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and branchial regions is not so marked and abrupt as it is shown 

 in Kinberg's figure. 



The tail is strong and muscular, its numerous segments (usually 

 about 100 to 150) :;: are very narrow from before backwards, espe- 

 cially in the anterior half of the tail. The epidermis is raised into 

 small rounded papillae ; there are no elongate papillae or other 

 outgrowths of the body wall in this region. 



The notopodia have the usual bluntly conical form ; a tuft of 

 capillary setae projects from the oval aperture of the setal sac, 



TEXT-FIGURE I. 



Arenicola loveni. Anterior end, dorsal aspect, x l - 5. 

 Mo. Mouth. N 1 . First notopodium. N.Gn. Nuchal groove. PR. Prostomiura. 



which is situated on or near the rounded apex of the notopodium. 

 The type specimen possesses a twentieth segment bearing noto- 

 podial setge (Fig. 2). Following the nineteenth chaetigerous annulus 

 are four rings and then a larger one. On the right dorso-lateral 

 region of this larger annulus there is a slight elevation, from an 

 aperture in which a tuft of twelve to fifteen capillary setae projects ; 



* There are 175 septa in the tail of one of the Saldanha specimens. 



