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ITOTES 01^ IRISH WORMS: 1. THE IRISH IvTEMERTINES 

 WITH A LIST OF THOSE COJfTAINED IN THE SCIENCE 

 AND ART MUSEUM, DUBLIN. By H. LTSTER JAMESON, 

 B.A. 



(COHMUNICAXED liX DR. SCHARFF.) 



[Eead April 25, 1898.] 



During the autumn of 1897, I was engaged for six weeks re-arrang- 

 ing the collection of Irish. Worms in the Science and Art Museum, 

 Dublia ; and it occurred to me that it might be worth while to 

 publish, in the case of certain groups at least, lists of the species 

 which are contained in the collection, together with as complete an 

 enumeration of previous records as I could collect from the scattered 

 papers which deal with the Irish Eauna. By so doing, it seemed to 

 me that I might render the facts more accessible to other workers, 

 and at the same time make known the hitherto unrecorded examples 

 which the collection contains. 



With this idea in view, I present the following list of Nemer- 

 tines, which I hope shortly to follow up with remarks on other 

 groups. 



The Nemertines in this collection were in part abeady named. Such 

 as were not already determined, I hare been able to identify, with the 

 exception of one or two badly preserved individuals. Under each 

 species, I first enumerate the examples in the Museum ; then I give 

 a sketch of the previous Irish records, very doubtful records or un- 

 certain synonyms being omitted. Where the original observer has used 

 an obscure synonym for a well-known species, I give this synonym 

 in brackets ( ). Lastly, I add an account of the general distri- 

 bution of each species, which I have in great part adopted from 

 Biirger's Monograph (1). 



The number quoted before the year, in some of the records of 

 specimens in the Museum, refers to the number in the Year Register 

 of the Museum under which the particular individual is entered. 



The classification adopted is that of Burger (1). 



