514 THE NATURAL HISTORY REVIEW. 



ture" promises year by year to supply tliis want ; nevertheless, it 

 would have been well had the Supplement been a more faithful 

 record, not only of the present existing British species, but also of 

 their classification and synonymy. Among the Syllideae described in 

 Johnston, of the place of which we are uncertain, is the now 

 first of all described genus, Gattiola, for an undescribed species of 

 Gosse. The diagnosis of this genus does not say a word as to the 

 presence or absence of palpi, but from the drawing we should 

 refer it as a synonym to Cirrosyllis, Schmarda. 



Joida macroplithahna, is described from a single specimen. If the 

 figure is to be trusted, we cannot agree with Ehlers in referring this 

 genus to SylliSi but we rather think it has affinities to the Sj/llis macu- 

 losa of Cuvier, and should along with the latter be placed under Isost/U is. 

 Johnston's figure, Plate xiva. fig. 5, shows that it belongs to the section 

 which have their " erstes Segment mit Borsten." The next family 

 is that of the Spiodea — of this we have the genus Nerine (2 species), 

 Spio (2 species), Leucodore (1 species). Here comes in the family 

 Chaetopterida, according to Carus' arrangement, and from a perusal 

 of the views of Dr. Baird, who describes the only native species of 

 this interesting family, we should have thought that this would have 

 been his arrangement too. But in the Appendix Ave are desired to 

 place it at the end of the Ariciea. Chaetopterus insignis, Baird, is at 

 present the only British species, but we suspect it will be found pretty 

 generally around the coasts. Of the Ariciea, we have Aonis (1 sp.). 

 [This genus, added in the Appendix, we are desired to insert after the 

 genus Cirratulus, in the family of the Cirratulida ; surely it has 

 much more affinities here] ; Ephesia (1 sp.); Sphwi^odorum (1 sp.); 

 this genus we believe to be identical with the previous one, but we 

 are unable to say which name has the priority. Rathke's was pub- 

 lished the same year as Oersted's (18-13), but the month of publication 

 of No. XX. of the " Nova Acta Academiae Ctesareae Leopoldino-Caro- 

 lin£e Naturae Curiosorum," is unknown to us. 



The family Cirratulida has as native genera, Cirraiulus (2 sp.), 

 and Dodecacerasa (1 sp.) : Opheliacea has OpJielina, with one species,' 

 O. acuminata. [The synonym of this is given as Ammotnjpane 

 auloffastra, Rathke ; but A. aidogastra, Batlike, is Ophelia aulotjaster 

 of Grube, a very difi'erent thing from Oplielina acuminata. Very pro- 

 bably there may be among the specitnens marked «, 6, c, in the British 

 Museum, specimens of the former ; otherwise it is not as yet recorded 

 as native ] yi^;/;«o/ry/;a;ie (1 sp.) ; T/avisia {1 sp.) : Areuicolida has 

 Bumenia (1 sp.), Arenicola (3 sp.). 



