166 Mr. W. Small on Annelida PoJychcBta • 



regarded as Biitisli. The British Association Committee 

 defined the British Marine Area as consisting of a shallow- 

 water district bounded by the 100-fathom line and a British 

 Atlantic-slope district, or deep-water district, extending off 

 our western and nortliern shores from the 100-fathom line to 

 tlie 1000-fathom line, ?'. e. to the boundary of the continental 

 plateau. This arrangement includes the "cold area" or 

 Faroe Channel in British waters. Canon Nortnan\s recom- 

 mendation to exclude this part from the British Marine Area 

 seems based on natural grounds. It is well known that 

 many forms occur on the ridge between the Faroe and 

 Slietland Islands which are not found in adjacent and deeper 

 waters or to tlie soutli. 



In the present Report, tlie Faroe Channel will be found to 

 have yielded annelids, e. g. Eunoa tritohi, M'Intosh, and 

 Euplirosyne horealis, QCrstedt, wliich are not recorded from 

 the North Sea. Thesi". forms may tiierefore be regarded as 

 arctic, and, if so, should be excluded from the British marine 

 fauna. 



Lists of synonyms have not been given. They can be 

 got from Professor M'Intosh's mo)iograph (1900) under the 

 heads of the various species, and they occupy a considerable 

 amount of space. 



I have to thank Prof. D^Arcy W. Thompson for his courtesy 

 in handing over the collection for examination and for pro- 

 viding a list of stations. I have also had the advantage of a 

 typical series of slides of each group from Prof. M'Intosh's 

 collection. 



Family Amphinomidap. 



Subfamily Euphrostnin^. 



Genus EuPHROSYNE, Savigny, 1820. 



Eitphrosyne horeaUs, CErstedt, 1843. 



Two specimens of this form were dredged along with 

 Eunoa tritoni, MT., Nephthys cceca, O. F. M., and SerpuHds 

 in the Faroe Channel in 545-788 m. during the month of 

 June. These are the sole representatives of tlie genus 

 Eitphrosyne and of the family Amphinomida?. Their scarcity 

 is not surprising, for these forms prefer a littoral liabitat. Of 

 the two species of Eitphrosyne obtained by the ' Challenger ' 

 Expedition, one, E. capensis, Kinbcrg, was found between 

 tide-marks, and the other, E. horealis, in 85 fathoms. The 

 present species would appear to have a preference for deeper 

 water. 



