NO. 13 POLYCHAETOUS ANNELIDS HARTMAN I 5 



Monro described a parchment tube with specimens from Panama. 

 No tubes were collected with the specimens at hand. 

 Distribution. — Panama; Lower California, Mexico. 



EUNICE SCHEMACEPHALA Schmarda 



Eunice schemacephala Schmarda, 1861, p. 132; Augener, 1925, p. 28. 

 Eunice fucata Ehlers, 1887, p. 91. 



Collection, — Station No. 30-38 ; 2 specimens. 



Two sexually mature individuals, one a male, the posterior portions 

 broken and turgid with white gonadial products, the other a gravid 

 female, the eggs olive green in alcohol. Setae are pale straw color, 

 acicula dark. 



Augener ( 1925, p. 28) has discussed the synonymy of this common 

 West Indian species, and at the same time identified his west African 

 E. fucata (1918, p. 316) with another species. 



Distribution. — West Indies; Florida; Caribbean Sea. 



EUNICE (PALOLO) SICILIENSIS Grube 

 Eunice sicilicnsis Fauvel, 1923, p. 405 ; Monro, 1933, p. 62. 



Collection. — Station No. 9-38; 2 specimens. 



An anterior fragment with about 65 segments is 16 mm. long and 

 2.5 mm. wide. It is pale except for black eyes and dark acicula. 

 Heavy white calcareous mandibles protrude partly from the mouth. 

 Branchiae are present from the forty-seventh parapodium to the end 

 of the piece as simple filaments, exceeding the dorsal cirri in length. 

 Composite setae are pale, distally bifid. There are no simple neuro- 

 podial hooks. 



Another specimen about 25 mm. long consists of about 100 poste- 

 rior segments with anal ring, and a regenerated anterior end includ- 

 ing prostomium and about 25 anterior segments. The ability to regen- 

 erate lost anterior parts is not uncommon in this family. 



Distribution. — Cosmopolitan, in tropical and subtropical seas. 



CHAETOPTERIDAE 



MESOCHAETOPTERUS MINUTUS Potts 

 Mcsochaetoptcnts minutus Potts, 1914, p. 963; Monro, 1928, p. 92; 1933, p. 1052. 



Collection. — Station No. 9-38; many tubes, some with their 

 inhabitants. 



Numerous light, sand-covered tubes, to 50 mm. long and about 

 1 mm. wide. The sand covers a transparent chitinous tube in which 



