﻿SIPUNCULID WORMS OF CALIFORNIA — FISHER 427 



Bodega Head, under inusaels, Aug. 4, 1948, D. M. Wootton, 15 specimens. 

 Black Point, Sonoma County, June 21, 1898, H. P. Johnson, 4 specimens. 

 Mendocino, paratypes, A. A{i;assiz, 4 specimens. 



Humboldt. Bay, low tide, mud, Jan. 1, 1931, G. E. MacGinitie, 200 specimens. 

 Crescent City, intertidal, June 13, 1911, W. F. Thompson, 14 specimens. 



From Oregon: 



Coos Bay (North Bay), eelgrass roots, July 20, 1949, D. L. Reish. 



From Washington: 



Puget Sound, 189G, Trevor Kincaid, 2 specimens. 



Dogfish Bay, Puget Sound, Trevor Kincaid, 1 specimen. 



Off Browns Island, San Juan Islands, July 18, 1936 (dredged), 2 specimens. 



Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, 25 to 60 fathoms, Ida S. Oldroyd, 4 specimens. 



Waddah Reef, San Juan Islands, eelgrass hold-fasts, July 4, 1930, 3 specimens. 



Deer Harbor, Orcas Island, Aug. 14, 1951 (dredged); found in dorsal elytral space 



of Aphrodite, Richard Snyder, 1 specimen. 

 San Juan Strait, near mouth of Pysht River, under boulders on nmddy gravel, 



July 26, 1930, E. F. Ricketts, 10 specimens. 



From British Columbia: 



Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, 1946, E. F. Ricketts, 8 specimens. 

 Ucluclct, Vancouver Island, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1 specimen. 

 Round Island, Vancouver Island, June 25, 1945, E. F. Ricketts, 1 specimen. 

 Canoe Pass, Kate Island, Juno 21, 1932, E. F. Ricketts, 1 specimen. 

 Fishermans Cove, July 12, 1932, E. F. Ricketts, 3 specimens. 

 Calvert Island, under rocks. May 11, 1937, T. T. and E. B. McCabe, 3 specimens. 

 Huston Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound, July 1, 1913, W. F. Thompson, 7 specimens. 

 Table Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, June 9, 1937, 3 spc i-nens. 



From Alaska: 



Sitka, Crab Bay, rocky reef, E. F. Ricketts, 1 specimen. 



Thumb Bay, Prince William Sound, Walter J. Eyerdam, 4 specimens. 



Orca, Prince William Sound, June 2, 1899, Ilarriman Alaska Expedition (W. E. 



Ritter), 3 specimens. 

 Cape Fox, June 1899, Ilarriman Alaska Expedition (W. R. Coe), 9 specimens. 

 Yakutat, June 19, 1899, Harriman Alaska Expedition (W. E. Ritter), 6 specimens. 

 Kodiak, July 3, 1899, Ilarriman Alaska Expedition (W. R. Coe), 3 specimens. 



Young. — I have numerous small specimens from the region of 

 Point Pinos, Monterey Bay, granite shore. These range in length, 

 introvert extended, from 10 to 30 mm. They vary in skin color from 

 pale translucent to medium brown, sometimes ocliraceous, som.etimes 

 grayer in tone. There is as much variation as in large specimens in 

 the extent of the preanal area of enlarged papillae and in the size of the 

 terminal and preanal papillae, but in all cases these are conspicuously 

 enlarged. The papillae of the distal part of introvert seem to be a 

 little more conspicuous than in the adult. The transverse bands of 

 yellowish or reddish brown are present on the introvert of nearly all 

 specimens but the spots on the trunk are uncommon. The number of 

 rings of the hooks is as few as 12, more often 15 or 16, less often as 



