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ANNELIDS. I. 



Iceland: 



Westman Islands, 49 fms. Clay and mud. 



Siglufjord, 15 fms. 



Nordfjord at Skagestrandsbugt, 5 — 6 fms. 



Faroe Islands: 

 Vestmanhavn. 



This species is evidently a more southerly form than Ph. groenlandica; it is not common in 

 Greenland. At Iceland and the Faroe Islands it seems to be the predominating species of this genus. 

 It is found at the coasts of England, Heligoland, it enters the Danish seas and is said to reach to the 

 Bay of Kiel. It prefers shallow water. 



Phyllodoce Paretti Blainville. 



PI. II, fig. 12. PI. IV, fig. 7. PI. V, fig. 3. 

 ? 1868. Phyllodoce Pancerina, Claparede : Annel. Naples. Suppl. p. 456. 

 1910. Paretti, Mc. Intosh : Monogr. p. 82. 



Locality : 



Fuudingsfjord, 12—20 fms., 0stero. The Faroe Islands. 



From the named locality is present a single specimen of a Phyllodoce, which can not be refer- 

 red to either of the two species dealt with above. Unfortunately the animal is in a very bad condition. 

 After a closer examination different facts are found which could argue that the species in question is 

 Phyllodoce Paretti, de Blainville. Before I deal with these facts I shall remark that I am not convinced 

 that the species of Blainville is identic with Claparede's species Ph. Panccrina as suggests Mc. Intosh. 

 Strangely, Claparede does not mention the peculiarity of the dorsal cirri, a fact which, according to 

 Mc. Intosh, is said to be most characteristic of the species under consideration. 



In the specimen from the Faroe Islands the cephalic lobe is almost square in shape and very 

 little; it is provided with two large eyes, strongly pigmented, a fact emphasized by Claparede and 

 Mc. Intosh as well. Claparede writes: "La frappante petitesse du lobe cephalique est aussi carac- 

 teristique de cette espece." 



The four tentacles are relatively strong and fusiform. 



The tentacular cirri, which are long as well as thick, have partly fallen off; the two hind- 

 most dorsal cirri, which are present, are of a rather peculiar shape being somewhat flattened, a fact 

 not agreeing with the other tentacular cirri yet present (PI. II, fig. 12). Claparede says about the organs 

 in question in his species: "La Ph. pancerina est aussi remarquable pour la longueur de ces organes, dont 

 le plus court est quatre fois, et le plus long au moins cinq fois aussi long que les antenues. Ces cirres 

 tentaculaires sont en meme temps remarquables par leur epaisseur." 



As to the dorsal cirri (lamellae) the specimen from the Faroe Islands shows evidently the 

 peculiar fact mentioned by Mc. Intosh regarding Blainville's species but not named by Claparede 

 regarding Ph. Pancerina in spite of its being very characteristic. Mc. Intosh writes, 1. c. p. 84: 



