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February 17, 1888. Twenty-five miles off the Lizard, 40 fms., sand. A great 

 number of specimens, eight containing food. 

 (1.) Eemains of Ophioglypha albida, and fragments of Lamellibranch shells. 

 (2.) Fragments of Lamellibranch shells. 

 (3.) A few fragments of shells, small pieces of membrane, and a large number of 



large Cha^topod bristles, Aphrodite or Eermione. 

 (4.) Small Lamellibranch shells and fragments. One of these close to the anus 



was entire, the colour unaltered and the animal undigested. 

 (5.) Small Lamellibranch shells and bristles oi Aphrodite or Hermione. 

 (6.) Fragments of shells; one small Lamellibranch Donax shell entire near 



anus, animal absent. 

 (7.) Chastopod bristles. 



March 24. Off Mount's Bay. Thirty-seven specimens, ten containing food. 

 (1.) Pieces of Sertularian Hydroid, and remains of Chcetopod tube. 

 (2.) Anterior part of large Cha3topod of fam. Terebellidae. Fragments of shells. 



Piece of Cellaria fistidosa. 

 (3.) Fragments of shells. Piece of Chastopod tube. 

 (4.) Large Chsetopod bristles, probably of Hermione. 

 (5.) Piece of Chtetopod tube. Fragments of shells 

 (6.) Large bristles, probably of Hermione. 

 (7.) Piece of Cha3topod tube. Fragments of shells. 

 (8.) Fragments of shells. 

 (9.) Large bristles, probably of Hermione. 

 (10.) Tail of Decapod Crustacean, probably shrimp. 



April, 1889. Off Mount's Bay. A large number of specimens. 

 (1.) Bristles of Chietopoda. 

 (2.) Bristles of Chtetopoda, among them the dorsal hook of Melinna cristata, 



Malmgren. 

 (3.) Cuticle of a long specimen oi Lumbrinereis sp. 

 (4.) A long, much-digested specimen of a Gephyrean, Sipuncidus (?) 



Also in several the aciculi of Hermione or Aphrodite and, in several, 

 cylindrical masses of debris containing small shells, e.g., Pecten tigrinus and 

 fragments of shells, entangled fibres, and pieces of membrane from the tubes 

 of tubicolous Chsetopoda ; also fragment of calcareous Polyzoon. 



I believe that the fragments of shells and pieces of tough membrane which occur so 

 frequently in the sole's intestines are the remains of the tubes of Thelepus circinnata, 

 Malmgren, a Chtetopod belonging to the family Terebellidaj, which inhabits a mem- 

 branous tube attached by its whole length to stones or shells, and covered externally 

 with calcareous fragments of all kinds, such as fragments of shells, or entire small 



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