294 ANNELIDA POLYCH^TA ANDREWS. 



Family MALDAMD^. 



MALDANB (Grube) Malmgren. 



Maldane elongata Verrill. 



Verrill. la vert. An. Vineyard Sd , pp. 343, 609. 

 Webster. Annel. Chret. Virginian Coast, p. 2.59. 



Found iu mud at Crab Poiut and Shark Shoal. A fragment belong- 

 ing, perhaps, to this genus was peculiar in having the dorsal surface of 

 several somites thickly set with slender papillie. 



CLYMENELLA Verrill. 

 Clymenella torquata Verrill. 



Clymene torquatus Leidy. Mar. Invert. Fauna of Rhode Island and New^ Jersey. 



> Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 2d ser., vol. 3, p. 146. 

 ClymeneUa torquata Verrill. Invert. An. Vineyard Sd., pp. 343,608, PI. xiv, Figs. 



71-73. 

 Clymenella torquata Webster. Annel. Cli;Bt. Virginian Coast, p. 28* Annel. Cliaet., 



Provincetown, p. 731. 



Not uncommon on Bird Shoal and at Crab Point. 



AXIOTHEA Malmgren. 



Axiothea mucosa, sp. nov. 



(Plate XVI, Figs. 29-35.) 



Body elongated, somites twenty- three, of which eighteen are setiger- 

 ous, while the buccal, anal, and three preanal somites bear no setie. 

 First six or seven somites short, middle ones elongated, posterior ones 

 again shortened, preanal one very short. Head as long as following 

 somite, obliquely truncated; preoral lobe conical, elongated, slightly 

 turned upward; inclined area bordered by a flange on each side, which 

 rises rapidly in height from near the preoral lobe, then gradually be- 

 comes less in height and somewhat undulated, and meets its fellow pos- 

 teriorly on the median line, with a slight notch between ; inclosed area 

 with a slight median ridge on its anterior two-thirds, on each side of 

 which an elongated depression separates it from the flat area at the base 

 of the flange ; in front of the mouth a lyre-shaped collection of pigment 

 spots following the edge of the preoral lobe. Anal somite short, bell- 

 shaped, fringed by twenty to thirty tentacles, the ventral median one 

 about as long as the bell, a few about half this length, with a group of 

 three to four smaller ones between each adjacent two; anus terminal, 

 on a papillated, extensible prominence, filling the upper part of the 

 bell. Anterior edge of fourth somite a slight fleshy rim; cuticle 

 smooth ; dorsal and ventral surfaces of middle somite covered by whitish 

 pads. Dorsal fascicles of about twenty set;B arising from a papilliform 

 sheath, the pinnate ones very delicate ; unclni with four well-marked 

 teetli and a fifth smaller one, and as many as ten bristles under the 



