from the North Sea and adjacent parts. 181 



A vipe specimen was taken in December. The repro- 

 ductive elements are contained within a membrane, as noted 

 by St. Joseph and represented by Chtparele (1870) in 

 Hermadion fragile. A ripe male occurs in a haul taken in 

 April. The alimentary canal contains remnants o£ suiall 

 crustaceans and other organic ddbris. 



Genus PoLYNOii, Savigny, 1820. 

 Polynoe scolopendrina, Sav., 1820, 



One fragment of 12 segments was taken in 120 m. afc 

 Station 16 in the same haul as contained Eunoa nodosa and 

 Lac/ i sea elisabethce. 



The eyes are large and the anterior and posterior pairs are 

 very close together. Their proximity is probably due to 

 antero-posterior shrinkage of the head, which thus appears 

 broader than long., The present example belongs to the 

 smaller southern type, but is not of the variety of hrevipalpa 

 of St. Joseph (1888, p, 183). 



More examples of P. scolopendrina may be found when 

 terebellid &c. tubes are examined. 



Genus EUCEANTA, Malmgren, 1865. 

 Eucranta villosa, Mgrn., 1865. 



This species is represented by one fragment of 16 segments 

 in a fair state of preservation. It was dredged at 61° o9' N., 

 4° 45' W., at a depth of 620 m. 



It was tirst discovered and named by Malmgren (1865, 

 pp. 79-80, pi. X. figs. 9-9 0^). It has been recorded within 

 recent years by Dillevson (1911, p. 416, Harmothoe villosi) 

 from 76° 35' N., 18° 26' W., at a depth of 150 m. Fauvel 

 makes no mention of this species in his Report on the 

 PolycliEet Annelids of the Campagne iirctique de 1907 (Due 

 d'Orleans). The species seems to be confined to northern 

 waters. It was obtained in Barents Sea (between Spitz-. 

 bergen and Nova Zembla) by the Austro-Hungarian North 

 Pole Expedition, 1872-1874 (Marenzeller, 1877), but the 

 Dutch ^William Barents' Expedition of 1878-1879 failed 

 to find it in the same locality (d^ Urban, 1880, p, 253), 

 Hansen (1882, p. 44, Polynoe villosa) records it fVom the 

 southern liniit of the " cold area " (off Christiansund) in 

 763 m. on a clay bottom. It was found only once in the 

 three summers of the Norwegian Expedition, 1876-1878, 

 It is, like Acanthicolepis asperrima, characteristic of the 

 Norwegian fiords. 



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