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con. della R. Acad. d. Scienze Fis. e Math, di Napoli, 
1868 (known only from reference in Buchholz’s paper). 
Describes a larval form belonging to Costa’s genus Wiyncho- 
nerulla, as found parasitic in Cydippe densa. 
Ratzel, F. Histologische Untersucliungen an niederen Tliieren. 
(Erster Artikel.) Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Zoologie, xix. 
1869, pp. 257-280, Taf. 22 & 23. 
On the muscular system of the Oligochfetes. 
. Vorlaufige Nachricht liber die Entwickclungsgeschichte 
von Lumhricus und Nephelis. Ibid. pp. 281-284. 
Tandon, G. Moquin-. Note sur une nouvelle Annelide chetopode 
hermaphrodite. Compt. Rend. tom. Ixviii. 1869, pp. 869, 
870. 
ANNELIDA POLYCHiETA. 
M Gntosii {1. c.) describes the following species as new to the 
British fauna: — 
Amphinome vagans, Leach (?), Shetland seas ; Lcdmonicc Jilicorms, Kinb. 
=Z. hinhergi^ Baird, north and north-west of Scotland; Lepidonotus pellu- 
cidus^ Ehl., North Uist; Polynoe longisetis, Gruhe, St. Andrews; Holosydna 
gelatinosa, Sars, St. Andrews Bay; Sthenelais dendrolepis, Clap., North Uist; 
S. Umicola, Ehl., Shetland; Notophyllum poly noidcs^ Qilrst., St. Andrews Bay ; 
Opliiodromm vittatus, Sars, North Uist; Atdolytus pictus, Ehl., North Uist 
and St. Andrews; SylUs krohnii, Ehl., var., Nortli Uist; S. cormeta, Rathk., 
Hebrides; S. macrocera, Gruhe, North Uist; SphcBrosyllis hystrix, Clap., 
North Uist and Minch ; Rhodme loveni^ Malm,, Shetland ; Axiothea catmata^ 
Malm., Shetland ; Praxilla preetermissa, Malm., north and west of Scotland; 
P. gracilis, Sars, North Uist ; Clymene ehiensis, And. & Ed., Shetland ; Am^ 
mochares ottonis, Gruhe,= Oj!?s digitata, Carrington, St. Andrews; Amphicteis 
gunneri, Sars, = Crossostoma midas, Gosse, North Scotland ; Ampliarete. arctica^ 
Malm. ; Terchella zostericola, (Erst. ; Pista cristata, Miill. ; Grymxa bairdi, 
Malm. ; Lysilla loveni, Malm. ; Rretdho smitti, Malm. ? ; Trichobranchus gla- 
cialis, Malm. Some new species are referred to below. 
MMntosit gives a list of Annelids from the neighbourhood of Plymouth ; 
the majority of the species are well known forms ; but Nereis marionii, And. 
& Edw., and Terebella (Polymnia) danielsseni, Mlgr,, are mentioned as now 
first recorded as British. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1869, pp. 89-91. 
Burrowing Annelids. — Dr. O. Mbrch states that in Dr. 
McIntosh’s paper on this subjeet (vide ^ Zool. Reeord,’ 1868, 
p. 546) several Annelids arc mentioned as burrowing, although 
he several years ago showed that two of the genera enumerated 
undoubtedly belong to the subkingdom Mollusca (Stoa and 
Spiroglyphus ; these have a multispiral lid never met with in 
Annelids) ; and two of the serpulids mentioned never burrow. 
He also adds that Swammerdam (Biblia Naturse, 1735, vol. i. 
