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notosetae. Without dorsal cii-ri. Neuropodia conical, with small, 

 terminal neuropodial cirri, or "ventral cirri" (not in usual position 

 for ventral cirri), with neuroacicula and neurosetae. Neurosetae 

 simple, geniculate, or cm'ved, with expanded blades and numerous 

 transverse rows of teeth. Pygidial lobe rounded or concave platelike, 

 with 3 small cirri, a lateral pair and midventral one. Proboscis un- 

 armed, long, muscular, subclavate, with circlet of papillae around 

 opening. Without intestinal caeca. Integument smooth or areolated 

 (not papUlated). 



The following species have been referred previously to Loandalia 

 Monro: 



L. aberrans Monro, 1936, p. 193. Angola, South West Africa. 



L. fauveli Berkeley and Berkeley, 1941, p. 30. Southern California. See 



below. 

 L. americana Hartman, 1947, p. 506. Gulf of Mexico, Southern California. 



Referred to L. fauveli, see below. 

 L. gracilis Hartmann-Schroder, 1959, p. 112. El Salvador, Central America. 



Referred to L. fauveli, see below. 

 L. capensis Day, 1963, p. 396. South Africa. Referred to Cabira, see 



page 178. 

 L. indica Thomas, 1963, p. 29. Arabian Sea. Questionable species (the part 

 described as an anterior end appears to be a broken fragment). 



Key to the Species of Loandalia 



1. With ventral filiform branchiae beginning about setiger 54. 



L. aberrans Monro 

 Without ventral filiform branchiae . . . L. fauveli Berkeley and Berkeley 



Loandalia fauveli Berkeley and Berkeley 



Figures 22, 23 



Loandalia fauveli Berkeley and Berkeley, 1941, p. 30, figs. 4-6. — Hartman, 



1960, p. 89. 

 Loandalia americana Hartman, 1947, p. 506, pi. 63, figs. 1-7; 1951, p. 39, pi. 12, 



figs. 1-3. 

 Loandalia gracilis Hartmann-Schroder, 1959, p. 112, figs. 51-57 (young?). 



Material examined: Holotype of L. fauveli from southern California, 

 loan from Cyi"il Berkeley. Two paratypes of L. americana from 

 BUoxi, Miss., loan from Olga Hartman (AHF). Gulf County, Cape 

 San Bias, Fla.; Suwannee, Dixie County, Fla.; Keaton Beach, Taylor 

 County, Fla.; near Lynn Haven, Bay County, Fla., subtidal grass 

 flats, loan from Meredith Jones (AMNH). Pensacola, Fla., 1885. 

 Boat dredge in Mississippi Sound, 9 miles off Bayou, February 1898. 

 Davis Bay, Miss., 1949, brackish water. 



Description: Length to 125 mm., width to 3.3 mm., segments to 300. 

 Body subcylindrical with inflated anterior region of 5 or so setigers 

 (this region may be areolated, especially in larger specimens) . Presto- 



