^ . c^ t? /_5 Vol. 84, No. 30, pp. 245-252 4 November 1971 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON POLYCHAETA NEW TO NEW ENGLAND, WITH ADDITIONS TO THE DESCRIPTION OF ABERRANTA ENIGMATIC A HARTMAN^ By Katharine D. Hobson^ Systematics-Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 Specimens of polychaete species not previously reported from New England were discovered dming examination of material collected from Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. This material was collected from Buzzards Bay by G. R. Hampson, by J. F, Grassle, and by D. K. Young, and from Cape Cod Bay by the staff of the Biotic Census. Additional specimens of Aberranta enigmatica Hartman were collected on the shelf off New England by H. L. Sanders, The material is deposited at the following locations: Smithsonian Institution (USNM), Gray Museum of the Systematics-Ecol-ogy Program (SEP), the collection of Howard L. Sanders at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (HLS), and the author's collection (KDH). I wish to thank Dr. M. H. Pettibone for helpful criticism of the manuscript. PlLABGIDAK Cabira Webster Cabira incerta Webster Cabira incerta Webster 1879, p. 267, figs. 155-157. — Pettibone 1966, p. 178, figs. 11-12. Material examined: Massachusetts, Buzzards Bay, about 1 mile NW of 1 Contribution No. 216 from the Systematics-Ecology Program. This study was aided by Contract Nonr 3070 ( 03 ) between the Office of Naval Research, Depart-ment of the Navy, and the Systematics-Ecology Program, Marine Biological Labora-tory. 2 Present address: Marine Biology Division, B. C. Provincial Museiun, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 30— Prog. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 84, 1971 (245)
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