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much longer and more numerous than in L. rarispina. The ventral cirri have a few 
short cilia, and extend nearly to the tip of the fleshy portion of the foot. 
The dorsal division of the foot has somewhat stout bristles (Pl. LX-XI. fig. 9), and the 
tip has a tendency to follow the same form as in the ventral. This is observed in a 
more highly magnified view in fig. 10, while another with a sharper tip is seen in 
Pl. LXXIIL. fig. 17, and a third in Pl. LX XIII. fig. 18, sketched from one of the shorter 
(developing ?) forms toward the body-line of the dorsum, and having a slender process 
at the tip. The ventral division commences superiorly with a series having very long 
tips, the rows of spines being much finer and more dense than in Harmothoé imbricata 
—indeed, in this respect approaching Dasylepis asperrima. ‘The peculiar shape of the 
terminal portion is distinctive (Pl. LXXI. fig. 11, representing one of the longer, not 
longest, forms). Some of those next the upper series also show a distinct process 
beneath the tip (Pl. LX-XI. fig. 12). The tips diminish in length in the usual manner 
toward the ventral surface, those at the lower edge showing no secondary process. 
Malmgren’s descriptions and figures demonstrate considerable differences between his 
forms (L. rarispina and L. propinqua) and the present. It is a fact of interest also in 
connexion with the strictness necessary in all scientific drawings, that his artist has 
overlooked the fundamental condition of such bristles, viz. to have alternate rows of 
minute spines or spinous processes. None of the specimens exhibited the elongated 
processes on the scales shown by Malmgren in L. rarispina, and, in some, few or none 
of the bristles of the inferior branch showed the secondary process beneath the tip— 
characters which diverge both from the latter and L. propinqua. 
Harmornok mpricata, L., occurred in 60-160 fathoms six miles E. of Cape de Gatte. 
In a specimen of Harmothoé floccosa, Say., dredged off the west coast of Ireland in 173 
fathoms, some of the posterior ventral cirri had a few clavate papillae. Harmothoé anti- 
lopes, M‘Intosh, is not uncommon in both collections, being found with the latter in 
(No. 6) 358 and (No. 11) 567 fathoms on the Channel slope, in the Atlantic, and 
outside Gibraltar in 227 fathoms. 
EvarNE impr, Johnst. An example from 567 fathoms (Station No. 1, 1870) does 
not show the large tubercles on the scales, and the cilia along the border of the latter 
are unusually long. The characters in some respects (except the slenderness of the 
ventral bristles) approach certain varieties of Harmothoé imbricata. The scales, more- 
over, have none of the ordinary brown touches, being pale greyish. The same variety 
was procured in Station No. 6 (358 fathoms), and outside Gibraltar. 
EyarNeE Jounstoni', n.s. Dredged at Station 3, 1870, in 690 fathoms in the Atlantic. 
" In honour of the late Dr. George Johnston, of Berwick-on-T'weed, who did much to bring the Annelida into 
notice in this country. 
