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This is also the case xnth Stimpsou's Pholoe tecta. It is probable that 

 Flioloe tecta * is the youug of Fholoe mimita. 

 Not common J low water; sand. 



Family NEPHTHYDIDiE. 



NEPHTHYS Guvier. 



Nephthys incisa Malmgren. 



Nephilujs incisa Mgrn. Nordiska Hafs. — Aun., p. 105, pi. xii, fig. 21. 1865. 



Nephtlujs ingens Verrill. Invert. Ann. of Vin. Snd., etc., pi. 583, pi. xii, figs. 59, 60. 



1874. 

 Nephthys incisa Verrill. Check-List. 1879. 



Common ; 12 to 20 fathoms j mud. 



Kephthys bucera Elders. 



Ehlers. Die Borstenwurmer, p. 617, pi. xxiii, fig. 8. 1868. 

 Verrill. Invert. Animals of Vin. Snd., p. 583, pi. xii, fig. 58. 1874. 



Not common ; found in sand at low water. Very fine specimens were 

 taken at Eace Run, near Provincetown. 



Family PHYLLODOCID^. 



ANAITIS Malmgren. 



Anaitis speciosa Webster. 



Annel. Cliaet. of New Jersey, p. 104, pi. i, figs. 8, 9. 1880. 



When first examined we regarded the specimens collected at Well- 

 fleet as distinct from Anaitis speciosa ; subsequent comparison of speci- 

 mens has shown that the former must be regarded as a variety of the 

 latter. As compared with specimens from New Jersey, these have the 

 head a little narrower ; the anterior emargination of the buccal seg- 

 ment, with the corresponding backward curvature of the posterior mar- 

 gin of the head, not so well marked. 



The color is variable. In front of the eighth segment the color is 

 yellowish-white ; a dark-brown band covers the eighth segment and the 

 anterior half of the ninth ; behind this band the color is yellow or 

 brownish-yellow ; the middle third of the anterior margin of each seg- 

 ment is brown, while on the posterior segments this brown band runs 

 entirely across the segment ; the branchiae for their inner two-thirds are 

 yellowish-brown, outer third white; the brown band of the eighth and 

 ninth segments includes the brauchite, and is faintly perceptible below ; 

 body and branchire with numerous flake-white specks ; head white with 

 brown specks ; or the general color may be white, green replacing the 



* Examination of many specimens at Eastport, Me., has fully established the iden- 

 tity of P. tecta -with P. minuta. 



