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NOTE ON IRISH ANNELIDS IN THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE. 
AND ART, DUBLIN.—No. I. By W. C. M‘INTOSH, 
Professor of Natural History in St. Andrew’s University. 
[Received for Publication Juty 14; Published OcronEr 10, 1896.] 
Prorsssor Happon lately forwarded a collection of Irish Anne- 
lids made during various dredging expeditions. The specimens. 
were preserved with considerable care, and duly labelled. At the 
same time an extensive series of Annelids from the Science and 
Art Museum was sent, at the instigation of Dr. Scharff, by the 
lamented Dr. Valentine Ball. I am much indebted to these 
gentlemen for their courtesy in handing these over for examina- | 
tion, in order that the forthcoming monograph of the British 
' Annelids might be as complete as possible in regard to distribu- 
tion. 
For convenience, each collection may be placed separately 
under each species, and in this instance the list goes as far as 
the Sigalionide. It was hoped that, in these collections, examples 
of the rare Spinther oniscoides of Dr. George Johnston would 
have been present, for his example was dredged by Mr. W. 
_ Thompson, in Belfast Bay, in 6-10 fathoms, but no trace of such 
was found. 
The occurrence of two new species, and a few varieties, show 
that still more is to be done in our country in this group of 
Invertebrates. 
List or IrisH ANNELIDS. 
Aphrodita aculeata, L. 
Bantry Bay, No. 92, 1892, of moderate size; off Howth 
(Lambay excursion, 1886), the specimen (8 inches) having Lowo- 
soma and a Campanularian parasitic on the feet and the ventral 
surface; Station 114, 80 fathoms, young example; Station 122, 
young; Station 126, small; Stations 127 and 128, two of 
moderate size; Station 147, small. 
