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are, however, only three pairs of gills, and I presume that the fourth has been lost, 

 although I cannot see the usual scar marking the position of a lost gill. I believe this 

 to be the first record of this species from South Africa. 



Amphicteis gunneri (M. Sars), var. antarctica, Hessle. 



Hessle, 1917, p. 116, text-fig. 21. 



St. 28. 16. iii. 26. West Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 3-3 miles S 45° W of Jason Light. 

 168 m. Gear DC. Bottom: mud. One specimen. 



St. 30. 16. iii. 26. West Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 2-8 miles S 24° W of Jason Light. 

 251 m. Gear DLH. Bottom: mud and stones. Two specimens. 



St. 39. 25. iii. 26. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. From 8 cables S 81° W of Merton 

 Rock to 1-3 miles N 7° E of Macmahon Rock. 179-235 m. Gear OTL. Bottom: grey mud. One 

 specimen. 



St. 143. 30.xii.26. Off mouth of East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 54° 12' S, 36° 29' 30" W. 

 273 m. Gear OTL. Bottom: mud. One specimen. 



St. 152. 17. i. 27. 53° 51' 30" S, 36° 18' 30" W. 245 m. Gear DLH. Bottom: rock. Two 

 specimens. 



St. 160. 7.11.27. Near Shag Rocks.' 53° 43' 40" S, 40° 57' 00" W. 177 m. Gear DLH. Bottom: 

 grey mud, stones and rock. Four specimens. 



St. 167. 20. ii. 27. Off Signy Island, South Orkneys. 60° 50' 30" S, 46° 15' 00" W. 244-344 ^^■ 

 Gear N 4-T. Bottom: green mud. Twelve specimens. 



St. 182. 14. iii. 27. Schollaert Channel, Palmer Archipelago. 64° 21' 00" S, 62° 58' 00" W. 

 278-500 m. Gear N 7-T. Bottom: mud. Two specimens. 



St. 195. 30. iii. 27. Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetlands. 62° 07' 00" S, 

 58° 28' 30" W. 391 m. Bottom: mud and stones. Gear OTM. Three specimens. Gear DLH. Four 

 specimens. 



St. WS 32. xii. 12. 26. Mouth of Drygalski Fiord, South Georgia. 225 m. Gear BTS. Bottom: 

 grey mud. Five specimens. 



St. MS 15. 17. ii. 25. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 3 miles SW of Merton Rock 

 to 2J miles NNW of Dartmouth Point. 110 m. Gear DS. One specimen. 



St. MS 69. 5. iii. 26. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 1^ cables E x N to 8| cables 

 E X N of Macmahon Rock. 146 m. Gear DS. Five specimens. 



Remarks. This species is abundant round South Georgia. In the smaller and pre- 

 sumably younger specimens, the type of palea with a kind of plume on the top, which 

 Hessle regards as a varietal character, is replaced by a more slender and gradually 

 tapering kind such as is found in the stem form. The examples from Sts. 160 and 182 

 have the posterior raised border of the nuchal organs conspicuously coloured brown : 

 in some from St. 167 there are faint traces of this pigmentation; but in the majority 

 of examples it is completely absent. Unfortunately the type specimens of Mcintosh's 

 A. wyvillei and A. sarsi are too ill-preserved to be of use for purposes of comparison. 



