AMPHARETIDAE i8i 



The Amage sciilpta described by Benham (1927, p. 121) from the Ross Sea belongs, 

 in my opinion, to a different species. Benham 's examples have a different shape of 

 body, 15 bristle-bearing notopodia and 15 abdominal segments. The bristles of the 

 first two chaetigers are very much more developed than in these specimens and, as 

 Benham has pointed out, the posterior end, with its two long anal cirri and its six 

 segments without neuropods, is quite different from that described by Ehlers. My 

 specimens confirm Ehlers' account. 



The deep-water specimen from St. 177 shows certain differences from the rest. It 

 is a small and apparently ripe female, measuring 11 mm. in length. The difference in 

 breadth between the thoracic and abdominal regions is not so marked as in the other 

 specimens. The cephalic lobe is more clearly trilobed, and the raised glandular bands 

 more distinct. The bristles of the first two chaetigers are not enclosed within the pedal 

 lobe, but project freely. They are small but distinct. 



In all other respects this example is indistinguishable from the other specimens. The 

 hooks in all the specimens have paired teeth in the third row as figured by Ehlers. 



Genus Melinna, Malmgren (Hessle char, emend.) 



Melinna cristata (M. Sars). 



Fauvel, 1927, p. 237, fig. 83 i-n. 



St. 27. 15. iii. 26. West Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 3-3 miles S 44° E of Jason Light. 

 no m. Gear DL. Bottom: mud and rock. One specimen. 



Remarks. A single, rather poorly preserved specimen, which I believe to belong to 

 this species. Ehlers (1908, p. 144) has already recorded it from southern waters, near 

 Bouvet Island. 



Genus Phyllocomus, Grube 

 Phyllocomus crocea, Grube. 



Mcintosh, 1885, p. 427, pi. xlvii, fig. 11 ; pi. xxvi A, fig. 25; pi. xxxvii a, fig. 6. 

 Hessle, 1917, p. 123. 



St. 175. 2. iii. 27. Bransfield Strait, South Shetlands. 63° 17' 20" S, 59° 48' 15" W. 200 m. 

 Gear DLH. Bottom: mud, stones and gravel. Five specimens. 



St. WS 80. 14. iii. 27. 50° 57' 00" S, 63° 37' 30" W. From 50° 58' 00" S, 63° 39' 00" W to 

 50° 55' 30" S, 63" 36' 00" W. 152-156 m. Gear OTC. Bottom: fine dark sand. One specimen. 



Remarks. There is not much that I can add to Hessle's diagnosis of this species. 

 The examples from St. 175 have an average measurement of 30 mm. by 4 mm. at the 

 widest part; a damaged example from St. WS 80, doubtfully attributable to this 

 species, is very much larger, measuring 83 mm. in length. The large, rounded pro- 

 stomium (Fig. 75, a) is splashed with dark red pigment, which extends in irregular 

 markings to the under-surface of the buccal segment, and along the back to about the 

 5th chaetiger. 



