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find that ill-preserved specimens are more nearly like Quatref ages' figure. 

 In short, the present specimens agree precisely with his account of the species, 

 whether under the description of the genus (p. 219) or of the species (p. 227). 



There is, I think, strong justification for Mclntosh ascribing to this 

 species those specimens that occurred in considerable numbers in the neighbour- 

 hood of Kerguelen. It is true he gives no details whatever, and Rosa has 

 suggested that perhaps he had T. eschchdtzi Quat., before him. This occurs 

 near the Cape of Good Hope, and the suggestion was, no doubt, warranted. 

 But in view of the fact that T. carpenteri was originally found in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bouvet Island and now at almost the exact opposite quarter of the 

 Antarctic seas there is no geographical ground for refusing to accept Mclntosh's 

 identification. 



TOMOPTERIS SEPTENTRIONALIS Quotrefoges. 



Quatrefages (1865), vol. ii, p. 229. 



Rosa (1908), p. 297, pi. XII, fig. 17. 



T. (Johnst(mdla)septentrionalis, Gravier (1911), p. 72 (full list of references). 



About a dozen specimens of this bi-polar species were gathered by tow-netting 

 during January, 1914, at depths from 45-100 fathoms. They vary in length from 

 5-15 mm. 



Gravier has already pointed out that in his specimens the length of the peristomial 

 cirri exceeds that given by Rosa, who states that they are about f the body length. It 

 appears possible that this varies with age, for I find that in one that is 8 mm. in length 

 the cirri are longer than the body. The specimen was mounted, and the cirri fortunately 

 lay directed backwards. In one of 15 mm. they are at least 10 mm. long, and have 

 every appearance of having been broken. Southern gives the length as from " one- 

 half to four-fifths " of the body length (1911, p. 21). 



As previous observers have stated, the hyaline glands are difficult of detection in 

 all the segments in which they occur. I find them in the first three parapods distinctly 

 and in at least 12 of the subsequent parapods, though they are not readily visible ir 

 all the feet of every specimen. 



The eyes are brown, rather far apart, and situated far forwards, just in front > 

 the bases of the cirri. 



Surely it is by a lapsus calami that Gravier places this species in the sub-genus 

 J ' ohnstondla, for it has, according to the observations of Apstein, Rosa, and myself, 

 neither rosette nor first cirrus nor tail; and Rosa himself places it in the sub-genus 

 Tomopteris on this account. 

 Localities . 



Commonwealth Bay, 45 fathoms, 50 fathoms, 100 fathoms. 



Distribution. North Atlantic; Baltic; North Sea; S.W. Coast of Ireland 

 (Southern); Pacific ( Apstein) ; lat. 69 15' south, long. 105 5' west (Gravier). 



