were more strongly pigmented and the hooded 

 hooks appeared effectively bidentate with only 

 the faintest sign of a third tooth. When fresh, 

 the pigmentation was striking and character- 

 istic. Most of the head was brown, there were 

 always a pair of spots on either side of the mid- 

 ventral line of anterior segments and often 

 flecks on the tentacles, the dorsum and the 

 parapodia. 



Records. — Common off Beaufort in 8-120 m 

 (21. *). 



Distribution. — Gulf of Mexico; intertidal. 



Spio setosa Verrill, 1873 



Spio .s-r^o.sa. - Hartman, 1942a: 63, Fig. 119, 

 120; 1945: 31, pi. 6: Fig. 1,2. 



Ricord.^. — Cape Hatteras area and Beaufort 

 Sound, intertidal (11, 18). 



Distrib/itioH. — Massachusetts to North Caro- 

 lina on intertidal sandbanks. 



doubts expressed by Soderstrom (1920). The 

 pos.session of a well-developed first setiger, 

 three pairs of pinnate gills from the first foot 

 and the large winglike expansions of the i)eri- 

 stome which enfold the pointed prostomium 

 are all distinctive. Dr. Foster has shown that 

 eight taxa are synonyms of P. piiniatn. 



Record.'^. — Common off Beaufort in 1-200 m 

 (21,*). 



Distribntio)!. — Cosmopolitan in temperate and 

 tropical seas from 1 to 500 m. 



Scolelepis sqiiamata (Muller. 1806) 



Ncriiw cirnit/ilns. - Fauvel, 1927: 3(5, Fig. 11 



g-n. - Hartman, 1969: 115, Fig. 1-5. 

 Ncri)i(' agilis. - Hartman, 1945: 31. 

 Scolelepi.'< (Scoleli'pis) .^qiianiata. - Pettibone, 



1963b: 90 (synonymy). - Foster, 1971: 59. 



Fig. 118-131." 

 Sciilclfpi.^ s(jiiaiinita. - Day, 1967: 483, Fig. 



18.7. c-h. 



Streblospio benedicti Webster, 1879 



StreMospio benedicti. - Webster, 1886: 149, 

 pi. 8: Fig. 48-50. - Hartman, 1945: 34, pi. 6: 

 Fig. 4; 1969: 189, Fig. 1, 2. - Foster, 1971: 

 112, Fig. 276-283. 



Records. — Cape Hatteras area and Beaufort, 

 intertidal and shallow dredgings in the sound 

 (11, 15, 18). 



Distril)ntiou. — Maine to Florida and the Gulf 

 of Mexico; Denmark and France; Washington 

 to California; estuarine and intertidal to 10 m 

 in sandv mud. 



Paraprionospio pinnata (Ehlers. 1901) 



Prionospio piiinata Ehlers, 1901: 163.- Hartman, 



1960: 114, pi. 9: Fig. 1-3; 1969: 161, Fig. 



1-4. - Day, 1967, 488, Fig. 18.8. i-1. 

 Prioiiospio toinis. - Hartman, 1945: 82 (no)i 



Verrill). 

 Parap)-io)ispio pinnutu. - Foster, 1969: 389, Fig. 



12-21 (with synonymy); 1971: 102. Fig. 237- 



246. 



Reni(irlis.^-Dr. Foster has re.surrected Caul- 

 lery's genus P(iraprio)i()spio in spite of the 



R( cords. — Cape Hatteras to South Carolina, 

 common on wave-washed sandy shores (8, 5, 

 11,13,18,21,*). 



Dis tribntion . — Cosmopol itan in temperate and 

 tropical seas; intertidal in sand. 



Aonides sp. 



Re murks. — Two small .specimens were ob- 

 tained which were identified by me as juveniles 

 of Aonides o.rycepliala (Sars). The specimens 

 were sent to the U.S. National Museum with the 

 rest of the collection. Dr. Pettibone has recently 

 informed me that the larger specimen has now 

 been identified by Dr. Nancy Foster as Aonides 

 i)ia!/agne::e)isis Foster (1969: 398, Fig. 22, 33; 

 1971: 66, Fig. 43-154) originally described from 

 Puerto Rico in 3 m. A. n/ayagnezeiisis is a 

 small species only (3.6 mm long with fewer 

 branchiae than A. o.rycephola (15-16 pairs in- 

 stead of 20-30) and neuropodial hooks from 

 .setiger 19-28 instead of setiger 82-35. Possibly 

 these are juvenile characters. 



Ricords.— Off Beaufort in 20 m (*). 



Prionospio (Minuspio) cirrifera Wiren, 1883 

 Prionospio cirrifera. - Fauvel, 1927: 62, Fig. 21 



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