NOTES ON THE LITTORAL POLYCH^TA OF TORQUAY. o49 



in a whelk shell containing the decaying remains of a hermit 

 crab. 



The Torquay species agree well with the beautiful coloured drawing 

 given in the Mon. Brit. Ann. 



One specimen was found in a limestone pool which differed consider- 

 ably from the type : the general colour much greener, the dorsal cirri 

 larger in proportion and without spots, the distance between the feet 

 greater. The number of the rows of papillae on the proboscis could not 

 be observed. Possibly this is the Phyllodoce maculata of (Ersted. 



Phyllodoce lamelligera, Gmelin. Mcintosh, Mon. Brit. Ann., 

 vol. ii., p. 76. 



One light-coloured individual under a stone at Hope's Nose, and 

 another of the normal colouring at Meadfoot. 



Papillte of the proboscis could not be observed. 



Phyllodoce Paretti, De Blainville. Mcintosh, Mon. Brit. Ann., 

 vol. ii., p. 76. 



The head and about twenty segments of one from Corbyn's Head. The 

 specimen, mounted in weak Formalin solution, retained its beautiful 

 colouring for some weeks, then changed gradually to a reddish brown. 



Gosse, in The Aquarium, second edition, p. 243, describes an example 

 of this species from Torbay. 



Eteone picta, De Quatrefages. Mcintosh, Mon. Brit. Ann., p. 100. 



Small ones, about 25 mm. in length, are not uncommon amongst 

 Laminaria roots. The pattern of the colouring agrees with that 

 described by Mcintosh, but the anal cirri are quite differently shaped 

 to those in PI. xlv. Fig. 3, of the Monograph, being ovate, exactly like 

 those figured by Gravier, Bull. Sc. Fr. Belg., PI. xvi. Fig. 14. 



NoTOPHYLLUM FOLIOSUM, Sars = alatuTii, Langerhans. Mcintosh, Mon. 

 Brit. Ann. 



One from Livermead. The dorsal cirri appear to be much more 

 deciduous than the ventral. Colouring like that described by Mcintosh 

 for specimens kept some time in confinement, namely, brownish green 

 without the red iridescence. 



Nepthydidse. 



Nepthys Hombergii, Lamark. Mcintosh, Mon. Brit. Ann., p. 17. 

 Moderate-sized examples of this species, about 90 mm. in length, are 

 common in the sand at Tor Abbey Sands and Livermead. They were 



