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Distribution. — British Isles; Trance; North Sea; Scandinavia; Arctic 

 Seas; eastern shores of North America; Japan. 



Phyllodoce maculata (L.). 



1908. Phyllodoce metadata. Mcintosh, p. 89. 



This species is common under stones on the shore, in Laminaria roots, 

 and occasionally in sand. Mature specimens were found in March. 



Habitat. — Blacksod Bay — FouncVon the shore on 18 occasions. Dredged 

 on 10 occasions, in 1-8 fms. Clew Bay — Dredged in 

 Inishlyre Harbour, Killary Harbour, and various parts of 

 the bay on 6 occasions, in 4-20 fms. Ballynakill Har- 

 bour — Found once on the shore. Dredged on 5 occasions, in 

 1-8 fms. Bofin Harbour — Dredged in 1-4 fms. 



Distribution. — British Isles ; France ; North Sea ; Faroe ; Iceland ; Arctic 

 seas. 



Phyllodoce rubiginosa de Saint-Joseph. 



1888. Phyllodoce rubiginosa. De St.-Joseph, p. 282. 1908. P. r. 



Mcintosh, p. 92. 1908. Gcnetyllis hibernica. Mcintosh, p. 97. 



This species is fairly common on the shore at Blacksod Bay, living under 

 stones and in Laminaria roots. It is also frequently dredged on the west 

 coast of Ireland down to about 30 fathoms, as in Clew Bay. I have found 

 a number of specimens in Blacksod Bay which agree exactly with the 

 description given by Mcintosh for Gcnetyllis hibernica. The single specimen 

 from which this species was first described was found on the coast of Galway 

 Bay in 1868, and it has not since been recorded. The living specimens are 

 deep yellow in colour, the cirri being especially dark. In preserved speci- 

 mens the whole body changes to a cinnamon colour, the colour of the cirri, 

 as before, being specially pronounced. This agrees exactly with the descrip- 

 tion of Mcintosh. On comparing the figures of the feet and setae which he 

 gives for P. rubiginosa, and G. hibernica, it is impossible to see the slightest 

 specific difference, the resemblance between the shape and position of the 

 ventral cirri being very striking. A close comparison of the arrangement of 

 the tentacular cirri of typical members of each form shows that they agree 

 exactly. The head is small, with very large eyes, and the tentacles and 

 tentacular cirri are short, thick, and subulate. The buccal segment, which 

 is very indistinct and almost completely fused with the following segment, 

 has a single cirrus on each side. The second segment has on each side two 

 cirri and a small setigerous lobe with setae. The third segment has on each 

 side a dorsal tentacular cirrus, a setigerous lobe with setae, and a normal 



