248 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Polychaeta. 



his Bpecies, nevertheless he retains the later specific name. When I was studying 

 these annelids some years ago, with the purpose of publishing an account of them, 

 before Ehlers had done so, I had come to the same conclusion without having had 

 the opportunity of examining Schmarda's types ; hence, Schmarda's description 

 of T. plagiostoma is a recognisable diagnosis, and ought to be retained as the name 

 of this common worm. 



The worm forms a tube of fine gravel and fragments of shells. It was in the 

 tube of this species that the specimen of L. comma was found. 



Locality. — Auckland Island : Masked Island, Carnley Harbour ; (W. B. B.). 



Distributivn. — New Zealand ; east coast of Africa ; Chili. 



Leprea, Malmgren, 1864. 

 Leprea haplochaeta, Ehlers 



1904. Leprea haplochaeta, Ehlers, Neuseel. Annel., p. 59, pi. viii, figs. 13-18. 



A small species of from 20 mm. to 30 mm. in length. Lives under stones in a 

 tube covered with sand-grains ; frequently these tubes are built in empty gastropod- 

 shells. 



Locality.— C&mipheW Island ; (T. J. Parker, 1895 ; W. B. B., February, 1907 ; 

 C. Chilton, November, 1907). Auckland Island : Carnley Harbour ; (W. B. B., 

 1907). 



Distribution. — New Zealand ; Chatham Islands. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY RELATING TO SUBANTARCTIC POLYCHAETA. 



1. Ehlers. 1901. Die Polychaeten der magellanischen und chilenischen Strandes." 



Festschrift zur Feier des 150 jahrigen Bestehens der Konigl. Gesellschaft der 

 Wissenschaften zu Gottingen. 



2. Ehlers. 1904. " Neuseelandische Anneliden." Abhandl. d. K. Gesell. Wiss. 



Gottingen. 



3. Ehlers. 1907. " Neuseelandische Anneliden," ii. Loc. cit. 



4. Johnson, Herbert P. 1903. " Fresh-water Nereids from the Pacific Coast, 



Hawaii, &c." " Mark Anniversary Volume." 



5. Johnson, Herbert P. 1908. " Lycastis quadraticeps, an Hermaphrodite Nereid 



with Gigantic Ova." " Biological Bulletin," xiv. 



6. Mcintosh, W. C. 1885. " Reports of the ' Challenger ' Expedition," xii, Poly- 



chaeta. 



7. Mcintosh, W. C. 1903. " Marine Annelids (Polychaeta) of South Africa." 



" Marine Investigations of South Africa," iii. 



8. Schmarda. 1861. " Neue Wirbellose Thiere," I, ii. 



9. Thomson, W. M. 1902. " On a New Polynoid." Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxxiv. 



