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in these examples. He states that the maxillae hav^e only two 

 teeth (fig. K.), but the specimen was probably adult, when 

 considerable changes occur. He terms the dorsal cirri and 

 their lamelliform base — gills. His examples were procured in 

 Table Bay. 



This species is very similar to the Nereis lieieropoda of Chamisso 

 and Eysenhardt,* procured on the shores of Unalaschca. 



It also approaches Nereis (Lipephile) uiacropos, Claparede.t 

 which again is closely allied to A^. Marioiiii Aud and Ed., and 

 the same may be said of De St. Joseph's Neanthes PerrieriX 

 allowance being made for variations. The Nereis vexillos{i of 

 Grube § is another form the relationships of which require re- 

 investigation : there is much in the description and figures 

 which agree with N . Mariouii. It is also clear that the Nereis 

 (Nercilepas) Siimpsoui (an vor. vdriegata Grube-Kroyer ?) is 

 the same form, procured at the Cape during the Austrian 

 " Novara " Expedition. 



Kinberg || found another species of the genus, which he 

 procured at San Francisco, California ; whilst Michaelsen's If 

 descriptions and figures of the proboscis of Nereis (Mastigonereis) 

 longicirra, Schmarda, from Ceylon, show a very close approach to 

 the present species, indeed the main difference is in the basal belt 

 of paragnathi in the extruded proboscis, which is distinctly 

 double in the South Afiican species. Ehlers, therefore, has 

 good grounds for uniting them. This author,** indeed, has 

 placed Schmarda's Masiigouereis podocirra, M. longicirra, Kin- 

 berg's Parallel eis elegaiis, Grube's Nereis Sfimpsonis, and four of 

 Hansen's species under the Nereis variegata of Grube. 



The distribution of this species, indicates what may yet be 

 accomplished by a careful revision of specimens from various 

 quarters of the globe. 



Accompanying the foregoing was a young example (8th 

 July, iqo2), the feet of which approach those of such forms as 

 Nereis Dniiierilii, with glandular masses on the dorsum. 



Lysidice CAPENSIS, Grube, 1867. 



Not uncommon between tide-marks at St. James, in False 

 Bay. 



1867. Lysidice capeiisis, Gvuhe. Ann. "Novara" Exped., p. 12, 

 Taf. 1., fig. 4. 



* Dc anim.quih. c Classc Vcnniiim, &c. F"ascic. II. p. 349, Tah. xxiv., 1". 2. 1819. 



t Ann. Chet, Nap. Suppl. p. iSo, PI. viii. fi.t;. i. 



X Ann. Sc. Nat. (8) v. p. 288, PI. xv. fifjs. 69-77. 



§ Middendorf's Keise, .^nnulaten, p. 4, Taf. II. tigs. 1, 5, and 6. 



II Ann. Nova. Olvers. af K. Vet. Akad. 1865, No. 2, p. 173. 

 5f Jahrh. Hamburg, Wiss. Anat. ix., p. 0. tigs. 8-10. 



'-'"'' Polychajt. d. Magellanisch, u. Ctiilcnisch Strande, Berlin, 1901, p. J12, Tai". 

 xiv. figs. 1-21. 



