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How far such proportions are useful systematic features 

 apart from other more permanent characters is doubtful. 



Ehlers 1 gives a fully illustrated account of S. cerasina, 

 which in regard to the head, at any rate, resembles this 

 species from Tasmania. 



Loc. -Storm Bay, Tasmania. 

 Distribution. Hawaii (Treadwell) . 



Family 

 Sub-Family EUNICIN^E. 



Genus EUNICE, Cuvier. 

 EUNICE SICILIENSIS, Grube. 



Eunice siciliensis, Grube, Actinien, Echinodermen, u. 

 Wurmer, 1840, p. 83. Id., Ehlers, Die Borsten- 

 wiirmer, 1864-68, p. 353. 



Eunice adriatica, Schmarda, Neue Wirbellose Thiere, i., 2, 

 1861, p. 124. 



Eunice tcenia, Claparede, Glan. Zool. parmi les Annelides, 

 1864, p. 120. 



Eunice valida, Gravier, Nouv. Arch. Museum Paris, 

 1900, p. 264 (fide Grassland, Proc. Zool. Soc., i., 1904, 

 p. 323). 



This widely distributed species is represented by three 

 fragments, one of which bears a head with 173 chsetigerous 

 segments, measuring 120 mm. by 8 mm. ; the segments are 

 very short, being about one-ninth of the diameter of the 

 body. 



The second fragment has neither head nor anus ; consists 

 of 180 segments measuring 90 mm. ; the segments are still 

 shorter, only about l-18th of the diameter. 



The third fragment contains 57 segments wifeh a length of 

 50 mm. 



In all details these agree with the accounts of the species, 

 though it is larger than those that I have studied from the 

 Kermadec Islands. 



1. Ehlers Die Polychseten d. magellan. u. chilen. Strandes, 1901, 

 p. 147. 



