126 AMPHINOMENACEJE. 



Fam. II. AMPHINOMENACE^. 



Les Amphinomes, Cuv. Regn. Anim. iii. 198. 



Amphinomea, Blainv. in Diet, des Sc. nat. Ivii. 449. Gruhe, Fam. 

 Annel. 39. 



Amphinom^.a, Latr. Fam. Nat. 241. 



Amphinom^, Savigny, Syst. Annel. 14 & 57. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. 

 V. 327. Stark, Elem. ii. 135. 



Amphinomiens, And. ^ M.-Edw. Litt. de la France, ii. 113. 



EuPHROSiNiD^, Williams, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1851, 174. 

 Char. Body oval, elongated, or even vermiform : head concealed, 

 wedged in the post- occipital segment : eyes two or four : antennae 

 variable in number, the mesial one always present, inserted in front 

 of a caruncle, with a base extended backwards to the third or fourth 

 segment : mouth ventral ; the proboscis without jaws or papillae : 

 segments similar, the feet biramous, with or without dorsal and ven- 

 tral cirri : branchiae large, in the form of arbuscles, tufts or crests, 

 attached above or behind the dorsal branch of the feet, sometimes 

 wanting on a few of the front pairs : bristles in a single fascicle to 

 each branch, and without spines ; the bristles simple. 



6. EUPHROSYNE*. 



Euphrosyne, Savig. Syst. Annel. 63. Aud. 8f M.-Edw. Litt. de la 



France, ii. 124. Grube, Fam. Annel. 41. 

 Euphrosine, Cuv. Regn. Anim. iii. 199. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. v. 331. 



Stark, Elem. ii. 136. Blainv. in Diet. eit. Ivii. 452. 

 ? Spinther, Johnston in Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. 8. 



Char. Body oval, depressed, of comparatively few segments : 

 head small and narrow, retroflexed, with a caruncle and a single 

 antenna in front : branches of the feet wide asunder, and with an 

 additional cirrus near the middle of the interspace : branchiae 

 branched or arbuscular, placed behind the feet, and reaching in a 

 line from one ramus to the other : anal styles small, globose : bristles 

 slender, unequally forked at the end. 



1 . E. foliosa, the caruncle erect, linear ; branchiae of eight divisions 

 not longer than the bristles, and enlarged and oval at their termi- 

 nations. Length 1". 



Euphrosina foliosa, Aud. Sf M.-Edw. Litt. de la France, ii. 126. pi. 9. 

 f. 1-4. W. Thompson in Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. iii. 355. 

 Gosse in ibid. xii. 384. 



* One of the Graces. The name is famiUar to the English reader : 

 ** But come, thou goddess fair and free, 

 In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne." 



Milton. 



