638 A. E. Verrill — Turhellaria^ Nemertina, and 



The ventral fascicles, on the anterior 3 segments, have 4 or 5 com- 

 pound setae, with strongly curved blades, 4 or 5 times as long as 

 wide, with a strongly incurved bidentate tip. The upper fascicle 

 contains a few small capillary setae. On the 4th segment there are 

 one or two shorter compound seta? with smaller blades, and a few 

 acute capillary setae with the shaft thickened and bent distally, and 

 a group of longer and more slender ones in the upper fascicle. 

 Uncinate setae with the tips bidentate and limbate commence on the 

 11th segment, where there is oiAj one, but they increase to 2 or 3 

 farther back, and then decrease to 1 posteriorly. All the setae are 

 larger and longer on segments 6 to 12; thei*e ai-e also 2 or 3 com- 

 pound setae with acute capillary blades on segments 8 to 10. 



Color, in formalin, greenish white, with paler, fine, sutural lines 

 and a darker dorsal stripe ; an obscure darker spot at the base of 

 each of the parapodia. 



Length of the longer imperfect specimen, W'^''^^ ; diameter, 6""^. 



Flatts Inlet beach, in shell-sand, at low tide ; 2 specimens. 



Leodice or Eunice. 



Eunice Cuvier, ISll, ijars, — Leodice Savig., 1820, emend. Malmgren. 



The Bermuda species belong to the genus Leodice, as restricted 

 by Malmgren, who restricted Eunice to the type of E. gigantea. 

 The name Eunice was in prior use by Hubner for a genus of insects, 

 in 1816, and its use may have to be abandoned for the annelids. 



At least 21 nominal species of Eunice have been described from 

 the West Indies, Florida, and Bermuda; 3 by Schmarda, 1861; 1 

 by Baird, 1 870 ; 4 by (Ersted and Grube, 1879; 2 by Pourtales; 4 by 

 Webster, 1884; 2 by Mcintosh, 1885; 5 by Ehlers,'l887. Ehlers* 

 has also redescribed and admirably figured several of the species 

 previously described by CErsted and Grube and by Pourtales. 



In consequence of the three later works appearing so nearly 

 together, several of the species have received two or three names. 

 The diflSculty of identification is, in some cases, much increased by 

 the fact that several of the species wliich actually grow to large size, 

 have been described from very small and immature specimens, only 

 one or two inches long, and in some cases even these wei'e mere 

 fragments of a single individual, so that no account could be taken 

 of individual variations or of diffei'ences due to age. 



* Memoirs Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. viii, 1887. In this work nine species are 

 included ; eight species are very fully described and figured. 



