218 FAUNISTIC NOTES AT PLYMOUTH DURING 1893-4, 
It is also sometimes taken on the shore. The much larger 
Eunicid, Marphysa sanguinea, is common both in Rum Bay and at 
Drake’s Island. It inhabits deep crevices of the rocks, and can 
only be obtained by breaking the latter to pieces by means of a 
crowbar. 
On January 26th, 1893, I noticed among a number of Phyllodoce 
maculata, which emerged from material dredged off the west shore 
of Drake’s Island, two specimens of a charming white Phyllodoce 
with reddish eyes, which I was not able to identify. Hach segment 
except the most anterior ones was provided with a girdle of cilia. 
The parapodial lamellze were fan-shaped, and each was marked with 
a brown, or rather a fawn-coloured spot. ‘The inferior edge of each 
lamella was also provided with large vibratile cilia. The back of 
the worm was faintly pigmented with fawn-colour. The small but 
handsomely marked Syllid, Procerzea picta of Ehlers, is fairly com- 
mon among the stones dredged in Millbay Channel. <A species of 
Myrianida* is constantly recurring at Plymouth, one or two specimens 
at atime. I believe it is identical with the Myrianida maculata of 
Claparéde, though I cannot at present say whether it is different 
from the Myrianida pinnigera of Montagu, whose original descrip- 
tion I have not seen. It is easily recognised by its colour, which 
is white, with deep orange-red blotches on the back of every third 
or fourth segment. It is fairly frequent among the roots of Lami- 
naria. On one occasion (May 29th, 1893) I found a specimen under 
a stone at the Breakwater, which was provided with a chain of buds, 
some of which had detached themselves before my return to the 
laboratory. Amblyosyllis (Gattiola) spectabilis, I find, is a spongi- 
colous form, and can often be obtained in quantity by tearing open 
the larger sponges, of Desmacidon-like texture, dredged in Millbay 
Channel. A large eyeless Polydora (? flava, Claparéde) is common 
in Rum Bay, and at Rat Island in St. German’s River, where it con- 
structs mud burrows between the layers of shaly rock. In February 
I have found many of these burrows also containing a long segmented 
gelatinous egg-string, almost as long as the worm itself (7. e. about 
two inches), lying flat and straight in the burrows. The worm itself 
possesses a bifid preoral lobe, and the branchiz commence on the 
eighth segment (i. e. the third after the apodous segment). The 
dorsal blood-vessel is conspicuous, the blood being crimson. At Rat 
Island I have also taken specimens of Scoloplos armiger, living, like 
the Polydora, in the mud between layers of shale, and also in the 
dirty sand around. In November, 1892, a single specimen of the 
* Good figures of this species are given by Malaquin (Mem. Soc. des Science et des 
Arts, Lille, 1893, p. 287, pl. i), who identifies the Myrianida maculata of Claparéde with 
the UM. fasciata of Milne-Edwards. 
