Polychaeta 5B 
shore to southern England. In the Pacific it ranges south to San Diego on 
the American coast, and to Japan on the Asiatic. It is well known from the 
shores of Greenland, Davis strait, etc., and the present collection extends its 
known distribution along the northern Canadian shores to Alaska. 
Locatities.—Alaska: Grantley harbour: Teller. Stations 20b-c. July 30, 
1913. Many specimens taken at a depth of 2-3 fathoms. 
Alaska: Port Clarence bay. Station 20g. August 4, 1913. Numerous 
mostly large, specimens taken at a depth of 2-3 fathoms on a muddy bottom 
among “ thread alge.” 
Dolphin and Union strait. Station 48c. September 14, 1915. Several 
specimens taken at a depth of 20-30 meters on a bottom of gray mud with 
stones and alge. 
Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour, outer part. Station 41. July 20, 
1915. Numerous specimens taken at a depth of 10 meters on a muddy bottom 
among Laminaria. 
Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour. Station 37b. August 25, 1914. 
Several specimens taken at from 2 to 3 fathoms on a rocky and sandy bottom 
among Laminaria, etc. 
Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour. Station 37e. September 1, 1914. 
Many specimens taken at from 1 to 3 fathoms on a sandy bottom among alge. 
Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour. Station 41b. July 24, 1915. 
Several specimens taken at a depth of about 5 meters. 
Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour, outer part. Station 41f. August 
1, 1915. Three specimens taken at 5 meters. 
Northwest Territories: Hudson bay, west side: Fullerton. Neptune Ex- 
pedition. A. Halkett, collector, September 19, 1904. 
Davis strait: Ungava: Port Burwell. Neptune Expedition. A. Halkett, 
collector, 1903-04. One small specimen lacking elytra. 
Lagisca rarispina (Sars). 
1860. Polynoe rarispina Sars, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania, p. 60. 
1865. Lagisca rarispina Matmaren, Ofvers. af K. Vet. Akad. Forh., p. 65. 
Eight .specimens conforming to this species are in the collection from 
Hudson stxait. Unfortunately they have lost all their elytra. The largest 
specimen is 46 mm. long. This species is common along the shores of Greenland 
and also occurs about Iceland, Spitzbergen, Norway and southward into the 
North sea, Finmark, Nova Zembla, and the Kara sea. 
Locatity.—Hudson strait: Ungava: Port Burwell. Neptune Expedition, 
1908-04. A. Halkett, collector. 
Pholoe minuta (Fabricius). 
1780. Aphrodita minuta FaBrictus, Fauna Groenl., p. 314. 
1822. Polynoe minuta Savieny, Syst. Annel., p. 26. 
1828. Palmyra ocellata Jounston, Zool. Journ., 3. p. 329. 
1839. Pholoe inonata Jounston, Ann. Nat. Hist., 2, p. 487, pl. 23, f. 1-5. 
1843. Pholoe minuta Orrstep, Groenl. Annul. Dorsibr., p. 169, pl. I, f. 3, 4, 8, 
9, 16. 
—., Pholoe baltica OrRSTED, Annel. Dan. Consp., p. 14, f. 21, 34-36, 40. 
1844. Pholoe assimilis Oprstep, Kréyer Nat: Tidsskr., Anden Raekke, I, 
. 404. 
1896. Phalee eximia MicHAEBLSEN, Polychaet. Fauna, p. 12, pl. I, f. 2. 
Locauity.—Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour: inner harbour. Sta- 
tion 37e. September 1, 1914. Two fragments together composing a complete 
individual taken in a sandy bottom among alge. 
Northwest Territories: Bernard harbour. Station 4lc. July 28, 1915. 
Two pieces of a larger individual taken at 3-8 fathoms on a bottom of sandy 
mud with alge. 
