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to the end, (2) the short, smooth, prostomial antennae, and (3) the bi- 

 dentate subacicular hooks, which are darker than their respective acicula. 

 I can find no substantial difference between Leodice notata Treadwell 

 (1921, p. 52) and E. guanica; both originate from localities in the West 

 Indies. 



Distribution. — ^West Indian region to Caledonia Bay, Panama; in- 

 tertidal. 



Eunice multipectinata Moore 



Moore, 1911, pp. 248-251, pi. 15, figs. 20-23. 



Collections.— ^lA-3^ (1); 875-38 (about 6); 876-38 (1); 892-38 

 (1); 981-39 (1); 1005-39 (2); 1012-39 (1); 1027-40 (2); 1121-40 

 (4); 1123-40 (1); 1144-40 (1); 1151-40 (3); 1177-40 (2); 1246-41 

 (3); 1252-41 (1); 1253-41 (2); 1256-41 (1); 1261-41 (1); 1276-41 

 (12); 1299-41 (1); 1340-41 (1); 1342-41 (2); 1347-41 (3); 1417-41 

 (2); 1426-41 (1); 1435-41 (1); 1447-42 (2). 



The prostomial antennae are usually long, strongly articulate, the 

 rings smooth, cylindrical, more or less irregular; they number about 6 

 for the outer lateral antennae, about 17 for the inner lateral, and 15 or 

 more for the median one; the longest reaches back to about the seventh 

 setiger. Peristomial cirri are strongly articulate, the articles long, slender, 

 with 6 or 7 joints, the whole about twice as long as the peristomium. In 

 some individuals the third, or also seventh, podal ring is pale. The 

 dorsum is usually more or less strongly mottled with light brown over 

 a pale ground, or there may be several anterior, solid brown segments. 



Branchiae are first present from the third to sixth setiger, with single 

 filaments ; the second branchia may have 3 filaments, the fifth 6, increas- 

 ing to as many as 13 farther back, but by setiger 27 (or later) there may 

 again be only 2 filaments. 



Acicula are black, thicker than the subacicular hooks, and occur 

 usually 2 in a parapodium ; they taper distally and are only slightly bent. 

 Subacicular hooks are dark, first present from about the thirty-eighth 

 setiger, usually occur singly in parapodia, but sometimes by twos; they 

 are distally bidentate, hooded. Composite setae have a secondaiy tooth 

 about as large as the distal one. Parapodia have a dark patch on their 

 dorsal sides. 



Color in life, based on a specimen from coll. 1426-41, follows. The 

 ground of the entire dorsal surface of the prostomium and body is light 

 orange yellow, over which are scattered irregular blotches of ochre red 

 in various sizes. The blotches gradually fade from anterior to posterior 



