230 DB. bated' S CONTEIBUTIONS TOWARDS A 



Chloeia, Savigny, Cuvier, Blainville, Lamarck, A^idoidn ^- M.- Edwards, 



Risso, Grube, Cams, Van der Hoeven, Ehlers, Schmarda, Quatre- 



fages, Kinberg. 



Body oval in shape, with the segments oval ; antennae and 



palpi rising from the first segment ; caruncle elongate ; branchice 



hipinnate, placed at some distance from the apex of the feet ; cirrus 



of dorsal foot single ; setce of dorsal feet serrate ; setce of ventral 



feet bifid ; anal appendages double. Eyes, as in Amphinome, 4 *. 



Sp. 1. Chloeia flava. 



Aphrodita flava, Pallas, Miscell. Zoolog. 97, tab. viii. f. 7-11. 

 Terebella flava, Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. part 6. p. 31 14 ; IKnisen- 



stern. Atlas, tab. 88. f. 14-16. 

 Amphinome oapillata, Bruguiere, Encyc. Method, art. Amphinome, 

 Atlas, tab. Ix. f. 1-5 (copied from Pallas) ; Cuvier, Regn. Anim. 

 iii. 198. 

 Chloeia oapillata, Savigny, Syst. des AnnSlides, p. 58 ; Lamarck An. s. 

 Vert. 1st edit. v. 329, 2nd edit. v. 5/0; Audouin^ M.-Edwards, Lit- 

 toral de la France, ii. 120, tab. iie. f. 11-12; M.-Edwards, Cuv. R. 

 An. ed. Croch. tab. ix. f. 1 ; Fan der Hoeven, Handbuch der Zoologie, 

 i. 231 ; Cams, Handbuch der Zoologie, ii. 435. 

 Amphinome flava, Cuvier, Diet. Sc. Nat. art. Vers ; Blainville, Atlas, 



Diet. Sc. Nat. tab. vii. figs. l-L^-lc. 

 Chloeia flava, Blainville, Diet. Sc. Nat. art. Vers ; Grube, Famil. der 

 Annelid, p. 40 ; IQuatrefages, Hist. Nat. des AnneUs, i. 386 ; Kin- 

 berg, Fregatt. Eugen. Resa, Zoning. Annulat. tab. xi. f. 1b-1x. 

 Chloeia incerta, Quatrefages, Hist. Nat. Anneles, i. 398. no. 2, 

 Hah. Chinese and Indian Seas {Mus. Brit.) ; Australia {Mus. 

 Brit.). 



The Chloeia incerta of Quatrefages belongs undoubtedly to 

 this species, the only reason for asserting the Chloeia flava of 

 Pallas is not the Chloeia capillata of M.-Edwards being the dif- 

 ference of the setse of the feet. "We possess, in the collection of 

 the British Museum, nine specimens of what appears to me to be 

 the true Chloeia flava of Pallas, the setse of the feet of which all 



* Savigny, who established the genus Chloeia, distinctly asserts that the 

 species have only tivo eyes. In tliis he has been followed, apparently witliout 

 examination, by Lamarck, Audouin and M.-Edwards, Eisso, Grube, Van der 

 Hoeven, tSchraarda, and Quatrefages. Pallas, Gmelin, Cuvier, and Car us do not 

 notice the number, but Kinberg has recognized the fact that they are endowed 

 with/o?/r. This I have also ascertained to be the case in Chloeia flava, tiimida, 

 pulchella, parva, and specfabilis. Kinberg lias distinctly figured four eyes in C. 

 flava and cavdida ; and I have little doubt four is the normal number of eyes 

 in this genus. 



