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8. Abdominal segments without subpodial lobes .... 9 



9. Thoracic neuropodia without postsetal lobes . . . .10 

 9. Last thoracic neuropodia with a long postsetal lobe, present 



also in abdominal segments as a long, slender postsetal lobe 



(pi. 32, fig. 2) S. (L.) rubra 



10. Transition from thorax to abdomen at about segment 19 or 20 

 S. (L.) ohlini 



10. Transition from thorax to abdomen at about segment 11 to 14 

 S. (L.) marginatus 



11. Transition from thorax to abdomen at about segment 21 or 22 

 S. (L.) chevalieri 



11. Transition from thorax to abdomen at about segment 27 



S. ?(£.) madagascariensis 



It is noteworthy that S. (L.) rubra (Webster), S. (L.) ohlini 

 (Ehlers) and S. (L.) marginatus (Ehlers) are distinguishable from one 

 another only by characters known to be variable in other species. It is 

 therefore possible that these three names refer to a single widely dis- 

 tributed species. Furthermore, S. (L.) marginatus mcleani (Benham) 

 differs from its stem species in having thoracic neuropodia provided with 

 3 to 6 dark spines behind the other setae, located at the inferior end of 

 the series ; this distinction is not altogether reliable in other species. 



Scoloplos (Leodamas) verax Kinberg 

 Plate 31, figs. 1-4 



Leodamas verax Kinberg, 1866, p. 252. 



Scoloplos (Leodamas) verax Hartman, 1948b, pp. 104-105, pi. 15, figs. 

 3, 4. 



The prostomium is equitriangular, depressed conical and without 

 eyes. The everted proboscis is a smooth, unbranched spacious epithelial 

 pouch. The peristomium is longer than the prostomium and about twice 

 as long as the first setigerous segment. Thoracic segments number 25. 

 Branchiae are first present from the sixth setigerous segment and con- 

 tinue on all other segments ; they are simple and lingulate. 



Thoracic notopodial postsetal lobes are deeply bifurcated from the 

 first parapodium and through most of the thorax. The corresponding 

 neuropodial postsetal lobe is triangular and undivided. Thoracic neuro- 

 podia have palisaded rows of thick yellow uncini which are distally 

 curved and smooth at the outer curved side (fig. 3) ; there are no pointed 

 setae or subuluncini. 



