; INYKK'TKnRATK ANIMALS OF YIXFAARI) SOUND, I'/l'C. 1,'JS!) 



Blender set, as loing as the medi;in anlrmiir. Tin- palpi aiv sh-ndi-r, 

 longer than tlie antenn;e ; lateral feel prominent, projrrlin;., Ix-yond the 

 scales; set;e light yellow. 



Color variable, generally light gray, with a dark brown median <i< 

 band, each scale often bordered on the posterior and inner ed.ucs \\illi 

 brown, which is connected with a blackish angular spot near the ante- 

 rior margin, the rest of the scale being transparent and whitish ; head 

 dark brown, with a red central spot and a round whitish spot on each 

 side. Length up to 150 mm ; breadth usually about 4 mm . 



Vineyard Sound, low-water mark to 14 fathoms; off Martha's Vine- 

 yard, 21 fathoms, sand; off New Haven, 4 to 5 fathoms, shelly. Great 

 Egg Harbor (Leidy). 



This species differs considerably in the form of the head, antennae, 

 &c., from the figure given by Leidy. His description is insufficient to 

 determine whether he observed the same species. 



NEPHTIIYS INGENS Stimpson. Plate XII, figs. 59, 60. (p. 431.) 



Marine Invertebrata of Grand Mauan, p. 33, in Smithsonian Contributions, 1853. 



Long Island Sound, off New Haven, 3 to 8 fathoms, mud, common ; 

 off Block Island, in 29 fathoms; Bay of Fundy, 10 to 60 fathoms. 



This species is readily distinguished by the form, of the head and 

 position of the small antennae; by the large median dorsal papilla on the 

 proboscis, and the smaller ventral one; by the very prominent and widely 

 separated rami of the posterior feet ; and the dark color of the setae. 

 It grows to the length of 130 mm or more. 



NEPHTHYS PICTA Ehlers. Plate XII, fig. 57. (p. 348.) 



Die Borstenwiirmer, vol. i, p. 632, PI. 23, figs. 9, 35, 1868. 



Vineyard Sound, low-water mark to 8 fathoms, muddy and shelly. 

 Nahant; Charleston (Ehlers). 



KEPHTHYS BUCERA Ehlers. Plate XII, fig. 58. (p. 416.) 



Die Borstenwiirmer, vol. i, p. 617, PI. 23, fig. 8. 



Vineyard Sound, 8 to 10 fathoms, shelly ; Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 

 4 to 5 fathoms, among rocks and saud. Massachusetts Bay (Ehlers). 



This species is remarkable both for the form of the head and the 

 length of the setas, which often exceed the diameter of the body. 



NEPHTHYS CILIATA Eathke. 



Beit rage zur Fauna Norwegens, p. 170, 1843 ; Malmgren, op. cit., p. 104, PI. 

 12, figs. 17, A-C, 1865; Quatrefages, op. cit., p. 429 (Nephtya) ; Ehlers, 

 Borstenwiirmer, vol. i, p. 629, PI. 23, fig. 36, 1858. Nereis ciliata Muller, Zoolog. 

 Dauica, vol. iii, p. 17, PI. 89, figs. 1-4 (t. Ehlers). Nephthys borcalis (Ersted, 

 Anuulat. Danicor. consp., p. 32, 1843 (t. Malmgreu). 



Ehlers gives Edgartown as a locality for this species. It is a northern 

 form, found at Iceland, Greenland, Spitzbergen, and along the northern 

 coasts of Europe and Great Britain. Stimpson records it from the 



