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Holy Island, Anglesey, from 16 fathoms. Colour, rosy 

 pink. The two ante-anal segments are without setae. 



*Axiothea catenata, Malmgren. 



Hab: L. 



Immense numbers live in the muddy, evil-smelling 

 sands stretching out from Bangor into the Menai Straits. 

 Cunningham and Ramage aptly remark on the similitude 

 of the projecting ends of their numberless tubes to a 

 miniature forest. A similar ragged appearance on a 

 larger scale is given to the Egremont and New Brighton 

 shore by the exposed ends of Lanice concliilega especially 

 when a storm has removed some of the surface sand. 

 Tubes 5—7 inches long and 1 — 1^ mm. broad. The anal 

 funnel is distinguished from that of the preceding species 

 by the fact that the processes are of unequal length, there 

 being about seven long tapering ones, each separated from 

 its neighbour by from one to three short ones, and instead 

 of two ante-anal segments being without sette four are 

 naked in the present species. 



Family. — Ammocharid^; . 



Owenia fill for mis, Del. Chiaje. 



Hab : 12, 13, 5, S, L. 



Is plentiful at all these stations ; but most numerous in 

 the deep water. It ranges from extreme low water mark 

 to 21 fathoms. It is the Ammochares ottonis of Grube ; 

 and is the worm described by Carrington under the name 

 of Ops digitata. 



Family. — Ariciil\e. 



*Scoloplos armiger, (Muller). 



Hab: 1, 2, 6, E, NB, Mp. 

 A common species in sand from mid-tide mark to 6 fms. 



From observations made in the beginning of March, 

 1890, and April, 1891, upon the egg-cocoons of this worm, 



