4 Annelida GJuBtopoda 
and Mr. Thomas McKechnie of Newark, N". J., rendered 
valuable assistance in collecting ; digging and dredging 
with patience and even with cheerfulness which was all 
the more wonderful as they were not sustained by any deep 
affection for worms, crabs, molluscs, etc. 
Fam. POLYNOID^. 
LEPIDONOTUS (.Leach) Enbg. 
Lepidonotus squamatus Knbg. 
PL. I, PIGS. 1-5. 
Aphrodita squamata Linn. Syst. Nat., ed.Xj'p. 655. 
Polynoe squamata Sav. Syst. des Ann., p. 22. 
" " AuD. & M. Ed. Littoral de la France, ii, p. 80, pi. i, figs. 
10-16. 
'• " QuATR. Hist. Nat. des Ann., i, p. 218. 
" " Gkube. Fam. der Ann., p. 36. 
Aphrodita punctata. Zool. Danica, iii, p. 25 (non figs, of pi. 96). 
" " 0. Fab. Fauna Groenlandica, p. 311. 
Lepidonote punctata Oersted. Ann. Dan. Consp., p. 12, figs. 2, 5, 39, 41, 
47, 48.— Gron. Ann. Dors., p. 16. 
Lepidonote armadillo Leidy. Marine Invert. Faun. N. J. &R. I., Ex. Journ. 
Pliila. Acad., series ii, vol. iii, p. 16, pi. xi, f. 54. 
Lepidonotus squamatus Knbg. Eugenies Resa ; Zocilogie ii. p. 13, pi. iv, 
f. 15. 
" " JouNSTON. Cat. British Worms, p. 109, pi. viii, f . 1 , 
" " Malmgren. Nord. Hafs-Ann.,p. 56. 
" " Ann. Polycli., p. 130. 
" " Baird. Linn. Proc. Zoology, viii, p. 182. 
" " Verrill. Invert. Animals of Vineyard Sound, etc., 
in Report of U. S. Commissioner of Fish & Fish- 
eries, Part I, p. 581, pi. x, figs. 40-41. 
" " MciBius. Untersuchungder Ostsee, p. 112. 
Polynoe dasypus Quatr. Hist. Ann., i, p. 226. 
L. squamatus of the American coast seems to differ 
somewhat from the European form. Comparing f. 1, pi 
1, with Kinberg's figure (15, pi. 4, Eug. Resa), it will be 
