6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 39. 



The previous records of this species from American stations are: 



1. On the East coast— 



A. marina, Labrador. J. H. Ashworth, Mitth. Kongl. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 4, 



1910, p. 349. 

 A. piscatorum, Belles Amours (Strait of Belle Isle). A. S. Packard, Mem. Bos- 

 ton Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, 1867, p. 293. 

 A. marina, St. Lawrence. P. Tauber, Annulata Danica, 1879, p. 110, Kjoben- 



havn. 

 A. piscatorum. Grand Manan. W. Stimpson, Smiths. Contr. Knowl., vol. 6, 



1854, art. 5, p. 31. 

 A. marina. Grand Manan. F. W. Gamble and J. H. Ashworth, Quart. Joum. 



Micr. Sci., vol. 43, 1900, p. 422. 

 A. marina. New England. A. E. Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 



4. New Haven, 1881. (New England Annelida, annotated lists of species 



hitherto recorded.) 

 A. marina, Eastport, Maine. H. E. Webster and J. E. Benedict, U. S. Fish 



Comm. Part 13, Rep. for 1885, p. 727. Washington, 1887. 

 A. piscatorum, Eastport, Maine. A. E. Verrill, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 3, 



1872, p. 6, Salem, Massachusetts. 

 A. marina, Nahant, Massachusetts. F. W. Gamble and J. H. Ashworth, Quart. 



Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 43, 1900, p. 423. 

 A. natalis, Chelsea, Massachusetts. C. Girard, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 5, 1856, p. 88. 

 A. piscatorum, Massachusetts Bay. W. Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 5, 1856, p. 114. 

 A. marina, Race Run, Massachusetts. H. E. Webster and J. E. Benedict, 



U. S. Comm. Fish and Fisheries. Part 9, Rep. Commissioner for 1881, p. 725. 



Washington, 1884. 

 A. marina, Noank, Connecticut. A. E. Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 



10, 1875, p. 39. 



2. On the West coast — 



A. marinaa, Vancouver Island. E. von Marenzeller, Zool. Jahrb. Abth. Syst., 



vol. 3, 1888, p. 12. 

 A. marinaa, Puget Sound. C. M. Child, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 16, 1898, 



p. 387. 

 A. piscatorum^. Bay of Paita. L. K. Schmarda, Neue wirbellose Thiere, vol. 



1, pt. 2, p. 52, Leipzig, 1861. 

 A. piscatorum c, Callao. E. Grube, Vid. Medd. naturh. For. Kjobenhavn for 



Aaret 1858, p. 120. Kjobenhavn, 1859. 

 A. marinaa, Puerto Montt, Chile. E. Ehlers, Festschr. K. Ges. Wiss. Gottingen, 



1901, p. 176. 



Rathbun*^ and Tauber « also mention the occurrence of this spe- 

 cies on the shores of the United States. 



Remarks on the foregoing records. — The specimens on which the spe- 

 cies A. natalis Girard was founded are very shortly and insufficiently 



a A. claparedii, see pp. 7, 8, 9. 

 b Probably A. claparedii, see p. 8. 

 c See p. 9. 



<* R. Rathbun. The Worms in: The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United 

 States. Section 1. Washington, 1884, p. 833. 

 e Annulata Danica, p. 110. 



