from the Xorth Sea and adjacent pjrls. 



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Family Eiinicidae. 



Genus LuMBRicoNKiiKis, Uc Blaiiivillc, 1.S28 (cliar. cmciul.j. 



Liunbnconereis frufjUiSfO. F. Miillcr, 1758. 



Only at the foUowiu^ three stations was this spceies 

 ohtained : — 



All the three specimens arc large, the largest being 

 7 inches in length and having ahout 2''H segnKjnts. In 

 1869 the ' Porcupine ' E.vpedition found this form at various 

 stations off the British coasts, and the depths at which they 

 were found ranged from 15 to 1380 fathoms. From the 

 haijitat ascribed to this species by various writers, one must 

 conclude that the animals are northern as well as (lecj)-watcr 

 forms, for they have not yet been found as far south as the 

 j\[editerranean. In the 'Challenger^ Reports L. pellif/rewi 

 is mentioned as resembling this species in outline, while 

 L. neo-zealanice resembles it in the feet, but in the structure 

 of the bristles a marked difference is apparent. In Izuka^s 

 work there is no mention of this species. 



Two of the specimens contained ova, and all were more or 

 less in a spirally coiled condition. When alive they are very 

 active and graceful in their movements. There was nothing 

 of outstanding interest in any of the animals, and a full 

 description of the species will be found in Prof. jM^Intosh^s 

 * Monograph,' vol. ii. pt. ii. pp. 373—1. 



Lumbi'iconereis gracilis, Ehlers, 18G8. 

 Several fragments of apparently small specimens of this 

 annelid were dredged in 10 fathoms, one-quarter mile N.\\'. 

 of Gluss Island, close to Colla Firth in Shetland. This is 

 the only stalion at which it was found, but from recent 

 accounts it is abutulantly obtained oil: the west coasts, 

 especially the west coast of Ireland. Its distriijuticni, hmv- 

 ever, is wide, for it extends to the Mediterraueau, Adriatic 



