ALCIOPIDAE 8i 



The distribution of the glands is curious : they occur on every 5th chaetiger up to 

 the 25th and from the 40th to the 60th on every loth. In the anterior fragment the 

 glands are accompanied by dark brown rings of pigment, running all round the body 

 but fainter in the mid-ventral line. Up to about the 50th chaetiger these rings are two 

 segments deep, but behind the 50th chaetiger they cover one segment only. The glands 

 themselves are very small. 



In the posterior fragments they are much larger and occur in groups of 3 or 4 con- 

 secutively with one or two glandless segments between each group. 



The proboscis is everted and instead of the two long lateral cirriform processes such 

 as occur in V.formosa, there are ten small tooth-like papillae, all of about the same size. 



The examples from the other two stations consist of a small anterior and a small 

 posterior fragment. 



Vanadis formosa, Claparede. 



Fauvel, 1923, p. 205, fig. 77 a-c. 

 Apstein, 1900, p. 8, pi. i, figs. 1-6. 



St. 85. 23. vi. 26. 33° 07' 40" S, 4" 30' 20" E. 2000 (-o)m. Gear N 450. One specimen. 



St. 87. 25. vi. 26. 33^ 53' 45" S, 9° 26' 30" E. 1000 (-0) m. Gear TYF. One specimen. 



St. 89. 28. vi. 26. 34° 05' 15" S, 16° 00' 45" E. 1000 (-0) m. Gear TYF. One specimen. 



St. 102. 28. X. 26. 35° 29' 20" S, 18° 33' 40" E. 52 m. Gear N 100 H. Bottom 1800 m., 

 globigerina ooze. One specimen. 



St. 259. 26. vi. 27. 34° 59' 00" S, 16° 39' 00" E. 170-250 (-0) m. Gear TYF. Two specimens. 



St. 270. 27. vii. 27. 13° 58' 30" S, 11° 43' 30" E. 20o(-o)m. Gear TYF. One specimen. 



St. 282. 12. viii. 27. 1° 11' 00" S, 5° 38' 00" E. 300 (-0) m. Gear TYF. One specimen. 



St. 287. 19. viii. 27. 2° 49' 30" S, 9° 25' 30" E. 800-1000 (-0) m. Gear TYF. One specimen. 



Remarks. Benham (1921, p. 58) suggests that both Mcintosh (1885, p. 175) and 

 Gravier (19 11, p. 65) are mistaken in stating that the bristles of the examples described 

 by them as V. antarctica are simple and without articulations. A prolonged study of 

 Mcintosh's type specimen has convinced me that as far as the latter author is concerned 

 Benham is right. Mcintosh's Alciopa antarctica has compound bristles. And in view 

 of the great difficulty of observing the chaetal articulations in some specimens, Gravier 

 may also have been mistaken. 



V. antarctica is very close to V.formosa, but it seems to be a larger and more massive 

 species and lacks the two lateral processes on the proboscis found in V. formosa. 

 In V. antarctica they are represented by two papillae slightly larger than the rest. 

 V. antarctica is not represented in the present collection. Except for one example 

 of V. longissima there is no specimen of Vanadis from farther south than 34°. 



