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fang; notopodial setae much coarser than neuropodial ones; 

 from Monterey Bay in rocky bottoms . . H. crassicirrata 



Harmothoe scriptoria Moore, 1910 



Moore, 1910, pp. 344-346, pi. 28, figs. 13-17. 



The body consists of 39 segments; elytra number 15 pairs and barely 

 cover the dorsum. The prostomium is approximately hexagonal, has 4 

 eyes arranged in a rectangle, with the anterior pair just in front of the 

 midlength. The posterior eyes are near the posterior margin of the lobe. 

 The median antenna is deeply embedded in the lobe so as to extend 

 about half way through the prostomial length. Elytra are thin, delicate, 

 smooth, lack cilia and tubercles except for a small area of tiny rounded, 

 horny granules behind the elytral scar. The first elytra are subcircular; 

 the second and third pairs are reniform, and others are larger, broader 

 and less deeply emarginate at the frontal margin. Notopodial setae are 

 about as thick as neuropodial ones. The notopodial setae are few in 

 number and short ; the neuropodial setae are distally bifid and appear 

 clawlike at the tip because the accessory tooth is well separated from the 

 terminal curved tip. 



Specimens agreeing with the account of the original specimens, from 

 Monterey Bay in 49-50 fms, green mud, differ mainly in that the 

 prostomial eyes are much larger, and the posterior eyes are preceded by 

 a pair of punctate spots, resembling minute eye spots. They come from 

 Hueneme Canyon, Velero IV Sta. 6898, in 373 meters, silt. 



Harmothoe lunulata (delle Chiaje) 1841 



Fauvel, 1923, pp. 70-71, fig. 25. 



Hartman, 1944c, pp. 244-246, pi. 20, figs. 10-22. 



Berkeley and Berkeley, 1948, p. 11. 



This species has been found generally distributed in shelf and shallow 

 slope depths of southern California, especially in silty or mixed bottoms. 

 The prostomium has 4 small black eyes, with the anterior eyes in front 

 of the middle, and the posterior ones near the hinder margin, of the lobe. 

 The median antenna reaches forward to near the distal end of the palpi, 

 and the paired antennae are less than a fourth as long. Notopodial setae 

 are about twice as thick as neuropodial setae and shorter ; they are nearly 

 smooth and acicular. The superiormost are shortest, and they gradually 

 increase in length inferiorly. They are weakly pectinated at the outer 

 cutting edge. Neuropodial setae are of 2 kinds; a supra-acicular fascicle 

 has 5 or 6 spinose, distally entire setae which are deeply serrated along 



