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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



Filograna implexa, Berk., and Tomopteris onisciformis (Escb.).i 

 As the result of studies carried on at the Granton Marine 

 Laboratory of the Scottish Meteorological Society, Messrs 

 J. T. Cunningham and Gr. A. Eamage, in 1887, laid before 

 the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh an important paper on 

 "The Polychffita Sedentaria of the Firth of Forth." ^ it 

 deals with 45 species, 33 of which do not appear to have 

 been previously recorded, unless, perhaps, one or two by 

 J ameson or Dalyell.^ Lastly, in Pearcey's lists (I.e.) of animals 

 dredged at the Fishery Board stations in the Forth, a 

 number of useful records of Polychsetes are entered, but 

 so far as I can make out only one species, Glycera dvMa, 

 Blainv., is new to the area.^ It would thus seem that 

 the Polychseta definitely recorded from Forth waters do 

 not number more than 63. If the group were thoroughly 

 worked, I should not be surprised to find the list more than 

 doubled. Professor M'Intosh thinks this a very moderate 

 estimate : he has recorded over ICQ from St Andrews waters. 

 Besides records of additional species, additional information 

 as to species already on the list is much needed.^ Some 

 notes and specimens of my own may yet be utilised in this 

 connection. 



Oligoch^ta. — With the view of preparing a preliminary 

 list of the Oligochsetes — the Earthworms and their allies — 

 of the district, I have been collecting them at intervals 

 during the past two or three years, but have not been able 

 to make as much progress with the naming of them as 



^ Dalyell's "Nereis phasma'' from tlie Forth. {Powers of the Creator, ii. p. 

 260) was probably T. onisciformis, which, according to Pearcey {I.e.) and 

 Scott {16th F. B. Rep., p. 210) is fairly common, Serpula filograna, 

 from near the Bass, was recorded by W. S. Young in 1862 (Rep. Com. 

 Mar. Zool. of this Society, Proc, ii. p. 443). 



^ Transactions, xxxiii. (1888) p. 635. 



^ Daly ell {op. cit., p. 150) records Spio seticornis from Queensferry; and 

 "Wright no doubt also had it from the Forth {Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, i. p. 238). 



^ The name Polynoe reticulata, Clap., appears among Pearcey's records, but 

 I cannot find that there is any such species. 



^ As amplifying the records of Animotrypane aulogaster. Rath. {Ophelia 

 CLCuminata, Orst. ), given in L. and H's. list, and by Cunningham and Ramage, 

 there is T. Scott's statement that this Annelid is "all over the Forth where 

 there is a muddy bottom" {Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1893, p. 185). An 

 exceptionally large example of Phyllodoce laminosa {lamelligera, Johnst. ) 

 Avas recorded by Professor Duns in 1875 {Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, iv. p. 40). 



