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of the feet ; and these markings correspond with the arrangement of 

 the tubercles which roughen this surface. The number of segments 

 is liable to vary. Audouin and Edwards say that there are 82 of 

 them. In one specimen we found them to be about 80 ; but that 

 which served for our figure, and which was twice the length of the 

 other, had not less than 110. 

 (a) Falmouth. 



Plate IV. Fig. 1. Polynoe scolopendrina of the natural size. 2. The 

 head with its appendages, highly magnified; the front scales have 

 been removed. 3. The proboscis laid open. 4. Section of a seg- 

 ment, showing the squamous feet ; the scales have been raised and 

 reverted. 5. A scale. 6. One of the cirrigerous feet. 7- A bristle 

 of the dorsal brush. 8. The upper bristle of the ventral brush. 9. 

 One of its under bristles. 



4. PHOLOE*. 



Pholoe, Johnston in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 428. Oersted in Kroyer, 

 Naturh. Tids. Ill (1842); Annul. Dan. Consp. 14. Grube, Fam. 

 Annel. 38. 



Char. Body linear-oblong, the scales placed over every alternate 

 foot ; cirri none or rudimentary ; proboscis with four corneous jaws, 

 the orifice plain ; antennae five, unequal, distinct ; palpi two, large : 

 eyes two or 4 : branches of the foot connate, the bristles of the 

 superior capillary, of the inferior falcate. 



I . Ph. inomata, scales covering the back partially, fourteen pairs, 

 roundish or oval, smooth, spinous on the outer edge ; eyes two. 

 Length 6'" ; breadth 1'". Plate V. figs. 1-5. 



Palmyra ocellata, Johnston in Zool. Journ. iii. 329. 



Pholoe inomata, Johnston in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 437. pi. 23. f. 1-5. 



Hah. The littoral region. Amongst Confervae between tide-marks. 

 Berwick Bay, rare. 



Desc. Worm half an inch in length, scarcely a line in breadth, 

 almost linear, but a little narrowed behind, rounded at the extre- 

 mities, flattened, of a yellowish-brown colour, dusky along the sides, 

 and marked there with a series of paler round spots indicating the 

 point of fixture of the scales. Head small and obscurely defined, 

 corneous. Eyes two, very distinct, black, placed backwards. Palpi 

 long, conical, smooth, jointed at the base, pointing forwards. An- 

 tennae five, the outer pair larger than the three intermediate, and 

 fringed on the inner sides with a few fleshy spines ; the odd antenna 



* A Nereid : 



" As Pholoe, most that rules the monsters of the main." 



Drayton, Polyolbion, Song xx. 



