282 THE ESSEX NATURALIST Family Desmodoridae Desmodora serpentula de Man, 1889 Sample 1. Metachromadora remanei Gerlach, 1951 Samples 1 and 3 (very common in both samples). Metachromadora suecicus (Allgen, 1929) Sample 2. Metachromadora vivipara (de Man, 1907) Sample 2. Monoposthia costata (Bastian, 1865) Sample 2. Spirina parasitijera (Bastian, 1865) Sample 1. Family Microlaimidae Microlaimus ? tenuispiculum de Man, 1922 Sample 3. Family Chromadoridae Atrochromadora microlaima (de Man, 1889) (=Chromadorina m. (de Man)) Sample 3. Chromadora nudicapitata Bastian, 1865 Sample 2 (common in this sample). Euchromadora striata (Eberth, 1863) Sample 2. This species has been reported recently from Skippers Island (Coles, 1965), its most northerly known locality. Euchromadora vulgaris (Bastian, 1865) Sample 2. *Hypodontolaimus balticus G. Schneider, 1906 Sample 3 (fairly common in the sample). This species was listed incorrectly as Spilophorella paradoxa (de Man, 1888) in my 1960 report. New British record. Hypodontolaimus ponticus Filipjev, 1922 Samples 1, 2 and 3 (common in all the samples). Neochromadora poecilosoma (de Man, 1893) Sample 3. Family Comesomatidae Sabatieria celtica Southern, 1914 Sample 3. Family Axonolaimidae Axonolaimus paraspinosus Schuurmans Stekhoven and Adam, 1931 Samples 2 and 3 (common in both samples).