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the latter the colour, the tentacles and cirri, the head, 
feet, and their appendages as the bases for classification. 
Apstein, again, forms his two main groups on the structure 
of the bristles, subdividing by aid of the structure of the 
feet into eight genera, viz.: <Alciopa, Asterope, Vanadis, 
Greefia, Callizonella, Corynocephalus, Rhynchonerella, and 
Callizona. Itis noteworthy that almost all were found either 
over or in the midst of very deep water, probably in the 
line of the Gulf Stream. The group is closely allied to the 
Phyllodocide, and some make it a subfamily of the latter. 
The first of these is Vanadis formosa, Claparéde, a com- 
paratively large species measuring 30 cm. in length, with a 
breadth of 5 mm. and two hundred and twenty segments. 
Female with four seminal pouches. It was procured on the 
West Coast of Ireland in the mid-water trawl in deep water, 
though also in 5 fathoms (Southern). The second is 
Greefia reynaudi, Audouin & Edwards, also a widely dis- 
tributed form in the great oceans. It occurred both in 
mid-water and at the surface over great depths. The third 
is Callizona angelini, Kinberg, procured in the tow-net near 
great depths. Southern identifies this form with C. grudet. 
The fourth is Callizona setosa, Greef, captured at the sur- 
face near a depth of 480 fathoms. ‘The fifth is Callizona 
-nasula, Greef, obtained in the mid-water trawl between 600 
and 700 fathoms, 
In the family of the Eunicidee Marphysa fallax, Marion & 
Bobretzky, was found under a stone at Bananagh, Blacksod 
Bay (Southern). Elsewhere it occurs at Marseilles (Marion 
& Bobretzky) ; Dinard, France (De St. Joseph). Marion and 
Bobretzky observe that the compound bristles with the bifid 
tips differ from those of Jf. sanguinea, and that the dental 
apparatus also diverges from that of the latter species, in so 
_ far as six denticulations occur on the maxille. Southern 
notes four ventral cirri on the anal segment and three spines 
in the ventral division of the foot. De St. Joseph found 
his examples in the dredge, and with a coloration ap- 
proaching that of Lysidice ninetta. They were small, viz., 
15 mm. in length. Its bristles resemble those of Marphysa 
belli, but it differs im regard to the branchiz and in the 
form of the head. 
Armandia flagellifera, one of the Opheliide, was captured 
in a tow-net at night near the entrance to Ballyunakill 
Harbour ; dredged in 11 fathoms in mud, Galway Bay 
