THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[THIRD SERIES. ] 
Oe saaibavdsuausasits per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circtm vitreos considite fontes : 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores : 
Floribus et pictum, divx, replete canistrum. 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas ; 
Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 
Ferte, Dee pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.”’ 
N. Parthenii Giannettasii Ecl.1. 
No. 115. JULY 1867. 
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I.—On the Annelid Genus Spherodorum, Mirsted, and a new Re- 
presentative of it, S.Claparedii. By Dr. Ricnarp Gruerr*. 
[Plate I.] 
Unoer the name of Spherodorum, Girsted, in 1844+, founded 
a new genus of Annelids, characterized by the spherical form 
of the dorsal cirri, and by numerous papille standing on the 
fore part of the head. ‘This was afterwards described by John- 
ston{ under the name of Pollicita (peripatus), and lately 
more carefully by Claparéde §, and, with especial reference to 
i structure of the characteristic globular dorsal cirri, by Kol- 
iker ||. 
ne a short residence in Dieppe last year, I found in the 
oyster-basin of that place a small Annelid which showed a near 
relationship to the genus in question, but at the same time 
differed from it in several points, and which, moreover, in other 
respects seems to me to present some very interesting pecu- 
* Translated from Wiegmann’s Archiv, 1866, pp. 338-351, by W.S. 
Dallas, F.L.S., &e. 
+ “Zur Classification der Annulaten,”’? Wiegmann’s Archiv, 1844, p. 108. 
{ Annals & Magazine of Natural History, vol. xvi. p. 5, pl. 2. figs. 1-6. 
§ ‘Beobachtungen iiber Anatomie und Entwickelungsgeschichte wir- 
belloser Thiere,’ Leipzig, 1863, p. 5, taf. 11. figs. 8-18. S; 
| Kurzer Bericht iiber einige vergl.-anat. Untersuchungen,” Wiirz- 
burger naturwiss. Zeitschrift, 1864, Band y. p. 240, taf. 6. fig. 1 
Ann. § Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 3. Vol. xx. 1 
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