Polychaeta 5 B 



shore to southern England. In the Pacific it ranges south to San Diego on 

 the American coast, and to Japan on the Asiatic. It is well known from the 

 shores of Greenland, Davis strait, etc., and the present collection extends its 

 known distribution along the northern Canadian shores to Alaska. 



LOCALITIES. Alaska: Grantley harbour: Teller. Stations 206-c. July 30, 

 1913. Many specimens taken at a depth of 2-3 fathoms. 



Alaska: Port Clarence bay. Station 200. August 4, 1913. Numerous 

 mostly large, specimens taken at a depth of 2-3 fathoms on a muddy bottom 

 among " thread algae." 



Dolphin and Union strait. Station 43c. September 14, 1915. Several 

 specimens taken at a depth of 20-30 meters on a bottom of gray mud with 

 stones and algae. 



Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour, outer part. Station 41. July 20, 

 1915. Numerous specimens taken at a depth of 10 meters on a muddy bottom 

 among Laminaria. 



Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour. Station 376. August 25, 1914. 

 Several specimens taken at from 2 to 3 fathoms on a rocky and sandy bottom 

 among Laminaria, etc. 



Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour. Station 37e. September 1, 1914. 

 Many specimens taken at from 1 to 3 fathoms on a sandy bottom among algae. 



Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour. Station 416. July 24, 1915. 

 Several specimens taken at a depth of about 5 meters. 



Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour, outer part. Station 41/. August 

 1, 1915. Three specimens taken at 5 meters. 



Northwest Territories: Hudson bay, west side: Fullerton. Neptune Ex- 

 pedition. A. Halkett, collector, September 19, 1904. 



Davis strait: Ungava: Port Burwell. Neptune Expedition. A. Halkett, 

 collector, 1903-04. One small specimen lacking elytra. 



Lagisca rarispina (Sars). 



1860. Polynoe rarispina SARS, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania, p. 60. 



1865. Lagisca rarispina MALMGREN, Ofvers. af K. Vet. Akad. Forh., p. 65. 



Eight specimens conforming to this species are in the collection from 

 Hudson strait. Unfortunately they have lost all their elytra. The largest 

 specimen is 46 mm. long. This species is common along the shores of Greenland 

 and also occurs about Iceland, Spitzbergen, Norway and southward into the 

 North sea, Finmark, Nova Zembla, and the Kara sea. 



LOCALITY. Hudson strait: Ungava: Port Burwell. Neptune Expedition, 

 1903-04. A. Halkett, collector. 



Pholoe minuta (Fabricius). 



1780. Aphrodita minuta FABRICIUS, Fauna Groenl., p. 314. 



1822. Polynoe minuta SAVIGNY, Syst. Annel., p. 26. 



1828. Palmyra ocellata JOHNSTON, Zool. Journ., 3. p. 329. 



1839. Pholoe inonata JOHNSTON, Ann. Nat. Hist., 2, p. 437, pi. 23, f. 1-5. 



1843. Pholoe minuta OERSTED, Groenl. Annul. Dorsibr., p. 169, pi. I, f. 3, 4, 8, 



9, 16. 

 . Pholoe baltica OERSTED, Annel. Dan. Consp., p. 14, f. 21, 34-36, 40. 



1844. Pholoe assimilis OERSTED, Kroyer Nat. Tidsskr., Anden Raekke, I, 



p. 404. 

 1896. Pholoe eximia MICHAELSEN, Polychaet. Fauna, p. 12, pi. I, f. 2. 



LOCALITY. Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour: inner harbour. Sta- 

 tion 37 e. September 1, 1914. Two fragments together composing a complete 

 individual taken in a sandy bottom among algae. 



Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour. Station 41c. July 28, 1915. 

 Two pieces of a larger individual taken at 3-8 fathoms on a bottom of sandy 

 mud with algae. 



