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including the sand dollar, lancelets, and various other polychaetes num- 

 bering 27 species, of which the most characteristic are Lumbrineris acuta 

 Verrill, Aricidea (Cirrophorus) furcata Hartmen, Saccocirrus papil- 

 locercus Bobretzky, Pareurythoe calif arnica (Johnson), Dorvillea arti- 

 culata (Hartman), D. gracilis (Hartman) and several species of 

 phyllodocids and syllids. 



Pisione remota is known from western and southern Europe, including 

 the Black Sea, and from southern California and western Mexico, in 

 shallow sandy sediments. 



Family Ghrysopetalidae 



This small family is known for few species in four genera (see Hart- 

 man, 1959b, p. 125). 



Key to Genera and Species 



1. Without dorsal paleae (spines) Dysponetus 



Levinsen (not known from California) 



1. With dorsal paleae 2 



2. Prostomium with a conspicuous caruncle overlapping the peris- 

 tomium ; body short 3 



2. Body without a conspicuous caruncle ; body long and consisting 

 of many segments . . Bhawania Schmarda (tropical only) 



3. First segment with an asymmetrical ventral cirrus ; dorsal paleae 

 of two abruptly different kinds, broad and narrow ; dorsum lacks 

 gold lustre Paleanotus bell'is 



3. First segment with paired cirri only; dorsal paleae of a single, 

 intergrading kind or not abruptly different ; paleae with golden 

 lustre Chrysopetalum occidentale 



Genus Chrysopetalum Ehlers, 1864 

 Chrysopetalum occidentale Johnson, 1897 



Johnson, 1897, pp. 161-162, pis. 5, 6. 



Collections. This species is most commonly collected in intertidal or 

 very shallow bottoms overgrown with encrusting bryozoans, hydroids, 

 sponges, tunicates ; and in pile faunas. 



Individuals seldom measure more that 15 to 18 mm long, consist of 

 about 60 to 63 segments, and are somewhat coiled. The prostomium is 

 elongate, has 4 eyes in quadrate arrangement, with the anterior pair closer 



