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LEODICID^ OF THE WEST INDIAN REGION. 



striated hood. The apex of the acicula is colorless, but for most of its length it is a dark- 

 brown color. 



The jaw apparatus is dark. The maxilla (text-figure 75) has short carriers with 

 long forceps, the whole being much darker than the plates. The proximal paired plate 



Text-figures 66 to 76. Leodice mutilata Webster. 



66. First parapodium x30. 70. Simple seta x230. 74. Acicula x370. 



67. Tenth parapodium x21. 71. Detail of simple seta X 390. 75. Maxilla x21. 



68. Seventieth parapodium x21. 72. Compound seta x370. 76. Mandible x21. 



69. Twentieth parapodium in 73. Pectinate seta x370. 



front of pygidium x21. 



Text-figures 77 to 84. Leodice jloridana Pourtales. 



77. Middle parapodium x20. 80. Compound seta x250. 83. Ventral acicula xl40. 



78. Simple .seta x60. 81. Pectinate seta x340. 84. Pygidium with anal cirrus xlO. 



79. Detail of simple seta x666. 82. Dorsal acicula x 140. 



