﻿SIPUNCULID WORMS OF CALIFORNIA — FISHER 397 



remainder of body. In another specimen a new introvert seems to 

 have been in process of regeneration. 



Type (G. e. californica).— U.S.N. M. No. 21218, 291-298 fathoms, 

 gray mud, rocks, April 12, 1904, 10 specimens. 



Type locality. — Albatross station 4421, off San Nicholas Island, 

 Calif. 



Distribution (Golfingia eremita).— Greenland, Spitzbcrgen, eastward 

 to Nova Zembla and the Kara Sea, south on Scandinavian coast to 

 Bodo, north of Arctic Circle; on eastern coast of North America, in 

 shallow water as far as Massachusetts Bay, and hi deeper water as far 

 south as about 40° north latitude (Gerould, 1913). "It occurs 

 usually at depths of less than 100 fathoms, though Theel records a 

 specimen from Umanak, Greenland, from 200 fathoms, and it has 

 been found south of Cape Cod in 480 and 1,098 fathoms." (Gerould, 

 1913, p. 386.) 



Benham (1922, p. 17) has described var. australis from Common- 

 wealth Bay, Wilkes Land, in the Antarctic. 



It has not heretofore been recorded from the north Pacific. 



GOLFINGIA LAETMOPHILA. new speciea 



Plate 25, Figtjbes 4-6 



Diagnosis. — Kelated to Golfingia abyssorum (Koren and Danielssen) 

 (Th^el, 1905, p. 78). Differs in having papillae at posterior end of 

 body, glandular papillae on introvert, entirely different hooks, better 

 developed and more numerous tentacles, abnormally large wing 

 muscles. Trunk cylindrical, fairly pliunp; introvert about one-third 

 body length; body wall translucent, a pronounced glandular zone in 

 front of anus, probably also tiny papillae; anterior part of introvert 

 papillose, including dark-brown, blunt spinelets not in definite rings; 

 retractors two, arising in middle of trunk; no fixing muscles; small 

 nephridia having lower lip of nephrostome folded and lobate ; contrac- 

 tile vessel largely rudimentary. 



Description. — Total length 56 mm., introvert 17 mm.; distance from 

 anus to end of body 36 mm. The introvert does not include the anus 

 but ends a short distance in front, marked by a constriction. The 

 skin of the trunk is smooth except for some tiny papillae at the 

 posterior extremity and a zone between the anus and the base of the 

 introvert, where the skin is somewhat gelatinous and thicldy beset with 

 filiform glands perpendicular to surface. It is difficult to ascertain if 

 these extend above the surface as papillae. The proximal half of the 

 introvert has a thick glandular skin, the thickness accentuated by 

 invagination, the first 4 mm. crowded with thick glandular papillae 

 about 0.1 mm. high. About 2 mm. behind tentacles is a zone 1.5 mm. 

 wide of dark-brown spinelets (pi. 25, fig. 6) not in definite rings and 



