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Station 235. South of Yedo, Japan ; lat. 34° 7' N., long. 138° 0' E.; 565 fathoms ; green 
mud (trawled). 
Loetmonice apJiroditoides, n. sp. | Folynoella levisetosa, n. sp. 
Station 236. South Japan; lat. 34° 58' N., long. 139° 29' E.; 775 fathoms; green 
mud (trawled). 
Tlielepus marenzelleri, n. sp. 
Off Yokohama, Japan ; 550 fathoms. 
Lagisca yokohamiensis, n. sjd. | 
Station 241. North Pacific; lat. 35° 41' N. 
clay (trawled). 
Lcetmonice producta, var, hen- j 
thaliana, C. 1 
Lumhriconereis heteropoda, Marenzeller. 
long. 157° 42' E.; 2300 fathoms; red 
Nicomache henthaliana, n. sp. 
Eusamytha pacijica, n. sp. 
Station 244. Depths of the Pacific; lat. 35° 22' N., long. 169° 53' E.; 2900 fathoms ; 
red clay (trawled). 
Placostegus ornatus, Sowerby. 
Station 246. Mid Pacific ; lat. 36° 10' N., long. 178° 0' E.; 2050 fathoms; G-lobigerina 
ooze (trawled). 
Melinna pacijica, n. sp. 
F. North Pacific Eegion. 
Comparatively few Annelids come from this region, but three out of the five are 
surface forms of interest (Alciopidse). The members of this family thus frequent the 
superficies of all the great seas, from the Arctic to the Antarctic Oceans, and from the 
eastern to the western shores of the Americas. Prof. Huxley’s remark that it is doubtful 
whether any well marked provinces of the ocean can be defined by the occurrence of 
purely pelagic animals thus still holds. 
As to the causes which have led to the relegation of such peculiar forms as Buskiella 
to the remote abysses of the Atlantic, and of Lecena ahyssorum and Placostegus 
henthalianus to the depths of the North Pacific, various opinions may be held. We have 
no reliable data in support of the view which supposes that these “ primitive ” types have 
