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AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 
Localities .— 
Commonwealth Bay, Boat Harbour, 2-4 fathoms. Collected by Dr. A. L. 
McLean. Commonwealth Bay, Station C. 15-20 fathoms ; Station D. 45-50 
fathoms ; Station 3, 157 fathoms. 
Macquarie Island, Rock pools, coll. Mr. Hamilton. 
Distribution. —Cape of Good Hope (Schmarda), Angra Pequena, Hew Zealand, 
Chatham Islands, Kaiser Wilhelm II Land (Elders), Campbell Island, Antipodes 
Islands (Benharn), Red Sea (Fauvel*). 
Syllis brachycola Elders. 
Elders (1897), p. 38, pi. II, figs. 46, 47. 
Gravier (1906), p. 20, pi. II, fig. 17. 
Elders (1913), p. 477. 
Eauvel (1916), p. 427. 
(Plate 5, fig. 3.) 
Several of this species were obtained, and I may note the form of the acicula, 
of which two or three occur in each parapod. They may be colourless or brown, but 
have a characteristic extremity. This is a rounded knob quite unlike those of S. 
closterobranchia (fig. 3). 
The uppermost cha?ta, which is capilliform (“ Nadel ” of Elders), does not make 
its appearance till about the 20th foot, and may even be absent from some of the 
posterior feet, though whether they are broken or not developed I cannot say. 
Locality .— 
Macquarie Islands. Scrapings off kelp. 
Distribution. —Magellan, Kerguelen, South Georgia, Kaiser Wilhelm II Land 
(Ehlers), Booth Wandel Island (Gravier), Falkland Islands (Fauvel). 
Genus Pionosyllis Malmg ren. 
Pionosyllis comosa Gravier. 
Gravier (1906), p. 15, pi. II, figs. 12, 13. 
Gravier (1911), p. 49. 
Ehlers (1913), p. 473, pi. XXXII, figs. 1-4. 
Several fragments of this Antarctic worm, consisting of the head and some 
20 cluetigerous segments, were obtained. They measure 25 mm. in length and about 
0*5 mm. across. Some are ripe females filled with eggs as far forwards as the 
proventriculus, but they present no epitokous modifications. 
* It may here be noted that Fauvel (1017, p. 193) regards the variety of Syllis closterobranchia from the Chatham 
Islands (Ehlers), a specimen of which lie has found on the coast of South Australia, as identical with S. hyalina Grube, 
