LEODICID.-E OF THE WEST INDIAN REGION. 



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curved. The proximal paired plates have 4 large teeth on the right and 6 on the left. 

 The distal paired ones have 9 on the right and 6 on the left, while the unpaired has 6. 

 The mandible (text-figure 65) has shafts which are very dark, except for the outer anterior 

 margins, and the beveled portion is coated with a deposit of a whitish material. 



Webster describes this species from Bermuda. In another part of the same paper 

 (p. 319) he records Eunice violacea. Verrill describes Leodice longisetis and violacea- 

 maculata of Ehlers in his collections from Bermuda, and decides that it was the latter 

 species rather than the Pacific species violacea which Webster saw. I have examined 

 at the U. S. National Museum both Webster's type of longisetis and the one he described 

 as violacea and am certain that they are identical. The type is very small, which per- 

 haps explains Webster's decision that the two are of distinct species. Verrill considers 

 that longisetis and violacea-maculata are distinct species, giving as one distinction the 

 absence of a white nuchal band in the latter. A specimen from his collection labeled 

 violacea-maculata has this nuchal band and seems to me to differ from longisetis merely in 



TEXT-FIGURES 54 to 65. Leodice longisetis Webster. 



54. First parapodium x20. 



55. Tenth parapodium x20. 



56. Seventy-ninth parapodium x20. 



57. One-hundred and thirtieth 



parapodium x20. 



58. Shaft of simple seta x370. 



59. Compound seta x370. 



60. Pectinate seta x370. 



61. Dorsal acicula x370. 



62. Second form of dorsal acicula x370. 



63. Ventral acicula x370. 



64. Maxilla xlO. 



65. Mandible xlO. 



