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APHRODITACE^. 



8. L. imbricatus, scales eighteen pairs. Length J". 



Aphrodita irabricata, Linn. Syst. 1084. 



Flache Aphrodite, Miill. Wurm-Arten, 181. tab. 14. 



Aphrodita cirrata. Mull. Zool. Dan. Prod. 218. 



Aphrodita viridis, Montagu in Linn. Trans, xi. 18. tab. 4. f. 1 ; Ann. 



Nat. Hist. ii. 437. 

 Polynoe foHosa, Savign. Syst. Annel. 23. Aud. ^ M.-Edw. Litt. de 



la France, ii. 89. 



Hab. South coast of Devonshire, Montagu. Sir J. G. Dalyell had 

 seen a specimen from the Scottish coast, " with at least eighteen 

 pair of scales," Paw. Great, ii. 166. 



Desc. "Body long, greenish, with about thirty-six fasciculi on 

 each side, and covered with eighteen pairs of squamae, which appear 

 a little speckled by reason of their being somewhat rugose : the 

 fascicles are much divaricated, and between each scale is a fleshy 

 filiform appendage, terminated by an extremely fine fibre : tentacula 

 four, setaceous ; eyes four, small and black." — Montagu. 



The following have been indicated as British species, but from the 

 imperfect notices given, they can neither be defined, nor identified 

 with foreign species that bear the same names : — 



Aphrodita squamata. 



Under this name Sir J. G. Dalyell has figured a specimen (Pow. 

 Great, ii. 166. pi. 24. f. 3), about 2|", and nearly 1" in breadth, 

 which had "about thirteen pairs of scales." In the figure fifteen 

 are represented, and the species is probably Lepidonotus scaber = 

 Aph. scabra, O. Fabricius. 



Aphrodita lepidota. 



Aphrodita lepidota, Pallas, Misc. Zool. 94, tab. 7- f. 15 a, b, & tab. 8. 

 f. 1, 2. Stew. Elem. i. 388. 



" Certe in mari inter Angliam et Belgium satis copiose occurrit 

 heec species et ex fascia plerumque longitudinali nigra facile adgnos- 

 citur," Pallas, who says it has fourteen pairs of scales. Notwith- 

 standing this assertion, I believe, as I concluded long ago, that A. 

 lepidota is a mere variety of Lepidonotus cirratus deprived of a pair 

 of scales. 



Aphrodita minuta. 



Aphrodita minuta, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 87- tab. 26. f . 4 = Aphrodita 

 lepidota, Turt. Brit. Faun. 136. 



Aphrodita annulata. 



Aphrodita annulata, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 87. tab. 26. f. 3. Stew. 

 Elem. i. 388. Turt. Brit. Faun. 136. 



