NO. 3 hartman: polychaetous annelids 341 



inner paleae are short, spoon shaped (pi. 32, fig. 52) ; under high magni- 

 fication they appear minutely crenulate along their margins, because of 

 their transversely striated structure; they show none of the dentation 

 shown by Fauvel (1932, p. 34) for specimens so identified from India. 

 Distribution. — Lower California, north to Nanaimo, British Colum- 

 bia (Berkeley, 1930) ; intertidal to 40 fms. 



Sabellaria vulgaris Verrill 

 Plate 32, Figs. 42-44, 48 



Verrill, 1873, p. 611, pi. 17, fig. 88; Andrews, 1891, p. 297; Sumner, 



1913, p. 634; Waterman, 1934, pp. 97-114, 1 pi. 

 S. varians Webster, 1879, pp. 259-260, pi. 9, figs. 133-136, pi. 10, figs. 



137-139. 

 S. falcigera Johansson, 1927, pp. 95-98, fig. 11. 



Materials exa?nined. — Beaufort, North Carolina, outer end of Pivers 

 Island, shore (1) ; eastern America, Massachusetts, south to South Caro- 

 lina, collected by the SS Fish Hawk, now deposited in the U.S. National 

 Museum (many). 



The opercular spines are pale straw-colored. The outer ones are 

 distally serrated with a prolonged median portion, delicately pilose (pi. 

 32, fig. 44). Middle paleae are of one kind, with a blunt, digitate, 

 slightly inwardly directed, distal portion (pi. 32, fig. 43) ; they are 

 deeply channeled subdistally, into which the convex arm of the inner 

 paleae slides. The inner paleae are deeply cuspidate, terminate distally 

 in a slender point (pi. 32, fig. 42). Abdominal uncini are about 5-dentate 

 (pi. 32, fig. 48). 



The type of S. varians Webster (1879, pp. 259-260) from Virginia 

 has been compared with these specimens and found to agree in so far as 

 comparison is possible. The type collection (USNM no. 489) contains 

 3 individuals, all with paleae considerably worn or broken off, the pilose 

 tips not clearly visible now. The middle paleae are bluntly rounded and 

 channeled, just as in S. vulgaris, and the inner paleae have identical 

 structures. 



S. falcigera Johansson (1927, pp. 95-98) from Savannah, Georgia, 

 has many similarities to S. vulgaris and is now believed to be identical, a 

 view which the original describer suggested. Since, however, S. vulgaris 

 has been too incompletely known from its description to permit com- 

 parison, the identity could not be definitely established. The outer opercu- 

 lar paleae are serrated in the same way, and the middle paleae terminate 

 in a blunt, somewhat recurved tip. The pilose tip of the outer paleae 

 was not described. 



