DISTRIBUTION. 
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East Pacific Ocean. 
Gulf of Panama : 1 new Polyclad ; Plehn (1). 
W. coast of S. America : 2 new species Polyclads (1 new genus) 
and 5 species hitherto only known from European seas ; Plehn (1). — 
Peru, Chili, and S. Patagonia : 7 species marine Nemertines ; Burger 
Southern Oceams. 
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S. of Tropic Capricorn, excluding Kerguelen Region, deep water, 
below 1000 faths.: 1 Geph ., 20 Polych and 1 Nemert . ; Murray, 
Tr. R. Soc. Edinb. xxxviii, pp. 384 & 385. 
Kerguelen Region, in depths exceeding 1260. faths.: 1 Geph., 17 
Polych ., 2 species Myzostoma and 1 Slelechopus , 1 Nemert ., and 2 Nemat . ; 
(pp. 361 & 362). In 150-1000 faths.: 2 species Polych. (p. 405). Above 
150 faths.: 1 Geph. and 41 Polych. ,§ Nemert. and 2 Nemat. (pp. 418-420), 
of which 1 Geph. and 8 Polych. were not found by the “ Challenger ” 
(p. 445). At surface : 2 Polych. (p. 477) ; Murray, t. c. 
Straits of Magellan: Gephyrea ; Fischer (2): Nematodes; v. Lin- 
stow (4). 
(b) Land and Fresh-water Forms. 
Distribution of the genu3 PcrichaAa : regarded essentially as an Oriental 
genus ; enumeration of the 8 species found in both Old and New Worlds, 
and the 8 species found in the New World only ; Beddard, P. Zool. Soc. 
London, 1896. 
Palsearctic Region . t 
N. Europe : — Murmanian Coast: Lake on I. of Kildin, Annelids (names 
not mentioned) ; KNirowrrscii, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. iii, p. 459. 
East Prussia : Fresh-water leeches (9 species) ; Blanchard (1, xx). 
N. W. Europe : — I. of Borkum : 6 species of Leeches ; Blanchard 
( 1, xxii) : Lake of Plon ; Zacii arias. 
France Basses-Pyrenees : A giant Earthworm ; Guerne & Horst. 
Azores : Occurrence of Her mis noted for the first time (in one of the 
islands); Richard (2) p. 176. 
Middle Europe : — Switzerland : 7 species (or subspecies) of Lumbricus 
(2 new, and 2 new varr.) ; 37 species Allolobophora [4 (? 5) new, 17 new 
subspecies, and 10 new varr.] ; Ridaucourt. — A lpine Lakes of Tessin : 
( Turbel Nemat., Leeches , and Oligoch.) ; Fuiirman (3). — Lake Garda : 
Nemertines, their presence due to birds, showing that they do not indicate 
a relict fauna; Garbini (1). — Benaco : Deep and limnetic fauna; Garrini 
f2). — Italian Helminthes ( Cest ., Trem ., and Nemat.) ; Parona (1). — 
Austro- Hungary : Earthworms ; Rosa (5). — S. E. Bohemia : Turbel- 
larians, and 2 species Aeolosoma in ditches ; Seicera (2). — Hungary : 
Fresh-water Nematodes; Daday (1): 4 Turb ., 22 Nemat., 2 Oligoch. ; 
Daday (2). 
Asia : — Hirudinea ; Blanchard (3). — Caucasus, Central Asia, China, 
and Mongolia : Gordiidce ; Camerano (3).— Hong Kong : New species 
of Perichceta, and one species shown to be identical with one found in 
Sandwich Is. ; Beddard (1) pp. 204 & 202. 
