22 THE ESSEX NATURALIST Perinereis cultifera (Grube) Occasional in Bradwell Creek samples. Also from station S.21 in 1960. Platynereis dumerili (Audouin & M. Edwards) Recorded from Bradwell Creek, Line 2a.St.4 (10.9.60) and St.N.5 (3.1.61). Nephthidae Nephthys caeca (O. F. Muller) Bradwell Creek. Nephthys hombergi Lamarck Bradwell Creek. Nephthys cirrosa Ehlers Bradwell shore. Nephthys longisetosa Malmgren From the Bradwell shore and also in grab sample from line 2a St.1 (11.9.1960). Glyceridae Glycera lapidum Quatrefages Occasional. From clean sand on Mersea Flat and in grab sample line 2a St.l (15.9.1960). Glycera convoluta Keferstein Recorded from the Bradwell shore, 1959, 1960 and 1961. Orbiniidae Aricia sp. Bradwell shore, July 1961. Spionidae Nerine foliosa (Audouin & M. Edwards) Bradwell shore; Weymark's Sluice transect St.2 (13.7.1960 and 14.6.1961). Nerine Cirratulus (Delia Chiaje) Common in sandy mud with the last mentioned. Weymark's Sluice transect St.2 (August 1959 and 6.2.1961). Pygospio elegans (Claparede) Bradwell shore in September 1958 and October 1960. Polydora ciliata (Johnston) Commonly found boring into shells of oysters and Crepidula on oyster beds and generally on the bottom where there is shell. Also in chalk pebbles on the shore. CIRRATULIDAE Audouinea tentaculata (Montagu) One record, from Bradwell Creek in muddy gravel near low water mark.