. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. DISCOVERY REPORTS Dasychone natalensis (Kinberg). Branchiomma 7iatalensis, Johansson, 1927, p. 165, with synonymy. Dasychone violacea, Mcintosh, 1885, p. 504, pi. liii, fig. 3; pi. xxxi A, figs. 7-8; pi. xxxix A, fig. 7. Saldanha Bay Beach, South Africa, 1926. Four specimens. Remarks. This species, easily distinguished by the spirally twisted gill bases and the very numerous short gills with their paired foliaceous dorsal appendages is, according to Johansson, the Sabella natalensis of Kinberg. The largest specimen measures 82 mm.
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. DISCOVERY REPORTS Dasychone natalensis (Kinberg). Branchiomma 7iatalensis, Johansson, 1927, p. 165, with synonymy. Dasychone violacea, Mcintosh, 1885, p. 504, pi. liii, fig. 3; pi. xxxi A, figs. 7-8; pi. xxxix A, fig. 7. Saldanha Bay Beach, South Africa, 1926. Four specimens. Remarks. This species, easily distinguished by the spirally twisted gill bases and the very numerous short gills with their paired foliaceous dorsal appendages is, according to Johansson, the Sabella natalensis of Kinberg. The largest specimen measures 82 mm. for the body and 13 mm. for the gills. Dasychone nigromaculata (Baird). Mcintosh, 1885, p. 503, pi. liii,fig. 5;pl. xxxi A, figs. 4-6; pi. xxxix A, fig. 6. Branchiomma nigromaculata, Johansson, 1927, p. 162, with synonymy. St. I. 16. xi. 25. Clarence Bay, Ascension Island. 7° 55' 15" S, 14° 25' 00" W. 16-27 iTi. Gear NRM. Bottom: coral, sand and shell. Eight specimens. Remarks. These are all very small specimens measuring about 7 mm. for the body and 4 mm. for the gills. I believe them to be young examples of Baird's species. The body colour is a pale green with eye spots between the rami of the feet. The barbules are splashed with brown. There are only seven gills on each side, and each gill has about five pairs of eyes and six pairs of dorsal stylodes. These are slender and filiform and of unequal size. The bristles and hooks (Fig. 84, a) agree with Mcintosh's figures, except that the broader sort of thoracic dorsal bristle (Fig. 84, b) is more widely winged than as shown by Mcintosh. The character of the dorsal branchial stylodes and the shape of the hook seem to be *04mm-r O a •Smiri ^O b Fig. 84. Dasychone nigromaculata. a. Thoracic hook. b. Broader thoracic bristle. Genus Hypsicomus, Grube Hypsicomus torquatus (Grube). Augener, 1918, p. 572, text-fig. loi. St. 283. 14. viii. 27. Off Annobon, Gulf of Guinea. -75 mile to i mile N 12° E of Pyr
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