NOTES ON THE LITTORAL POLYCH.ETA OF TORQUAY. 201 



Trypanosyllls cceliaca, Clpd. de St. Joseph, Ann. des. Sci. Nat. 

 ZooL, 1886, p. 184. 



This species, which has not been before recorded from this side of 

 the Channel, is easily distinguished from the much larger T. zebra by 

 the short tentacles, tentacular, and dorsal cirri. They have only six to 

 ten articulations, and are all very nearly of the same length. 



In life the cirri are of a most beautiful golden colour; the anterior 

 eyes are situated on the ventral side of the head. 



In most of the feet there is only one strong pointed spine, in others 

 two. The proventriculus is very little longer than it is broad. Four 

 or five specimens only were found ; all from Oddicombe rocks. 



Eurysyllis paradoxa, Clpd. de St. Joseph, Ann. Sc. Nat. ZooL, 1886, 

 p. 191. 



Eurysyllis is easily distinguished from other Syllids by its spherical 

 cirri ; but the absence of comparatively long cirri, the sluggishness of 

 its movements, and the fact that it is usually covered with mud, probably 

 account for the fact that it has not before been recorded as British ; 

 de St. Joseph does not appear to have found it on the shore, but says 

 it was common in the dredges. The Torquay specimens agreed with 

 his description. 



Examples were obtained from Oddicombe, Corbyn's Head, and Liver- 

 mead, but none had buds. 



Autolytus ehbiensis, de St. Joseph. Ann. Sc. Nat., 1886, p. 228. 



This is a very interesting addition to the British Fauna, on accovmt 

 of the excellent example it affords of the production of buds ; de 

 St. Joseph says he never found it without a bud, and I have only found 

 two or three out of fifty or sixty examples without one. 



Chains of five or six buds are common. In February, 1907, this species 

 was found in great abundance on the Fucus, growing on the little 

 breakwater at Babbacombe. The Fucus was covered with Sertularia 

 pumila. 



Two or three examples of the variety mentioned by de St. Joseph, 

 with only twenty teeth in the proboscis, were also observed. 



Autolytus pictus, Ehlers. Mcintosh, Hon. Brit. Anncl., vol. ii., 

 p. 211. 



Kather common ; the colour is similar to that of PI. XLI., fig. 8, 

 Mon. Brit. Annel. ; but the tentacles are usually yellow instead of a 

 madder-brown colour. 



Autolytus macrophthalma, Marenzeller. de St. Joseph, Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. ZooL, 1886, p. 226. 



Two examples from Babbicombe. The teeth of the proboscis agreed 



