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Family POLYNOIDAE 



Genus LEPIDONOTUS Leach, 1816 

 Lepidonotus caelorus Moore, 1903 

 Moore, 1903, pp. 412-414, pi. 23, fig. 12. 

 Moore, 1910, p. 333. 



This is typically a shallow water species, inhabiting rocky bottoms and 

 seldom in depths greater than those of the shelf and slope. It is reported 

 from San Nicolas Basin (Moore, 1910) to 338 fms and to 1400 fms. 

 The species is nearly related to the cosmopolitan L. squamata (Lin- 

 naeus) ; its specific distinction is based on characteristics concerned with 

 details of the elytral spines. 



Genus EVARNELLA Chamberlin, 1919 

 Evarnella fragi lis (Moore) 1910 

 Harmothoe (Evarne) fragilis Moore, 1910, pp. 353-368, pi. 29, figs. 29, 

 30; pi. 30, figs. 31-33. 



This was originally (Moore, 1910) described off southern California 

 in 150 to 600 fms, from rocky and rubbly bottoms; later from San 

 Nicolas and Santa Cruz Basins (Moore, 1923, p. 256). It approaches 

 the circumboreal Evarnella i/npar (Oersted) and differs from the latter 

 in the details of elytra and setae. 



Genus ANTINOELLA Augener, 1928 



Distinctions between species of Antinoella, with type A. sarsi (Kin- 

 berg), and those of Antinoe Kinberg, with type A. mkrops Kinberg, 

 have not always been recognized. The species mentioned below are 

 believed to belong to Antinoella Augener. 



Antinoella sp. 



Two small specimens, one from Santa Monica and the other from 

 San Pedro Basin, measure less than 6 mm long. They have lost all elytra. 

 The prostomium is subquadrate, widest in front, and has weakly devel- 

 oped peaks at the antero-lateral margins. There are four small black 

 eyespots, an anterior pair at the middle prostomial length, far to the 

 side, and a posterior pair nearer together and at the hinder margin of 

 the prostomium ; all are equally small. Notopodial setae are coarsely 



