ANNELIDES. 
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Genus 10. — PHYLLODOCE.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character. —Proboscis claviform and thick, having a 
row of small tentacula at the orifice ; no jaws ; antennae short, 
without an odd one; cirri consisting of eight pairs, subulate and 
unequal, or compressed and varied, and not retractile. 
Genus 11.—HESIONE.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character. —Proboscis having two segments, thick 
and subconic; with a circular orifice and destitute of tentacula ; 
no jaws; antennae equal ; tentacular cirri consisting of eight 
pairs, which are long, filiform, and retractile. 
Genus 12.—GLYCERA.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character .—With an oblong, cylindrical, subclaviform 
proboscis, without tentacula at the orifice; no jaws ; middle 
and exterior antennae very small, divergent, and double jointed; 
no cirri. 
Genus 13.—NEPHTYS.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character. —With proboscis narrowed at the base, and 
consisting of two segments; the lower one long, club-shaped, 
and rough at its summit, with small pointed tentacula; the up¬ 
per ones very short, longitudinally open, and the orifices of the 
tentacula in double rows; jaws small, horny, bent, and pointed; 
antennae small, with two joints and no odd one ; eyes indistinct. 
Genus 14.—LYCORIS.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character. —With a thick proboscis divided at the 
base into two joints, with hard protruding points ; orifice desti¬ 
tute of tentacula; two horny projecting jaws ; exterior antennae 
largest and thickest, and no odd one; tentacular cirri in place of 
the first two pairs of pediform papillae. 
TRIBE IV.-AFHRODITiE. 
The upper branchiae and cirri alternating in their position to 
the twenty-third or twenty-fifth pair of pediform papillae; four 
jaws. 
Genus 15. — POL YN (E.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character. —Tentacula simple, conical, surmounting 
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