Fyr, A. V. Hansen
Fyrmester (2 Fugle fra 2 Nætter); Omø Fyr, P.F. Køhler, Fyr-
mester (6 Fugle fra 3 Nætter); Hov Fyr, H.V.0. Westermann
Fyrmester (2 Fugle fra 2 Nætter); Kjels Nor Fyr, J. C. Ryder
Fyrmester (87 Fugle fra 12 Nætter); Æbelø Fyr, E. W. F. C.
Schonfeldt Fyrmester (3 Fugle fra 2 Nætter); Hammeren Fyr,
A.M. Dam Fyrmester (2 Fugle fra 2 Nætter); Gedser Fyr, P. A.
C. Lindgaard Fyrmester (5 Fugle fra 4 Nætter); Gedser Rev
Fyrskib, J. Jensen Fyrskibsfører (21 Fugle fra 3 Nætter); Hylle-
krog Fyr, P.W.Sørensen og J. N. B.Håeg Fyrmestre (8 Fugle
fra 5 Nætter).
De Fugle, der indkom til Zoologisk Museum som faldne i
1911, vare: .
1. Anas crecca 1.
2. Oedemia nigra 4.
3. Tachybaptes minor 1.
4. Procellaria pelagica 1.
Procellaria leucorrhoa 2,
Porzana maruetta 4.
Rallus aquaticus 4.
Gallinula chloropus 1.
ÆnN mM gt
(1911.)
143
Vanellus cristatus 3. (16 faldt.)
Charadrius squatarola 1.
Charadrius pluvialis 2.
Eudromias morinellus 1.
Ægialitis hiaticula 1.
Hæmatopus ostreologus 1.
Numenius arquatus 2.
Actitis hypoleuca 1.
Totanus calidris 2.
Tringa canutus 4.
Tringa alpina 2.
Calidris arenaria 1:
Limnocryptes gallinula 4.
Gallinago scolopacina 6.
Scolopax rusticula 1. (4 faldt.)
Columba livia domestica 1.
Columba palumbus 2. (4 faldt.)
Jynæ torquilla 11.
Alauda arborea 1.
Alauda arvensis 144. (306 faldt.)
.… Sturnus vulgaris 54. (86 faldt.)
Troglodytes parvulus 3.
Accentor modularis 1.
Sylvia cinerea 4. (5 faldt.)
Sylvia atricapilla 6.
Sylvia hortensis 15.
Sylvia nisoria 1.
Hypolais icterina 1.
Acrocephalus arundinaceus 1.»
Acrocephalus phragmitis 2.
Phyllopseustes trochilus 31. (53 faldt.)
Phyllopseustes rufus 1.
Regulus cristatus 6.
Anthus pratensis 3.
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43. Anthus arboreus 3.
44. Anthus obscurus 1.
45. Turdus iliacus 151. (766 faldt.)
46. Turdus musicus 96. (257 faldt.)
47. Turdus viscivorus 2.
48. Turdus pilaris 51. (182 faldt).
49. Turdus torquatus 9.
50. Turdus merula 37. (77 faldt.)
51. Sazicola oenanthe 46.
52. Praticola rubetra 3.
53. Ruticilla phoenicura 24.
54. Erithacus rubecula 80.
55. Cyanecula suecica 1.
56. Luscinia vera 1.
57... Muscicapa atricapilla 16. (28 faldt.)
58, Muscicapa grisola 2.
59. Passer domesticus 1.
60. Passer montanus 1.
61. Fringilla coelebs 2.
62. Fringilla montifringilla 22,
63. Cannabina linota 2.
64. Cannabina linaria 1.
65. Emberiza schoeniclus 13.
66. Emberiza citrinella 2.
67. Emberiza miliaria 2.
68. Emberiza nivalis 16.
Af de faldne Arter var en, nemlig Luscinia vera, ikke faldet
ved Fyrene i Løbet af de foregaaende 25 Aar. Tallet paa de Arter,
der
ere faldne i Løbet af de” sidste 26 Aar, er dermed naaet' op
til 159.
145
(1911.)
Fortegnelse over de Fugle der ere indsendte fra Fyrene
som faldne om Nat
(Hver Nat henregnes til den følgende Dag.)
en
. Anas crecca. Krikand. -
August: 3lte Lyngvig 1.
Oedemia nigra. Sortand.
Marts: 1ste Graadyb 2 (g' ad., dg jun.).
April: 21lde Omø 2
Tachybaptes minor. Lille Lappedykker.
April: 29de Hyllekrog 1 dg.
.…. Procellaria pelagica. Stormsvale.
November: 20de Lyngvig 19 jun.
Procellaria leucorrhoa. Stor Stormsvale.
Januar: 8de Sprogø 12 jun.
December: 30te Sejrø 1.
Porzana maruetta. Rørvagtel.
April: 2den Kjels Nor 1 &.
28de Lyngvig 19 ad.
29de Hanstholm 1 g'.
Maj: 4de Skagen 1 &.
Rallus aquaticus. Vandrikse.
April: 22de Lyngvig 1.
26de Schultz's Grund 1.
27de Skagen 1 &.
28de Kjels Nor 1.
Gallinula chloropus. Rørhøne.
Marts: 29de Sprogø 192 ad.
Vanellus cristatus. Vibe.
Marts: Iste Kjels Nor 1.
4de (Blaavandshuk 1.)7)
[28de Lyngvig 1 (2 faldt.).
April: 2den Lyngvig 1 (12 faldt.).
+) I Klammer er, efter Fyrmestrenes Oplysninger, vedføjet Tallet paa de
faldne Fugle, naar dette er et andet end Tallet paa de indsendte; paa
samme Maade vedføjes efter Fyrmestrenes Opgivelser Viber, Skov-
snepper og Stære, selv om intet er indsendt.
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discerns bétween two chief colonial types, the Diphasia-type with
opposite and the Sertularella-type with alternate hydrothécae, and
he has tried to show that.the former' type may be derived from
the: låtter. … From this starting point Schneider?) gives the
following sketch of the development of the different ,,groups”” from
Sertularella by méåns of a moving together of the hydrothecae :
»Es verschwinden zunåchst eine Anzahl Gelenke aus Ursache der
1) 54, p. 521.
2) 17.
3) 54, p. 524,
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grøssern Annåherung der Hydranthen; das ergiebt den Thujaria-
und den Dynamena-Typus, letzterer vielleicht zum Theil direct aus
dem Sertularella-, zum Theil aus dem T7hujaria-Typus ableitbar.
Noch gråssere Annåherung fihrt zur Entwicklung der Pasythea-
Gruppe, zum Theil von Thujaria, zum Theil von Dynamena aus;
ferner zur Selaginopsis- und zur Hydrallmania-Gruppe, beide von
Thujaria aus." When Schneider lets the joints disappear in
order to produce the Dynamena-type, he forgets that according to
his own definition of this type it is characterized by the possession
of a joint between each two pairs of hydrothecae.
Of the six groups into which Schneider divides the Ser-
tulariidae we have already regarded Selaginopsis, and we shall
later speak about Pasythea and Hydrallmania on mentioning the
systematic arrangement proposed by Professor Nutting. At this
place, therefore, we have only to mention the groups Dynamena
and Thujaria.
Schneider characterizes the Dynamena-group in the following
way: Die Hydrotheken opponirt, zwischen jedem Paar ein Gelenk;
NES ER ; Mindung der Theca meist mit zwei vorgetåuschten (L e-
vinsen) Zåhnen, Deckel einfach. — Hierher gehåren: Diphasia
rosacea L., attenuata Hincks, fallax Johnston, pinaster Ell.
et Sol., tamarisca L., pinnata Pallas., Sertularia pumila L.,
gracilis Hassall, operculata L.; Sertularia bispinosa Gray,
minima Thompson, macrocarpa Bale." Of the species here
named Diphasia rosacea, D. attenuata, D. fallax, D. pinaster and
D. pinnata have no teeth and an adcauline opercular valve and
belong to my genus Diphasia, while D. tamarisca must be referred
to Sertularella as it possesses a tridentate hydrotheca. and three
opercular valves. Sertularia pumila, S. gracilis and S. minima
belong to my genus Sertularia, as the bidentate hydrothecae
possess an adcauline. collar and an abcauline opercular valve, while
Sertularia opercularis, 8. bispinosa and S. macrocarpa must be
referred to a new genus, Odontotheca. ne
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The Thujaria-group is characterized as follows: ,,Die Hydro-
theken mehr oder weniger alternirend, oft fast opponiert gestellt,
dicht benachbart und mehrere bis viele auf ein Internodium ge-
| 1 ke Sas: ; Mindung der Theca meist glatt, Deckel einfach. —
Hierher gehåren: Diphasia alata Hincks, Sertularia filicula E1l.
et Sol., abietina L., argentea Ell. et Sol., cupressina L., Thujaria
thuja u. lonchitis; Sertularia diffusa Allmann, elongata Lmx.,
tenera Sars, maplestonei Bale, huttoni, Diphasia mutulata Busk,
Dynamena tubuliformis Markt.” Of the above species Diphasia
alata and D. mutulata, Sertularia filicula and S. abietina belong
to Diphasia (the two latter to the subgenus Abietinaria), Sertularia
argentea, S. cupressina, S. tenera and Dynamena tubuliformis to
Sertularia, Thujaria thuja and Th. lonchitis to Thujaria and Ser-
tularia maplestonei to Odontotheca. An opercular apparatus has
hitherto not been found in Sert. elongata and S. huttoni, both of
which have the hydrothecal margin provided with 6—7 teeth, and
if they possess an operculum I am most inclined to think that
it consists of as many valves as there are teeth. In either case
these two species cannot be referred to any of the hitherto de-
scribed genera. -—
Schneider!) after having given the above phylogenetic
sketch declares, that to penetrate deeper into the phylogeny of the
Sertulariidae the close examination of a large living material shall
be necessary, especially in order to make a thorough study of the
difficult opercular apparatus. I quite agree with the author on
this point, but as long as he adheres to the view that the colonial
characters are the true generic characters, I cannot see that the
results of such a study may be of any great use to him. He
concludes his phylogenetic considerations with the following wish:
»So steht denn zu hoffen, dass die zuktnftige Forschung wohl im
Einzelnen das hier vertretene System nåher ausbauen und er-
låuteren, nicht aber es zu Gunsten eines einzelnen diagnostischen
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Charakters umstirzen wird; denn die Fundamente- scheinen mir
durch die innigsten Beziehungen zur Phylogenese "als sichere er-
wiesen"; I, on the contrary, take the liberty to express the collegial
wish that. the considerations and studies contained .in ,this paper
may help Dr. Schneider to change his view about the systematic
significance of the colonial characters. —
"Professor Kristine Bonnevie who has rangeret several
papers on Norwegian and North-Atlantic Hydroids, among which is the
report on the Hydroids from the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition,
quite agrees with Schneider in his systematic view, and in the
last named work. 'says. about the systematic' arrangement proposed
by the. present author"): "In this family. as in. Campanulinidae
Levinsen has made a division of genera based upon the nature
of the; lid of the hydrotheca.. But the remark that. I made
previously is also. applicable here, namely, that the nature of the
lid. and of the margin. of the hydrothéeca, are very good specific
distinguishing features, but that in basing a system upon these
Characters ;we ascribe ;to them too much importance.” Though the
author thus acknowledges ; the diversities found in the opercular
apparatus at least as very good specific characters she does not
mention' the structure: of the operculum in any of the- species
named in her work, not éven in the new species described by her.
". While Bonnevie gives to each species the name of the
group, to which it is referred, another follower of Schneid er's
system, Mr. H. B. Torrey”) does not think it necessary, and,
besides, as: far as I understand him, thinks it an advantage not to
do: so. - He expresses himself as follows: ,,Anyone who has had
occasion to work: among the. Sertulariidae will admire the masterly
way in which Nutting has dealt with the perplexing questions of
classification. in that family. . I'am not yet prepared, however, to
abandøn Schneider's plan of segregating the species into typical
groups which shall tåke thé places of genera, "These ; groups do
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not necessarily give their names to the species which the include:
Thus they discourage the growth of synonyms, offer no awkward
bars to the free passage of any species from one group to nearer
relatives, and at the same time lessén the confusion. which the
present unsettled state of" opinion regarding thé relationships of
existing species tends to produce.” "When the groups are to. take
the placés of genera, one should believe that the generic. names
must be quite superfluous except ås synonyms, and I am at a loss
to understand in what manner this retention of them måy be able
to diminish the growth of synonyms or to lessen confusion of any
kind, as I am much more inclined to think that this method would
have quite the opposite result.
In the year 1904 Professor C. C. Nutting., Iowa, published
a most valuable work on the American Sertulariidae, in which as
aå' result of his systematic investigations into this family he sets
forth the assertion that: the characters taken from the opereulum -
and the hydrothecal margin are insufficient in themselves to furnish
a. base for the classification: of the Sertulariidae"), though he
»thinks them most important aids "in defining certain genera” and,
besides, he quotes parts of an unpublished manuscript on the
structure of. the operculum written by Mr. J. H. Paarman?),
according to which the representation the present author has given
of the operculum in the Sertulariidae is incorrect. I am first to
treat the latter point, and the following representation of the
results to which the two authors have arrived uk refers to Ser-
tularia pumila.
According to the named authors the plrothosi margin .is
provided with two lateral teeth, between which there are stretched
two quite homologous membranes of unequal size, the: abcauline
being considerably larger than the adcauline one. … They form
together' the side-walls of an .A-tent, the front: and rear of "the
tent being closéd by the two opposite hydrothecal teeth, and there-
1) 44, p. 41.
2) 44, pp. 20, 40.
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fore, the two membranes which are both regarded as flaps meet
in a straight line that would be represented by the ridge pole
of the tent, When the hydranth emerges in the outer world
for the first time the first eleavage takes place along this line, but
it continues until there is room for the egress of the hydranth,
leaving the bottom of both flaps still attached to the hydrothecal
margin. Mr. Paarman's investigation seems to prove that.....
"Sometimes the adcauline piece is attached while the other is free,
and sometimes the reverse is true. Often the sides of a flap are
attached for a greater or less distance proximally while they be-
come free distally, the degree of attachment varying greatly in
the same species. In most cases both flaps are functional”.
Paarman and Nutting seem to have overlooked, that in Ser-
tularia pumila”) the adcauline wall is angularly bent from side to
side and is provided between the two larger teeth with a much
smaller one, which divides the adcauline sinus into two lateral halves
but does not reach the free margin of the adcauline membrane
stretched between the two larger teeth. This membrane which
must be regarded as the distal part of the adcauline wall is of
Course also angularly bent, and the ridge dividing it into two
lateral halves arises from the tip of the median tooth. The much
larger abcauline membrane consists, as the corresponding part of a
Thujaria and a Diphasia, or as one of the three or four corre-
sponding parts of a Sertularella, of a proximal part, fixed in the
abcauline sinus, and a distal free valvular part provided with an
angularly bent margin which fits into the corresponding sinus
formed by the adcauline membrane. When the hydrotheca is closed,
the adcauline membrane on account of its thinness inclines a little
towards the centre of the aperture, and its free margin meets that
of the adcauline valve, but a perfect closing of the hydrotheca can
only take place when both membranes are fixed in their corre-
sponding sinusses to the very tips of the teeth, and this is always
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the case in every undamaged hydrotheca. The one cause of Paar-
man's mistake is that he has regarded these opercula only from
the side and not from the abcauline surface. When such a closed
hydrotheca is regarded from the side we get the impression of an
A-tent, as we see a straight line limiting two membranes which
might be regarded as two flaps, but this line is only the one side
of the free abcauline triangular valve, which on closing fits into
the corresponding sinus formed by the angularly bent adcauline
membrane. The other cause is that he has studied these opercula
by the aid of microtomic sections, as there can be no doubt that
the cutting in many cases must have in different degree loosened
the connection between the fine membranes and the hydrothecal
margin. Therefore he has found that the degree of attachment
between the membranes and the hydrothecal margin is very different
even in the same hydrotheca, but as a rule both membranes have
been torn away from the hydrothecal teeth (,,as a rule both flaps
are functional").
Though I must, therefore, maintain the correctness of my
earlier investigation I am willing to adwit, what I formerly denied,
that the adcauline membrane may be regarded as a part of the
Opercular apparatus, and that the operculum of Sertularia therefore
may be called a two-lipped operculum. For this renewed investi-
gation I have examined fresh material taken in the Trondbjems-
fiord by Mr. 0. Nordgaard, and I have used the same mode of
preparation as earlier, namely with a fine needle to cut off under
the microscope the distal end of the hydrotheca and thereafter to
examine it in different positions. Colouring matter may help to
make the membranes more distinct.
After having expressed his agreement with Mr. Paarman's
results Professor Nutting continues: "But there is still another
and even greater objection to relying exclusively upon the characters
of the margin and operculum in classifying the Sertudariidae, and
that is that these characters are inconstant not only in some of
its genera, but also in some individual species.” To prove the
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correctness of this assertion the author selects 8 species of the
128 treated in his work, in which the characters taken from the
margin and operculum either are not found in some species. of
a certain genus as defined by him or in some species of two
other genera show 'a supposed variation or inconstancy, and as- a
consequence hereof' he prefers jto use as chief characters in the
limitation of most genéra .diversities in the årrangement of the
hydrothecae or in the form of the colony, but at the same time
he lays the chief stress on the opercular apparatus and, the form
of the hydrotheca in the diagnosis of the two genera Diphasia and
Abietinaria. 1 intend here to undertake a critical examination of
the genera proposed by Prof. Nutting, and under each genus I
shall mention not only the species in which this author has thought
he found inconstancy in. the hydrothecal characters, but also those
which to my opinion ought to be referred to another genus. —
In his work on; the American Sertulariidae Prof. Nutting
gives the following diagnosis of the genera as far as concerns
the trophosomes, but as the gonosomes on the whole play åa very
insignificant systematic part, I have not found it necessary to refer
to that part of the diagnosis concerning these structures. I shall
later mention these structures in my own diagnoses of the same
genera.
"Sertularia (L.) Nutting.
"Hydrothecæ in strictly opposite or rarely subopposite pairs.
Stem and branches normally divided into regular internodes, each
of which bears a pair of hydrothecæ, but sometimes there are more
" than one pair to the internode, in which case the hydrothecæ are
strictly opposite. Operculum normally of two flaps.”
Thujaria (Flem.) Nutting.
«"Hydrothecæ normally subopposite to alternate, and more than
two to each internode. " Internodes vary greatly in length. Hydro-
thecæ with smooth margin, or with one or two teeth usually more
or less immersed in the- hydrocaulus. Operculum of one abcauline
flap, or of two flaps."
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Pasythea (Lamour) Nutting.
"Hydrothecæ' biserial, strictly opposite, årranged in groups of
pairs, a- group to an internode, the upper pair being smaller and
differing in shape from the lower, margin bilabiate, with a too-
flapped operculum.”
Sertularella (Gray) Nutting.
"Hydrothecæ biserial, strictly alternate, usually with three
Or four marginal teeth and a well-marked operculum with three or
four flaps." Rarely the teeth are obliterated, in which case. the
Operculum is stretched across the hydrothecal - aperture like. a
drumhead. Branches never regularly anastomosing to form a
reticulate flabellate structure.”
Dictyocladum Allm.
"Colony flabellate in form. Branches anastomosing and forming
a rudely reticulate structure or network. Hydrotheca on more
than two sides of the stem. Aperture without conspicuous. teeth.
Operculum variable.”
Diphasia (Agass.) Nutting.
"Hydrothecæ biserial, opposite or alternate, aperture broad,
Operculum evident, of a single adcauline flap.”
Abietinaria (Kirchenp.). Nutting.
Hydrothecæ non strictly opposite, more or less bottle-shaped (the
proximal portion turgid, distal portion narrowed), operculum of a
single adcauline flap, margin usually without teeth.
Selaginopsis (Allm.) Nutting.
"Hydrothecæ arranged in more than two longitudinal series,
at least -on distal parts of branches, or in two or more series each
of which has the distal ends of the hydrothecæ turned alternately
to the right and left. Operculum of a single abcauline flap. Inter-
nodes long or absent.”
As chief characters for the two- genera Sertularia and Thu-
Jaria, to which the author only refers species with two-serial
" hydrothecæ, he uses both the different arrangement of the hydro-
thecæ and the length of the internodes. The hydrothecæ may be
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opposite or alternate, but between these two conditions there is
found all possible intermediate stages (strictly opposite, opposite,
subopposite, subalternate, alternate, strictly alternate), and in many
species a certain variation is found even within the same colony
The internodes may be of very different length, bearing one to
many pairs of hydrothecæ, and also in this respect many. species
present great" variation within the colony. When the internodes
are very short the hydrothecæ must of course be opposite, and the
alternate hydrothecæ, therefore, must be found in longer internodes,
but the latter are not rarely provided with opposite hydrothecæ
(Thujaria lichenastrum Pall., Th. sinuosa Bale e.t.c,). In opposition
to what is said in the diagnosis we very often in species of
Nutting's Thujaria find internodes with a single pair of hydrothecæ,
and the author f. inst. figures branches of Th. polycarpa, Th.
argentea and Th. tenera, which bear a series of 2—4 such inter-
nodes. In Sertularia grisea Kirch, which is provided with inter-
nodes bearing 1—5 pairs of subopposite hydrothecæ, I have seen
brånches with up to 12 such internodes. According to the diagnosis
of Sertularia there may be found in the genus subopposite hydro-
thecæ, but when the internodes bear more pairs of hydrothecæ
the latter are said to be strictly opposite. I do not understand
why they may not be subopposite, but in either case they seem
to be so in a rudiment of Sert. Challengeri figured by the author.
It is evident, that the different arrangement of the hydrothecæ
cannot give us a distinct delimitation between the two genera, and
if we use the different length of the internodes we meet with the
same difficulty when we try to draw a boundary line; but even if
it were possible by means of the above characters to divide the
species into two sharply separated groups, the latter would still
be artificial, if we paid no attention to the structure of the hydro-
thece and both groups contained species belonging to different
natural genera.
Sertularia (L.) Nutting.
We may first regard the inconstancy in the structure of
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the hydrothecal margin and the operculum which Prof. Nutting
believed he found in Sertularia desmoides Torr., and which he
mentions in the following way: "No marginal teeth as a rule, but
at times the margin has two obscure teeth.. Operculum usually of
one flap attached to the abcauline side, others with two ill-defined
flaps, and again there will be two flaps one above the other, both
attached to the abcauline side.” 8. desmoides, of which Prof.
Nutting has been so kind as to send me a number of. specimens,
is a good Thujaria according to my definition of the genus, though
it corresponds well to his definition of Sertularia. It has 'a quite
similar aperture to that found in 7%. lichenastrum and Th. (Pasy-
thea) acrodon, being provided with a freely prominent distal ad-
cauline wall. In the specimens examined a number of hydrothecæ
have been regenerated, and Prof. Nutting may have mistaken
the freely prominent part of the new distal wall for an adcauline
flap. The regeneration also explains the presence of two abcauline
flaps one above another.
In the key to the species the author mentions that three of
the species, $. rathbuni, S. brevicyathus and S. flowersi are provided
with a small median tooth. Such a tooth, however, is also' present
in 8. pumila, and according to the author's figures also in $.
mayeri, and S. cornicina. S. rathbuni has not a three-flapped
operculum; but the author has mistaken the angularly bent ad-
cauline lip for two separate opercular valves.
S. operculata, S. bispinosa and SS. pulchella belong to my
new genus Odontotheca the definition of. which is given later.
Thujaria (Flem.) Nutting.
Only four of the twenty species named in Prof. Nutting's
work, namely Tå. thuja, Th. polycarpa, Th. immersa and Th. lon-
chitis belong to my genus Thujaria while 10 belong to Sertularia,
and in two of these, Sert. tenera and Sert. robusta the author
seems to have found inconstancy in the structure of the hydro-
thecal margin and operculum. The named structures of S. tenera
he mentions in the following way: "margin varying greatly, some-
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times being round without teeth and often being curved, with two
teeth of regular sertularian type. Operculum usually '"composed of
one flap attached to the abcauline side of margin, but sometimes
composed of two flaps.” ”"This species appears to break down the
generic distinctions proposed by Levinsen in that it has both
a one-flapped and a two-flapped operculum in the same specimens.”
About the same parts of S. robusta he says: "operculum with two
flaps on distal portion of branches, often with round margin and
single abcauline flap on proximal portions.”
Both in my paper on the regeneration of the Hydrvids 1) and
in that on the Hydroids from Greenland?) I have pointed out, that
in the new apertures produced by the regeneration of a hydrotheca
in a Sertularia the contrast between the thicker and the thinner
(membranous) parts of the wall: often; seem to be indistinet or
quite lacking, and as a distinct example hereof I have named
Sertularia tenera. As I have examined many colonies of. this
species without finding any other inconstancy in the parts named
I am sure that the round apertures found by Prof. Nutting,
must have belonged to regenerated . hydrothecæe and Ritchie”)
has come to the same: result as I. Of Sertularia robusta I have
examined a colony from Bering Sea sent to me by the National
Museum of Washington. All the. hydrothecae present the Ser-
tularia-characters very distinctly, and when Prof. Nutting in åa
number of hydrothecae from proximal portions of branches has
found a different form of aperture and operculum, it is no doubt
due to cases of regeneration.
Nutting") declares that the oljkBkbe is almost an ideal
character to use in separating the "genus Diphasia, but that he
nevertheless prefers the colonial characters is seen from his refer-
ence of Sertularia thujarioides Clark- to Thujaria, though it pos-
1.82 a, p. 22.
2) 32, p. 189—190.
5% p. 218.
sy 44, p. 44.
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sesses an adcauline operculum and a horizontal margin, characters
which have not been found in any Thujaria. Broch has already
pointed out that it must be referred to Diphasia. To the latter
genus I am also inclined to refer Tx. elegans Krp. Th. ramosis-
sima Allm. and Th. plumosa Clark belong to my new genus Odon-
totheca, and I shall later show that T. plumulifera Allm.!) belongs
to the genus Hydrallmania. However, a fragment sent to me by
Prof. Nutting under the name of Th. plumulifera does not
belong to this species, but to a new species of the genus Sertularia.
Pasythea (Lamour.) Nutting.
This highly artificial genus is at present represented by three
species, namely P. gvadridentata Ell. & Sol., P. hexodon Bale and
P. philippina Markt. The first, which is a Sertularia, is nearly
related to S. pumila, the second, of which I have examined a
colony from Singapore, is a Thujaria with a similar form of
aperture to that found in Th. desmoides, Th. lichenastrum and Th.
fruticosa, and the original specimen of the third which I have had
on loan from the Zoological Museum of Vienna is a young colony
of Idia pristis. That neither the colonial characters are constant
is evident from some observations made by Bale?) who says about
specimens of P. qvadridentata from Bondi: "The Bondi specimens
are peculiar, a considerable proportion of the internodes bearing
only a single pair of calycles each; indeed some of the shoots
are s0 arranged throughout, and thus differ in no respect from a
typical Sertularia.” Further he says about the hydrothecæ of
P, hexodon?): "In most cases those on the two sides of the
hydrocaulus are opposite to each other, but it is quite common to
find them alternate, and the set frequently contains more on one
side than the other, as three to four, or four to six.
1) I have examined a fragment of the original specimen, sent to me from
the Museum of Comp. Zoology, Cambridge.
2) 8, p. 770.
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Sertularella (Gray.) Nutting.
Among the species which Nutting selects as examples showing
inconstancy in the hydrothecal characters are the following three
species, which he réfers to the genus Sertularella. For each of
them we shall quote that part of the author's description which
refers to the hydrothecal margin and the operculum:
S. formosa Fewkes. "Aperture perfectly round and smooth.
Operculum apparently wanting. Sometimes, however, it appears in
the shape of a thin membrane stretched like a drumhead across
the aperture.”
S. Hartlaubi Nutting. "Margin perfectly smooth and even;
operculum in some cases an adcauline flap; in others apparently
an irregularly ruptured membrane, stretehed across the aperture
like a drumhead.”
S. magna Nutting. "”"Operculum thick conspicuous, a simple
membrane of a simple flap where the margin is even, with two
flaps when there are two evident teeth, sometimes apparently with
more than two flaps, but they are not well defined, probably
because the teeth when three or four, are very low and incon-
spicuous. No better example could be found of the futility of basing
generic distinction on the number of parts to the operculum. One
branch could be placed in three different genera, were that criterion
to be used.”
I have not seén the two first named species, but the de-
scriptions and the figures leave no doubt that they cannot be
referred to Sertularella. There is not the faintest indication of
marginal teeth, and the thin membrane stretched like a drumhead
across the aperture is no doubt the original membranous roof of
the hydrotheca, which is found in all Thecaphora. The author
does not mention whether he has found this membrane also in
old hydrothecae. It is possible that a number of Sertularella-
species may have developed from that group, to which they belong,
by a transformation of the membranous roof into a Sertularella-
operculum, but as they themselves lack the chief-characters of
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Sertularella I cannot refer them to this genus. We might with
the same right refer f. inst. the inoperculate species ” Obelia”
marginata Allm.”), Campanularia insignis Allm.?) and Camp. jun-
cea Allm.%) to Thyroscyphus, because they agree with the species
of this genus in the form and the arrangement of the hydrotbecae.
From the National Museum of Washington I have received a
small fragment of the original specimen of Sertularella magna
Nutt. It contains 12 hydrothecae, the 6 of which have the margin
more or less injuried, while in the 6 others it is intact, and
provided with three distinct curves, divided from each other by
as many distinct teeth (pl. IV, figs. 27, 28). When regarded
from above the aperture is distinctly triangular with curved sides.
In none of them have I found a complete operculum, but in some
of them small remnants of the opercular valves still adhere to
the curves, and in a single hydrotheca two complete valves are
fixed each in its curve- while the third is missing. The species
seems to be very fragile, but there can be no doubt that the
hydrothecae when undamaged are provided with three opercular
valves, and that Nutting's divergent statement must be explained
as an incorrect interpretation of acccidental injuries. The hydro-
thecae have been regenerated 4—6 times.
Dictyocladium (Allm:) Nutting.
The latter part of Prof. Nutting's diagnosis of Sertularella
does not mean that an operculum of three or four valves cannot
be found in species which possess a flabellate colony with ana-
stomosing branches, but only that such species are referred by the
author to the artificial genus Dictyocladium. While D. dichotomum
Allm. does not seem to possess an operculum the two other species
referred to this genus, D. flabellum Nutt. and D. reticulatum Krp.
belong to Sertularella. Of the latter species I have examined a
fragment sent to me from the Zoological Museum of Hamburg, and
11 pl VIE gs 1, 2
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3) 2 pl 11; figs. 3, 4.
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in the best preserved hydrothecæ I have found a distinctly three-
toothed margin and three opercular valves.
Diphasia (Agassiz) Nutting.
Of the nine species mentioned in Nutting's work I must
refer D. corniculata (Murray) to Sertularia, and D. tamarisca,
which possesses a three-toothed hydrothecal margin and three oper-
cular valves, to Sertularella.
Abietinaria (Kirchenpauer) Nutting.
Of the 16 species, which Nutting refers to this genus, I
have here to mention three, namely A. compressa Mereschk., ÅA.
Aleæanderi Nutt. and AÅ. greenei Murray, and of the two latter
species I have examined specimens sent to me by Prof. Nutting.
The first-named species, which the author no doubt refers to Abie-
tinaria becauSe of the form of the hydrothecae, is according to
Mereschkowsky provided with two lateral teeth, and as such
are not found in any species of that genus, I cannot doubt but
hat it belongs to Sertularia. Å. Alexanderi is also a Sertularia,
being provided with two lateral teeth, an angularly bent adcauline
membrane, and an abcauline membrane, which ends with a free
valve. :
The hydrothecae of A. greenei are as pointed out by Nutting
subject to great variation, the abcauline margin being in most of
them provided with two more or less developed teeth, while a
number of the proximal hydrothecae in each branch have a plain
margin without teeth. The specimen examined by me seems to
contain only dead hydrothecae, and I have found only a small
number of opercular membranes, a few of which reached from the
adéauline margin to the tips of the teeth, and, therefore, I am
most inclined to refer this species to my new genus Odontotheca.
In such hydrothecae which have no teeth the opercular membrane
must be provided with a free abcauline margin, and this species
therefore seems to form a connecting link between Odontotheca and
Abietinaria. The hydrothecae are provided with a small internal
adcauline tooth, and a similar more or less developed tooth I have
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found both in a number of species belonging to the latter group
and in Odontotheca macrocarpa Bale.
Å species, which presents a still greater variation, is Thujaria
heteromorpha Allm.”), which according to the author possesses two
different forms of hydrothecae, some in which the margin is nearly
circular and even directed away from the supporting internode,
and others”) in which it is "directed towards the internode, and
has its apocauline margin produced into a short, slightly incurved
tooth.” While the former are placed in the proximal part of the
branches, the internodes of which carry many hydrothecæ, the
latter are seated in the distal part, and here each internode bears
a single pair of hydrothecæ. ), however, ascribes to the whole genus Cryptolaria ''a com-
pact Coppinia” mass much as in Lafoza”, and the reason hereof is
the following. Pictet and Bedoté) have found in Perisiphonia
peéctinata a Coppinia surrounding a portion of the stem and, be-
sides, two small singly placed gonothecåe, seated each in the
proximal part of an adjacent branch. As Nutting”) and Broch3)
have found that the Coppiniæ, examined by them, contain gonothecae
of both sexes, Bedot suggests that the single gonothecae found
in the named Perisiphonia may represent a different sex from those
in the Coppinia, and Nutting, therefore, no doubt, compares the
single gonothecae found in the above Cryptolaria-species with
those found in the Perisiphonia, and thinks that a coppinia may
appear later. I do not think, however, that Bedot is right in
his supposition. It is a well-known fact that a Coppinia may often
1) 86. Pictet (46) regards Hebella cylindrata Markt., H. contorta
Markt., and H. scandens Bale as identical with H. cylindrica v. Lend.,
and Billard thinks that the same is the case with H. calcarata
Ag., but be adds the following remark: "Comme Pictet le fait juste-
ment remarquer on ne pourra étre complétement fixé sur Videntité
de toutes ces formes que lorsqu'on aura trouvé et comparé leurs
gonosomes” (11, p. 17). The gonothecae of H. contorta seem to be
very different from those of H. calcarata and H. cylindrica, tigured
by Agassiz and Pictet. Their (Pl. V, figs. 16, 17) distal end is
divided into 4—6 triangular areas, which no doubt correspond to as
many opercular valves. The gonothecae of H. scanidens Bale (8, E
XIII, fig. 18) seem to show a similar mere
nå
Va
Va
5) 45, p. 946.
%) 47, p 21 pl V.
7) 45 a.
8) 13, p. 155.
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extend from a stem over more adjacent branches, and, therefore,
I cannot doubt but that we have to do in the named case with
the beginning of such an extension. In opposition to the numerous
small gonothecae of the Coppinia, which take their rise from the
peripheral tubes, the few" large elongate sacs in the named Cryp-
tolaria-species spring from the axial tube, and it is not reasonable
to suppose, that in these species.the gonothecae of the two different
sexes should develop in two so very different manners.
While in the true "Coppinia” the gonothecae are mutually
coalesced, the "fscapus” is only a collection of more or less densely
crowded, but mutually not connected gonothecae. But quite similar,
more or less dense aggregates of gonothecae are also found in other
families, f. inst. in species of the campanularian genus Silicularia
(= Hypanthea)"), in Campanularia. integra and in a number of
Halecium-species, f. inst. in Hal. muricatum, in Hal. groenlandicum
Kramp”), and in a new species from Japan, which differs from the
last named species therein, that the hydrothecae are perfectly
adnate. In the two latter species the gonothecae are borne together
with a number of hydrothecae by a large, spongy, richly bran-
ched, free meshwork formed by a number of peripheral tubes.
To the Lafoéidae I refer besides the genera Lafoza (Hali-
siphoniaJ), Hebella, Grammaria, Cryptolaria, Perisiphonia, (Zygo-
Phylax, Brucellaj and Lictorella also the species referred to Syn-
thecium, Hypopyxis, Staurotheca, and the inoperculate species
referred to Dictyocladium, Selaginopsis, Sertularia and Sertularella.
Also Schneider refers Synthecium to the Lafotidae though from
other reasons than I, but Hartlaub?), who earlier followed
Schneider in this question, has altered his opinion, because he
has found that the species of the latter genus are provided with
a blind sack, a structure which he regards as characteristic of
115, p. 26
2) 30.
3) 21, p. 670.
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the Sertulariidae. " But Hartlaub!) has also found a blind sack
im the campanularian genus Silicularia,.and I have: found it in
Lictorella pinnata Sars. It is also found in the operculate species
described as Zygophylax operculata Jåd. (Pl. IV, fig. 21) and Lyg-
grandis Vanh.?), and I cannot doubt but. that it is also present as well
in the inoperculate species related to them as in the other species
of the genus Lictorella. ; The presence of the blind sack in the
named. cases, therefore, seems ,to be contingent upon the more or
less eres bilateral; symmetry.
;. Campenhausen who also refers Grammaria to the Ser-
tulariidae says about my reference of "Synthecium and the other
above named forms to the, Lafozidae?): »Abgesehen aber davon
dass die erwåhnten' Formen s0 typisch alle iibrigen Sertularien-
Charactere bezitzen ausser diesen einen .,... und,mir ..... eine
Trennung nur auf ein Merkmal hin willkirlich vorkommt, scheint
mir das Vorhandensein oder der Mangel eines Operculums -durchaus
nicht [von so einschneidender Bedeutung zu sein.” As v. Cam-
penhausen does not seem to ascribe systematic .significance to.
the arrangement of the hydrothecæ, the typical sertularian -characters,
about which he speaks, must be the bilateral symmetrical structure
of the hydrothecae, and the more' or less extensive connection
between their adcauline wall and the corresponding axial structures").
ÅS to the first named character there is no contrast between the
named. forms and the other Lafoéidae, as most members of this
family and especially of its freely: branched forms, show a more or
less distinct bilateral symmetry, which is found not only in species
with sessile or adnate »hydrothecae, but sometimes also in such
species the hydrothéeæ of which are provided. with. free stalks.
3 10 12, note
| ed v. Batousikraest regards the presence of a well-developed
aphragm as a specific sertularian character, I may here point out
I: the diaphragm is quite lacking or imperfectly developed in a
number of Sertularella-species. ;
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We find f. inst. that the hydrothecae of Lafoza. fruticosa and L.
gracillima show a distinet adcauline convexity. As to the other
sertularian characters the genera Perisiphonia, Cryptolaria and Gram-
maria have -their hydrothecae adnate to the-hydrocaulus in a larger
or smaller pårt of their adcauline wall, and in the two last named
genera this connection is as in the Sertulariidae inseparable, while
in Perisiphonia it can be loosened by the aid of reagents. Ås,
therefore, the above named forms cannot by a single character be
divided from the Lafoéidae, I, on the contrary, find it arbitrary
to refer them to the Sertulariidae, and at the same time there
can be no doubt, but that the latter family gains in firmness
and coherence by only embracing operculate forms.
In animals of so simple å structure as the Hydroid polyps we
can only expect to find a few distinguishing marks between the
systematic divisions, and most families and genera are only divided
from each other by one or two characters. The two chief divisions,
the Athecata and the T'hecaphora are only divided from each other
" by the presence in the latter of more or less developed proteetive
cases for the hydrants and the gonophores, and it seems reasonable
to ascribe systematie significance also to the operculum, a structure,
which must be regarded as the complement of the proteetive cases
Jand, so to speak, as the end-result of the same effort, which has' led
to the formation of the hydrothecae and gonothecae. We may
"further point out as an evidence of its systematie importance, that
it has that in common' with other structures of systematie signifi-
cance that it presents a rich development of characteristic net
vcations which give excellent generic characters.
We may now regard the relation between the Laftkåns and
the Campanulinidae. If we compare the two above family diag-
noses we shall find that the two families are only sharply divided
by a single character, namely the presence ør absence of an; oper-
"eulum, all: the" other charåcters being more or less relative, and,
therefore, there can be no dende, that they are rer MAG. related
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as, already pointed out by Broch.) He espécially points out the near
relation between 7oichopoma obliguum and Lafoza, and not only
refers the former genus to the Lafoéidae, but is most inclined: to
refer the named operculate species to the genus Lafoéa, and when
he provisionally uses the name 7oichopoma it is only because the
gonothecae of this species were at that time unknown. Kramp?”)
has later found that it possesses a,'"coppinia”, but while' he like
Broch refers it to the Lafogidae, he at the same time maintains
that the presence of an operculum entitles this species to represent
aå proper genus. In a later paper Broch?) unites the Campanulinidae
with the Lafoéidae and again divides the latter family into two
sub-families, the Grammariina, in which the gonothecae are united
into aggregates and the Campanulinina, in which that is not the
case: From the reason given above I cannot agcept. this division.
The connection between the Campanulinidae and the Lafoéidae
must no doubt be expressed in this way, that the Campanulinidae
have arisen from the Lafozidae, and this transformation has taken
place in such a manner, that different members of the latter. family
have developed an operculum.%) Broch>%) has pointed out the
great likeness between 7oichopoma obliguum and Lafota gracillima,
but . Calycella syringa and Tetrapoma gvadridentatum present a
similar likeness to such ,Lafoéa species as L. pocillum and L. pyg-
maea. At the other side the species of the genus Cuspidella seem
to stand in a similar relation to the species of the genus Følellum,
in which we find two different forms- of sessile hydrothecae, some,
4) AsI do not believe in a sharp division between the Lafoéidae and the
iidae, I think it likely that also a number of species of
the latter family have developed an operculum, and næ have no doubt
two such examples in ,,Campanularia" marginata (7, p. 54)
and ,, Camp.” macrocyttara (Bale (7, p. 56), the reg onkegdd
hydrothecae of which have a four-toothed margin, and, therefore, no
doubt, possess a T'hyroscyphus-operculum. The double margin in the
hydrothecae of the mene species is no doubt due to a regeneration.
5) 13, p, 158
Vidensk. Meddel. fra den tathrd. Føren. Bd. 64, 19
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the proximal half of which is adnate, and others which are cylind-
rical and. erect. The first - form of hydrothecae is represented in
Cuspidella procumbens Kramp, and the second in such species as
C. humilis and C. costata. The genus Zygophylax (Perisiphonia)
which is provided with cylindrical nematothecae has given. its
contingent of operculate forms in the two species, Z. operculata
Jåderh.”) and Z. grandis Vanh.,”) for which I must propose a new
genus Abietinella, and Oplorhiza parvula Allm.,”) in which we
find stalked, globular nematothecae stands in a similar relation
to ,,Campanularia" armata Pict & Bed.”) as the above new genus
to the species of Zygophylax. The genus Lafoéina ”) which possesses
a similar form of operculum ås Cuspidella and Oplorhiza only differs
from the latter genus in the possession of very long vermiform
nematothecae. The long slender, sometimes tubuliform hydrothecae
of the genus Stegopoma leave no doubt as to the near connection
of the latter genus with the Lafoéidae, and the different modes of
growth of the different species show distinetly how little systematic
signifieance we ought to ascribe to the colonial form. The oper-
culum of this genus is very characteristic, consisting of two plaited
membranes, fixed each in a curve, formed by the hydrothecal margin,
and thus divided by two triangular hydrothecal teeth. When we
find such an operculum in a number of species, presenting a different
habit of growth, it is to my opinion more reasonable to think that
they belong to the same natural genus, and that the different forms
of growth have been produced by the influence of outer circum-
stances, than to divide these species according to the different
colonial form, and to suppose that the same form of operculum may
have arisen independently more than once. The latter standpoint
has been taken by Prof. Nuttingé&) who has described three new
7) 26,. p. 376.
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species' of Stegopoma, but at the same time he refers a species
provided with the same form of operculum to the genus Cryptolaria.
However, he thinks it likely 'that a separate genus should be
instituted for this species and for Cryptolaria geniculata Allm.,
which possesses a similar form of operculum. As a' consequence
of this standpoint Nutting mentions the genus Stegopoma as
follows: "This genus ..... seems to me to be practically con-
venient whether a natural one or not.” We meet in this genus
with three different forms of growth. While St. (Crypt.) opercu-
lata Nutt. and $t. (Crypt.) geniculata Allm. have a fascicled stem
with an axial tube, St. plicatile and St, gilberti Nutt. possess a
fascicled stem, in which all the tubes bear hydrothecae, and St.
fastigiatum a creeping stem. The gonothecae are of two different
forms which seem to be independent of the colonial form. In two
Species with a creeping stem, described by Nutting, we find
sessile gonothecae of a similar form as the hydrothecae, and the
same is the case in $+. gilberti, while in St. plicatile and St. geni-
culatum the gonothecae are elongate sacs without an operculum.
Schneider!) thinks that the operculum of Campanulina (and
Opercularella) must be. derived from the hydrothecal teeth of cer-
tain Campanulariidae, which by attaining a sufficient length and
thinness have been able to collapse and cover the hydranth after
its retraction, but this is a more theoretical consideration, not
sustained by any fact, and it may have been called forth by a
comparion for inst. of the figures given by Hincks of Gonothyraea
gracilis and Campanulina turrita, as the hydrothecal teeth in the
former figure are very much like the segments of the operculum
in the latter. But in G. gracilis as in all other dentate Cam-
panulariidae the hydrothecal teeth are divided from each other by
interstices which have once been filled by membranous parts, and
these have been thrown off together with the hydrothecal roof.
On the contrary in Cuspidella, Lafoéina and Oplorhiza as in Cam-
panulina and Opercularella the operculum is formed by a continuous
1) 54, p. 512.
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belt representing the upper part of the side-walls after the roof
has been thrown off, and the only difference between the operculum
in the three former genera and that of the two latter is that in
Campanulina and Opercularellå it has been cleft in a number of
segments, which, however, together represent the whole belt. These
segments are really not triangular, but about rectangular or tongue-
shaped, and only seem to be triangular because they cover each
others” margins. Besides, the proboscis of Campanulina and Oper-
eularella is according to Hincks conical and not claviform as in
the Campanulariidae, and on the whole there can be no doubt but
that the two genera must be derived from the Lafozidae.
The species of the genus 7'hyroscyphus!) remind us, both
in the form of their short-stalked hydrothecae and in the structure
of the colony, of such inoperculate species as ,, Obeliaf” marginata
Allm.,”) ,,Campanularia" insignis Allm.,”) ,,Campanularia" juncea
Allm.?”y and ,,Campanularia" rufa Bale,t) all of which possess more
ør less elongate, somewhat bilaterally symmetrical hydrothecae. The
form of the proboscis is not known in any of these species, but in
Th. simplex I have found åa conical proboscis, and the same form
of proboscis has also been found by Ritchie in Thyroscyphus
simplex Lmx. (non — Th. simplex Allm.), for which he has
instituted the genus Parascyphus. The latter species is distinetly
bilaterally symmetrical and provided with a blind sack, and Ritchie,
therefore, refers it to the Sertulariidae, but as the hydrothecae
have a short stalk I prefer to refer it to the Campanulinidae, It
is, however, doubtful whether this species is sufficiently different
from the species of Thyroscyphus to represent a proper genus.
The tripartite operculum is not a sufficient, distinguishing character,
and also the other species of Thyroscyphus present a more or less
developed bilateral symmetry. Perhaps they also posséss a blind sack.
A comparison between the different opercula found in the
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Campanulinidae shows that we have to discern between 6 different
types, and in two of these the operculum is formed of the whole
hydrothecal roof. This is the case with the univalvular adcauline
operculum of Abietinella, and with the three- or four-valvular oper-
culum in Thyroscyphus, and Tetropoma.”) A third type is repre-
sented by the operculum of Calycella, which, as shown by Kramp,?)
is formed of the peripheral part of the roof, while in the three
last types it is formed of a smaller or larger distal part of the
side-wall after the roof has been thrown off. In Toichopoma it is
formed by. an infolding of the side-wall at the one side, while in
Cuspidella, Lafoéina, Oplorhiza, Campanulina and Opercularella
it is formed of the whole distal part of the side-wall. The sixth
type is represented by the operculum of Stegopoma about which
we have already spoken. The difference between the named forms
of opercula is really so great, that there can scarcely be any doubt
but that they have developed independently, and I shall here
point out the significant phenomenon that a number
of different forms independently and in different
manner have developed a protecting roof to the hydro-
theca.
I have already given my reasons why I must regard the pre-
sence of an operculum as a family character, and I shall lastly
add that if we were to refer all these operculate forms to the
Lafoéidae we should also be obliged to refer the Sertulariidae to
the latter family.
A comparison between the diagnoses given above of the two
operculate families, the Campanulinidae and the Sertulariidae, shows
that they are very nearly related, and the most significant charac-
ters, which distinguish the members of the latter family, are that
they are always bilaterally developed, always sessile, and ås a rule
have a larger or smaller part of the adcauline wall coalesced with
the corresponding stem or branch. Further in all the Sertulartidae
. gg This genus must, no doubt, be united with Thyroscyphus.
2) 30, p. 380.
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the whole roof of the hydrotheca is transførmed into the operculum
while this within the Campanulinidae is only found in 7'etrapoma,
Thyroscyphus (with Parascyphus) and Abietinella n. g.
The interesting species for which I have found it necessary
to institute the last named new genus has been described by Jåder-
holm?) under the name of Zygophylax operculata. Like a number
of nearly related species, referred to the genera Zygophylaæ, Peri-
siphonia, Brucella”) and Lictorella, it possesses short-stalked, bilat-
erally symmetrical hydrothecae, at their base provided with one or
two nematothecae, and the colony consists of an axial tube, which
bears at least the great plurality of the hydrothecae, and a number
of peripheral tubes. The hydranth is provided with a blind sack,
which no doubt is found also in the other related species, but in
opposition to the latter the hydrothecae possess quite a similar: ad-
cauline operculum to that found in the genera Diphasia and Åbie-
tinaria, being at the same time of a similar form as in the latter
genus, and especially presenting a similar neck-shaped narrowing at
the adcauline side. In opposition to Zygophylax (Brucella) ar-
mata Ritchie, the diaphragm of which is perforated by a large
round opening, the diaphragm-opening of Abietinella operculata
(pl. IV, fig. 22a) has a similar form to that found in a.number
of Abietinaria species (pl. IV, fig. 225), being pear-shaped and
surrounded by a projecting margin. If the proximal half of such a
hydrotheca were to coalesce with the branch we should find in con-
tinuation of the line, indicating the concrescence between the hydro-
thecal wall and the corresponding wall of the branch, another line
running downwards from the adcauline end of the diaphragma and
indicating the corresponding concrescence between the stalk and the
branch. Such a line, which I shall call the ,,stalk-mark”, we find
more or less developed in all the species of Diphasia (pl. IV,
fig. 26) and Absetinaria (pl. IV, fig. 24), and it is distinct evi-
dence that these species must be derived from forms, which have
1) 25, p. 276; Taf. 12 figs. 7—8.
?) 50.
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been provided with a free stalk. Another species Zygophøjlax
grandis Vanh., which must -be referred to the same genus, has later
been described by Vanhåffen;") Though Abietinaria lacks both
peripheral tubes and nematothecae the agreement between the
species of this group and those of Abietinella in the form of the
hydrothecae and the structure of the operculum is so great, that I
cannot doubt but that the former genus must be derived from the
latter. The presence and the development of.the nematothecae in
the nearly related species, referred to Zygophylax, Perisiphonia and
Lictorella, is subject to very great variation, and the same holds
good for the composition of the colony, not only in the same form-
group, where the peripheral tubes have a very different extension,
but also in.a number of genera belonging to the Campcanulinidae
and Sertulariidae. I have already spoken of the differences in the
form of the colony within the genus Stegopoma, and I shall still
only mention. that while the stem in the" Sertulariidae is monosi-
phonic, as a rule, a small number of Sertularella-species' possess a
polysiphonic stem. The gonothecae have not yet been found in any
of the two Abietinella-species, but it is permissible to suppose that
they are arranged in the form of a Coppinia, as this arrangement
has been found in the related species Perisiphonia conferta, Zygo-
phylax (Brucella) armata and in a new species of Zygophylax
from the Philippine Islands. As the presence of a Coppinia in a
freely growing colony.seems to be contingent upon the presence of
peripheral tubes, the disappearance of the latter might explain
the quite different arrangement of the gonothecae in Abietinaria,
where they as in the great plurality of the Sertulariidae are ve
in "the neighbourhood of the single hydrothecae.
The short-stalked Thyroscyphus-species Th. (Parascyphus)
simplex Lwx.?) Th. Torresi Busk (= Th. simplex Allm.?) and
Th. vitiensis Markt.) stand in a similar relation to Sertularella as
1) 50. |
: 2 ig; p- 158.
: Hd p: 210-and 9, "EAR
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Abietinella to Abietinaria and Diphasia. They only differ from
species of that genus in their hydrothecae being short-stalked, and,
therefore, a concretion: between the stalk and the corresponding
axis would convert them into Sertulareila-species.
"There has not yet been found opereulate short-stalked species,
corresponding to the other genera of the Sertulariidae, but that such
forms have existed is evident from the fået, that a more or less
developed stalk-mark is present in most species be-
løonging to this family!) When a branch is regarded from
one of the sides, this mark as a rule appears as a narrow chitinous
process forming a continuation of the inner hydrothecal wall and
running either downwards or obliquely inwards, but when we regard
a hydrotheca from its inner, adcauline wall we see the whole stalk-
mark (Pl. IV, figs. 25, 27) which is provided with a curved or
sometimes angularly bent. proximal margin, and, therefore, its middle
part is much shorter than the two lateral margins seen from the
sides of the branch. Sometimes, however, we may also be able to
see the whole stalk-mark, when a branch is regarded from the
outer surface, f. inst. in Hydrallmania falcata. el. V, fg: 7.)
In some species, f. inst. in Sertularia pumila, Odontotheca trispinosa
and Abietinaria Coei' the stalk-mark when regarded from the
side has the form of a short coecum-like projection, and in that
case the stalk must have been provided with an adcauline con-
cavity, which has prevented it from eoalescing with the branch
in its whole length. In the two former species it is evident already
from an outer inspeetion that this projeetion contains an inner
cavity (Pl. IV, figs. 13,15, Pl, V, figs. 11, 14), the presence of
which is confirmed by means of a sagittal section through a hy-
1) While many BESS: have seen and figured the stalk-mark I have only
found it mentioned by Clarke (15a) and Ritchie (51). Clarke
who has seen it in Sertularia complexa describes it in the following
way: .…: »chitinous processes extend downwards from the base of each
hydrotheca, surrounding an aperture through which the body of the
polypite is connected with the cænosare of the stem.« Ritchie
who has seen it in Sertularia heterodonta and 8 rathbuni mentions
it in the latter species as »two chitinous processes which project
downwards and lie alongside the wall of the internode.«
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drotheca. It is: however completely closed outwardly. Also im
A. coei (Pl. IV, fig. 23) a number of the corresponding projections
contain a distinet inner cavity, but in most of them it seems to
be completely filled by a chitinous secretion.
According to the investigations contained in this
paper I must maintain that the Campanulinidae have devel-
oped from the Lafoézidae or partly from the Campanulariidae,
and that the Sertulariidae must be derived from that
group of the Campanulinidae in which the whole roof
of the hydrotheca has been transformed into an oper -
culum.
Thujaria (Fleming) Lev.
The aperture is vertical or obliquely ascending and provided
with an abcauline sinus, in which is fixed. an opercular membrane,
the distal part of which is a free valve.
'The gonothecae of the species hitherto examined are smooth
without transverse rings and without spines.
In most biserial species the hydrothecae are almost symmet-
rical, being only in a very slight degree turned towards the frontal
face!) of the colony.
Of this genus I have examined the following species:
thuja (L.) Th. lonchitis (Ellis & So0l.), Th. articulata (Pall.),
lichenastrum (Pall.), Th. annulata Krp., Th. carica Lev….
polycarpa Popp., Th. variabilis Markt., Th. cedrina (L.),
cupressoides (Lepech.), Th. sinuosa Bale, Th. tuba (Bale),
desmoides (Torr.), Th. hexodon (Bale), Th. juncea (Vanh.),
Hartlaubi (Nutt.), TX. Hincksi (Mer.), Th. pinnata (Mer.),
cylindrica (Clark.).
sssgssgsg
Sertularia (L.) Lev.
Dynamena (Lamour.)
The aperture is oblique and provided with two lateral teeth,
between which there are found a deeper abcauline and a lower
EF »Frontal« we call that face of the colony on which the gonothecae
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adcauline sinus, the latter:of which is in most cases divided: into
two lateral halves by means of a median projection. In each sinus
is fixed an opercular membrane, the abcauline of which is in most
species provided with a free distal valvular portion.
The gonothecae- present a very different habitus, being either
smooth, ringed or provided with two;or more spines.
In most biserial species the aperture is distinctly: turned towards
the frontal surface.
In the large plurality of the species the adcauline sinus is
divided imto two lateral halves by means of amore or less devel-
oped median projection. In all such cases the adcauline membrane
is at the same time more or less distinctly angularly bent from
side to side, the ridge of the membrane rising from the median
projection. In all such cases the abcauline membrane is provided
with a free, triangular, valvular portion, fitting into the angle
formed by the adcauline membrane, and the length of this portion
depends on the development of the median projection and the size
of the angle in such a manner, that a more developed median
projection gives a smaller angle and a longer valvular portion.
In such species as f. inst. $. argentea L, S. mirabilis (Verr.)
and S. Birulae Schydl.7) the median projection and the angular
bending of the adcauline membrane are only feebly developed while
they are well-developed in S$. pumila and in all such species, in
which the hydrothecae of each pair are contiguous on the frontal
side of the colony. Such species are f. inst. S$. Versluysi Nutt.
e. t. c. A still larger development is attained in $. tubuliformis
(Markt.”) in which species the median projection has the same
length as the lateral teeth, and the adcauline membrane is at least
of the same size as the abcauline. When a closed hydrotheca of
such a species is regarded from the side, the ridge of the adcauline
membrane forms an obtuse angle with the adcauline wall, and
when regarded from the frontal surface its opereular apparatus
might seem to be composed of three valves, two adcauline and an
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abcauline, In such a manner the opercular appåratus of ;$. Rath-
buni has been interpreted by Nutting!) and Ritchie?), and
that of 5. heterodonta by: the latter author ?), but the supposed two
distal valves are really only the two halves of the angularly: bent
adcauline membrane. ;
I have already pointed out that Nutting regards the oper-
cular apparatus in Sertularia as ”shaped like the side walls of an
"AV tent, the front and rear of the tent being closed by the two
opposite hydrothecal teeth”, and as a typical example he describes
the development and structure of the operculum in $. pumila. At
the same time, however, Nutting's figures of S. cornicina, S.
Mayeri, S. brevicyathus and S. flowersi distinctly show that the
operculum in these species cannot be constructed in the above
manner, the aperture being provided with an adcauline median
projection and an angularly bent adcauline wall In such of the
author's figures which present the hydrothecae regarded from the
side, as f. inst. those of S. Pourtalesi!) and S. exiguaY), only
the one lateral half of the. angularly bent adcauline membrane is
seen. I have seen, however, å few species, in Which the operculum
is construeted in the manner described ”by Nutting, and that is
the case in S. Suensoni n. sp. (pl.'IV,: figs. 16—20), S.' grisea
Krp. (= $. similis Clark), and in that form which'Marktanner-
Turneretscher%) has described under the name S. difusa Allm.,
var. To judge from the figure given by the author Sertularia
(Sertularella) Clarki Mer. seems to have a similar operculum. In
these species the adcauline sinus has no median projection, the
adeauline membrane is not angularly bent, and both: opercular
membranes, which have an almost straight free edge, form with
each other. an acute angle. An adcauline median prøjection and
an angular bending of the adcauline wall we also lack in SS.
Nuttingi mn. sp. (pl. IV, figs. 1—4) in which the bottom - of the
sinus is convex aud the adcauline membrane very short. The same
1) 44. |
3) 51;
Sy 36,
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is the case in the nearly related species 5. intermedia (pl. IV,
figs. 7—10) in which, however, the lateral teeth are less developed,
and the adcauline membrane only indistinctly defined from the rest
of the adecauline wall. I must regard both species as intermediate
forms between Thujaria and Sertularia, and I cannot doubt but
that the latter genus has developed from the former by a trans-
formation. of the distal part of the adcauline wall.
” Sertularia Suensoni nm. sp.
(pl. IV, figs. 16—20).
The colony, the height-of which is 67 mm, has a thin,
but rather rigid ,geniculate stem, which increases in thickness
towards the tip, and is divided into distinct internodes, each of which
bears a branch. The branches, which rise from the stem at
an angle of about 70?, present a spiral arrangement, the sixth
being placed over the first. They are regularly and richly dichoto-
mously branched, each being divided 7 times, and, therefore, they
form a very dense tuft, which in the colony examined takes up
the distal half, the branches. in the proximal half being only
represented by a few proximal internodes. The internodes of the
branches bear 5—13 hydrothecae.
The hydrothecae, the length of which is c. 0,5 mm, are alter-
nate or subalternate, provided with a short free, obliquely ascending,
not outwardly curved distal end, and divided from each other by
interspaces which inerease in length towards the end of the branches,
where they may attain the length of a hydrotheca. The aperture,
which is turned a little towards the frontal surface of the colony
and is provided with two large, triangular lateral teeth, has a con
cave adcauline sinus without a median projeetion, and the adcauline
membrane, which is not. angularly bent and slopes a little out-
wards has an almost straight free edge, which meets the corres-
ponding edge of the abeauline membrane at an angle of .c. 50”.
In opposition to what is found in the large plurality of Sertularia-
species the abecauline membrane, therefore, has no free valvular
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portion, and the egress of the hydranth takes place only through
the fissure between the edges of the two membranes. In this
species, therefore, the opercular apparatus is formed as the walls
of'an "AP ent
Å single colony was taken at lat. 429'N, long. 130? 30” E. by
Capt. E. Suenson. Depth 60 fathoms.
This species is nearly related to S. Fabricii Lev. which also
lacks a median adcauline projection, but in' the latter species the
adcauline membrane is not sloping outwards, and being, besides,
slightly convex from side to side the abcauline membrane is
provided with a feebly developed free valvular portion.
Sertularia decipiens n. sp.
(Pl. IV, figs. 11, 12).
The colonies, the largest of which attains a height of
22 mm, are singly pinnate with alternate branches, and the stem
is divided into regular internodes, each of which as a rule bears a
single branch. An exception is found in the lowermost branchiferous
internode which always bears two opposite or subopposite branches,
and in a småll number of the colonies examined the same is the
Case with still another internode, in a single colony even with two.
While the furrows dividing the single internodes from each other
are as a rule sloping very little towards the frontal surface of the
colony, those bounding the proximal end of the internodes with
two branches are very different from the others, being very long
and deep and the two lateral halves of each forming with each
other two acute angles of about 359—40?, a distal on the dorsal
and a proximal on the frontal surface of the colony. The lower-
most =non-branchiferous portion of the colony has the length of
3—4 internodes, and as a rule is not divided into distinct inter-
nodes, but in a small number of the colonies the distal end presents
1—2 short internodes, the proximal end of which is bounded by
similar characteristic furrows as those above mentioned. The
branches, of which the largest colonies bear 8—9 on each side,
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are divided into internodes; of different length, each: bearing 1—4
pairs of opposite hydrothecae,; and as a rule the internodes of the
proximal half of the branch have a larger number of hydrothecae
than those of the distal half, in which, therefore, most of the
short imternodes åre found,
The hydrothecae, which are placed on the frontal side
of the colony, are adnate to the stem and the branches with a
portion of their adéauline wall which rarely attains the half length
of the latter. Besides, the hydrothecae of each pair are contiguous
in the two thirds of their length and the single pairs of hydro-
thecae belonging to the same internode are connected with each
other in such a way, that a larger part of the adcauline wall of a
proximal hydrotheca is adnate to a smaller part of the abcauline
wall of a distal hydrotheca. They are elongately vase-shaped, and
their free distal ends are turned obliquely outwards, those belonging
to each: pair of hydrothecae forming with each other an angle of
c. 70%. The aperture is twice as broad as high and provided
both with well-developed ; lateral teeth and with a well-developed
median projection, which divides the adcauline sinus into two
lateral halves. There is found a well-developed, outwards sloping,
angularly bent adcauline membrane.
Each branchiferous internode of the stem is provided with a
pair of subopposite hydrothecae, which in the proximal part of the
stem are divided from each other by an interstice, the breadth of
which gradually decreases distally aceording to the decreasing
breadth of stem, and at last they coalesce with each other in a
similar way as in the branches. Sometimes this coalescence may
take place already in the fourth internode, sometimes not before
the seventh. : Besides there is found a single hydrotheca distally
to each branch. In most colonies more or less of the proximal
stem internodes have lost. their hydrothecae which, however, have
left distinct traces of their presence.
Of this species I have seen 70 colonies which rise from an
interlacing stolonic network, fixed to a worm-tube. Paumben enke |
sun 1 fathom. (C. af denelrks
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Both the form of the hydrothecae and their unilateral arrange-
ment give to this species a great outer resemblance to Hydrall-
mania falcata.
Sertularia Nuttingi n.s
(Pl. IV, figs. 1—4).
The colonies, the largest of which has a height of 117 mm,
have a thin slender: stem, whieh is as a rule only indistinetly
divided into internodes, but in some. of them. the internodes of
the distal part are rather distinct and each provided with 3
branches. In the youngest colony, which has a height of 50 mm.
and is provided with 15 pairs of alternate branches, the stem has
very distinct internodes which are provided with 4—8 branches.
We can discern in the colony between a proximal, somewhat
longer part, in which the branches are simple and alternåte, and
a distal part, the branches of which are composite and spirally
arranged, the sixth being placed over the first. The latter branehes
are provided on each side with 1—3 alternate branchlets, a few
of which may rarely be bifurcate. The branches diminish in
length towards the end of the branch, and as they have their
ends lying in the same circle-segment these branches look as if
they were flabellate. The simple branches and the longest branch-
lets are only divided into two, rarely three internodes.
The hydrothecae, which are alternate, show some difference
in the proximal and in the distal portion of the colony, being in
the former wholly adnate and provided with an almost vertical
or very little ascending abcauline wall, while in the latter they
have a very short, free distal end and a distinctly ascending ab-
cauline wall. While further the single hydrothecae in the former
are nearly approximate, they are in the latter divided from each
other by an interstice Which may attain the half length of the
hydrotheca. "The above differences, however, are not equally large
in all colonies, and, besides, there may be found some difference
also between the hydrothecae in the proximal and those in the
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distal part of the branches. The aperture, which is turned a little
outwards «and frontally, is provided with two" well-developed
roundedly triangular lateral teeth and lacks an adcaulihe median
projection. The bottom of the adcauline sinus is convex, and
the short adcauline membrane is convex from side to side.
The gonothecae are pyriform, smooth, and the short an-
nular aperture is surrounded by 6—8 short spines.
Of this species I have seen 8 cøolonies from Japan (33? 10' N.
129? 18' E.), depth 38 fath. (Schån au).
Sertularia intermedia n. sp.
(Pl. IV, figs. 7—10).
The colony, which has a height of 95 mm. is provided
with a thin slender stem, presenting a number of indistinct inter-
nodes with 6—12 branches. it is divided into a proximal half
with simple alternate branches, and a distal half, the branches
of which are -spirally arranged and composite, each being provided
on each side with 3—5 branchlets, which gradually deerease in
length towards the tip, and, therefore, these branches give the
impression of being flabelliform.
The hydrothecae which are alternate and divided. from
each other by an interstice, which may attain the length of a
half hydrotheca, are in the whole length of the colony provided
with a distinctly obliquely ascending and gracefully outwards
curved abcauline wall, and with a rather short free distal end.
The aperture which is turned directly towards the margin of the
colony, is provided with two broadly rounded, but low lateral
teeth, and with a convex or indistinctly angularly bent sadcauline
wall, the membranous portion of which is very low and indistinctly
defined.
The gonotheeae are pyriførm, and the short ring-shaped
aperture is surrounded by 6—8 short spines. Besides the above
described mature colony there are found two small (height 32—
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40 mm) pinnate ones, provided with 12—15 pairs of alternate
branches.
From the Korea-Strait (Capt. E. Suenson). Depth 50 fath.
Hydrallmania (Hincks) Lev.
The aperture is provided with two lateral teeth between which
are found a deeper adcauline and a much lower abcauline sinus,
which is not divided by a median projection. The opercular
apparatus is formed by a much larger adcauline and a small ab-
cauline membrane, the former of which is provided with a free
valvular portion (Pl. V, figs. 1—7).
I have already pointed out!) that the characters on which
Hincks has instituted the genus Hydrallmania are only of specific
value, and, therefore, the question if the genus has a right to stand
depends on whether the aperture and the opercular apparatus
present sufficiently great differences from those found in the other
genera. The above diagnosis shows that the aperture may be
regarded as an inverse Sertularia-aperture, and, therefore, there
may be set førth reasons both pro and contra the independence
of the above genus, which, for the present I propose to keep.
Besides the three species, H. falcata L., H. distans Nutt.”) and
H. fransiscana Trask?), all of which have their bases placed in
the same longitudinal belt. and only differ from each other in minor
details regarding the form and mutual position of the hydrothecae,
I must to this genus still refer the species which Allman has
described as Thujaria plumulifera.
Hydrallmania plumulifera (Allman).
Thujaria Pleionliare rem: Memoirs Mus. Comp. Zoology Vol. V, No.
mbridge 1877, p. 27, pl. XVII, tigs. 3—6.
— — mkareren Bihang till K, Svenska Vetensk. Akadem.
Handl. B. 21, Afd. IV, No. 6, 1896, p. 12, Taf. II,
fig. 4
1; 33,
2) 44.
Vidensk, Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. Bd. 64. En
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non Thugjaria plumulifera Nutting, The Sertularidae; p. 67, pl. IX, figs.
9—13.
(Pl. V, figs, 1—6).
The colony is provided with an extremely thin and slender
stem, divided into distinct internodes, each of which bears a branch,
but while a number of the proximal branches are alternate, simple,
and rather short (length 8—10 mm), the rest of the branches,
which are børne by very long internodes, are spirally arranged, much
"longer (19—30 mm) and each provided with 4—7 pairs of alter-
nate branchlets. Their axes are like the main-stem divided into
distinct internodes, a few of which may be without: branchlets.
The hydrothecae, which are provided with a convex ad-
cauline and a somewhat concave abcauline lateral margin, are
turned outwards and more or less frontally, but in opposition to
what is the case in H. falcata (Pl. V, fig. 8) not only their distal
ends, but also their bases are in the single branchlets arranged
into two distinct longitudinal series, and the single hydrothecae
of a branchlet either do not touch each other at all or only in a
very small degree, a small proximal and adcauline portion of a
distal hydrotheca being in connection with or covered by ”a proximal
one. For the rest they are very like those of H. falcata, and
their distal fourth is freely' projecting.
The distance between the hydrothecae of the two series as
also their direction varies according to their place in the branchlet,
in such aåa way that the more proximally the hydrothecae are
placed the greater is the distance between the two series, and the
less distinet is the frontal turning of the hydrothecae. Å corres-
ponding difference is also contingent upon the more or less proximal
or distal position of the branchlet in the branch, and of the branch
in the stem, and, therefore, the distance between the two series
of hydrothecae attains its maximum in the proximal part of the
proximal branches, and here the frontal turn of the hydrothecae
— is almost imperceptible. A line dividing one of these branchlets
into two lateral halves, in the distal end only cuts off a small
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adcauline. portion of the 'diaphragms. "Each branchlet is divided
into 3—6 internodes, each of which bears 3—10 hydrothecae,
the number of the latter in each internode. decreasing as a rule
towards the distal end. In the stem as also in the axes of the
composite branches the hydrothecae are arranged into two well-
divided longitudinal series, but while the internodes of the proximal
portion of the stem bear 3 hydrothecae those of the distal portion
are only provided each with a single one, placed at the origin of
the branch. The axial internodes of the composite branches bear
3—6 hydrothecae.
The gonothecae, of which I have seen a few borne by the
stems and by the proximal part of a number of branchlets, are
elongate, smooth, from the middle decreasing in thickness towards
both ends, the distal of which is somewhat tubiform.
Georgia from off the mouth of the river Savannah. Depth 4 fathoms.
I have examined two incomplete colonies sent me from the
Zoological Museum of Upsala!).
Allman's short and incomplete description as also his ac-
companying figures agree very well with the present species, and
the only disagreement is that according to Allman "the hydrothecae
are adnate for nearly their whole length”, but this difference "may
very well be the result of variation. The author especially points
out that "Thujaria plumulifera has a good deal of the habit of
Hydrallmania falcata.” "On the other side Nutting's species, of
which he has sent me some fragments, is not identical with All-
man's. It is a Sertularia, the hydrothecae of which are provided
with a rather long, free distal portion and have the adcauline
sinus feebly divided into two lateral halves. In opposition to what
is the case in H. plumulifera there is no spiral arrangement of
the branches, and the internodes which are not sharply divided
from each other and each of which bears a branch, are of me
unequal length, each bearing 3—15 hydrothecae,
1) I have later received a fragment of the original specimen from ka
Museum of Comp. Zoology, Cambridge,
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I propose to name this species, the examined fragments: of
which are from the Albatross” station 2015, Sertularia extensa n. sp.
In some young colonies of H. falcata from Hellebaek, Den-
mark, which have a length of 29 mm I have also found a proximal
portion with shorter internodes ;and provided with 8—13 pairs
of rather short alternate branches, but these internodes differ from
the corresponding in H. plumulifera therein, that they are only
provided each with an axillary hydrotheca. In the youngest of
these colonies the distal portion, which bears a few rudimentary
branches, has a length of 10 mm. :
To the present genus may perhaps still be referred Sertula-
rella limbata Allm.!).
.Odontotheca n. g.?).
The aperture is provided with two strongly developed, some-
times unequal abcauline teeth, between which there are -found a
much larger and deeper adcauline and a much smaller abcauline
sinus. In each sinus is fixed a thin opercular membrane, which
ends in a straight edge, and, therefore, lacks a free valvular portion.
In a few cases there is found a median adcauline tooth, and in
such species (f. inst. in O. trispinosa Cought) the adcauline mem-
brane is angularly bent, and the abcauline provided with a free
valvular portion. The gonothecae have a very variable habitus,
being either smooth, ringed or provided with two spines.
To this genus I must refer the following species: - Sertularia
operculata L. (22.), S. aperta Allm. (4.), S. minima d'Arey Th. (4.),
S. unilateralis Allm. (4.), S. crinis Allm. (4.), $. erinoidea Allm.
(4.), 8. megalocarpa Allm. (4.), S. bispinosa Gray (7.), $. Maple-
stonei Bale (7.), S.. macrocarpa Bale (7.), S. pulchella d'Arey Th.
(7.), S. bidens- Bale (7.), S. trispinosa Cought (7.), Sertularella tro-
chocarpa Allm. (4.), Sert. episcopus Allm. (2.), Sert. rectitheca Ritchie
(50.), Thujaria ramosissima Allm. (4.), Th. plumosa Clark (44.) and
Abietinaria greenei (Clark) (44.).
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I have only been able to examine the opercular apparatus of
Sert. operculata (Pl. V, figs. 8—10) and Sert. trispinosa (Pl. V,
figs. 11—15), but the form of the aperture in the above species
leaves no doubt that: they must be referred to the same genus.
In Thwjaria bidens Allm. (2.) the aperture seems to be an in-
verted Odontotheca-aperture, and this species must, therefore, no
doubt, be referred to a new genus.
Diphasia (Agassiz) Lev.
The aperture, which is horizontal or very little oblique, has
no teeth and is provided with an adcauline sinus in which is
fixed an opercular membrane with a large free opercular valve.
The above genus not only comprises most species referred to
Diphasia but also those belonging to Abietinaria Kirchenpauer,
a genus based solely on the form of the hydrothecae which have
been characterized by the author in the following manner: ,,es
sind flachenfårmige, bauchige, mit ihrer Basis angewachsene Be-
hålter, deren nach aussen gerichtete Offnung das Ende eines engen,
mehr oder weniger langen, nach einer Seite geliegenen Halses
bildet.” Nutting who accepts Abietinaria as an independent
genus next to Diphasia characterizes it not only by the form of
its hydrothecae ("more or less bottle-shaped” ) and gonothecae, but
also by the presence of an adcauline opereulum, while Broch”)
proposes to divide the genus Diphasia into two subgenera- Eu-
diphasia and Abietinaria. As both the form of the hydrothecae
and the structure of the gonothecae are subject to great variation,
and the same forms of hydrothecae and of gonothecae are found
in a number of different genera, I cannot regard Abietinaria as a
distinct genus, and I think that we may, at least provisionally,
accept Broch's proposition to divide Diphasia into two sub-
genera or groups. ;
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Group Eudiphasia (Broch).
The hydrothecae increase in breadth towards the distal end,
and attain their largest breadth at the aperture. The gonothecae
are always provided with a number of projections (leaves, spines),
of different form and size, either placed in the distal end or spread
øver a larger portion of the gonotheca.
To this group belong the following species: D. rosacea (L.)
(22.), D. attenuata Hincks (22.), D. fallax (Johnst.) (22.), D.
Wandeli Lev. (32), D. pinaster (E11.-Sol.) (22.), D. pinnata (Pall.)
(22.), D. alata Hincks (= Thuj. pharmacopola Allm.) (22.), D.
paarmami Nutt. (44.), D. palmata Nutt. (45.), D. tropica Nutt.
(44.), D. bipinnata Allm. (4.), D. scalariformis Kirkp. (29.), D.
mutulata (Busk) (7.), D. digitalis (Busk) (7.) = Desmoscyphus
acanthocarpus Allm. (5.) and possibly Thug. heteromorpha Allm. (4.).
Group Åbietinaria Kirchenp.
The hydrothecae decrease in breadth towards the distal end,
and the breadth of the aperture is smaller — as a rule much
smaller — than the largest breadth of the hydrotheca. The go-
nothecae are smooth or ringed, and rarely provided with two spines.
Besides the 10 species, referred by Kirchenpauer to his
genus Abietinaria, I also refer the following species to this group:
AÅ. coei Nutt. (44.), 4. Traski Torr. (44.), A. amphora Nutt. (44.),
AÅ. gracilis Nutt. (44.), A. costata Nutt. (44.), A. annulata (Krp.)
(44.), 4. turgida (Clark) (44.), 4. gigantea (Clark) (44), Diphasia
Kincaidi Nutt. (44.), ?D. pulchra Nutt. (44.), (== Dynamena
unilateralis Bonnevie (12, p. 78), Thuj. thujarioides (Clark). Nutt.
(44.) and Sertularia (Selaginopsis) fusca Johnst. (= Th. salicornia
Allm.) (1.). Lastly I shall set forth some few remarks on the
structure and synonymy of a number of the above species.
In a number of them I have found an internal, median, ad-
cauline tooth-shaped projection of different form and size, which
is placed a little proximally to the free edge, and only seems to
be present in such forms in which there is a well-developed ad-
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cauline collar-like narrowing. This projection has been found in
A. Tilesi, A. melo, A. costata, A. junipérus, A. Jilicula, Å: coei,
(Pl. IV, fig. 22), A. gracilis and in those forms which Kirchen-
pauer has designated as A. abietina, var. minor, A, abietina, var.
purpurea and 4. filicula, var. tornata.
In 4. Traski the diaphragm is on each side provided with a
triangular, pointed, ascending portion.
Thujaria salicornia AHman,”) which, as far as I know, has
not been mentioned since it was deseribed, is identical with Serr.
fusca Johnst., and the reason why this fact has not been earlier
detected "is, no doubt, that the hydrothecae look very different in
the figures given by Hincks and in those given by Allman.
The pinna figured by Hincks is namely seen from one of the
broad sides, while the two pinnae figured by Allman are seen
from one of the narrow sides.
Broch regards Diphasia pulchra Nutt. as a synonym to
Thuj. thujarioidées (Clark), and the two forms, which have quite
similar gonothecae, are no doubt nearly related, but a comparison
between specimens of both lias led me to the result, that they must
be regarded as distinct species. I shall here only point out that
in 4. pulchra the very short free distal portion of the hydrothecae,
which is provided with an adcauline collar-like narrowing, is only
by a very narrow interspace divided from the adjacent portion of
the branch, while in A. thujarioides the much longer distal portion
has no narrowing and is divided from the stem by a rather broad
and deep sinus. ;
The abcauline wall of Diph. digitalis (Busk) presents a feebly
developed membranous collar, and, therefore, the aperture is pro-
vided with two feeble lateral teeth.
Sertularella (Gray) Hineks. |
The aperture is provided with 3—4 marginal teeth, between
which are found as many curves. In each curve is fixed an oper-
cular membrane provided with a large free, valvular portion.
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In the large plurality of species the gonothecae are ringed,
and with the exception of a single species (S$. tamarisca) the
hydrothecae are regularly alternate.
As in most genera the form and direction of the hydrothecae
are subject to great variation, but in opposition to what is found
in more or fewer species of all the other genera, the turning of the
hydrothecae towards the frontal surface of the colony is never so
strong that the hydrothecae of the two opposite series come in
contact with each other, and this cannot be regarded as a conse-
quence of the alternate arrangement of the hydrothecae, as such a
coalescence is found both in Hydrallmania and in Idia, the hydro-
thecae of which are alternate.
In opposition to what is found in all other genera with many
species the arrangement of the hydrothecae is exceptionally con-
stant, opposite hydrothecae having hitherto only been found in $.
tamarisca.
In respect to the extent in which the hydrothecae are adnate
to the respective axis Sertularella is the only genus, in which a
number of species have their hydrothecae only affixed by their
bases (S. quadrata Nutt., S. catena Allm., S. cylindritheca Allm.,
S. magna Nutt.), and, besides, in a large number of species the
adcauline wall of the hydrothecae is only adnate in its proximal
third or fourth (f. inst. in $. areyi Nutt., $. amphoriformis Nutt.,
S. fusiformis Hincks, .S. tricuspidata (Alder) e. t. c.), a condition
which outside the genus Sertularella has only been found in a few
species of the subgenus Abietinaria. Only in a few species (&
lata Bale, S. distans Allm., S. albida Krp.) are the hydrothecae
adnate in their whole length.
Corresponding primitive conditions are also presented by some
species in the structure of the diaphragma, and by others in the
composition of the colony.
While all other members of the family seem to possess a com-
plete diaphragma perforated by a narrow abcauline, pearshaped or
ovate opening, the diaphragma in a number of Sertularella-speeies
313
is more. or less incomplete, and in $. Zata (Bale) and S. distans
Allm. it is quite absent, being only represented by the somewhat
thickened proximal edge of the adcauline hydrothecal wall. In S.
magna Nutt. and S. (Thecocladium) flabellum Allm. it is only devel-
oped as a narrow adcauline belt, while in $. gvadrata Nutt. and
S. cylindritheca Allm. a corresponding belt is found in the whole
circumference of the hydrotheca. It is broader in the dorsal than
in the frontal surface of the colony, and, in the old hydrothecae of
the stem I have found it closed with the exception of a round or
pear-shaped opening. In a number of species I have found the
diaphragma perforated by an unusually large rounded opening, for
inst. in $. pinnata Clark, 8. tricuspidata Alder, S. fruticolosa Til.,
S. Tilesii Krp., und $. infractia Krp. A large ovate opening is
found in S. tamarisca.
While a fascicled stem is so common a feature in the La-
Foéidae, the Campanulariidae and the Campanulinidae, it very
rarely occurs in the Sertulariidae outside the genus Sertularella,
namely in Diphasia alata Hincks. "Thujaria” diaphana Allm.,
Thujaria bidens and Sertularella cuneata Allm.; but it has been
found in the following Sertularella-species: S. gayi (Lmx.), $
megastoma Nutt., S. catena Allm., S. pinnigera Hartl., S. tropica
Nutt., 8. pluma Krp., 8. arborea Krp., $. crassicaulis Heller. S.
antarctica Hartl. S. annulata Allm. and $. crassipes Allm.
Short-stalked hydrothecae have been found in the creeping Seré.
(Calamphora) parvula Allm.,!) and in a form which Hartlaub
has provisionally designated as Sert. tenella(?).”) I think the hydro-
thecae of the latter are much more like those of Sert. Areyi Nutt.?).
The above facts, therefore, seem to show that Sertularella is
the most primitive genus in the family Sertulariidae. Lastly. we
must still mention that though the large plurality of the gonothecae
in Sertularella are ringed, the two other forms, which have been
g Fi Hels V, fig. 24.
3) 44 p
314
found in most genera, namely, the smooth and the spinous ones
are also represented in this genus. Hartlaub names five species,
in which the gonothecae are smooth while spinous gonothecae have
only been found in S. quadrata Nutt., S. turgida (Trask) and $.
tamarisea.
As the large plurality of the Sertularella-species are provided
with a stalk-mark, there can be no doubt that they have developed
from stalked forms, and as the hydrothecae in the genus Thyro-
scyphus are provided both with a stalk and with a Sertularella-
operculum, it is permissible to suppose that a large number of these
ancestral forms have been short-stalked 7%yroscyphus-species. I
have found the gonothecae of Th. ramosus Allm. and Th. Torresi
Busk, in which two species they are indistinctly ringed, and there-
fore they present no difficulty to such a supposition. Neither does
the diaphragma, which is developed as a marginal thickening in the
whole circumference of the hydrotheca and, therefore, corresponds
to the thickened marginal portion of the diaphragma found in most
Sertularella-species. But such species as S. Zata (Bale), $. dis-
tans Allm., $. magna Nutt. and S. flabellum (Allm.), in which
the diaphragma is either quite absent or only represented by a
narrow adcauline belt cannot have developed from Thyroscyphus,
and the same, no doubt, holds good also for the earlier mentioned
group of species, the cylindrical hydrothecae of which are free in
their whole length, but quite lack a stalk-mark. To Sertularella
have also been referred a small number of species provided with
free cylindrical hydrothecae, but without an operculum, namely
""Sertularella” integritheca Allm., "Sertularella” formøsa Fewkes
and " Sertularella” Hartlaubi Nutt. In "$.” integritheca, the ons
one of the three species, which I have been able to examine, the
diaphragma has a somewhat similar structure as in "8." cylindri-
theca, and I am inclined to think, that the same is the case, with
the two other species. I cannot refer the three species to Sertul-
arella as they lack the chief character of this genus, but it is
possible that the cylindritheca group may have developed from the
315
integritheca group by the transformation of the hydrothecal- roof
into an operculum. In either case I cannot doubt but that Ser-
tularella is a polyphyletic genus.
Idia Lamouroux.
(PL V, figs, 18—22).
The obliquely ascending aperture is surrounded by two very
thin lips, which are bordered on each side by a small tooth, and
are provided with a very much convex free margin. While the
presence of an abcauline opercular membrane is only faintly indi-
cated on each side by the bounding of the lateral tooth, there is
found a' large, well-defined adcauline sinus, which is divided into
two lateral halves by a well-developed median tooth, and the ad-
cauline opercular membrane, which is provided with a median
fold and with a free valvular portion, is in opposition to the abcau-
line lip very movable.
In the only species hitherto known the two series of sub-
alternate hydrothecae are with the exception of the outwards bent
distal ends, in the pinnules (but not in the stems) aduate to each
other along the frontal surface of the colony. The gonothecae
are urn-shaped, and with the exception of the short broad aperture
their surface is divided into a number of longitudinal belts.
In the structure -of the hydrothecal margin and the opercular
apparatus this genus presents the greatest likeness to Hydrallmania,
but: it. differs from this genus in the possession of a median ad-
cauline tooth, and therein that an abcauline opercular membrane
is only faintly iudicated by the abcauline bounding of the lateral
teeth. BR
Also in the possession of subalternate hydrothecae, and in the
more or less extensive coalescence, which takes place between the
two opposite series, the species of sense show likeness to
Idia pristis.
Allman!) who has misunderstood both the structure of the
15,
316
opercular apparatus, and the composition of the colony has referred
the genus Idia-not only to an independent family, but also to a
new section Thalamophora. AÅ correct description of the colony
has been given by Bale”), and Billard”) has pointed out the
presence of an adcauline operculum.
Fig. UL
|
e
Plate IV.
Sertularia Nuttingi n. sp. Hydrothecae from the distal portion
of the colony. Frontal surface. X 57.
The same species, Distal partjon of the colony. Dorsal surface.
47.
x
The same species. The distal end of a hydrotheca, seen from
the frontal surface. X 66.
A gonotheca of the same species. X 34.
The distal end of a + hr btarten of Sert. Fabricii Lev., seen from
its frontal surface.
The distal end of 5 ig same hydrotheca, seen from the side.
47.
x
Sertularia intermedia n. sp. Hydrothecae from the distal por-
tion of a colony. X 34.
"The same species. The distal end of a hydrotheca, seen from
its frontal surface. Xx 66.
The same species. The one side-half of the distal end of a hy-
drotheca, extended. X 66.
AÅ gonotheca of the same species. X 34.
Sertularia decipiens n. sp. A portion ot a branch, seen from
the side. X 20.
The same species. A portion of a branch. Front view. X 20.
Sertularia pumila L. A pair of hydrothecae showing distinct
talks, and distally to each of them a translucent inner cavity-
Trondhjem-fiord. X 34.
The same species. Frontal view of the end of a hydrotheca
x 66.
The same species. Longitudinal section through a portion of a
hydrotheca showing the stalk and the inner cavity between the
latter and the hydrotheca. X 47.
Sertularia Suensoni n. sp. Å portion of a branch. Front
view. X 34.
26.
ad.
317
The distal end of a hydrotheca from the abcauline surface. X 66.
The distal end of a hydrotheca from the adcauline surface. X 66.
The distal end of a. hydrotheca showing the "A”-tent, formed
The "A”-tent seen from above. X 66.
Abietinella operculata (Jåd.). X 34.
The diaphragm of the same species. ;
The opening of the diaphragm in Abietinaria Traski. X 66.
A hydrotheca of Abietinaria coei Nutt. showing the stalk-mark
and the adcauline internal tooth. X 34.
A hydrotheca of Abiet. abietina L. showing the stalk-mark.
20.
x
Two hydrothecae of Abiet. variabilis after their abcauline pro-
jecting portion has been cut away. Distally is seen the boundary
line of the adcauline hydrothecal wall, and proximally the dia-
phragm, the aperture of which is surrounded by a projecting
margin, and the stalk-mark. X 20.
A hydrotheca of Diphasia pinaster L, with stalk-mark. X 20.
A hydrotheca of the same species after its abcauline projecting
portion has been cut re Proximally åre seen the stalk-
mårk and the diaphrag
28—29. Sertularella rs Nok The distal end of a hydrotheca
66.
lune
Bo
me
[v
æ
seen from the opposite sides. X
Plate
Hydralilmania plumulifera Allm. A portion of a proximal
branch. Dorsal vi The h der, which show distinet
sal kr have been regenerated. X 34.
The same species. A portion of a distal branch. Frontal view.
x 34.
The same species. A portion of a distal branch. Lateral view.
Distinct stalk-marks. X 34.
The distal end of a hydrothesse, seen from the abcauline sur-
face. X 66.
The distal end of a hydrotheca, seen from the side. X 66.
ip bigger end of a hydrotheca, seen from the adcauline surface.
Hydralmania [ens (L,). df portion of a branch. Lateral
Odontotheca SSARE ad E "sortlon of a branch. Frontal
i i 34.
x
The same species. The Distal end of a hydrotheca, seen from
the abcauline surface. X 66.
The distal end of a hydrotheca, seen from the adcauline surface
and partly from above. The translucent abcauline sinus is
seen, X 66.
318
Fig. 11. Odontotheca trispinosa Cought. A pair of hydrothecae, seen
from the frontal surface of the branch. The stalk-mark shows
a translucent inner cavity. X 47.
— 12—13. The same species. The distal end of a hydrotheca, seen in
two slightly different positions, but mainly from the adcauline
surtace and partly from above. In fig. 18 is seen the translucent
abcauline. sinus. "The line springing from the adcauline tooth
indicates the ridge of the angularly bent adcauline membrane. X 66.
— 14. An optical longitudinal section of a hydrotheca showing the
inner cavity of the stalk-mark. X 75
— 15, The same species. AÅ hydrotheca seen from the åbcauline sur-
face. Distally is seen the abcauline opercular membrane. For
the rest compare with Pl. IV, fig. 24. X 47.
— 16. A gonotheca of Hebella contorta Markt. X 34.
— 17. The same gonotheca seen from the distal end. X 34.
— 18. Idia pristis Lmx. A portion of a branch seen from the frontal
surface. Near to the distal end of each hydrotheca is seen the
fold "of tlie adcauline opereular membrane (also seen in the
othér figures). X 34.
— 19. The same species. Dorsal view. Distinct stalk-marks. X 34.
— 20. The same species. A somewhat oblique longitudinal section,
which has cut away the distal ends of the one series of hy
thecae. Distinct stalk-marks. x 34.
— 21. Theé såme species. The distal end of a hydrotheca, seen from
the adcauline surface. X 66.
— 22. The såme, seen from the abcauline surface. The presence of a
special abcauline opereular membråne is only faintly indicated.
The ådcauline sinus with its median prøjection is seen through
the thin wall. Xx 66.
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Å new species of Hilara.
By
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Hilara anglodanica n. sp.
Male. Vertex and frons velvet black, above the antennæ a
greyish or brownish grey triangle, reaching about to the ocellar
tubercle. Epistoma brownish; palpi greyish, with long hairs, among
which especially one long bristle. Occiput dark grey, with somewhat
long, black hairs. Antennæ black, the style fully as long as the
third joint. Thorax grey pruinose, only very slightly shining; it
is lightest when seen from in front; between the acrostichal and
dorsocentral bristles there is on each side a not very distinct,
slightly brownish stripe, sometimes almost not perceptible. The
dorsocentral and acrostichal bristles of some length, black, the
former uniserial, longest behind and especially the last is long;
the acrostichal bristles regularly quadriserial.. Further a humeral
bristle, a posthumeral (or præsutural), three notopleural, about four
supraalar bristles, but only the hindmost long, the two anterior
placed besides each other and small, finally a postalar bristle; an-
teriorly in the præsutural depression are some small hairs.. Scutel-
lum grey, with four long bristles, the median pair longest. Pleura
grey or dark grey pruinose. Abdomen a little narrowed towards
the end, black, very thinly greyish pruinose and somewhat shining;
it is generally slightly translucently brownish at the base. 'It.is
cléthed with short, black hairs, and has rather long, 'but fine hind-
marginal bristles. "Venter similarly coloured, but quite | dull, and
with quite short hairs. Exterior genitalia not large, distinetly grey
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pruinose; the lamellæ black, shining, with rather dense, black
hairs; they are cleft at the apex. Legs black, a little dark greyish
pruinose, the coxæ most distinctly; the knees very narrowly reddish,
most distinctly on the hind knees. Front femora with a little lon-
gish hairs on the posterior side; middle femora with a row of
bristly hairs on the anterior side, -longest at base and apex; hind
femora with longish hairs above and below, longest below towards
the apex and here aimost bristly; front tibiæ with fine hairs above,
” being longest and bristly towards the base,
and with rather dense hairs on the posterior
side; middle tibiæ mainly short-haired, with
a bristle at the base on the anterior side
and one below about one third from the
åpex; hind tibiæ with a dorsal and anterior
row: of somewhat long bristles, and short-
"veiliated below. Front metatarsus cylindrical,
a little spindle-shaped, somewhat thickened
and somewhat thicker than the end of tibia;
it is three fourth of the length of tibia
and somewhat longer than' the other four
joints; it is densely short-haired below and
a little longer haired above, and here ge-
nerally with two longer hairs, one near the
Hilara aoistikued d, |
front leg. x 30. apex and another in or more or less above
the middle; all tarsal joints are longer than
broad, the fourth joint on the middle tarsi is the shortest. All
hairs on the legs are black or blackish. Wings a little brownish
tinged; veins black or brownish black; the upper branch of the
ecubital véin issuing almost rectangularly, after the curve it is near-
ly straight and a little diverging; anal vein fine and pale, disap-
pearing somewhat : before the margin. Stigma brown or blackish
brown, long, its inner end nearly opposite to the medial cross-vein.
Halteres black; the pedunele brown, especially towards the base.
—… Female. Similår to the male; the front metatarsus simple,
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fully half as long as tibia, but not so long as the four following joints;
the whole tarsus a little longer than the tibia; hind tibiæ quite simple.
Length. The species may vary somewhat in size, from 3,5
to nearly 5 mm., the female is smallest.
Not quite mature specimens may have the legs, especially the
front legs, somewhat brownish, ånd the base of abdomen more trans-
lucently brown.
This species seems to be somewhat nearly related to H. di-
midiata Strobl (according to the description), but it is distinguished
by several characters, among others a different coloration of
thorax and distinct marginal bristles on abdomen; also the front
legs are differently constructed; the female is at once distinguished
by the quite simple hind tibiæ. It may also remind one of H.
lurida Fall., but the male has thicker front metatarsi and both
sexes are distinguished by the quite regular quadriserial acrostichal
bristles. — Among the Danish species it will be known without
difficulty, and it will be easily placed in the table I have given in
Dipt. Dan. III; it may here I think only be sought under division
8, and here are only two species, H. nigrina, which is very diffe-
rent by the dark wings and dull black abdomen, and qguadrifaria,
which has a blackish brown thorax; both species have in the female
thickened hind tibiæ.
H. anglodanica was first found in 1911 when I took five
specimens on Bornholm in the wood Almindingen; in 1912 it was
not uncommon in Dyrehaven at Copenhagen, flying ower ditches;
this is somewhat curious, for in the preceding years, when I eagerly
collected species of Hilara on several localities, I did not at all
observe the species. My dates of capture are ?%/6—10/8,
When I corresponded with Mr. Collin about the species, he
kindly informed me, after having examined it, that it is not un-
common in England, its geographical distribution thus at pre:
being Denmark and Bages.
15.—2.,—13.
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Corrections to the paper on the Malacostraca
from the Tjalfe-Expedition.
By
K. Stephensen,
Åcanthephyra (p. 64).
During a visit to Copenhagen last summer (1912) Cand. real.
O. Sund, Assistant at the Fisheries-Investigation in Bergen, Norway,
studied the material of the genera Acanthephyra and Pasiphae
preserved in the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen. At the named
time I was on a zoological research in Greenland; but Mr. O.
Sund has left a note, wherein he writes that all the specimens
of 4. purpurea M. Edw. in our museum do not belong to this
species, but to Å. multispina Coutiére, and after my return from
Greenland I have convinced my-self that he is right. Accordingly
all the Greenland specimens of the genus Acanthephyra, also those
from the ,,Tjalfe”-Expedition, in reality belong to A. mudtispina.
A short report will be given in Conspectus Crustaceorum et
Pycnogonidorum Groenlandiæ, Meddel. om Grønland vol. 22, 1913,
p. 44—47; but later on I intend to give the results of a closer
examination in: Crustacea, in Report on the Danish Oceanographical
Expeditions 1908—1910 to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas,
published at the cost of the Carlsberg Fund under superintendance
of Johs. Schmidt, Ph. D.
Boreomysis tridens and B. nobilis (p. 78).
On account of a very unfortunate mistake I have on 3 of the
labels for B. tridens in stead of the right name written B. nobilis.
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B. nobilis is a true .arctic species, that has never been found South
of the ridge in the Davis-Strait; my 3 first localities for B. nobilis
(St. 431: 689 24' N, 539 10' W, 892 m., trawl. — St. 337: 649 05' N,
52? 20' W, 1100 m., trawl. — St. 407—08: 649 14'N, 55% 55' W,
839 m., clay, trawl) are thus to be referred to B. tridens.
20.—2.—1918.
N:FV.M.' Bd. 6.
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KET N: Bd 68.
Pacht & Crone et C. U, Maaløe ( Fig. 2 & 4) ad naturam phot.
Fig. 1—2, Conger vulgaris. Fig. 3—4, Conger (Congromuraena) mystax. Fig. 5, Conger (Congromuraena) balearicus aff.
Leptocephalus Eckmani, Stråmman, emend. Ej , Conger (Cong na) balearicus. -— Fig. 7, Leptocephalus lanceolatus,
Stromman, emend. Fig. 8, ice ingolfianus, n. sp. Fig. 9, FabRelbhalus Andreae, n. sp
D.N.F.V. M. Bb. 64. 1912,
Tyr. Branco Luxo
DNSPV. M'Bo. 04; 1918
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