92 Bulletin Variderbilt Marine Museum, Vol. VII 



1857-1910, p. 65, pi. 22, fig. 3.— Fauvel, P., Mem. Indian 

 Mus., vol. XII, No. 1, 1932, Calcutta, p. 69, text fig. 12. 



? Phyllodoce ovalifera, AUGENER, H., in Michaelson, W., und Hart- 

 meyer, R., Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens, Ergeb. der Ham- 

 burger sudwest-australischen. Forschungr. 1905, Bd. IV, 

 1912-14, p. 127, taf . 2, fig. 12, und text fig. 7a-b. 



Remarks : The present species is believed by the writer to be 

 Kinberg's P. gracilis, type of which was also obtained in the 

 Society Islands, description of which, as Dr. Chamberlain has 

 stated, is too brief for satisfactory identification. It has seemed 

 worth while to redescribe the species, as far as the present mate- 

 rial permits. This all-black specimen with its opalescent greenish- 

 blue iridescences is strikingly beautiful. 



Family: EUNICIDAE 



Subfamily: Eunicinae 



Genus: EUNICE Cuvier 



Eunice af ra Peters 



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Distribution : Eunice afra is very widely distributed in the 

 Indo-Pacific region, in various kinds of habitats, having been re- 

 ported from the Red Sea southward on the East African coast of 

 Zanzibar, Madagascar and the Seychelles and eastward at Ceylon, 

 in the Maldive Archipelago, the Mergui Archipelago, the Gulf of 

 Manaar, the Gulf of Oman, the Philippine Islands, the Malay Seas, 

 the Gambler Islands, New Caledonia and now by the "Alva" expe- 

 dition, from Ingham Island, on the Queensland coast of Australia, 

 and in the Society Islands. 



Material examined: One specimen from the coral reef, at 

 Ingham Island, Queensland, October 12, 1931. Three specimens, 

 taken in coral, Teviatoa Reef, Raiatea Island, Society Islands, 

 August 21, 1931. 



Remarks : This species, which is one of the least specialized 

 members of the genus, possesses a high degree of variation, which 



