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regions. Prostomium and peristomium are similarly blotched; but the 

 posterior fourth of the peristomium, or the ring bearing the peristomial 

 cirri, and the first 3 setigers are without blotches. The third setiger is 

 pink and the others are orange yellow. The 2 large eyes are brilliant rose 

 purple, each with a small, circular, purplish-black lens. Branchiae are 

 scarlet red. Parapodia are pale opalescent gray; acicula and subacicular 

 hooks are jet black. The ventrum is olive buff with a strong lavender 

 hue and slightly iridescent. Eggs are pale olive buff. (Noted by Mr. 

 Anker Petersen.) 



Distribution. — E. multipectinata is not known except through the 

 original account, based on collections from Point Pifios to San Diego, 

 California. The numerous collections of the Velero III, listed above, ex- 

 tend the known range from Carmel Bay, California, south to western 

 Mexico, in depths of 24 to 150 fms. 



Eunice mutilata Webster 

 Plate 6, Figs. 140, 141 



Webster, 1884, pp. 315-316, pi. 9, figs. 36-40; Monro, 1933, p. 257. 

 E. barvicensis Mcintosh, 1885, pp. 292-294, pi. 39, fig. 12, pi. 21a, figs. 



1-3. 

 Leodice mutilata Treadwell, 1921, pp. 30-33, pi. 3, figs. 5-8, figs. 66-76. 

 E. afra Monro, 1933, pp. 66-67 (not Peters). 



Collections.— A\-Z?> (1); 129-33 (1); 239-34 (2); 414-35 (1); 

 419-35 (1) ; 437-35 (1) ; 446-35 (6) ; 466-35 (1) ; 867-38 (2) ; 937-39 

 (1); A 52-39 (1). 



The dorsal surface, anteriorly, is finely reticulated; in median and 

 posterior regions it is marked with many fine, pale punctations on a 

 darker ground. On some, the fourth podal ring is pale. Prostomial an- 

 tennae are smooth, short, about twice as long as the prostomium, or they 

 may be obscurely and irregularly ringed. Peristomial cirri are cirriform, 

 about % as long as the peristomium. Branchiae are present from the sixth 

 to ninth setiger, attain 5 to 10 filaments where best developed. A tenth 

 parapodium (coll. 466-35) is shown in pi. 6, fig. 141, with setae and 

 acicula indicated. Acicula are dark, taper distally to blunt tips; subacicu- 

 lar hooks are likewise dark, distally tridentate. Composite hooks are pale, 

 distally bidentate (pi. 6, fig. 140). 



These specimens seem to agree with what Monro (1933, p. 66) has 

 questionably reported as E. afra, from Taboga Island. In it, as in E. 

 mutilata, branchiae are first present farther forward than in E. afra 

 (p. 110), and the anterior dorsal surface is marked with a reticulated 

 pattern. 



