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teriorly greenish. Mouth inferior, circular ; upper lip conical. 

 Eyes two. Cirri numerous, orange colored ; the first pair com- 

 mencing at the second setigerous segment and the mo.st robust. 

 Setae in two rows, simple, in fasciculi of three to five. Podal hooks 

 in two rows, five to eight in each faciculus, sigmoid, bifid at the 

 free extremity. Intestine cylindrical, constricted. Ovaries on each 

 side of the intestine, extending four-fifths the length of the body. 

 Worm three lines long by one-fourth of a line broad, and composed 

 of forty annulations. Found under stones on the shores of Point 

 Judith. 



Lumbriconcreis Splendida, Blainville. Body C5dindrical, copper red 

 and strongly iridescent. Upper lip conical ; mouth round, with a 

 short proboscis armed with an inferior pair of dental plates, as well 

 as a complex dental apparatus above and within. Eyes four. Cau- 

 dal segment furnished with a pair of minute cirri. Lateral tubercles 

 with from six to ten setae in two fasciculi. Setae simple, distally 

 curved and grooved and ending in a subulate point. Length up to 

 eighteen inches, with as many as 420 segments. Raked from oyster 

 beds in Great Egg Harbor, N. J., where it is abundant. The ani- 

 mal corresponds closely with De Blainville' s description of a speci- 

 men, the country of which he remarks he did not know. 



Eunice Sa>ig7iinca , Montagu. Body compressed, cylindroid, brown- 

 ish red, iridescent. Head with two oval dorsal lobes. The five 

 antennae nearly equal. An eye situated between the outer two an- 

 tennae. Branchiae blood red, commencing at the sixteenth segment 

 and continuing until within about forty segments of the posterior 

 extremity. Setigerous tubercles of the anterior sixteen segments 

 containing two spines, the remainder containing four. Setae in two 

 fasciculi to each tubercle, simple and compound, the latter consist- 

 ing of a scalpel-like blade received into a forked handle. Length to 

 five inches, with two hundred and twenty segments. Found with 

 the preceding. 



Glycera Americana, Leid}' (PI. XI, figs. 49, 50). Body cylindri- 

 cal, brownish red. Upper lip short with hardly perceptible antennae. 

 No branchial appendages except three minute dorsal papillae upon 

 the pinnae, the latter fine lobed, armed with two spines and four 

 fasciculi of simple and compound setae, thirty to forty in number in 

 each pinnae. Simple setae linear, armed ; compound setae composed 

 of a furcate handle and a long linear lanceolate blade. Length up 

 to five inches, with a breadth of one and a half lines, and about 240 

 setigerous segments, between each of which is a secondary ring. 

 Found at Point Judith, Atlantic City, and Great Egg Harbor. It 



