Family CHRYSOPETALIDAE. 



Body short or elongated, with few or numerous segments, hearing on their dorsal 

 side a fan or a transv^erse row of paleae. Cephalic lobe provided with three antennae and two 

 pairs of eyes. Ventral bristles compound. 



As ah-eady stated in my paper "on a Bhawania-specimen" ^) the family of Pabiiyridac 

 in the sense of Schmarda "), Racovitza '^j, Gravier*) and Potts") can no longer be maintained; 

 for since the investigations of Augener") definitely have settled, that Paluiyra atirifera is 

 closely alHed to the Aphroditidae, only lacking the el)tra, it will be preferable to unite the 

 species of Pabnyra and Palmyropsis in the famil)' of Gyvinaphroditidae {^ApJirodisiens mts of 

 AuDOUiN and Milne-Edwards^). Though hitherto we have been unable to make out the pros- 

 tomium and its appendages in Bkazmuia, we still ma)- conchide because of the great resem- 

 blance in structure of this genus with Pa/eonotiis and Chrysopetaliiiii, that Bluncania also has 

 three antennae. 



Genus Bhawania Schmarda. 

 Schmarda, Xeue Wirbellose Thiere, II, 1861, p. 164. 



Body elongated, with numerous segments. Paleae arranged in a transverse row, only 

 denticulated along the median edge. 



Of this genus several species are described, as well from the Indo-Pacific region (i>'. 

 myriahpis Schm., B. cryptocephala Grav.) as from the Atlantic (B. Goodei Webst.) ; however 

 the descriptions are often too incomplete for a satisfactory Identification. The species first 



1) Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX, 1909, p. 219. I'l. 9. 



2) Loc. cit. p. 162. 



3) Le lobe céphalique et l'encéphale des AnnéUdes polychètes, .\rch. Zool. expérim. (Sér. 3) IV, 1896, p. 209. 



4) Annél. Polychètes de la Mer Rouge, loc. cit. p. 258. 



5) Loc. cit. p. 325. 



6) Sec page 61 of this paper. 



7).Ann. Sc. natur. vol. 27, 1832, p. 445. 



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