286 GATTYANA CIRROSA. 



1861. Polynoe scabra, Sars. Yid. Selsk. Fork., I860, p. 58. 

 „ „ scabriuscula, Sars. Ibid., p. 61. 



1864. Lepidonotus cirratus, var. parasiticus, Baird. Trans. Linn. Soc, 1864, p. 161. 



1865. Polynoe scabra, De Quatrefages. Ann., vol. i, p. 235. 



„ Lepidonotus imbricatus, Johnst. Cat. Brit. Annel., p. 118. 

 1867. Nychia cirrosa, Malmgren. Nord. Hafs-Ann., p. 58, Tab. viii, f. 1. 



1871. ,, „ Bhlers. Sitzunsb. phys.-med. Erlangen, 1871, p. 77. 



1872. „ „ Sars, Nyt. Mag. f. Natnrv., 19, p. 202. 



1873. „ „ Sars. Bid. Christ. Faun., p. 2. 



1874. „ „ Mobius. Die Zweite dentsche Nordpolarfahrt, ii, p. 253. 



„ „ „ Malm. Groteborgs Kongl. Yet. o. Yitt. Samhalles Handl. ; Ny Tidsfoljd, Haft. 



xiv, p. 87. 



1875. „ „ Mcintosh. Invert, and Fishes, St. A., p. 115. 

 „ „ „ Ehlers. ' Porcupine' Annel., 1869, op. cit., 32. 



1877. „ „ Marenzeller. Ost.-ung. Nordpol. Exp. (Deutsch. d. k. Akad. Wiss.), 39. 



1879. „ „ Theel. Kongl. sv. Yet. Akad. Handl., 16, 3, p. 7. 



„ „ „ Tauber. Ann. Danic, 79. 



1883. „ „ Wiren. Chastop., 'Vega' Exped., 387. 

 „ „ „ Levinsen. Nord. Annnlat., 195. 



1884. „ ,, Webster and Benedict. Ann. Mass., 700. 

 1886. „ „ Giard. Bullet. Sc. Nord., Nos. 9, 10, p. 338. 



„ Iphione muricata, Harvey Gribson. Yerin. Liverp., 150. 



1890. Nychia cirrosa, var. Chsetopteri, Malaquin. Ann. Boulon., 15, pi. 1, f. 7a — Id. 



1891. ,, „ Hornell. Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc, v, p. 230. 



„ ,, Trautzsch. Polynoid. Spitzb., Jenaische Zeitsch., 24, 1 Heft, p. 75 ; and Arch. 



f. Naturges., 55 Jahrg., 1 Bd., 2 Hft., p. 143. 



1896. „ ,, Michaelsen. Polych. Faun, deutsch. Meere (Wiss. Meeresuntersuch., Bd. ii), 



p. 7. 



1897. Gattyana cirrosa, Mcintosh. Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. xx, p. 167. 



1898. Nychia cirrosa, Michaelsen. Gronl. Annel., Bib. Zool., Heft 20, Lfg. 4, p. 120. 



Habitat. — This species stretches from Greenland and the American waters to the 

 shores of Northern Europe, but is numerically less abundant than many of the 

 Polynoida3. It occurs not infrequently in the deeper water off St. Andrews Bay, 

 and is tossed on shore after storms. Specimens likewise come from Shetland (J. Gr. 

 Jeffreys) in sixty fathoms, nine miles off Balta, from Southport Sands (Dr. Carrington), 

 Hastings, between tide-marks, Channel Islands (Herm), Broadhaven Bay, Ban try Bay, 

 and Berehaven Bay, in Ireland (A. Gr. More, Professor Had don, and Dr. Scharff), the 

 specimens found in the first-mentioned region being very large. Fine examples are not 

 uncommon in the stomachs of cod and haddock at St. Andrews (E. M.). In Shetland 

 it clings to the branched form of Melobesia in Bressay Sound. Malmgren pointed 

 out that it was the form called by Baird Lepidonotus parasiticus in the tubes of 

 Oh&topterus, in the British Museum ; and Hornell has confirmed this in the tubes of the 

 same form, and in those of Thelepus in the Channel Islands, while at St. Andrews it is 

 partial to the tubes of Amphitrite figulus, Dalyell. 



It comes from the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Whiteaves), the Atlantic in 580 — 630 

 fathoms (Ehlers, 'Porcupine'), and Canon Norman frequently procured it in Norway 

 and Finmark. Specimens also occur in Iceland. 



