POLYCHAETE WORMS — PETTIBONE 569 



Wolstemholm Island, 1940 — all by R. A. Bartlett; Upernivik Harbor, 

 13 fms., 1884, U. S. S. Alert. West Coast North America: Chicba- 

 gof Harbor, Attu Island, 5-7 fms., gravel and sand, 1873, W. H. 

 Dall; Albatross Station 2879, off Washington, 48°53' N., 125°53' W., 

 34 fms., 1888; 5 miles off Moclips, Wash., 20 fms., 1940, and 7 miles 

 south Cape Arago, Oreg., 32-35 fms., shale and coral, 1939, M. H. 

 Pettibone; Albatross Station 4453, Monterey Bay, Calif., 49 fms., 1904. 

 Distribution: Widely distributed in the Arctic: Siberian, Alaskan 

 and Canadian Arctic, Davis Strait, Greenland, Spitsbergen, Barents 

 Sea, Novaj^a Zemlya, Kara Sea. Also Iceland, Faroes, Norway to 

 English Channel; Hudson Bay to Grand Manan; Alaska to southern 

 California; north Japan Sea to Japan. In low water to 250 fathoms. 



Family Capitellidae 



Genus Capitella Blainville, 1828 



Capitella capitata (JFabricius, 1780) 



Capitella capitata Wesenberg-Lund, 1953, p. 74. — Berkeley and Berkeley, 1954, 

 p. 465.— Pettibone, 1954, p. 298, fig. 33,r-u. 



New record: Labrador: Hamilton Inlet, 6 fms., muddy, sandy; 

 4 specimens. Station 24. 



Distribution: Widely distributed in the Arctic. Also Iceland, 

 Norway to France, Mediterranean, Black Sea; Hudson Bay to North 

 Carolina, Texas; Bering Sea to southern California; north Japan 

 Sea; Magellan Straits, South Georgia, Bouvet Island, South Africa, 

 Kerguelen. In low water to 500 fathoms. 



Family Maldanidae 



Genus Praxillella Verrill, 1881 

 Praxillella praetermissa (Malmgren, 1865) 



Prarillella praetermissa Moore, 1909b, p. 142. — Wesenberg-Lund, 1953, p. 82. — 

 Pettibone, 1954, p. 303, fig. 34,b-f. 



New records: Labrador: Okak area, Hamilton Inlet, Strait of 

 Belle Isle, 5-8 fms., on bottoms of mud, sand, mud and rock with 

 much detritus; 6 specimens. Stations 17, 23, 73. 



Distribution: Widely distributed in the Arctic. Also Iceland, 

 Faroes to English Channel, Mediterranean; Labrador to Massachu- 

 setts; north Japan Sea. In 7 to 1,111 fathoms. 



Genus Maldane Grube, 1860 

 Maldane sarsi Malmgren, 1865 



Maldane sarsi Moore, 1909b, p. 142. — Wesenberg-Lund, 1953, p. 84. — Pettibone, 

 1954, p. 303, fig. 34,g,h. 



