VIII. — New England Annelida. 



Part I. — HrsxoRiCAL Sketch, with Annoted Lists of the Species 

 HITHERTO Recorded. By A. E. Verrill. 



Previous to the last ten years very little had been published in this 

 country concerning the marine annelids of our coast, and very few 

 of our species had been recorded, either by foreign or American 

 writers. 



A large proportion of the Nevv England species are now known to 

 be identical with those of Northern Europe, therefore descriptions of 

 such species are to be found in nearly all foreign works relating to 

 the European annelids, fi*ora the days of Linne down to the present 

 time. 



It is not my intention to enumerate, at this time, all the European 

 works which must be consulted by a student of our annelids, for such 

 a list would be nearly coextensive with the entire literatm*e of the 

 Annelida. Among the more important of the European works, con- 

 taining descriptions and figures of many of our Annelids, are those 

 of O. Fabricius;' GErsted ;^ M. Sars ;' Grube ;' Malmgren ;' Quatre- 

 fages;" Ehlers ;' G. O. Sars ;' Malm ;'^ Theel.'" 



' Otiio Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, pp. 279-315. Hafnice et Lipsiee, 1780. 

 The Latin descriptions in this work are given with considerable detail, and are, in 

 all respects, much better than most of those published in the last century, or even 

 • much later. Many of his species are common on the New England coast. 

 "^ A. S. (Ersted, Gronlands Annulata Dorsibranehiata [eight plates]. Kjobenhavn, 

 1843. 

 Annulatorum Danicorum Conspectus, Fasc. I, Maricolte [plates]. Hafniaj, 1843. 

 ^ M. Sabs, Fauna Littoralis Norvogia;, i, 1846; ii, 1856. 



Beretning om en i Sommeren 1849 foretagen Zoologisk Reise i Lofoten og Finmar- 



ken [pp. 1-91 ; annelids, pp. 76-91]. <;Nyt. Magaz. Naturvid., vi, 1850. 

 Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges Annelider, fjerde afhandling.<Vidensk. For- 



handl. Christiania, 1861. 

 Geologiske og Zoologiske Jagttagelser anstillede paa en Reise i en Deel af Trond- 



hjems i Sommeren 1862. 1863. 

 Also various other papers in the publications of learned societies, 1847-1864. 

 ■' Adolph Eduard Grube, Die Familien der Anueliden, pp. 163. Berlin, 1851. 

 Annulata Semperiana, Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Annehden Fauna der Philippinen 

 4to, pp. 300, pi. 15.=Memoirs de L'academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Peters- 

 bourg, VII, vol. XXV, No. 8, 1878. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. IV. 38 August, 1881. 



