SouriiKKN — The Marine W(n-ms {Annelidu) nf Duhlin Umi. -.IW 



Family AMPHARETIDAE. 

 Amphai'ete Grubei, Miilmt^'rcii. 



1897. Fauvcl. JSulletiii Sci. France cL liely., Um\. xxx, p. V6. 



13 miles E.S.E. of Lambay (S. 236, 29, vi, '04. Townet on Trawl, 39-52 

 fms. 2 sp.). 



General Dkfrih I (tion. — Irish Sea (Hornell) ; Spitzbergen ; Iceland ; Green- 

 laud ; Scaudina\aa ; Siberia ; Nova Zembla ; North France. 



Family CAPITELLIDAE. 



Capitella capitata (Fabricius). 



1887. Eisig. Die Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel, p. 849. 

 Salthill (Mel.). 



Howth, North shore, 10, x, '09. 

 Sandymount Strand, common. 



General Distribution. — British Isles ; shores of Atlantic ; Mediterranean ; 

 Black Sea. 



Family ARENICOLIDAE. 

 Arenicola marina, L. 



1900. Gamble and Ashworth. Qnart. Jonrn. Micr. Sc, xliii, p. 419. 



Common in sandy flats all round the district. It is used very largely as 

 bait by line-fishermen. 



A post-larval stage, 7^ mm. long, with 19 setigerous segments, and no 

 gills, was dredged in 2 fms. at Malahide Inlet, on the 24th of August, 1907. 

 A later stage, with eleven pairs of gills, was found in sand on Sandymount 

 Strand. 



General Distribution. — British Isles ; east, north, south, and west coasts of 

 Atlantic ; Mediterranean ; Pacifie. 



Arenicola ecaudata, Johnston. 



1900. Gamble and Ashworth. Tom. cit., p. 419. 

 Salthill (McI.). 



Mcintosh' records a post-larval stage of this species from Salthill, Co. 

 Dublin. No adult specimen has apparently yet been found in the district. 

 General Distribution. — British Isles ; Norway ; English Channel. 



' Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1008 (S), vol. i., p. 3S2. 



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