ANNULATA. 243 



Comp. AUD. and EDW. Ann. des Sc. nat. xvm. pp. 233 237, Tom. 

 xxvii. figs, i 8. 



B. Branchiae distinct. Jaws seven. 



Diopatra AUD. and EDW. Head small, with nine tentacles. 

 I Filaments of branchiae numerous, placed on a petiole twisted 

 I spirally. 



Sp. Diopatra amboinensis AUD. and EDW. Ann. des Sc. nat. xxvili. pp. 229, 

 230, PI. x. figs. 68. 



Onupliis AUD. and EDW. Head small, furnished with seven 

 j tentacles. The first two pairs of pinnae larger, directed forwards. 

 Branchiae in every segment, except the first two, the anterior of a 

 I simple filament, the posterior pectinate. 



Sp. Onuphris eremita AUD. and EDW. Ann. des Sc. nat. xxvili. pp. 226, 

 227, PI. X. figs, i 5; Onuphris Eschrichtii OEKST. Grcenl. Annul, p. 172, 

 Tab. in. figs. 33 41, fig. 45. These worms live in cases ; they are some- 

 times covered with bits of shell, like that of Terebella, as in the last-named 

 species, from which I suspect that Onuphris concliilega SAKS, Beskrivelser, 

 1835, pp. 61 63, PI. x. fig. 28, does not differ. 



Eunice Cuv., AUD. and EDW. (Leodice SAV.) Head distinct, 

 >und or lobate, with five tentacles. Pectinate branchiae above the 

 lorsal cirrus in most of the segments, or in the anterior part of the 



Ly. 



Sp. Eunice gigantea, Nereis aphroditois, PALL. Nov. Act. Petropol. Tom. II. 

 pp. 229, 230, Tab. v. figs, i 7, Cuv. R. Ani. ed. ill., Annel. PI. 10 ; this 

 species becomes more than four feet long : Eunice sanguinea, Nereis 

 sanguinea MONTAGU Trans, of Linn. Soc. Tom. xi. pp. 20, 21, Tab. 3, 

 figs, i 3 ; Eunice antennata SAV., Descrip. de VEgypte, Annel. PI. v. fig. i, 

 GUERIN, Iconogr., Annel. PI. v. figs, i, &c. 



Family XIII. Amphinomacece. Body depressed, oblong. Head 

 rished with two or four eyes and mostly five tentacles. The 

 liform tubercles supplied with setae only, not with aciculae. 

 Jranchiaa arborescent or fasciculate in all the segments of the body, 

 three or four anterior excepted, placed at the sides of the back. 

 Proboscis without jaws. 



Amphinome BRUGUIERE. (Spec, of Aplirodita PALL., of Terebella 

 HT.) 



A. Pediform tubercles with undivided pinna and single cirrus. 

 Tentacles five in the head ; caruncles behind the base of the middle 

 tentacle none. Branchiae ramose. 



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