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near tlie long apex, smooth. Tentacular cirri shorter than the 

 antenniD. First pair of parapodia long, armed with a few seta). 

 Buccal cirri long, scarcely shorter than the tentacular cirri, inflated. 

 Notopodia short, with stout, short, whitish setoe scarcely reach- 

 ing the extremities of the parapodia, numerous, serrulate. 

 Neuropodia with long yellow setce, a little curved near the 

 apex, with few stout, profoundly serrated spines. Dorsal cirri 

 swollen below the apex, short, smooth. Elytra twelve pairs, 

 granulose, triangular, the margin ornamented with long fringes, 

 with oval or rounded quadrangulate cells. \^Kmierff.'] 

 Near Port Jackson (Kinberg). 



This species occurs in beds of mussels, betv^een tide-marks in 

 Port Jackson. In the specimens I have examined the inner 

 peristomial tentacles are not papillose as in that figured and 

 described by Kinberg. 



Lepidonotus stellatus. 



Lepidonotus stellatus, Baird, 1. c, -^. 185. 



The animal is about 8 lines in length and three in breadth. 

 The dorsal surface and elytra are of a somewhat uniform olive- 

 colour. The ventral surface is yellow. Head rather small ; 

 tentacle unfortunately destroyed. Antenna) slender rather short ; 

 palpi stout, conical, short, about the same height as the antennae. 

 Feet stout, biramous ; bristles of ventral branch longer than 

 those of the dorsal, bidentate at the point and serrated a little 

 below its apex. Bristles of dorsal branch short, straight and 

 serrated throughout their whole length. Dorsal cirri about the 

 length of the feet and bristles, setaceous. Elytra 12 pairs in 

 number, oval, marked across one half with two divaricating rows 

 of pustules. When seen under the microscope each scale is very 

 prettily marked with numerous lucid dots, like stars. The 

 margins are quite smooth, segments of body 26 in number ; last 

 segment terminated by two short anal cirri. \_Baird.~\ 



Australia (Brit. Mus) 



