PHYLLODOCE. 175 



* The body with numerous segments, elongated : dorsal cirrus foliaceous, 

 branchial. Phyl. genuina. 



15. PHYLLODOCE. 



Phyllodoce, Cuv. Regn. Anim. iii. 202. Savign. Syst. Annel. 42. 

 Lam. Anim. s. Vert. v. 316. Aud. Sf M.-Edwards, Litt. de la 

 France, ii. 219. Fleming in Ency. Brit. edit. 7- xi. 220. Johnston 

 in Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. 224. Williams in ibid. ser. 2. xii. 402, and 

 in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1 851, 197, 212, 615. Oersted, Annul. Dorsibr. 

 37, and in Kroyer's Naturh. Tids. 1842, 120. 



Nereiphylla, Blainv. in Diet, des Sc. nat. Ivii. 465. 



Char. Head distinct : eyes two or four : proboscis long, tomentose 

 or papillary on the surface : antennae four or five, the odd one on 

 the vertex : tentacular cirri four pairs, unequal, setaceous : feet uni- 

 ramous, with foliaceous cirri, the dorsal largest, partially overlapping 

 the back, or laid along the sides. 



t Antennae 4 = Phyllodoce, Savigny ^ Oersted. 



1 . Ph. lamelligera, tentacular cirri about twice as long as the diameter 

 of the body, which is a green or bluish colour with metallic lustre, 

 the branchial cirri olivaceous ; segments about equal in length ; 

 cirri heart-shaped, the inferior about one-half the size of the supe- 

 rior. Length 2' ; breadth 4'". Plate XVI. fig. 1-6. 



Nereis lamelligera, Turt. Brit. Faun. 135. Jameson in Wern. Mem. 



i. 557. Penn. Brit. Zool. edit. 1812, iv. 96. 

 Phyllodoce laminosa, Savign. Syst. Annel. 43. Aud. Sf M.-Edwards, 



Litt. de la France, ii. 222, pi. 5 a. f. 1-8. Rathke in Nov. Act. 



Curios. Acad. Leop. xx. 169. Grube, Fam. Annel. 55. 

 Phyllodoce gigantea, Johnston in Zool. Journ. iv. 53. 

 Nereiphylla laminosa, Blainv. Diet. Ivii. 466. 

 Phyllodoce lamelhgera, Johnston in Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. 225. pi. 6. 



f. 1-6, and xiii. 438. 

 Nereis foliosa. Leach, Mus. 

 Nereis remex, Dalyell, Pow. Creat. ii. 148. pi. 23. f. 1-7. 



Hab. The Laminarian region. 



Desc. Body 14 inches to 2 feet long, linear-elongate, somewhat 

 compressed, tapered at the tail, smooth, dusky, with bluish and 

 greenish shades reflecting a metallic lustre, the branchial leaflets 

 generally clouded in the centre with a dark undefined spot. Head 

 quadrangular ; the proboscis covered, on its lower half, with fleshy 

 papillae arranged in about twelve rows. Eyes black. Antennae very 

 short, conical. Segments very numerous, the post-occipital not 

 larger than the following, bearing on each side four rather short 

 setaceous tentacular cirri, of which the two anterior are shorter than 

 the posterior pairs, and under these there is a concealed rudimentary 

 cirrus. Feet all alike, the superior cirrus forming an obliquely 

 heart-shaped, shortly stalked leaflet, veined, entire, smooth ; the 

 inferior cirrus is similar in structure and nearly so in figure, but it is 



