ch;etopoda. 
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gochoita of Bohemia; SB. huhm, Ges. 1874, pp. 220-224. E. W. Hutton 
points out the occurrence of two Lumhrici and one Periimtm^ and 2-3 
land-Planarians in New Zealand ; Ann. N. H. (4) xiii. p. 95. K. Mo- 
mus records twelve species of Clicetopoda and a few other worms col- 
lected at East Greenland by the second German Polar Expedition ; Zweite 
deutsche Nordpolarfahrt, ii. pp. 253-261, 1 pi. A. E. Verrill continues 
his reports (4-7) “ On the results of recent dredging expeditions on the 
coast of New England,” Am. J. Sci. (3) vii. pp. 38-46, 131-138, 405-414, 
498-505 ; cf. also A. E. Verrill, “ Exploration of Casco Bay by the U. S. 
Fish Commission in 1873,” P. Am. Ass. 1873, pp. 340-395, pis. i.-vi., and 
J. S. WiiiTEAVES “ on recent deep-sea dredging expeditions in the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence,” Am. J. Sci. 1. c. pp. 210-219, and “Notes on a 
deep-sea dredging expedition round the island of Anticosti, in the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence Cauad. Nat. (n.s.) vii. p. 806. A. W. Malm (9) enu- 
merates 10 species of Oligochceta, from the vicinity of Gottenburg, and 
169 ChcRtopoda from the Kattegat. The Annulata and lower worms col- 
lected at Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla are enumerated and partly 
described by E. Ehlers in T. v. Heuglin’s Reisennach dem Nordpolar- 
meer in den Jahren 1870 und 1871,” iii. pp. 238-256- A. F. Marion 
(13) & Bobritzky have observed 87 species of Chsetopod Annelids 
in the Gulf of Marseilles, 18 of which are known from the Black 
Sea and 17 from the western coasts of France. E. Claparede & 
Ehlers (2) discuss the relations between the abyssal Annulata and the 
fauna of the higher zones ; it cannot be said that the fauna beyond the 
300 fathom line has a very peculiar “ facies.” With the exception of 
Telethusm and Ilerniellce^ all families of Northern Atlantic Chcutopoda are 
represented, and the new species discovered at great depths may still be 
found olsewlioro. The abyssal Annulata are comparatively small, chiefly 
“ ourythormous ” or arctico-boreal species; of blindness or absence of 
colours, that might be attributed to the absolute darkness of the depth, 
comparatively few instances could be cited, e.g., the blind Syllis ahyssicola ; 
the remarkable occurrence of Oligochceta and Nematoda at the depth of 
650 fathoms is pointed out. In the “Materiaux pour servir ^ I’^tude de 
la faune profonde du lac Ldman,” published by F. A. Forel, Bull. Soc. 
Vaud. xiii. pp. 1-164, pis. i.-iii., are enumerated as inhabiting the deptlm 
- of this lake : — 3 Oligochala Uniicola (1 Ihihifex, 1 Clitellio, 1 Lunihriciilus^ 
all apparently new), Fiscicola geonietra, 3 Turbellaria (vide infra), 1 
Ligula, several Nematoda {Rhabditis ?, Lep>todera ?, Ascarides ?), Rota- 
toria {Floscularia, Brachionus), and also Hydra, Epistylis, Vorticella, and 
Acineta. S. S. Smith has contributed a “ Sketch of the invertebrate 
fauna of Lake Superior ” to Baird’s Rep. U. S. Comm. Fisheries, 1872-73, 
pp. 690-707 (Oligochceta 6, Bellodea 8, Turbellaria 1, Hydra 1), with a 
bathymetrical table. 
Anatomy, Evolution, &c. 
For H. N. Moseley’s observations on the structure and development 
of Peripatus capensis, P. R. Soc. xxii . pp. 344-350, see Myriopoda 
[anted, p. 237]. 
Marion (13) p. 400, describes the sexual organs of Saccocirrus ; there 
