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ordinary examples of tlie genus just lueutioued. lu tins remarkable form, however, the 
region is still further continued in the shape of a translucent filiform villose process which 
projects considerably beyond the hooked tip. The morphology therefore of this bristle 
is most interesting, since it shows an intermediate condition between the simply villose 
Aphroditacean bristle, and that with hook, spur, and pinnae characteristic of Lcetmonice. 
The scales are very thin and quite smooth. 
Hermione, Blainville. 
Hermione hystrix (Savigny) (PI. YIII. fig. 3). 
Halitliea hystrix, Savigny, Systeme des Ann61ides, p. 20. 
Habitat. — Two small specimens were procured at St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, 
July 1873. 
They quite agree with those from the Channel Islands, the South of England, and the 
Mediterranean. It seems to me that the two closely allied forms, viz., Hermione 
hystrix and Hermione hystricella, De Quatrefages, require further investigation.^ The 
prickly dorsal bristles which pass from tlie great spines inward over the back occur in 
many of the family, and a ventral bristle with a blunt tip from Hermione hystrix would 
quite agree with Kinberg’s Hermione hystricella, De Quatrefages. The definitions given 
by M. de Quatrefages as to the distinctions of the species are also open to doubt. 
Lcetmonice, Kinberg. 
Lcetinonice jilicornis, Kinberg (PI. Va. fig. 7). 
Lcetmonice filicornis, Kiuterg, Ofversigt k. Vetensk.-Akad. Eorliandk, 1855, p. 382; andFreg. 
Eugen. Resa, p. 7, Tab. iii. f. 7, &c. 
Habitat. — A single small specimen was dredged in the Fseroe Channel by H.M.S. 
“Knight Errant,” August 12, 1880, at Station 7; lat. 50° 37' N., long. 7° 19' W.; depth, 
530 fathoms ; bottom temperature 46°'5 F., surface temperature 57° ; ooze. 
This form ranges over both sides of the Atlantic, being found on the shores of the 
United States and Canada, and off various parts of Northern Europe. 
Lcetmonice producta, Grube (PI. IVa. figs. 1-8). 
Lcetmonice j)roducta, Grube, Monatsber. k. Akad. zu Berlin, August 1877, p. 512. 
Habitat. — K large number of all sizes were dredged off Kerguelen. One specimen at 
Station 149, on January 9, 1874 ; lat. 49° 8' S., long. 70° 12' E., from Accessible Bay ; 
1 The Hermione chrysocoma of Baird is one of the Palmyracere, with long spinous dorsal bristles. 
