THi!; ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL EISTORY, 



[KIGHTII SICIUKS.] 



" perlitorasparj^ite museum, 



Naindt'S. et cireum vitrcos consiilitc fontfs : 

 PoUice virjjineo teneros hie cariiite (lores: 

 Floribiis et pietura, divse. replete canistrum. 

 At V08, o Nvmphae Cmterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, reeurvato varinta corallia triinco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupiljiis. et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Dese pelagi, et pingiii conchylia suceo." 



N. Parthenii Giannettasi, Eel, 1. 



No. 97. JANUARY 1916. 



T. — Notes from the Gatti/ Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. 

 —No. XXXVIII. By Prof. M^Lvtosh, M.D., LL.D., 

 F.R.S., &c. 



[Plates I.-IV.] 



1. On the British SaheUidfP. 



i. On the Sahelli'JtP dredged by II.^I.S. 'Porcupine' in 1869 and 1870, 



and bv H.M.S. ' Knijilit Ernint ' in 1882. 

 ;}. On the Te rebel I ill (s nnd Sdhplliche dredired in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 



Canada, by Dr. Whiteaves in 1871-73. 

 4. Ou the SabeUkhe dredged by Canon A. M. Xorman off Norway and 



Finmark. 



1. On the British Sabellidfe. 



The British Sabellicis number more than twenty, exclusive of 

 some forms not yet fully investigated from lack of good 

 material. lu this respect, therefore, tliey compare favonr- 

 al)ly, in this preliminary notice, with those from other 

 :iri;;is. 



Thus, for example, Sars* in 18G1 gave 10 species of 

 Sabellids, including one of Mijxicola, as occurring in the 

 piolific Norwegian waters. De Quatrefages, in his ' Anneles,' 

 mentions about a dozen of the forms which have been found 

 in Britain, excluding double entries like Sahclla penidllus 



* Forhandl. Videnskabs-Selsk. Chri.-^tiania, 1861, pi>. 116-131. 

 Aun. it- Mnj. X. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol xvii. 1 



