LEODICID^ OF THE WEST INDIAN REGION. 



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them for the outer two-thirds of their course. The shaft of the mandible is marked 

 toward its posterior end by brown concentric lines much more easily seen on the dorsal 

 than on the ventral surface. 



My specimens of L. nasuta were taken from Tuckerstown Bay and Boat Bay, Ber- 

 muda, while Verrill's were from Flatts Inlet, thus not far removed from the former of 

 my two localities. / 



Lumbrinereis maculata Treadwell. 



(Plate 8, figure 10; text-figures 378 to 385.) 



Lumbriconereis maeulata Treadwell, 1901, p. 198, figures 42-44. 



The anterior end of the Uving animal (plate 8, figure 10) shows the general colora- 

 tion characteristic of this genus, and the prostomium is characterized by three pigment 

 patches, rather indefinite areas of pigment, one in the median fine and one on either 

 side, the lateral ones being the larger. These pigment spots persist in alcohol. 



The prostomium is a blunt sugar-loaf form (plate 8, figure 10), the first two somites 

 approximately equal in length and without parapodia. This relative length of the two 



Text-figures 378 to 385. 

 Lumbrinereis maeulata Treadwell. 



378. First parapodium x34. 



379. Tenth parapodium x34. 



380. Posterior parapodium x34. 



381. Anterior seta xl94. 



382. Simple seta xl94. 



383. Seta from posterior end xl94. 



384. Maxilla x22. 



385. Mandible x22. 



