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ANNELIDS. I. 



As Augener in his paper dealing with the Polyclueta from Frantz Joseph's Land expresses 

 the supposition that the species in mention should be identic with the form described by Arm. Han- 

 sen in 1878 under the name of Harmothoe aspcra, I addressed myself to Professor Brinkmann in 

 Bergen, who kindly lent me the original specimen of A. Hansen for examination. According to this 

 it is beyond doubt that Augener is right. I shall only add, that Augener is guilty of a mistake, 

 when he writes about the species in mention that it "von Ditlevsen uuter dem Xamen Lagisca multise- 

 tosa aus Nordgronland u. s. w."; I have mentioned the species as Harmothoe multisetosa. not as Lagisca. 

 That it must be a mistake, I conclude from the fact that the name is right in the synonymi-list of 

 Augener in front of his paper dealing with the species concerned. 



As to the identity of Mo ores Lagisca multisetosa which, according to Augener, later has 

 proved to originate from Alaska, not from Greenland, my point of view is the same as that of Au- 

 gener; it may be possible that the two forms are identic. The question cannot be settled without 

 further investigations. 



Harmothoe villosa (Mgrn.). 



1865. Eucranta villosa, Malmgren: Nord. Hafs-Ann. p. 80. 



1883. Harmothoe villosa, Levinseu: Nord. Ann. p. 193. 



1894. - , Bidenkap: Norges Ann. polych. p. 52. 



191 1. , Ditlevsen: Annel. from the Damn. Exped. p. 416. 



1912. Eucranta , Small: Rep. on the Ann. polych. coll. in the North Sea and adj. parts I))- the 



Scotch Fishery Board Vessel, Goldseeker, Part I, p. 181. PI. VI, figs. 3—5. 



Localities: 



The Ingolf-Expedition has taken this species at two stations, namely: St. 25. 63°3o' N. L. 54°25' 

 W. L., 582 fm. and St. 32. 66^5' N. L 56°38' W. L., 318 fm., both localities in Davis Strait. 



Further it has been taken in 63°c>5' N. L. 20°7' W. L. 1 106 m., in the Atlantic, S. W. of Iceland. 



From West Greenland 6 specimens are present taken on 6 different places in "Bredefjord"; the 

 depths, in which it is captured here vary from 310 to 700 m. 



From East Greenland one specimen is present, taken S. E. of Sabine Island in no fm. 



In the above named paper of Small, the literature as to this species is mentioned, and a 

 thorough description is given of a fragment with 16 segments, taken by the Scotch investigation ship 

 u <Toldseeker." In one respect my observations on this species differ decidedly from those of Small. 

 He writes about his specimen: "The eyes are large." In all the specimens at my disposal the eyes 

 are absolutely small; in that respect my specimens agree completely with Malmgrens figure (Taf. X, 

 fig. 9 a) in which the eyes are remarkably small for a Polynoid. But it is possible that the species in 

 question varies in this respect; it seems evident to me that the species discussed by Small must 

 really be H. villosa, his figures of the bristles plainly show that, and his description also agrees 

 with my observations in other respects. As to the dorsal setae, Small points out that these 

 "especially the superior are more curved than Malmgren's figure indicates.'" I can only say that I 

 suppose Malmgren's figure to be correct in that respect as far as regards one of the lower dorsal seta;. 



