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NEMATONEREIS, species undetermined, (p. 508.) 



A species, apparently belonging to this genus, was dredged in 29 

 fathoms, east of Block Island. The specimens have been lost or mis 

 laid. In life the head was small, rounded, with one median dorsal 

 antenna, about as long as the diameter of the head. Eyes two, small 

 but conspicuous, dark brown. Dorsal cirri slender. 



LlTMBRICONEREIS FRAGILTS (Ersted. (p. 507.) 



Conspec. Ann. Dan., p. 15, figs. 1, 2, 1843 (t. Malmgren). Luminous fragilis 

 Miiller, Prod. Zool. Dan., p. 216; Zool. Dan., vol. i, p. 22, PL 22, figs. 1-3, 1788, 

 (t. Malmgren). Lumlrinereis fragilis Malmgren, Annulata polychaita, p. 63 3 

 PI. 14, figs. 83-83, D. 



Mouth of Vineyard Sound and deeper waters outside; northward to 

 Nova Scotia and Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Northern coasts of Europe. 

 From low-water mark, in the Bay of Ftindy, to 430 fathoms, off Saint 

 George s Bank. 



LUMBRICONEREIS OPALINA Verrill, sp. nov. Plate XIII, figs. 69, 70. (p. 



342.) 



Lumlriconereis splcndida Leidy., op. cit., p. 15 (non Blainville). 



Body cylindrical, much elongated, largest in the middle, tapering 

 gradually toward the head, which is comparatively small; segments 

 well, marked. Head conoidal, obtuse, changing much in form during 

 life; in extension considerably longer than broad, and more acute than 

 in the figure. Eyes four, in a transverse row, the two middle ones 

 larger and a little in advance of the others. The lateral appendages, or 

 &quot;feet,&quot; consist of a short, obtusely-rounded basal papilla, which bears 

 the setas ; from the posterior and ventral end of this a prominent elon 

 gated lobe arises, which is some whot curved and obtuse. These appen 

 dages are longer in the middle of the body than anteriorly. Seta3 five to 

 nine in each fascicle, and of several forms ; one or two in each fascicle 

 usually have a long, slender, flexible capillar} T point, Color reddish or 

 brownish, with brilliant iridescence. 



Length up to 400 mm ; diameter in middle, 3 mm . 



New Haven to Vineyard Sound; low- water mark to 14 fathoms. 



LUMBRICONEREIS TENTHS Verrill, sp. nov. (p. 342.) 



Body very long, slender, filiform, of nearly uniform diameter through 

 out, capable of great extension ; segments very numerous, well marked. 

 Head a little narrower than buccal segment, depressed, obtusely pointed 

 or rounded in front, without eyes. In the first to ninth pairs the late 

 ral appendages have about six slender lanceolate seta?; those of the ninth 

 pair have two slender spatulate setae, with about six or seven lanceolate 

 ones ; at the sixteenth pair they begin to have recurved spatulate setae, 

 with two or three hook-like denticles at the end, while two or three 

 lanceolate ones remain; posterior to the twenty-third or twenty-fourth 

 pair only one of the long, slender, acute setre remains, accompanied by 



