314 Miscellaneous. 



annelids of the oceanic coasts of France, and eight of these likewise 

 exist in the Black Sea : — 



*Staiirocephaliis rubrovittatus. *Syllis gracilis. 



Eunice Ilarassii. variegata. 



INIarpliysa sanguinea. Odontosyllis gibba. 



*Lysidice uinetta. *Syllides pulliger. 



Onuphis tubicola. *Spha3rosylli8 hystrix. 



Nematonereis unicornis. *Eteone picta. 



Arabella quadristriata. Heterocirrus saxicola, 



*Nereis cultrifera. Sabella reniformis. 



* Dumerilii. 



Wc do not wish, however, to indicate these faunal relations except 

 in a pro\isional manner ; for it is probable that future researches will 

 considerably modify their significance. 



The great family Eunicea has furnished us with a new species of 

 Marphysa (ilf. fcdlax), well characterized by the composite setae with 

 bidentate uncini existing in the inferior bundle, and by the form of 

 the parts of the maxillary apparatus. In its general aspect this 

 Marphysa resem_bles Lysklice ninetta. 



The SyUidea are excessively abundant and very varied. We have 

 ascertained the existence of a new species of the genus Anoplosyllis, 

 very distinct from that of the Bay of Naples by the arrangement of 

 the dorsal appendages, which are articulated from the third setigerous 

 segment. SylUs torquata, sp. nov., bears in the anterior region a 

 large transverse blackish band, which is not figured in any annelid 

 of the same group. Lastly, Eusyllis lamelligera, sp. nov., and Auto- 

 lysis ornatus, sp. nov., possess still more important peculiarities of 

 structure. It may be remarked that the genus Ei(sylUs, proposed 

 by Malmgren for some worms from Spitzbergen, had not hitherto 

 been indicated in the Mediterranean. 



In the family Hesionca I have to cite a very curious undescribed 

 type, Magolia perarmata, of which the trunk is armed with two 

 maxillaries and a style, whilst the anterior region of the body 

 presents two antennae, two palpi, and twelve tentacular cirri. The 

 new genus Gypiis, with an unarmed proboscis, appears to be allied to 

 the O.vydromi ; but this latter group, whicli is very badly determined, 

 remains still unsettled. 



It is undoubtedly near the Hesionca and at the head of the Phyl- 

 lodocea that we must place the annelid that we name Lacydonia 

 miranda, the characters of which may be given as follows : — 



Head furnished with four smaU anterior appendages representing 

 two palpi and two antennae; buccal ring provided with a single pair 

 of tentacular cirri ; dorsal and ventral cirri pinniform : feet of the 

 first three segments setigerous and uniramose ; feet of the following 

 segments furnished with a dorsal ramus of simple setae and a ventral 

 ramus of composite setae : trunk unarmed, comparatively short, and 

 situated between two very complicated tubular secretory apparatus, 

 no doubt representing the lateral tubes of the Uydrophani. 



In the GuLf of Marseilles, among the rolled pebbles of the shore 

 of Ratonneau, we have found tlie interesting tSaccocirrus of the 

 Black Sea. The sexes are separate ; but the reproductive apparatus 

 presents perfectly exceptional peculiarities. In the male the testes 



