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The appearance aud size of the specimens afford good grounds 

 for believing that many species, genera, and families yet remain 

 to be discovered in these high polar latitudes. The large size 

 of the PolynoidsD and the abundance of Loxosomce * on their scales 

 and other parts are features of interest. The occurrence also of 

 a considerable quantity of the tubes and bodies of a species of 

 Sahella in the stomach of the G-reat Seal (Phoca harhata, Eabr.) 

 adds another instance to the list of cases in which Annelids are 

 eaten by the higher animals. The stomach of the same Seal 

 further contained, besides the spawn of fishes, two examples of 

 Priapulus caudatus, Lam., and several curiously coiled cords of 

 ova, which resembled Annelids. 



In Dr. Emil Marenzeller's account t (j^ist published) of the 

 Annelids procured by the Austro-Hungarian North-Polar Ex- 

 pedition, under Lieutenants Weyprecht and Payer, 27 species are 

 mentioned. Of these, no less than 18 do not occur in the follow- 

 ing list ; but no further weight should be put on this than is 

 warranted by the fact that only a few of the abundant forms which 

 have a wide circumpolar range had been obtained in either case. 

 Many of the 18, indeed, occur on the Canadian coast, and extend 

 northwards to Davis Strait. On the other hand, about half the 

 species (11) in the English Expedition do not appear in the Austro- 

 Hungarian. Three of the species in the latter list do not occur 

 in the catalogue in the ' Arctic Manual ' (1875), and a fourth forms 

 a new genus. They were procured between 74° and 79° N. lat. 

 The species common to both Expeditions are indicated in the 

 table at the end ; those characteristic of the Austro-Hungarian 

 Expedition are : — Eucrante villosa, Mgrn. ; Nephthys longisetosa, 

 (Erst. ; ? Fhyllodoce LuetJceni, Mgrn. ; Syllis fasciata, Mgrn. ; 

 Nereis pelagica, L. ; Noiliria concliylega, Sars ; Glycera capitataj 

 (Erst. ; Scalihregma inflatum^ H. Eathke ; Brada villosa, ibid. ; 

 AmpTiarete Goesi, Mgrn. ; Amphicteis Gunneri, Sars ; Melinna 

 cristata, Sars ; Amphitrite cirrata, O. E. Miiller ; Terehellides 

 Stroemi, Sars ; Euchone tuhercitlosa, Kroyer ; Glione Duneri, 

 Mgrn. ; Spirorhis lucidus, IVIont. ; and Hyalopomatus Glaparedii, 

 Marenzeller. 



* Prof. Busk and the Eev. T, Hincks are at present engaged with these 

 curious forms. 



t " Die Ccelenteraten, Echinodermen und Wiirmer der k.-k. osterreichisch- 

 ungariscben Nordpol-Expedition," &c., Bd. xxxv. der Denkschriften der math.- 

 naturwiss. Classe der k. Akad. der Wissenschaften, 1877. 



