18 SYNONYMY OF PHERECARDIA LOBATA, 
A year later 1903, Fischli published an account of the 
»Polychiiten von Ternate”, collected by Kükenthal *); among 
them he described and figured a new species, Amphinome 
sericata, characterized by the presence of a caruncle con- 
sisting of a median axis and 8 lateral folded lamellae, 
whereas the dorsal bristle-fascicle shows the particular 
barpoon-like setae above referred to. It appears to me to 
be without doubt, that this worm must be identified with 
my Pherecardia lobata, and I cannot very well understand 
how the author could range this annelid in the genus 
Amphinome, that has a small, faintly developed caruncle and 
branchiae which only commence on the Srd or 4th segment. 
In 1907 Malaquin and Dehorne *) gave an enumeration 
of the Polychaetous Annelids from the bay of Amboina, 
collected by Bedot and Pictet, in which a new genus and 
species of Amphinomidae, Eucarunculata Grubei, is elabo- 
rately described ; it is characterized by the presence of arbo- 
rescent gills and a large heart-shaped caruncle, composed 
of a median axis and several lateral ridges, of a single 
dorsal cirrus and of only simple setae. As already announ- 
ced in the » Zoologischer Anzeiger vom 18, Mai 1909” this 
species probably is also identical with or at least closely 
allied to my Pherecardia lobata; there are some slight diffe- 
rences in the description of both species, that will be dis- 
cussed afterwards. 
In the following year this species was met with by 
Potts amidst the Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean, collected 
during the Percy Sladen Trust-expedition and also in 
Crossland’s collection from Zanzibar 3); moreover he de- 
scribed two varieties of Hucarunculata Grubei, var. gracilis 
and var. minuta, differing not only by their colour but 
also by a smaller number of folds of the caruncle and a 
shorter median antenna. 
1) Abhandl. Senckenberg. Naturf. Gesellschaft, Bd. XXV. 
2) Revue Suisse de Zoologie, vol. XV, p. 335, pls. 51—58. 
3) Transact. Linnean Society London, Zoology, (2) vol. XII, p. 365. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV. 
