POLYCHiETA— BENHAM. US 



Several of these characteristic tubes, some containing the animal, were obtained 

 during the exjjedition of the " Aurora." 



The narrow, white calcareous tubes have a diameter of 2-75 mm., and the 

 thickened everted lip is 4-5 mm. across. Along the course of the tube are similar 

 thickened lips at intervals, indicating periods of cessation of gro\\i;h. The tubes are 

 more or less undulating, or may be coiled, where they are attached to some object, 

 such as a stone or shell. 



Localities. — 



Boat Harbour, Station B, 25 fathoms. 

 Commonwealth Bay — 



Station 1, 354 fathoms. 



Station 2, 318 fathoms. 



Station 3, 120 fathoms. 



Station 9, 240 fathoms. 



Station 10, 325 fathoms. 



Distribution. — " He Narcon in the Antarctic Ocean" (Baird), Kerguelen (Grube), 

 Marion Island, Heard Island (Mcintosh), Magellan Strait (Mcintosh, Ehlers), 

 Admiralty Sound, S. Victoria Land, K. Wilhelm II Land (Ehlers), South 

 American Antarctic (Gravier). 



Genus spirorbis Daudin. 

 Spirorbis nordenskjoldi Eh'ers. 

 Ehlers (1901), p. 223. 

 Ehlers (1908), p. 165. 

 Gravier (1911), p. 153, pL XI, figs. 153, 154. 



Gravier has pointed out that it is difficult to be certain as to the identification 

 of this species, as Ehlers has given no figure of it. Hence it is with some hesitation 

 that I attribute our specimens to this species; they agree with the accounts referred 

 to above and with Gravier's figures. 



Localities,— 



Boat Harbour, 3-4 fathoms. 



Coimnonwealth Bay, Station D, 45-50 fathoms. 



Distribution. — Punta Delgada, Bouvet Island (Ehlers), Petermann (Gravier). 



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