228 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Dredgings. 



1. Mouth of Mersey (sand) - - 1 — 8 fathoms. 



2. Mouth of Dee (sand) - - - 1—9 



3. Colwyn Bay ... - 3—5 



4. Turbot Hole, Beaumaris Bay - 14 



5. Menai Straits - 5—10 



6. Off Puffin Island - - - 5—7 



7. Off N.E. Coast of Anglesey - 10—16 



8. OffN. „ „ - - 16—20 



9. 20 miles N.W. of Holyhead - - 45—57 



10. Off S.W. coast of Holy Id., Anglesey 16—18 



11. W. and S.W. of Port Erin - - 15—18 



12. 25 miles N.W. of Bar Lightship, - 20—22 



(" Spindrift " cruise, 12 July, 1890). 



13. do. do. 

 (" Spindrift" cruise, 27 Sept., 1890). 



14. 20 miles S.E. of I. of Man - - 20—25 ,, 



("Weathercock" cruise, 28 Aug., 1886). 

 Stations 12, 13 and 14 proved the most productive in 

 results ; stations 1 and 2 the most meagre. 



Section L— EKBANTIA. 

 Family. — Aphroditid^. 

 Sub-Family.— Hermionin^e . 

 Ajrfirodita aculeata, Linn. 

 Stations :— 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14. (From low water to 40 fms.) 

 This worm is generally obtained from ground of a sandy 

 or muddy character, thus differing markedly in habit from 

 the closely allied species Hermione hystrix which I have 

 found to prefer rougher surroundings — shell-debris, gravel 

 and the like. As is the case with so many of the Her- 

 mioninse A . aculeata has a very considerable deep water 

 range. A specimen was brought up from a depth of 530 



