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AMPHARETID^. 



MELINNA Malmgren. 



Melinna cristata Malmgren. 



Sabella cristata Sars. Fauua littoralis Norvegife, vol. ii, p. 19, pi. ii, fig3. 1-7. 1856. 

 Melinna cristata Malmgren. Nordiska Ilafs-Annulater, p. 371, pi. xx, fig. 50. 1866. 

 Ann. Polycli., p. 215. 1867. 

 Vekuill. Op. cit., p. 613. 1874. 

 Phenacia cristata QVATREF AGES. Hist. Nat. des Ann., vol. ii, p. 377. 1865. 

 Single much injured specimen. Dredged ; 25 fathoms. 



Family TEREBELLID^. 



AMPniTRITE (Muller) Malmgren. 



Amphitrite ornata Verrill 



Terehella ornata Leidy. — Marine Invert. Fauna of R. I. and N. J., p. 14, pi. li, figs. 



44,45. 1855. 

 Amphitrite ornata Verrill. — Invert. An. of Vineyard Sound, etc., p. 613, pi. xvi, fig. 



82. 1874. 

 Amphitrite ornata Webster.— Annel. Cliaet. of tlie Virginian Coast, p. 262. 1879. Annel. 



Chaet. of N. J., p. 127. 1880. 



This species was very rare at Provincetown, but we found it in great 

 numbers at Wellfleet, in coarse sand and mud, very near high water 

 mark. 



Amphitrite brunnea Verrill. 



Terebella hrunnea Stimpson.— Marine Invert, of Grand Manan, p. 31. 1854. 

 Amphitrite Johnstoni Malmgren. — Nord. Hafs-Annulater, p. 377, pi. xxi, fig. 51. 



1805. Annulata Polychasta, p. 216. 1867. 

 Amphitrite brunnea Verrill.— Check-list. 



Professor Verrill regards A. Johnstoni IMalmgren as a synonym of 

 T. hrunnea Stimpson. Stimpson's description, however, is very im- 

 perfect. We found two specimens which agree in most particulars, 

 though not in all, with Malmgreu's figures of A. Johnstoni. They have 

 twenty-four segments with capillary set?e. A very fine large species, 

 dredged in deep water by the Fish Commission, and regarded at first 

 by Professor Verrill as A. brnnnea, has twenty-five segments with capil- 

 lary setse. Our specimens of A. hrunnea were found under stones, at 

 low-water. 



NICOLEA Malmgren. 



NiCOLEA VIRIDIS n. Sp. 



(PL. VI, Figs. 73,74.) 



The frontal membrane is very large ; the tentacles numerous and 

 long, some of them as long as the body. 



