Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xlv. (1901), No. 13. 



XIII. A Collection of Polychaeta from the Falkland 



Islands. 



By Edith M. Pratt, M.Sc (Vict), 



Honorary Research Fellow, Oweits College, Manchester. 



(Communicated by Professor S. J. Hickson, M.A., F.R.S.) 



/deceived and read April 2j) d, igoi. 



For this collection of Polychaeta, from the Falkland 

 Islands, I am indebted to Mr. R. Vallentin,of New Quay, 

 formerly of Falmouth, who made the collection towards 

 the end of the year 1898 and in the beginning of 1899. 

 It includes specimens of the following genera and species: 



APHRODITID^. 



Hermadion viagallicensis. Kin berg ('55)- 

 = H. kerguelensis. M'Intosh ('85). 

 = //", longicirratum. Kinberg, Baird. 

 = H. longicirratus. Kinberg, M'Intosh. 

 Three specimens found living in a hollow root ot 

 Macrocystis from 3^ fathoms. 



Distribution. — Sts. Magellan, Kerguelen (numerous at 

 60 fath.), Falkland Islands (3- 10 fath.). The genus appears 

 to be restricted to the southern hemisphere. 



Phyllodocid^. 



Eteone spatJiocepJiala. Ehlers ('96), p. 32. 



One specimen, bright green in colour when alive, 

 without anal cirri, found under a stone at low water. 



Distribution. — Sts. Magellan. Newto Falkland Islands. 



Genus. Occurs in northern and southern temperate 

 and cold waters, but up to the present has not been taken 

 within the tropics. 



September loth, igoi. 



