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process, behind the ocular peduncles, mentioned by Mc Intosh, no trace 

 was visible. The tentacular cirri are not quite as long as the median 

 antenna; both nearly of the same length, the ventral one somewhat slenderer 

 than the dorsal cirrus. With regard to the cirri and bristles the feet of 

 our specimens show some differences with those of L. yroducta, according 

 to the description of Mc Intosh. The bristles of the notopodium of the 

 2d foot are all smooth, slender, slightly bent and such ones with chitinous 

 nodules on their shaft, as figured in the Challenger report (PI. IYa, fig. 2), 

 have not been observed; in the neuropodium the upper division shows 

 two of the powerful serrated bristles, figured by Mc Intosh (PL IYa, 

 fig. 3). In the 4th foot the notopodium contains a fan-shaped fascicle of 

 stout bristles, that are faintly bent and over their whole length beset with 

 small nodules, especially near the tip; one of these bristles shows already 

 some fangs at its distal ^extremity. The neuropodium possesses some pinnate 

 bristles like in the preceding feet, but in those, situated more afterwards, 

 they are wanting. In the next segment, (the 5th) all spines have fangs 

 at their tip, whereas in the typical L. producta even the spines of the 

 7th segment are not barbed. In the median body-region according to 

 Mc Intosh the median spines appear to have simple extremities, that 

 are minutely nodulated; however in our specimens also these median 

 bristles are provided with fangs and their tips are not simple, but furnished 

 with three points, a main spine and one at the anterior and posterior side. 

 The long golden spines of an elytron-bearing segment extend themselves 

 backward over three succeeding elytra, therefore over seven segments, 

 whereas Mc. Intosh only speaks of the succeeding scale. The spines are 

 preceded by a small fascicle of single, capillary, slightly bent bristles, 

 that are longitudinally striated. This fascicle is much larger in the cirrus- 

 bearing segments, whereas the spines, though also glochidiate, are usually 

 half as long as those of the elytron-bearing segments. 



Though this species principally is found in the neighbourhood of the 

 Kerguelen-islands in rather shallow water (not below 120 fath.), there 

 are also specimens of it dredged in more northern regions ; f. i. the variety 

 Wyvillei Mc Intosh was met with by the Challenger-expedition between 

 the Antarctic and Australy in a depth of 3500 M. l ). Afterwards Miss 

 Buchanan 2 ) recognized in the British Museum a specimen, coming from 

 Japan and dredged at a depth of 43 fth. Also von Marenzeller 3 ) had the 

 opportunity to examine two specimens from Eno-sima (Collect, by Döderlein) 



1) Loc. cit. p. 44, PI. VII, fig. 3; PI. IVa, figs. 9—11. 



2) Report on Polychaets coll. during the R. Dublin Soc. survey oil" the West-coast of Ireland. 

 Sc. Proc. Royal Dublin Society, Vol. VIII (N. S.) 1893, p. 169. 



3) Südjap. Anneliden, III, 1902, p. 4. 



