REPORT ON THE VERMES. 147 



Found by Mr. Darbishire on skates at Southport, and 

 also at Penmaenmawr. 



Subclass— Chaetopoda. 

 Order.— OLIGOCH>€TA. 

 Family. — LuMBRiciDiE. 

 Lumbricus lineatus, Miiller. 

 Two small worms which I refer doubtfully to this species, 

 were found in mud, in a dredging obtained oflf Hilbre Id., in 

 company with Sahellaria alveolata. They were unmistakably 

 Oligochaeta of the genus Lumbricus, but I am doubtful as 

 to the species. Carrington * mentions L. lineatus as being 

 found in mud at Southport, though " very rare," so that the 

 probability is that the examples obtained by the L. M.B.C. 

 are not far off the form mentioned. Carrington also records 

 L. capitatuSy John., and L. pellucidus, Flem. 



Order.— POLYCH/ETA. 

 Section A.— ERRANTIA 



Family. — APHRODiTiDiE. 

 Hermione hystrix, Savigny. 

 Two specimens of this form were obtained, one on a 

 gravelly bottom at a depth of fifteen fathoms, half way 

 between Port Erin and the Calf, Isle of Man, and one on a 

 bottom composed of Nullipores, in twenty fathoms water, off 

 Spanish Head, near Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. It does not 

 occur in Byerley's list. It is noted as occurring at the 

 Channel Islands, on the S. English coast, in the Mediter- 

 ranean, and at St. Vincent. It is figured by Mcintosh in 

 his Report on the '* Challenger " Annelides (pi. viii, fig. 3). 

 Hermione hystrix, under the generic name of Aphrodite, is 

 mentioned by Forbes t as having been found at the Isle 

 of Man and S. Wales. 



* " Polychaeta of the Southport Shore." Proc. Manch. Lit. and Phil., 

 1865. 



British Assoc. Report, 1850. 



