THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



"..... perlitoraspargite muaoum. 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes : 

 PoUice virgineo teneros h'lc carpite florea : 

 Floribus et pictum, divfe, replete canistrum. 

 At V08, o Nyraphffi Craterides, ite sub undaa ; 

 Ite, reourvato variata corallia triinco 

 Vellite muscosis e nipibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Dete pelagi, et piiigui conchylia aucco." 



N.Parthenu Giannettasi, Eol, 1. 



No. 97. JANUARY 19 L6. 



I. — Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, 

 —No. XXXVIII. By Piof. M^Intosh, M.D., LL.D., 

 F.R.S., &c. 



[Plates I.-IV.] 



1. On the British Sahellidce. 



2. On the Sahclli'la; dredged by II.M.S. 'Porcupine* in 1839 and 1870, 



and bv H.M.S. ' Knight Errant ' in 188-2. 



3. On the Terehellidce and Sahellidce dredged in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 



Canada, by Dr. Whiteaves in 1871-73. 



4. On the i^ahellidce dredged by Canon A. M. Norman off Norway and 



Finmark. 



1. On the British Sabellidse. 



The British Sabellida number more than twenty, exchisive of 

 some forms not yet fully investigated from lack of good 

 material. In this respect, therefore, they compare favour- 

 ably, in this preliuiinary notice, with those from other 

 areas. 



Tims, for example, Sars* in 1861 gave 10 species of 

 Sabellids, including one of Myxicola, as occurring in the 

 prolific Norwegian waters. De Quatrefages, in his ' Anneles/ 

 mentions about a dozen of the forms which have been found 

 in Britain, excluding double entries like Sabella penicillus 



* Forhandl. Videnskabs-Selsk. Christiania, 1861, pp. 116-131. 

 Ann. d) Mag. N. Hist, Ser. 8. Vol. Xrvii. 1 



