Annelida of the Bermudas. 59*7 



Taeniosoma curtum (Hiibreclit) Coe. 



Polia curta Hiibrecht, Genera of European Nemerteans critically revised, 

 Notes Leyden Museum, 1879. 



EupoUa marmorata Burger, Unters. ueber Auat. u. Histol. der Nemertinen, 

 Zeitschr. wiss. Zool., vol. 1, 1890. 



EupoUa curta Joubin, Les Nemertiens, Faune Frangaise, Paris, 1894. Bur- 

 ger, Nemertinen, Faima und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, Monogr. 22, 

 1895. 



Plate LXX. Figure 3. 



"The specimens obtained in Bermuda belong to the more slender 

 variety of the species, and show numerous sharply-marked, but inter- 

 rupted, longitudinal lines. Both in their ex- 

 ternal appearance and internal organization 

 these specimens exhibit a close resemblance 

 to Tceniosoma delineatum {■= Polia delineata 

 Delle Chiaje,* = EupoUa delineata Hub- 

 rechtf), and in many respects are intermed- 

 iate between the two species. The Bermu- 

 dian form agrees in detail with the specimen 

 collected at Mauritius and drawn by Moebius.J 

 The species has a wide range of distribution. 

 It is common in tbe Mediterranean, and has Figure 10. -rcemoso?Ha cur- 

 been recorded, also, from Mauritius, Chili, ^^."»' «. dorsaj; &, ventral 

 ___ ' ' ... views or the head, x 4. 



Samoa, Fiji Islands, and other localities in 



the tropical and subtropical seas of both hemispheres. 



T. delineatum has an even greater range of distribution than has 

 T. curtum, and is commonly found associated with it. From my 

 experience with Naples forms I am somewhat doubtful whether 

 this is specificall}^ distinct from Taeniosoma curtum.''^^ 



When fully extended in life our larger specimens were 250 to 

 300™" long ; they were quite slender and flattened, about 2 to 3™™ 

 broad, but changeable ; the head is usually a little broader than the 

 body, and subacute. In contraction the body is nearly round. 

 General tint, to the naked eye, is light smoky brown, yellowish 

 brown, or chocolate-brown, due to numerous narrow alternating 



* Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di 

 Napoli, Naples, 1828-28. 



f Voyage of the Challenger, Nemertea, Zool., vol. xix, 1887. 



:j: Burger, Beitr. zur Anat., etc., der Nemertinen, Zeits. wiss. Zool., Ixi, 1895. 



§ The generic name Taeniosoma Stimpsou, 1854, Proc. Philad. Acad. Sci., ix, 

 has evident priority over all other names proposed for this genus. 



