Pherecardia 1 1 



(.illtfi;; I i i!i). 



: : Malaquin et 1 ><. hoi n 



Ho rrona tl>< Leyden Museum, Vol. VIII, 1886, p. i 



in i. Abhandl. i .. Natu ift, Bd. XXV, 1903, p. 



Malaquin et Ui vue Suis Vol. XV, 1907, p. 



Body elongate. Caruncle heart-shaped, consisting of ;i median axis and several folded 



.1 plates on each side, directed backward. Branchiae ramified, commencing on the first 



ia. Bristles simple (not bifurcated); those of the ventral fascicle with a hooklike bent ti]), 



the dorsal one harpoon-shaped, with serrations having the shape of a Y. Anus dorsal, 



slit-like, with au unpaired cirrus. 



1. Pherecardia lobata Horst. 

 \mphinome sericata Fisch 



irunculata grubei Mal. et Deh. . 



loc. cit. Vol. XXXIV, 1911, p. \~, with text-figure. 



Stat. 60. Haingsisi, Samau-island. 1 specimen. 



Stat. 240. Banda. Depth 9 — 45 M. 1 young specimen. 



2. Anchorage between Nusa 1 N.E. point of Tiraor. Depth 27 — 54 M. [specimen. 



•. 300. 11 Lat. S., I23°23'.i Long. E. Timor-Sea. Depth 01S M. 1 young specimen. 



Amboina. van Kampen. 3 Febr. 1 



The specimen from Haingsisi measures about 50 mm. in length and 6 mm. in breadth 

 (without bristles . whereas the number of its segments ampunts to 48. In this worm the palpar 



m of the head shows the same four-lobed shape as in the specimen figured by M.u.a 



and Dehorni PI. LUI, fig. 12). There is an unpaired heart-shaped, anal cirrus, with a longi- 



tudinal median groove. The specimen from Station 282 is a slender wurm, about 65 mm. long, 



with Ejments: in the posterior part of the body the segments seem not to be normally 



1 and have enormously elongated dorsal bristles. The Amboina-specimen is longer than 



the precedin 1 iring 90 mm. in length and 9 mm. in breadth, whereas the number of 



amounts to 60. It is a female with ripe eggs; its bristles have a yellowish hue. The 



mens from Stat. 300 and those from Banda are ver) young mies, only 18 and 17 mm. in 



length, with 33 segments; the branchiae are very conspicuous by their dark basal part. 



The coloration and markings of these specimens, from four different localities in the Malay 



Archipelago, very well correspond to the description given by Fischli, Malaquin and Dehorni 



and viz. a brown or buff ground-colour, with bronze-coloured longitudinal stripes over 



each segment on the dorsal as well as on the ventral side and on the lateral parts of the bod) . 



thes< tripes on the dorsum are rather broad and densely crowded, they are on the 



ometimes even totally absent in its posterior part. A dark violet band runs 



around the frontal side of the notopodia; the gills are also dark coloured with |>alc tips. The: 



silky, white or yellowish, strongly contrasting with the dark coloured body. The 



ilic lobe, very short in longitudinal direction, is rectangular, almost entirely hidden under 



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