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Collections. Numerous individuals taken from shallow littoral 

 bottoms in silty and mixed sediments. 



The body is long, linear, and measures 25 to 40 mm long. The 

 prostomium is wider than long, has 3 pairs of eyespots with the anterior- 

 most at the frontal margin of the prostomium, the middle pair behind 

 the middle of the lobe, and the posterior pair at the posterior end of the 

 lobe. The median antenna is inserted on the posterior third of the 

 prostomium, midway between the middle and posterior paired eyes, and 

 the paired lateral antennae are at the sides, between anterior and middle 

 paired eyes. They have about 9 articles each. Palpi are large, long, free 

 to the base and directed forward. 



The pharynx is long, cylindrical and extends posteriorly through 7 to 

 9 segments; it is followed by the muscular gizzard extending through 

 the next 6 or more segments. The distal end of the proboscis has a 

 large anterior tooth and terminates in a circlet of 10 widely spaced 

 short papillae. 



Parapodia have dorsal cirri with few, weakly separated articles, 

 numbering at most 3 to 6, sometimes appearing nearly smooth. They 

 are about twice as long as the corresponding ventral cirri. Setae are 

 entirely composite and distally bifid. In addition, at the upper end of 

 the setal fascicle one usually sees 2 long, projecting acicula, resembling 

 simple setae ; they are slightly falcate and distally bifid ; the concave edge 

 is delicately dentate. The specific identity is in some doubt because of this 

 feature. 



Typosyllis armillaris has been reported from cosmopolitan areas, in 

 littoral zones. 



Genus Galamyzas Arwidsson, 1932 



Type C. amphictenicola Arwidsson, 1932 



PGalamyzas amphictenicola Arwidsson, 1932 



Collection. Four and a half miles west of Oceanside pier, California, 

 in 90 fms, green silt (2). 



Two individuals were found attached to the base of branchiae of an 

 ampharetid, Amphicteis scaphobranchiata Moore. The larger is ovi- 

 genous, measures 0.39 mm across and 1.3 mm long; the large ova can 

 be seen as transverse bands across the segments. The body is broad, 

 dorsally convex, ventrally flattened and resembles a small maggot. Dorsal 

 and ventral cirri are long, cirriform and resemble each other. Setae are 

 of a single kind ; all are composite falcigerous, with the appendage 



