Smith and Harcjer — St. George's Banks Dredgings. 35 



as large as the basal and contain a proportionally large part of the 

 gland. 



ScapellTim Stroemi Sars. 



Plate in, fignre 9. 



I am not aware that a description of this species has yet been pub- 

 lished, although the name was used by Prof. Michael Sars in his list 

 of animals living at great depths in the sea, published in 1869,* and 

 the species has since been incidentally figured, without any detail, 

 on the stems of Mopsea borealis, by Dr. G. O. Sars in his recent work 

 on " Some Remarkable Forms of Animal Life from Great Depths off" 

 the Norwegian Coast" (Plate V, figure 2). Dr. G. O, Sars has, how- 

 ever, very kindly compared a drawing of one of our specimens, and 

 he writes me that it agrees in every detail Avith the Norwegian form. 

 It is very distinct from any of the species described in Darwin's great 

 work, and also from the species recently described from the Challenger 

 Expedition. 



Since our specimens were obtained from 430 fathoms. Dr. Packard 

 and Mr. Cooke have dredged in 50 to 70 fathoms near Cashe's Ledge, 

 and in 142 fathoms, 20 miles east of Cape Race (both localities within 

 the " Gulf of Maine"). AH the specimens were attached to stems of 

 hydroids. On the Norwegian coast the species has the same habit 

 and has been found by Dr. G. O. Sars in from 80 to 300 fathoms. 



Annelida. 

 Lsenilla (?) mollis 6. 0. Sars. 



Bidrag til Kundskaben om Christianiafjordens Fauna, iii, p. 7, plate xiv, figs. 1-12, 

 1873. 



Body large, rather stout, medially convex. Head short and 

 broad, narrowed posteriorly, prominently rounded laterally, and pro- 

 duced into two very small conical points anteriorly. The anterior 

 eyes are larger than the others, situated on the outer and upper sur- 

 face of the lateral prominences, and look outward and upward ; the 

 posterior pair are nearer together, on the lateral slopes of the nar- 

 rowed part of the head. The median tentacle is wanting in our speci- 

 men, but its basal segment is of moderate size and cylindro-conical ; 

 the antennje are slender, and nearly three times the length of the 

 head, banded with brown ; the palpi are rather slender and regularly 

 tapered, smooth, or nearly so, four or five times the length of the 

 head. The dorsal and tentacular cirri and the scales are wanting in 

 the single specimen obtained. The lateral appendages are large and 



* Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, 1868, p. 259, 1869. 



