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LULL. 
NOTE ON THE WORM ASSOCIATED WITH LOPHOHELIA 
PROLIFERA. By FLORENCE BUCHANAN. 
SwHorty after the publication of the Report on the Deep-Sea 
Polycheeta obtained during the Royal Dublin Society’s Survey off 
the West Coast of Ireland,’ wherein I described, as a new species, 
Eunice philocorallia, a worm inhabiting colonies of Lophohelia pro- 
lifera, the late Mr. George Brook kindly drew my attention to the 
mention of a similar worm, inhabiting this coral, by Bishop 
Gunnerus, in 1768,’ who refers to it as the Nereis madrepore 
pertuse. Seeing that later writers, Malmgren‘ and others, had 
identified the Nereis madrepore pertuse of Gunnerus with Leodice 
norvegica, Li, and having ascertained, by comparison with type 
specimens of the latter species kindly sent me for the purpose by 
Dr. Armauer Hansen, that the Irish specimens were not Leodice 
(or rather Hunice®) norvegica, L., I concluded that I was still 
justified in having given a new specific name, although I should, 
probably, have referred the NV. madrepore pertuse of Gunnerus to 
it. I have, however, recently come across a Paper® in the K. 
Norske Selsk. Skr. for 1880, in which the author, V. Storm, 
makes a new species, which he calls Leodice gunneri, for the Nereis 
madrepore pertuse of Gunnerus and the L. norvegica, auct. I have 
no doubt, from his description, and from the examination of the 
inhabitants of some Lophohelia colonies dredged off the Norwegian 
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1 This Journal, vol. vi., Part 1., No. 15. Cf. also ‘‘ Branched Worm-tubes and 
Acrozoanthus,”’ by Prof. A. C. Haddon, vol. viit., Part 1v., p. 344. 
* K. Norske Vid. Selsk. Skr. Throndhjem, 1768, pp. 50-51, PI. ii. 
3 Madrepeora pertusa is the old name for Lophoheha prolifera. 
4 Malmgren. Annulata Polychaeta. Ofvers. K. Vet-Ak. Forh., 1867, p. 190. 
° There is no distinction between the genera Leodice and Eunice. 
6 Storm V. Bidrag til Kundskab om Throndhjemsfjordens Fauna. K. Norske Vid. 
Selsk. Skr., 1880, pp. 92-95. 
