1^0. 104.] 135 



Buccal segment nearly as long as the three following segments 

 taken together. 



Tentacular cirri ; upper nearly as long as superior antenna, but 

 more delicate ; lower, three times as long as upper, and stouter, but 

 still very delicate. 



Dorsal cirri pretty evenly rounded, quite small on the anterior 

 segments (tig. 14), growing larger behind (fig. 15). 



Ventral cirri, in front larger than the dorsal, lower margin 

 strongly convex, upper margin straio^ht, apex acute ; further back 

 they are larger than in front but smaller than the dorsal cirri, their 

 margins slightly convex, apex bluntly rounded. 



Anal cirri short, subulate. 



Sct{B (fig. 16) numerous, short, stem reaching but little beyond 

 the feet; appendix also short, rather wide at base, termination 

 capillary, one edge minutely denticulated. 



Body elongated, in front flattened, further back rounded above, 

 :flat below ; tapering rapidly along the anterior third, gradually 

 ^long the posterior third. 



Color white, or white with flake-white specks, sometimes with an 

 intestinal brown line showing through. 



Length of largest specimens, 45™™ ; width with feet, 1.5™™. 



Rare ; low water to fifteen feet. 



Eteone limicola YerriU. 

 Verrill. Invert. Animals of Vinevard Sound, etc. , p. 294. 1874. 



This species, reported by Yerrill from Great Egg Harbor, we 

 failed to find. 



Fam. HESIONID^, 



PODARKE Bhlers. 



Die Borstenwtlrmer, p. 190. 1864. 



PoDAKKE oBscuEA Verrill. 



PLATE (ll) V, FIGS. 17, 18. 



Yerrill. Invert. An. of Yin. Sound, etc., p. 589, pi. xii, fig. 61. 1874. 

 Webster. Annel. Chaet. of the Yirginian Coast, p. 216. 1879. 



Rare; low water to fifteen feet. 



PODAEKE LUTEOLA 01. SJ). 

 PLATE (ll) V, FIGS. 19, 20. 



Head very slightly convex in front, posterior margin slightly con- 

 cave, and a little shorter than the front margin, the sides being 

 directed a little inward ; length to width as one to three ; angles all 

 bluntly rounded. 



