Further Antarctic Results ¹

Abstract

THE Belgian Antarctic Expedition has issued another seven sections of the ten important volumes which it is contributing to Antarctic knowledge. Four of the new parts are technical contributions to systematic zoology. Prof. Jungersen, of Copenhagen, describes the Pennatulids, which are represented in the collection by eight specimens; all of them are referred to one species, the Umbellula carpenteri, first discovered by the Challenger. Herr Böhmig, of Graz, describes the Turbellarians, a small but interesting fauna containing a new genus of Acœla and three species of the characteristic sub-Antarctic genus Procerodes. A detailed account is given of the anatomy of these worms, and the author establishes a new genus and subfamily, the Stummerinæ, for a species that had been collected by the French Antarctic Expedition, and referred by Hallez to Procerodes. Herr L. Plate contributes a note on the Scaphopods, which are represented by one determinable and one indeterminable species of Dentalium, both collected south of latitude 70°. The Cirripedes are described by Herr P. P. C. Hoek, and this group is represented by three species, of which one, Verruca mitra, is new. They all come from the neighbourhood of the Magellan Straits. But that area does not appear to be rich in these Crustacea, and the only known Antarctic species is a Scalpellum collected by the Challenger near the Antarctic Circle.