ANNELIDA AND SIPUNCULOIDEA. 
By W. B. Brenuam, D.Sc., F.R.S., University of Otago. 
ANNELIDA POLYCHAITA. 
Figs. 1-5. 
THE collection of annelids is a small one, containing only twenty-two 
species, of which only three were not represented in my own collec- 
tion. These are Sthenelais semitecta, a comparatively rare species ; 
nuphis tenuisetis, which has not been recorded since the type was 
obtained by the “ Challenger ” off the East Cape; and Goniada eximia, 
which is of special interest, as it is a South American and Magellan 
form, not hitherto obtaimed from the neighbourhood of New Zealand. 
The identification of the series of worms was rendered compara- 
tively easy owing to the fact that I have been for the last eight years 
or so accumulating in the Otago University Museum annelids from 
all parts of the coast visited by me, or by my correspondents in other 
parts of New Zealand ; so that it contains nearly all the species which 
have been recorded from our coastal waters. I had proposed to de- 
scribe them, but, a few years ago, on hearmg from Professor Ehlers, 
of Géttingen, that he was engaged in the examination of the Poly- 
cheta of the “ Valdivia” and other expeditions, I forwarded a set 
of species to him for description, and he has published two illus- 
trated memoirs on our New Zealand annelids. I have also forwarded 
to the British Museum representatives of a considerable number of 
our species. In the present report I have added notes on geographical 
distribution in the case of those species which have been recorded 
outside the New Zealand area. 
It is to be regretted that no polychetes were obtained at Station 88, 
where a depth of 105 fathoms was reached, nor from other spots off 
the east coast of the North Island, since the few that appear to have 
been got off Cape Kidnappers, at a depth of 68-78 fathoms, are very 
interesting forms. 
Family APHRODITID. 
ApHropita, Linneeus, 1758. 
Aphrodita talpa Quatrefages. 
Aphrodita talpa Quatrefages, Hist. Nat. d. Anneles, 1, 1865, p. 196, 
pl. vi, figs. 2-4. ; 
Stations 7, 30. 
