Sub-family Hermioninae. 



Body short, oval and depressed. The dorsal setae directed upwards and backwards, so 

 as to protect the elytra. Point of attachment of the elytra situated laterally. A dorsal feit 

 often present. Prostomium only provided with a median antenna (tentacle), beneath which a 

 papillose facial tubercle is situated. Usually two pairs of eyes. Bipinnate setae in the neuropo- 

 dium of the anterior segments. Jaws represented merely by thickened prominences. 



Genus Aphroditella Roule. 



ROULE, Expéditions scientifiques du "Travailleur et du Talisman", Annélides et Géphyriens, 

 1906, p. 15. 



Resembling Aphrodite; ventral bristles however not smooth, but pilose or pinnate. 



Mc Intosh ^) in 1885 first described a minute Aphroditean-worm from the West-Indian 

 abyss, the ventral bristles of which are "densely pilose almost to the terminal hook and provided 

 with a spur as in Laetmatonicé" (Aphrod. interviedia)-^ two years thereafter Ehlers ") among 

 the Annelids of the Blake, from a depth of 17 19 m., met with an Aphrodite, that possesses 

 ventral bristles, provided on one side with a beard of hairs [Aprod. obtectd). Finally Roule 

 among the Annelids of the Travailleur and the Talisman found an Aphrodite from a depth 

 of 1084 m., that also possesses ventral setae with a pinnate appearance; with the two prece- 

 ding species he ranges this form in a new genus Aphroditella. Several species of this genus 

 appear to be represented in the Malayan abyss. 



I. Aphroditella malayana Horst. PI. XI, figs. i — 3. 



Horst, Zoolog. Mededeel. R. Museum Nat. Historie, Leiden, vol. II, 1916, p. 65. 



Stat. 161. i°io'.5 Lat. S., i30°9'Long. E. East oft' Kofiau Island. Depth 798 M. 2 specimens. 



The largest specimen measures 37 mm. in length and 25 mm. in breadth; the number 

 of segments amounts to 38. 



The body is oval, distinctly narrowed in the posterior region like in Aphrodite australis 



1) Challengev. Annelida Polychaeta, p. 38, l'l. I. lii;. 6, l'l. VI .4, fig. i. 



2) Florida-Anneliden, p. 42, PI. V], figs. i — S. 



