244 CLASS vir. 



Hipponoe AUD. and EDW. 



Sp. Hipponoe Gaudichaudii AUD. and EDW. Ann. des Sc. not. Tom. xx. 1830, 

 pp. 156 159, PL in. figs, i 5, GUERIN Iconogr., Annel. PI. 4 bis. fig. 3, 

 in New Holland (Port Jackson). 



B. Pediform tubercles with double pinna, remote, each provided 

 with a cirrus. Caruncles behind the base of the intermediate tentacle 

 at the dorsal surface in the head and anterior part of the body. 



Euphrosyne SAV. Head with single subulate tentacle, and two 

 eyes. Branchiae made of many branched appendages, arranged in 

 a row between the dorsal and ventral pinna. 



Sp. EupJirosyne laureata SAV. Descr. de VEgypte, Annel. PL II. fig. i, 

 GURIN Iconogr., Annel. PI. 4 bis. figs, i, &c. 



Amphinome AUD. and EDW. Pleione SAV. Head with five 

 short tentacles, and four eyes. Branchiae ramose, or fasciculate at 

 the base of the dorsal pinnae. 



Sp. Amphinome rostrata PALL. Misc. Zool. Tab. vm. figs. 14 18, from the 

 Indian Ocean; Amphinome carunculata PALL. fig. 12; comp. A. E. GRUBE, 

 De Pleione carunculata Diss. Zoot. cum tab. cen. Regiomontani, 1837, 8vo. 



Chloeia SAV. Head supplied with five tentacles and two eyes. 

 Branchiae like a tripinnatifid leaf, placed on the back, remote from 

 the base of the pinnae. Two terminal styles at the posterior part of 

 the body. 



Sp. Amphinome capillata, Aphrodita flava PALL. Misc. Zool. Tab. vm. figs. 

 7 ii ; Cuv. R. Ani. ed. ill. Annel. PI. 9 ; in the Indian Ocean, from 

 Amboyna, &c. The bundles of setce are yellow, the gills, which nearly 

 resemble leaves of Fern, are purple- coloured. 



Family XIV. Aphroditacece. Body in most depressed, oval. 

 Head supplied with tentacles usually five (2 5) and with four eyes. 

 Dorsal and ventral pinnae distinct, furnished with acus, a fascicle of 

 setae and a ventral cirrus. Squamae (Elytra SAV.) in most, in place 

 of cirri, placed on the dorsal pinnae that alternate with dorsal pinnae 

 supplied with a cirrus. Proboscis usually armed with four jaws. 



Palmyra SAV. Dorsal squamae none. 



Sp. Palmyra aurifera SAV., AUD. and EDW. Ann. des Sc. nat. Tom. xxvu. 

 PP- 445> 446, PL x. figs, i 6, from the island Mauritius. 



Genus Spinther JOHNSTON ; is it of this family ? Body oval 

 with back convex, abdomen plane. Head indistinct. Elytra none I 



