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MELTNNA CRISTATA. 



1867. Melinna cristata, Malmgren. Annul. Polych., p. 106. 



1868. Sabellides 

 1871. Melinna 

 1873. 

 1874. 



1875. 



I, 1871—72, 



„ Sars. Vidensk.-selsk. Forhandl., p. 10 (sep. copy). 



Grebe. Schlep. Gesell. (1870), p. 80. 

 „ Kupffer. Jahresb. Komm. deutscli. Meere., 1871, p. 151. 

 „ Mcintosh. Ann. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., vol. xiv, p. 204. 

 „ Malm. Fauna Groteb. (Kongl. Yet. Handl.), vol. xiv, p. 96. 

 „ Yerrill. Invert. Vineyard Sound, Rep. U.S. Com. F. and F. 



pp. 432 and 613. 

 „ Ehlers. Zeit. f. wiss. Zool., Bd. xxv, p. 27. 

 „ Liitken. Arctic Man., p. 174. 

 „ Marion. Eev. Sc. nat., t. iv, p. 307. 

 „ Mcintosh. Invert, and Fishes St. Andrews, p. 129. 

 „ Mobius. Jahresb. Comm. deutsch. Meere. (1872). 



1878. „ „ Marenzeller. Denks. Math. Naturw. K. Akad. wiss. Wien, vol. xxxv, p. 391. 



1879. ,, „ Tauber. Annul. Danica, p. 129. 

 „ Theel. Kgl. Sv. Yet.-akad. Handl., Bd. xvi, p. 63 (sep. copy). 



1883. „ „ Levinsen. Yidensk. Meddel. Copenhagen, p. 160. 



1884. „ „ Webster and Benedict. Rep. Com. F. and F., U.S.A., for 1881, p. 732. 



1885. „ „ Wiren. Svensk. Yet. -Akad. Handl., n.f., vol. xxi. 



1886. „ „ Levinsen. Kara-Havets, etc., p. 11. 



1887. „ „ Ehlers. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, vol. xv, p. 232. 

 „ Webster. Chsetop. Eastport, Maine (U.S. Com. F. and F.),p. 748. 



1888. „ „ Cunningham and Ramage. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxiii, p. 660, 



pi. xlii, fig. 22. 



1889. „ „ Grieg. Bergens Mus. Aarb., p. 8. 



1894. „ „ Bidenkap. Christ. Yet.-Akad. ForhandL, p. 120. 



1896. „ „. Appellor". Bergens Mus. Aarb., p. 12 (sep. copy). 



1901. „ „ Whiteaves. Mar. Invert. E. Canada, p. 74. 



1907. „ „ Fauvel. Ball. Inst. Ocean., No. 107, p. 34. 



1908. „ „ Moore. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad., p. 349. 

 „ Ehlers. Deutsch. Tiefsee-Exped., p. 44. 



1911. „ „ Biddell. Proc. Liverp. Biol. Assoc, vol. xxv, p. 63. 



1912, ,, Wollebaek. Skriv. Yid.-selsk. Krist., No. 18, p. 65, pi. xiv, figs. 1—9. 



Meyer, A. H. Inaug. Dissert. Kiel, p. 23. 



1914. „ „ Fauvel. Campag. Scient. Monaco, Fasc. xlvi, p. 291. 



, Mcintosh. Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. xiii, p. 104. 

 , Ditlevsen. Polych. Annel. (Meddel. Gr^nl.), p. 723. 

 1917. „ „ Hessle. Zool. Bidr. Uppsala, No. 5, p. 92. 



Habitat.— Abundant in the stomachs of the cod at St. Andrews (E. M.). 



Forth (Cunningham "and Ramage) . 



Elsewhere it was dredged in 220 fathoms by Dr. Whiteaves between Anticosti and 

 the south shore in 1873; Bouvet Island (Ehlers), Greenland; Norway and Sweden, Fin- 

 mark, Spitzbergen, etc. (Loven, Ljungman, Malmgren, Norman, Fauvel and Hessle); 

 a characteristic form in the Norwegian waters, 300 fathoms off Norway (Sars). New 

 England, U.S.A., and Atlantic coast (Verrill). Kara-Havets (Levinsen). Barentz Sea 

 (Mcintosh). Arctic Sea (Marenzeller). North Pacific coast, North America (Moore). 



The head varies in aspect according to the condition of the tentacles. In contraction 

 when these are withdrawn within the mouth the anterior end presents dorsally a short, 



