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Tiere empfing „drodged from Ramc Eddystone Groimds", besagt 

 aii und für sich nichts. Es ist selir gut möglich, dass die z. B. 

 auf Echinodermen sitzenden EuUmae sich beim Heraufholen des 

 Trawls herunterfallen Hessen. Mr. Smith war so freundlieli mir 

 nachher mitzuteilen, was er über die Lebensweise und den Fund- 

 ort yon Eidii)ia jwlifa in der Gegend von Plyniouth wusste. Ic'h 

 lasse die Einzelheiten hiervon folgen : 



^Euliina pol Ha bas been recorded here from almost every 

 dredging station outside the breakwater, especially where the 

 bottoni is muddy gravel, at a depth of anything from fifteen to 

 thirty fathoms. I also remember several from New Grounds on 

 fairly clean shelly gravel, just inside tlie West end of the Break- 

 water, about six fatlioms deep. 



I have never heard of it being associated with any Echino- 

 derm, there are however large beds of Ophiofrix fragilis and _ 

 Opkiocoitia N/(jra in many places in the area named above and 

 in the Rame Eddystone Grounds Echhius esculentns and Eclmius 

 acutus are very common, here also we get Asterias ruhens, A. 

 glacüdis^ Linckia, Astrojjecten^ Parania, Palmipes, Solaster^ Hen- 

 ricia, OpMura, Spatangus, Echinocardium^ Echniocgamus, Holo- 

 thuria etc. all fairly abundantly. I do not think I have ever 

 known of more than about half a dozen specimens of Eulima 

 polita being brought in at once. Alcyonimn^ Chaetopterm and 

 Polycarpa intermixed and with Hcdocerium growing theron are 

 also common on the same ground. But take for instance Stoke 

 Point Grounds where Eulima is accorded as taken „occasianally". 

 Here there are Opldotrix in quantity and also ()j)hiocoma, very 

 few Echimis or Echinocardimii etc. but many Mollusks, Turritella 

 being very common, small Hermit crabs, Ascidians (small PJial- 

 hisla), no Polycarpa or Alcyonium or Halocerwm to speak of, 

 Afitedo7i in local patches ; Ai^fropnicn and Opldara rilians are 

 not uncommon and it is fairly ricli ground for Sarcodictyon" . 



Ist nun Eulima polita freilebend ? Sicher wissen wir es nicht. 

 In Verbindung mit dein Vorhergesagten können wir aber Eulima 

 jjolifa als freilebende Eorm ansehen, mit der Möglichkeit, dass 



