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Figure 29. — Hesionidae, Parahesione liiteola: a, dorsal view anterior end; h, dorsal view 

 posterior end; c, parapodium. 



Biology. — Found at low water on oyster shells in sandy mud flats 

 and silty sand. Found on sandy flats with rubble, Kving commen- 

 sally in the burrows of the ghost shiimp Upogebia qffinis (Say). 

 Moves rapidly and easily escapes notice. Some were massed with 

 greenish eggs in July (Wellfleet Harbor, Massachusetts, July 3, 1954). 



Material examined. — Type of Hesionc agilis. Also Massachusetts 

 (Wellfleet, Cape Cod), Georgia (Sapelo Island, mud, J. M. Teal), 

 Florida (Seahorse Key, J. Taylor). 



DisTuiBUTioN. — Massachusetts (Cape Cod), New Jersey, Georgia 

 (Sapelo Island), Gulf of Mexico (Florida). In low water. 



