^Originally communicated to the Thirty-second Report of the State Museum of Natural 



History, pp. 101-128,in 1879.J 



ANNELIDA CHilTOPODA OF NEW JERSEY. 

 By H. E. Webstee. 



The Annelida catalogued and described in the following pages, 

 were collected in June and the first half of July, 1878, by the writer 

 and a number of students from Union College, forming the usual 

 summer zoological party, or " Natural History School," sent out by 

 the college. The localit}'- was Great Egg Harbor, N. J., our resi- 

 dence and point of departure being Beesley's Point. The harbor is 

 quite shallow, with a narrow channel carrying from ten to fifteen 

 feet of water. Outside of the channel at low water, there is from 

 one to three feet of water, and the bottom is covered for the most 

 part with a dense growth of grass and seaweed. As usual, by far 

 the greater number of species were obtained with the spade, between 

 tides. In collecting and taking care of the annelids, I was verj' 

 much aided by Mr. James E. Benedict. Mr. Benedict had general 

 charge of the shoi'e work, giving especial attention to the birds, but 

 managed to find time for much good work on the annelids. Mr. C. 

 M. Culver relieved me of much care and responsibility by taking 

 general supervision of the marine invertebrate collecting and collec- 

 tions ; while Mr. H. H. Dey Ermand, although acting as Mr. Bene- 

 dict's assistant in shore work, did good service in marine collecting, 

 from time to time. We were very fortunate in our boatman, Mr. 

 Aaron Clark, of Beeslej^'s Point, and I can heartily recommend him 

 to hunting, fishing and collecting parties. During this winter 

 (1878-79), we have received from him a fine lot of birds in good 

 condition for mounting. I mention this fact, because, in common 

 with others, I have found it very ditficult to find men competent to 

 collect and care for birds or other natural history objects, except 

 under direct supervision. 



The results of the work on the chaetopod annelids may be sum- 

 marized as follows : 



Number of Families represented 23 



Genera 50 



Species o7 



