N<>. VIII. ANNELIDA. 257 



No. VIII. 



ANNELIDA. 

 By W. C. McIktosh, M.D., F.R.S. 



Captain Feilden, one of the naturalists of the recent Arctic 

 Expedition under Sir Greorge Nares, placed in my hands a 

 small collection of Annelids dredged between latitudes 79° 

 and 82° 30' N. 



The majority of the species represented in this collection 

 have a very wide range in northern waters, many being 

 common to the British seas and the shores of the North 

 Atlantic generally, and on the American side stretching from 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence northward to the Polar ice beyond 

 Smith Sound. With two exceptions all the species occur in 

 the seas of Spitsbergen, and one of them is Icelandic, while 

 the second is a somewhat doubtful form. 



In the account recently published by Dr. E. Marenzeller, 

 of the annelids procured by the Austro-Hungarian North 

 Polar Expedition under Lieutenants Weyprecht and Payer, 

 27 species are mentioned, of these no less than 18 do not 

 occur in the following list ; but no further weight should be 

 put on this than is warranted by the fact that only a few of 

 the abundant forms which possess a wide circumpolar range 

 have been obtained in either case. Many of the 18, indeed, 

 occur on the Canadian coast, and run northwards to Davis 

 Strait ; on the other hand, about half the species procured in 

 the English Expedition do not appear in the Austro-Hungarian 

 collection, made between latitudes 74° and 79° N. 



VOL. II. S 



