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imen being forty inches in length, with the terminal part of the 
caudal end missing. The color in life is a rather bright reddish 
brown which has not been changed greatly in preservative. The 
gills are rather profusely branched on one side, there being twenty 
branches on a single gill in some cases, and they are conspicuous 
organs borne on the parapodia. The sete are in tufts. The nuchal 
cirri, characteristic of the family Leodicide, are present. The 
sete are not so large or numerous as in the ‘‘sea scorpions’’ of 
Bardados. 
Another very slender, dark brown specimen appears to belong 
to the Leodicide. It is darker than the one previously described 
and much more attenuate. 
The Phyllodacide are represented by a form having exceedingly 
conspicuous bunches of setw. The body is greatly flattened and the 
sides appear as if covered with cotton wool along their entire 
length, so numerous are the glassy spicules so compacted together 
that the parapodia proper are not visible, nor are the segments 
when viewed from the side. The head bears the caruncle, peculiar 
to this family, apparently lamellate in structure, and the para- 
podia bear gills. The sete are much like those last described, 
many of them being distinctly serrate on one side of the distal 
part, while others are exceedingly fine and smooth. 
The tube dwelling forms are represented by several species. One 
seems to belong to the family Sabellide which we found so abun- 
dant on the sea-wall at the dockyard in Antigua. The tubes feel 
rather soft like a sponge. The gills are brown and borne on a 
double horse-shoe shaped lophophore. Each gill seems to have a 
double series of filaments along most of its length and these fila- 
ments are relatively longer and more slender than those in the 
Antigua species, although the entire worm is much smaller. 
Some fragmentary specimens seem to belong to the Terebellide. 
They construct tubes of bits of shell, stone fragments, ete. which 
look like very crude and badly made mosaic work. 
One of the most surprising forms seems to be a nemertine. It 
is one of the most conspicuously colored worms I have ever seen. 
When fresh it was nearly a yard long and was pure white in color 
with a very conspicuous broad longitudinal dorsal stripe of dark, 
bright, reddish brown. No coloration could be more striking than 
11 Mullin. Report on some Polychetous Annelids collected by the Barbados- 
Antigua Expedition in 1918. 
