20 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL.98 



SABELLIDAE 



SABELLASTARTE INDICA (Savigny) 

 Sabellastarte indica Augener, 1914, p. 115; Monro, 193.3b, p. 1079. 



Collection. — Station No. 30-38; 1 specimen in tube. 



Length, removed from tube, is J3 mm., of which the tentacles com- 

 prise ^ mm., and the abdomen 35 mm. Color in alcohol is brownish 

 red. 



Distribution. — Cosmopolitan, in warmer seas. 



METACHONE MOLLIS Bush 



Figs. 3, m-o 

 Metachonc mollis Bush, 1904, p. 216. 



Collection. — Station Nos. 3-38, 5-38 ; 8 specimens. 



Length to 25 mm. without branchial crown, width to 5 mm. ; num- 

 ber of segments to 44, including 8 thoracic setigerous segments and 

 24-36 abdominal segments. The branchial crowns are lost from the 

 larger specimens. On the smaller (9 mm. long) individuals there are 

 6 pairs of filaments, the branchial web extends distally to within one- 

 third or one-fourth of the ends of the filaments. 



Thoracic spatulate setae have an inconspicuous mucron (fig. 3, m), 

 obsolete in some. The thoracic uncini have a stout proximal fang and 

 about 3 smaller teeth (fig. 3, ;/). Abdominal uncini have teeth re- 

 sembling those of the thoracic uncinigers but are not stalked (fig. 

 3, 0). The collar is entire, straight, the lobes not prolonged. 



Distribution. — California, south to Lower California, Mexico. 



LITERATURE CITED 



Augener, Hermann 



1913. Polychaeta Errantia. Die Fauna Siidwest Australiens, Band 4, pp. 



65-304, 42 figs., 2 pis. 



1914. Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. Die Fauna Siidwest Australiens, Band 5, 



pp. 1-170, 19 figs. 1 pi. 



1918. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas. Polychaeta, 

 pp. 67-625, in figs. 6 pis. 



1922. Tiber litorale Polychaeten von Westindien. Sitz. Ges. Naturf. Ber- 

 lin, 1922, pp. 38-53- 



1925. tjber westindische und einige andere Polychaeten-Typen von Grube 

 (Orsted) Kroyer, Morch und Schmarda. Publ. Univ. Zool. Mus., 

 Copenhagen, no. 39, 47 pp., 2 figs. 



1933. The Norwegian zoological expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925, 

 conducted by Alf Wollebaek. VI. Polychaeten von den Galapagos- 

 Inseln. Medd. Zool. Mus., Oslo, nr. 32, pp. 55-66, 1 fig. 



