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fathoms ; off Christmas Harl.iour. Kerguelen Ishmd, 120 fathoms ; and Bass Strait, 

 38 fathoms (Brady) : from Cape Verde, Mauritius, west and east Australia (Egger) : 

 from tlie ]\Ialay Archipelago (Millett) : Cuba and Trinidad (Flint) : Great Barrier 

 Island, New Zealand (Chapman) : Haurald Gulf, New Zealand (Haeusler). 



Present Occurrence. — Off the Snares ; 60 fathoms ; very common. Twenty miles 

 north of Auckland Island ; 85 fathoms ; common. Ten miles north of P^nderljy 

 Island ; 85 fathoms ; very common. 



Miliolina circularis, Borp. sp., var. sublineata, Brady. (Plate XIII, fig. 7.) 



Miliolhia circularis, Bornemann sp., var. sublineata, Brady, 1884, Rep. 

 Chall., vol. ix, p. 169, pi. ix, figs. 7 a-c. M. circularis. Born, sp., var. 

 sublineata, Brady, Egger, 1893, Abhandl. d. k. bayer. Ak. Wiss., cl. ii, 

 vol. xviii, abth. ii, p. 237, pi. ii, figs. 78, 79. M. circularis. Born, sp., 

 var. sublineata, Brady, Millett, 1898, Journ. E. Micr. See, p. 501, 

 pi. xi, fig. 4. 

 This is a rare variety. Our example is fairly typical, with tlie exception that 

 the striae are somewhat stronger and mcu'e irregular than usual. 



Distribution. — Off the Aclmiralty Islands (Brady) : coast of Mauritius (Egger) ; 

 Malay Archipelago (Millett). 



Present Occurrence. — Ten miles north of Enderby Island : 85 fathoms ; very rare. 



Miliolina subrotunda, Montagu sp. 



" Serpula sul)rotunda dorso elevato," Walker and Boys, 1784, Test. Min., 

 p. 2. pi. i, fig. 4. Vermiculum subrotundum, Montagu, 1803, Test. 

 Brit., pt. ii, p. 521. Miliolina subrotunda, Montagu sp., Brady. 1884, 

 Rep. Chall.. vol. ix, p. 168, pi. v, figs. 10, 11. M. subrotunda. Walker 

 and Boys sp.. Goes, 1894, Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. xxv, 

 p. 109, pi. xix, figs. 846, 847. 

 Distribution. — A shallow-water form, with a wide geographical range. 

 Present Occurrence. — Off the Snares ; 60 fathoms : rare. Twenty miles north 

 of Auckland Island ; 85 fathoms ; rare. Ten miles north of Enderby Island ; 

 85 fathoms ; very common. 



Miliolina seminulum, Linnc sp. 



Serpula seminulum, Linne. 1767, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., p. 1264, No. 791 ; 



1788, 13th (Gmelin's) ed., p. 3739, No. 2. Miliolina seminulum,, 



Linne sp., Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall., vol. ix, p. 157, jjI. v, figs. 6 a-c. 



M. seminulum, L. sp.. Flint. 1899, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. for 1897. p. 297, 



pi. xliii, fig. 2. 



Distribution. — One of the most ubiquitous of the genus, occurring commonly in 



the shore-sand of nearly every coast-line, and more sparingly at greater depths. 



Strangely enough, it was extremely rare in the Great Barrier Island dredgings.* 



Haeusler has noted its occurrence in the Hauraki Gulf. 



* Chapman, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xx.wiii, 1905, p. 81. 



