from the North Sea and adjacent parts. 251 



in his recent beautiful work on the annelids of the German 

 Deep-sea Expedition." 



Genus Brada, Stimpson. 

 Brada normani. 



Three examples of this annelid were found on 8/7/07 in 

 haul 87 at Station 16, lat. 62° N., long. 6° 12' W., in a small 

 trawl at the depth of 128 m. Each animal measures a little 

 over an inch, and has twenty-two segments. There is a test 

 of very fine sand-grains surrounding the body, and, like the 

 surface of the body, is very rugose. The bristles in the 

 anterior region and on the setigerous processes project as 

 little golden clumps beyond the sandy test. 



The body is maggot-like, having the anterior end more 

 bluntly rounded than the posterior. The mouth is a con- 

 spicuous triradiate opening at the extreme anterior end, while 

 the anus appears as a vertical slit at the extreme posterior. 

 The lips are thick, swollen, and covered with minute sand- 

 particles. Along the line of the dorsal bristles there are 

 large, long, flattened papillre which have pointed tips. As 

 Prof. MTntosh remarks, " These papillae differ in a marked 

 degree from those usually seen in Stylarioides, Brada villosa 

 or granulata. The dorsal bristles are few, slender, and 

 inconspicuous. The ventral ones are long, have thick shafts 

 of almost uniform breadth throughout, and end in bluntly 

 rounded tips which are slightly bent. The tips in some, 

 however, are probe-like and tend to be slightly attenuate. 

 These bristles have well-marked transverse strife, which 

 become fainter towards the tips, where they ultimately dis- 

 appear. In many there are also oblique striae which are 

 prominent on the part of the bristle projecting beyond tlie 

 surface. The setigerous lobes are fairly conspicuous, standing 

 out from the rugose surface as little elevations from which 

 the bristles project, and around which are clustered several 

 bulbose papillge. The gut is simple, straight, and very 

 narrow, and in segments 6, 7, and 8 it is surrounded by a 

 dense mass of ova which are reddish-yellow in colour. The 

 ova are small, spherical, and have very thick zonae. 



Family Chaetopteridae. 

 Genus Phylloch^topteeus, Grube. 



No species can be assigned to the various tubes of this 

 genus, which were procured as follows ; — 



