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VEKMES. 
Sabella (^Dasychone) cingulata (Fiji Isl.), S. samoensis (Samoa), S. {Potamilla) 
cerasina and tenuicoUans (Adriatic), S. scoparia (Uca) : Griibe (6, p. 67-68), 
spp. nn. 
Sabella vohtticomts, Mont., = >S. {Distylia) punctata^ Qu., Griibe, 1. c. p. 63; 
S. {JDasych.) aryus=dali/ellij Kbll., polyzonos, Grube, verticil lata, Qu. : (Jrubo 
(3, p. 128). 
Serpulida:. 
Protula borealis, sp. n., Sars (13, p. 417), Norway (30-300 fath.). 
P. pivanga, sp. n. (Desterro, Brazil), with Spirorbis brasUiemis, sp. n., and 
Hydroides dirampha, Morch : Grubo (6, pp. 51 & 52). 
Oligochoita. 
Dero obtusa investigated anatomically and figured by Perrier (12) ; the 
same author’s new genera Digaster, Acanthodrilus, Rhinodrilus, and Titmus 
(10) date from 1872, but will be better noticed in Zool. Rec. x. 
Enchytrceus pagenstecheri, Ratz. (from Greenland), and E. ratzeli, sp. n. 
(Tromso), are described and figured by Eisen (2). 
Echiuridce, 
Thalassema barronii, sp. n. (Canaries, Arecife), Greeff) SB. ges. Marburg, 
1872, p. 106. 
According to Kowalewsky, 1. c., the male Bonellia is a Planaria-\\\iQ 
animalcule, 1^-2 millim. long, which lives in the female generative organs ! 
III. DISCOPHORA. 
1. Philippi, R. A. Macrohdella, ein neues Geschleclit der 
Hirudineen. Z. ges. Naturw. (2) vi. pp. 439-442, pi. 3. 
2. Veruill, a. E. Descriptions of North -American freshwater 
leeches. Am. J. Sc. (3) iii. p. 126. 
Jensen enumerates 10 species of freshwater leeches from Southern 
Norway : N. Mag. Naturw. xix. pp. 154-186. 
GnuBE notices 2 species of Clepsine as new to the Silesian fauna: JB. 
schles. Ges. 1871, p. 56. 
Vehrill (2) describes 10 new species of leeches, mostl}'^ from Connecticut : 
Cystibranchus vividus (on Fundidus pisculentus, also in salt water among 
ZostercB), Ichthyobdella funduli (on the same fish), Clepsine picta, modesta^ 
oriiata, papillifera, pallida, elegans, Nephclopsis (g. n.) obscura, Hexabdella 
(g. n.) depressa and Macrobdella (g. n.) decora, Say. Clepsine parasitica (Say) 
Nephelis quadristriata, Grube, and N. lateralis, Say, are also described. 
Nephelopsis, Verrill (2, p. 135). Body broad and flattened behind the cli- 
tellus, rounded and tapering in front of it. Upper lip large, dilated, wrinkled, 
and radially sulcated beneath ; oesophagus with 3 broad folds, jaws absent. 
Intestine simple. (Ocelli 8.) External male organ expanded at the end 
into a disk-like form with a raised margin and depressed centre, in wdiich 
there is a four-lobed orifice. Testicles 11 (?) large rounded or pp-iform vesi- 
cles on each side. 
Hexabdella, id. 1. c. p. 136. Body depressed posteriorly, cephalic lobe 
