PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



by the 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Vol. 83 Washington: 1936 No. 2984 



POLYCHAETOUS ANNELIDS FROM AMOY, CHINA 



By Aaron L. Treadwell 



Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



C. C. A. Monro (1934) has listed 40 species of polychaets from the 

 coast of Cliina, most of which were from Amoy and collected by Dr. 

 T. Y. Chen, of the University of Amoy. The following report is 

 upon a smaller collection of annelids, also made by Dr. Chen, from 

 the neighborhood of Amoy and presented by him to the United ^States 

 National Museum. It comprises but 31 specimens yet represents 

 21 species. Eight are apparently new: Two species of polynoids, 

 Lepidonotus minutus and Lepidasthenia ocellata; a leodicid, Marphysa 

 orientalis; four nereids, Nereis {Neanthes) linea, N. (Neanthes) orientalis, 

 N. {Nereis) amoyensis, and A^. {Leptonereis) distorta; and a cirratuhd, 

 Cirratulus branchiatus. Only five — Chloeia Jlava, Lysidice collaris, 

 Marphysa sinensis, Nereis {Neanthes) oxypoda, and Nephthys sinensis — 

 are common to both collections. 



The material on the whole is well preserved, but since in most cases 

 onl}^ one individual of a species is present, there is a degree of un- 

 certainty in the diagnosis of new species. Monro made similar 

 comment on the collections he studied. 



Family AMPHINOMIDAE 



Genus CHLOEIA Savigny 



CHLOEIA FLAVA (Pallas) 



Aphrodiia fiava Pallas, 1766, p. 97-102, pi. 8, figs. 7-11. 

 One specimen (Chen no. 21). 



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