234 Prucccdiugs of liic Roijal Irish Acaileimj. 



Gouiada maculata, Oersted. 



1SG8. Elders. Tom. cit., p. 70-4. 



2 uides south-east of Bailey Light, 13, vii, '07. Dredge, 13-18 fms. 



A single specimen of this worm was taken in the dredge. 



Gmwral Bistribntion. — British Isles ; Scandinavia ; Spain ; Portugal ; North 

 Sea; Eastern North America. 



Family ARICIIDAE. 

 Scoloplos Miilleri (Italhke). 



1898. de Saint-Joseph. Ann. ScL Nat. Zool. (8), T. v., p. 356. 



Malahide (McI.). 



Sand}Tnount Strand. 



This woim is veiy abundant in the sand at Sandymouut. During the 

 breeding season its eggs, enclosed in a gelatinous mass which is anchored to 

 the sand by a thread, are qiute a conspicuous feature. 



General Didrihution. — British Isles; Europe; Siberia; Eastern North 

 America. This species has been frequently confused with the Arctic 

 Scoloplos armigci- (0. F. Miiller). 



Naidonereis quadricuspida, Fabr. 



1843. Oei-stcd. Gronlaud's Annulate Doreibi-auchiata, p. 200. 



Sandycove shore, 28, iii, '09. 



This species i.s apparently a member of the northern group. In the 

 specimens I obtained the head was considerably broader than is shown in 

 Mcintosh's figiirea,' and the branchiae Ijegin on the fifth parapodium, not 

 on the sixth, as he states. The anal segment bears four cirri, equal in length 

 to the width of the posterior part of the body. In all these points the 

 Sandycove specimens agree with those described by Webster and Benedict,' 

 from Eastport, Maine. 



Gftural Diitributioii. — Ixxshmaddy, North Uist ; Iceland ; Greenland ; 

 Eastern North America. 



Family Spionidae. 

 Nerine cirratulus (Del. Chiaje). 

 1896. Mesnil. BuU. Sci. France et Belg., xxix, p. 152. 

 Poolbeg breakwater ; common under stones and in sand. 

 Malahide, 23, ii, '08. 



G'tit ml Distribution. — Great Britain ; North Sea ; France; Meditenauean ; 

 Easteni North Auieriai, 



< Monog. Briiiali Aniicliils, vul. ii, Part i, Plate Ixv, fig. 6. 

 ' C. S Commiaaion of Fisheries, 1885, xiii. (1887), p. 738. 



