ANNELIDS. I. 



Harmothoe glabra (Malmgren). 



1865. Ltenilla glabra, Malmgren: Nord. Hafs.-Annal. p. 73. 



1897. Harmothoe glabra, Michaelsen: Polychsetenfauna der Deutschen Meere, p. 90. 



1900. ? setosissima (Savigny), Mc. Intosh: A monograph Brit. Annel. II, p. 345. 



1902. glabra, Moore: Proc. Acad. se. Philad. 1902. 



Locality : 



The Faeroes (no indication of depth) Vestmanhavn. 



57°24' N. L. 7°25' E. L. 10S m. Skager Rak. 



50°i4' X. L. 4°24' W. L. 60 m. Western part of the Channel. 



A single specimen is present from the Faroe Islands. It has a length of 46 mm.; and its 

 greatest breadth is 16 mm. In the western part of the Channel have been taken five or, to put it 

 more exactly, fragments of five, all smaller; the same is the case with a single specimen taken in the 

 Skager Rak by the investigation-steamer "Thor." 



It is difficult to say anything definite about the distribution of this species. In our museum 

 we have no specimens from the Arctic. Malmgren mentions it as "rasissime" at Bahuslan. First near 

 the coasts of England it becomes more frequent, according to M c. Intosh. Southward it reaches so 

 far as to the Mediterranean. 



Moore names some captures from North-Greenland, namely Northumberland Island and Barden- 

 bay, both from shallow water, 10 — 40 fins. I consider these findings very improbable. 



Mc. Intosh thinks he is able to maintain that Malmgren's species is identic with that of 

 Savigny, in the year 1820 described Polynoe setosissima, a supposition which in my opinion is not well 

 founded: For one thing Savigny gives no localitv; he writes: "la patrie ne m'est pas connue." 

 Individu communique par M. Cuvier." Secondly Savigny has nothing to say about the scales "qui 

 etoient tombees et que je n'ai point vues." Thirdly he gives no figures of the setae, and from his 

 description of the same nothing can be concluded. Only an examination of Savigny' s original 

 specimen could settle the question, and it does not appear that Mc. Intosh has done this. 



Harmothoe sp. 



PI. II, fig. 9. PI. IV, fig. 3. 



Locality : 



N. W. t. N. off. Hojen, 44 miles, 660 m. Skager Rak. 



Fragments of three specimens are present, taken by the investigation-steamer "Thor." The 

 largest of these fragments, representing about the foremost half of the animal, perhaps a little more, 

 has a length of 9 mm. 



The animal has its greatest breadth somewhat before the middle of the body, where it measures 

 about 7 mm including the setae; without setse 4 1 , mm. Besides the named fragments was found one 

 scale lying in the glass; I suppose — but I cannot say it with absolute certainty -- that this scale 

 belongs to one of the fragments in mention. No other elytron is present; all are lacking. 



