THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



{[THIRD SERIES.] 



" per Utora spargite museum. 



Naiades, et circOm vitreos considite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divs, replete canistrurn. 

 At vos, o Nympha Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conch ylia succo." 



N. Parthenii Giannettasii Ek;l. 1. 



No. 103. JULY 1866. 



I. — Description of a new Species of Marine Worm (Phenacia 

 pulchella). By Edward Parfitt. 



[Plate I.] 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, 



I beg to introduce to your notice a very beautiful new species 

 of marine worm ; it was cast up at my feet by the waves at 

 Exmouth, January 6th, during a heavy gale. I forwarded a 

 rough sketch of it to my friend Dr. Baird, of the British Museum, 

 who informed me it was new to him, and that he could find no 

 description of it. In M. de Quatrefages's " Classification of the 

 Annelides,^' published in the 'Annals' for January last, p. 22, 

 he has separated the genus Sabellidis, and raised those species 

 with simple buccal cirri to the rank of a new genus, Phenacia; 

 and it is to this genus that the present species belongs : it will 

 therefore stand thus : — 



Family XXV. TerebeUea. 



Genus Phenacia, Quatrefages. 



Phenacia pulchella, mihi. 



Body composed of about forty annulations, the anterior com- 

 pressed and rugose, short, but gradually growing longer 

 Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 3. Vol. xviii. 1 



