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G. Sthenelais fuligikosa capensis. 



I can find no distinctive character in wliat I take to be the Cape representative 

 of the Mcditei-ranoan Sthenelais fidiginosa, Claparede *. 



The length is 28 mm., width (including setae) ^ mm., width of ventral surface without 

 l^arapodia 1'5 mm. Segments between 70 and 80 in number. 



Localitij. One specimen found amongst roots of sea-bamboo (arborescent Fuciis) off 

 Woodstock beach, Table Bay, in 8-10 feet of water. 



7. EuLALiA CAPENSIS, Schmarda. 



Eulrilia capensis, Schmarda, 1861, Neue wirbellose Thiere, ii. p. 86 ; Mcintosh, 1885, 'Challenger ' 

 Polychaeta, Reports, vol. xii. part 34, p. 168; Marenzeller, op. cit. 1888, p. 5. 



Tentaculum impar between, and slightly in advance of, the large eyes, longer than the 

 frontal antennee. Cirri tentacnlares 8, arranged in the following manner on the first 

 three segments : — I ,-' II ~, Til . . '^ ^ , . Proboscis crowned with 17-19 marginal 



o (J' 2' cirri Teutrales ^ 



papillae and densely beset with papillae over the surface, except in its posterior portion. 

 Length 8 mm., width 3"5 mm. over all ; length of papillose portion of proboscis 

 15 mm. 



As indicated in the formula for the tentacular cirri, the third segment carries 

 the fourth tentacular cirrus above and a cirrus ventralis foliuceus below, on each 

 side. 



Locality. Ten specimens from a depth of 8-10 feet off Woodstock beach, Table Bay. 



Colour during life, greeu. 



8. Phtllodoce sp. 



In the absence of information concerning the structure of the proboscis, I refrain 

 from giving a definite name to three specimens of Fhiillodoce dredged at a depth of 

 10 feet in Table Bay on a mud bottom. Like Eiilalia capensis, the colour in the 

 fresh condition was green. There are upwards of 172 segments ; length 40*5 mm. ; 

 width without seta3 1*5 mm., with setae 2 mm. Tlic specimens had all lost the 

 proboscis. 



The head is rotund, not longer than broad, sometimes narrower in front ; its posterior 

 margin, near which the eyes are placed, is entire. 



The tentacular cirri are disposed as in Carohia-\; they are short and stout, their 

 length not exceeding the width of the body. 



The character of the proboscis is absolutely essential to the definition of species of 

 Phi/llodoce and its subgenera Afiaitis and Carobia. 



* Cf. MarenzeUer, " Zur Kenntniss der adriatischen Anneliden," SB. Ak. Wien, i. Abth. Bd. Isix. 1874, 

 p. 421. 



t Cf. Maren/.cller, op. cit. (Adriat. Annel.) 1S74, p. 42G ; aud same author, 1879, " Siidjapanieche Aunel.," 

 Denkschr. Ak. Wien, xli. (2nd Abth.) p. 127. 



