178 PHYLLODOCIDiE. 



Die geflechte Nereide, Miill. Wurm. 156. tab. 10, copied in Encyclop. 



Meth. Vers, pi. 67. f. 1-6. 

 Phyllodoce pulchra, Johnston in Zool. Journ. iv. 54. 

 Phyllodoee maeulata, Johnston in Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. 227. pi- 7. f- 1-3. 

 Phyllodoce Mulleri, Grube, Farm. Annel. 56. 



Hab. The shore at and within tide-marks. 



Besc, Worm sometimes 4 inches long, slender, depressed, tapered 

 a little towards each extremity, yellowish, with a row of dark brown 

 spots along the back, and the sides spotted with the same colour ; 

 ventral surface paler, with a median row of small rather distant spots, 

 and a series of larger ones on each side at the base of the feet. Head 

 bluntly pointed, armed in front with four white conical antennae. 

 Eyes black. Post-occipital segment with four pairs of setaceous 

 tentacular cirri, of which the two anterior are the shortest. On 

 each side of the other segments there is an oval or somewhat heart- 

 shaped branchial lamella, with a brown spot in its centre, and sup- 

 ported on a very short spotted stalk. Beneath them are the feet, 

 each foot consisting of two papillary processes, the superior furnished 

 with a brush of retractile bristles of the usual character. Anal seg- 

 ment terminated with two short conical styles. 



Obs. A very beautiful species. There are two eyes. The dorsal 

 cirri are much compressed, between elliptical and heart-shaped. The 

 anal styles are short. 



{a) Berwick Bay, Br. Johnston, 



ft Antennae 5 = Eulalia, Savigny 8f Oersted. 



4. Ph. viridis, body subcylindrical, of a uniform grass-green colour ; 

 head entire and rounded in front ; the first pair of tentacular cirri 

 attached to the first segment ; eyes two ; foliaceous cirri lanceolate, 

 oblique. Length 2-3". Plate XVI. fig. 11-15. 



Nereis viridis, Linn. Syst. 1086. Mull. Zool. Ban. Prod. 217. no. 2636. 



Fabric. Faun. Grcenl. 297. f. 6. Turt. Gmel. iv. 88 ; Brit. Faun. 



135. Adams in Linn. Trans, v. 8. Bosc, Vers, i. 171. Penn. Brit. 



Zool. edit. 1812, iv. 94. 

 Die grune Nereide, Mull. Wurm. 162. tab. 11, copied in Encyclop. 



Meth. Vers, ^\.b7.i. 7-11. 

 Phyllodoce clavigera, Aud. Sf M.-Edw. Litt. de la France, ii. 226. 



pi. 5 a. f. 9-13. Rathke in Nov. Act. Acad. Cces. Leop. xx. 170. 



Cuv. Regn. Anim. Annel. Illustr. pi. 13. f. 3. 

 Nereiphylla viridis, Blainv. Bid. Ivii. 466, Atlas, pi. fig. 2. 

 Phyllodoce viridis, Johnston in Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. 228. pi. 6. f. 11-15, 



and xii. 439. Grube, Fam. Annel. 56. 

 Eulalia viridis, Oersted, Annul. Ban. Consp. 27. f. 22, 30, 85, 86 & 88 ; 



Annul. Ban. Borsibr. 36, and in Kroyer's Naturh. Tids. 1842, 122. 



Hab. The littoral region : common. 



Besc. Worm from 2 to 3 inches long, elongate and narrow, slightly 

 tapered towards the head, more so at the tail, of a uniform duck- 

 green colour, paler on the ventral aspect. Head small, narrowest in 



