THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



No. 56. AUGUST 1912. 



XVIII. — Report on tlie Annelida Polychceta collected ■in the 

 North Sea and adjacent parts hy the Scotch Fishery Board 

 Vessel * Goldseeker.' — Part I. Ampliinomicla3 to SigaIionida3. 

 By William Small, M.A., B.Sc, Gatty Marine Labora- 

 tory, St. Andrews. 



[Plate VI.]. 



The families included in the followinj^ report are Amplii- 

 nomidise, Apliroditidae, Polynoidse, and Sigalionidse. 



The Amphinomidfe are but sparsely represented by a single 

 species, while the Aphroditidte show representatives of two 

 genera out of the three that are accounted British. The 

 Polynoidse are represented by nineteen species, ai\d the 

 Sigalionidpo by four. 



The distribution of several species has been extended. 

 Aphrodita echidna, de Quatrefages, and Evarne atlantica, 

 ]\l'Intosh, are recorded for the first time from the Nortli Sea 

 (Moray Y\]:i\\),\\\\\\Q Euphrosynehorealts^ ffirstedt, Eacranta 

 villosa, Malmgren, and Antimi'e elcf^/ans, Thee), are new to 

 British waters, if under that term be included tiie Faroe 

 Channel. Canon Norman (1890, p. 345), discussing the 

 limits of the British Marine Area and the Report of the 

 Committee appointed by the British Association in 1887 to 

 define these limits (Brit. Assoc. Rep. 1888, p. 95), gives as 

 his opinion that the fauna of the "cold area" or Faroe 

 Channel is arctic in character, and should therefore not be 



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