POLYCHJLTA—BENHAM. 
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N. macrura Elilers (1904), p. 14. 
N. macrura Elilers (1908), p. 57; (1913), p. 451. 
N. macrura Gravier (1911), p. 98. 
N. macrura Benham (1915), p. 203, pi. XL, fig. 57. 
N. macrura Fauvel (1916), p. 436, pi. VIII, figs. 1-3 (and adds N. prcckosa 
Kinberg as a synonym). 
In 1897 Elilers, from a study of the original specimens, showed that Grube’s 
species is identical with that of Kinberg ; and in his account of the New Zealand Annelids 
(1904) he further established, from an examination of the types, that Kinberg’s species 
is synonymous with Schmarda’s. He gave an extended and illustrated account of the 
species, which is widely spread over the subantarctic area. It is evidently very'common, 
for the “ Aurora ” naturalists gathered some seventy specimens, varying in length 
from 14 mm. up to 125 mm., the latter with a diameter of 12 mm. over the parapods. 
The worms are labelled as being “flesh coloured 55 in life as I know from 
observation of our local specimens. In spirit, however, the dorsal surface becomes 
a pale brown and the parapods usually white. 
The habitat extends from the shore-line, where it seems to be most abundant, to a 
depth of at least 157 fathoms, where it seems to attain its greatest size. 
Localities .— 
Boat Harbour—Shore : 2-4 fathoms ; 25 fathoms. 
Station 3, 157 fathoms. 
Station 12, 110 fathoms. 
Distribution. —South Chili (Schmarda); Magellan Strait (Kinberg) ; Kerguelen 
(Grube, McIntosh, Elilers) ; Heard Island (McIntosh) ; Bouvet Island, New 
Zealand (Elilers); Bass Strait (Benham); S outh S hetlands (Gravier); Falkland 
Islands (Fauvel). 
Family AMPHINOMIDZE. 
Genus Eurythoe Kinberg. 
Eurythoe compianata Pallas. 
E. pacifica Kinberg — McIntosh (1885), p. 27, pi. II, figs. 3, 4; pi. Ill, fig. 2; 
pi. II A, fig. 13; pi. Ill a, figs. 5-9. 
E. compianata Elilers (1908), p. 38. 
Elilers* has shown that these two, as well as E. alcyonia Savigny, are identical, 
and discusses the history of the species. Fauvel (1919, p. 348) gives a list of the literature. 
From the neighbourhood of Tasmania a young specimen was obtained measuring 
11 mm. for 35 segments. 
The distribution of the species is very wide, as it seems to occur in all seas and 
oceans. 
* Elilers, “ Zur Kenntniss d. Ostafrikanisdien Borstenwiirjner ” in Nadir, d. K. Gesdl : d. Wiss. Gottingen. 1897, 
Heft. 2, p. 2. 
