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XV. 
REPORT ON POLYCHATS COLLECTED DURING THE 
ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY’S SURVEY OFF THE WEST 
COAST OF IRELAND. PARTI. DEEP WATER FORMS. 
By FLORENCE BUCHANAN, B.Sc., Univ. College, London. 
(Puares IX., X., XI.) 
[COMMUNICATED BY PROFESSOR HADDON. | 
[Read Frpruary 22; Received for publication Fesruary 24; Published 
. June 18, 1893.] 
Tue collection of Polychets on which I am about to report was 
kindly made over to me, for the purpose of identifying the species 
in it, by Professor Haddon after the survey of 1891. Although 
small it has proved to be of some interest. Only three families, 
namely, the Aphroditide, the Hunicide, and the Serpulide, 
appear to be represented in that part of the collection obtained 
from deep water. ‘There is also a tube of a Terebellid. There 
are seven different species, of which one is new, and of which one 
has apparently not been recorded before, except in the neighbour- 
hood of the far-off Island of Kerguelen. 
Fam.—APHRODITID. 
I.—Leetmatonice producta, Gr. 
There are four good specimens of this species dredged from a 
bottom of sand and gravel at a depth of 500 fathoms 54 miles off 
Achill Head. There is no mistaking the species, as it agrees both 
with Grube’s' and M‘Intosh’s’ description ; but it is curious that, 
as far as I am aware, it has only as yet been recorded in the South 
Seas near Kerguelen, though in that region it is apparently 
' Grube, Monatsberichte d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. z. Berlin, 1877, p. 512. 
_ ® M‘Intosh, ‘‘ Challenger Report”’ xii., p. 39, Pl. viii. and iy., Af. 1-8. 
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