THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[THIRD SERIES.] 
Oe neon eecenencecen per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circim vitreos considite fontes : 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores : 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas ; 
Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 
Ferte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.” 
N. Parthenii Giannettasii Ecl.1. 
No. 103. JULY 1866. 
I.—Description of a new Species of Marine Worm (Phenacia 
pulchella). By Epwarp Parrirt. 
[Plate I.] 
To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 
GENTLEMEN, 
I beg to introduce to your notice a very beautiful new species 
of marine worm; it was cast up at my feet by the waves at 
Exmouth, January 6th, during a heavy gale. I forwarded a 
rough sketch of it to my friend Dr. Baird, of the British Museum, 
who informed me it was new to him, and that he could find no 
description of it. In M. de Quatrefages’s “ Classification of the 
Annelides,” published in the ‘Annals’ for January last, p. 22, 
he has separated the genus Sabellidis, and raised those species 
with simple buccal cirri to the rank of a new genus, Phenacia; 
and it is to this genus that the present species belongs: it will 
therefore stand thus :— 
Family XXV. Terebellea. 
Genus Puenacta, Quatrefages. 
Phenacia pulchella, mihi. 
Body composed of about forty annulations, the anterior com- 
pressed and rugose, short, but gradually growing longer 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xviii. 1 
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