Annelida from Kerguelen' s Island. 319 



Mr. Eaton found the same paucity of Annelida in the littoral 

 region at Spitzbergen. 



The tubicolar forms and Polynoidae occurred on the roots of 

 Macrocystisj and some of the young Nereids in the usual silken 

 tubes on the fronds of Delesseria. None of the Annelids were 

 found under stones. 



Family Polynoidae. 



Genus Hermadion, Kinberg. 



Hermadion longicirratus, Kbg.* 



This form seems to be identical with Kinberg's species from 

 York Bay, Straits of Magellan, though the scales and bristles 

 differ slightly from the published figures — the former being 

 densely covered with minute spinulose papillae, and the latter 

 showing dorsally a less expanded distal region, with a close 

 series of oblique rows of spines. The tip in some is slightly 

 dilated. The ventral bristles, again, have the curve of the 

 terminal hook pronounced, while the spinous region is rather 

 narrow and short. All the bristles are of a deep brownish 

 yellow hue. The antennae, tentacular cirri, and dorsal cirri 

 have a filiform tip attached to a bulbous region, the latter and 

 the rest of the cirrus beneath being furnished with small cla- 

 vate papilla3. Much more minute clavate papilla? occur on the 

 palpi. The brownish scales generally have a few Avhitish 

 touches : the first is circular, the succeeding reniform, and the 

 posterior elongated from before backward. It is a large and 

 broad form, one specimen being about 2| inches long. 



Hub. Swain's Bay and Royal Sound, Kerguelen's Island 

 {Eaton) } York Bay, Strait of Magellan {Kmherg). 



Genus Eupolynoe, M'I. 

 Eupolynoe mollis^ n. sp. 



This species superficially resembles Alentia gelatinosa, Sars, 

 though a close examination shows many points of difference, 

 and leaves a general impression that the form is intermediate 

 in character between the latter and such types as HarmotJioe 

 imhricata, L. 



The head is proportionally larger, and does not exhibit the 

 nuchal process so characteristic of ^4. yfi/a<t*«osa ; and instead of 

 the closely approximated pair of large eyes on eacli side, the 

 lateral pairs are widely separated, a large one occupying the 

 anterior prominence and a small one being situated at the 

 posterior border. Moreover they nearly constitute a square, 



* Fregatten Eiigen. Reea &c. p. 22, tav. vi. fig. .3.'i. 



