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the mouth of Spatangus purpureus, from a depth of eighty- 

 five fathoms, and a shell-sand bottom. He also obtained it in 

 eighty fathoms ofi* Valentia, in a hundred and ten fathoms 

 off Blasquet, and in the Channel Islands (Mcintosh, Trans, 

 Zool, SoCf loc. cit.) The two specimens obtained by the 

 L. M. B. C. were dredged with their host from a depth of 

 fourteen fathoms from a sandy bottom, six miles north of the 

 Great Ormes Head. The species is fully described but not 

 figured (save the spines) by Mcintosh (loc. cii.)* 



Iphione muricata, Savigny. 

 One specimen of this species was obtained from the 

 Beaumaris shore. It was very large, but all the scales were 

 unfortunately removed. There was, however, no difficulty in 

 including it under Savigny' s species, with which it agreed 

 in the structure of the head, spines, and cirri. Mcintosh, in 

 the Report on the '' Challenger " Annelida, describes this 

 form, which he contrasts with Iphione cimeXy collected on 

 that expedition. Savigny describes and figures Iphione 

 muricata. f 



Polynoe floccosa, Savigny. 



One large and two small specimens of this Polynoe were 



found along with Harmothoe imbricata at Bay ny Carrickey. 



It is a common form round our coast, and is described and 



.the spines figured in the Trans. Zool. Soc. (loc. cit.)^ by 



Mcintosh. It is not recorded by Byerley. 



Polynoe squamata, Linnaeus. 

 A number of examples of Polynoe squamata were found 

 on the shore at Hilbre, and also in dredgings in eight 

 fathoms in Hilbre Swash from a gravel bottom. One small 

 specimen was obtained at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. 

 Byerley mentions it as having been found at Hilbre and at 

 New Brighton. 



* Syst. des Annel., p. 21 and pi. iii, fig. 1. 

 f Vid. Notes on some of the Polychceta of the L.M.B.C. District Report I. 



