NO. 1 hartman: polychaetous annelids 51 



Distribution. — Panama; Galapagos Islands; Hawaiian Islands; 

 Gulf of California; southern California north to Anacapa Island; 

 Colombia ( ?). Littoral to 20 fms. 



Subfamily Harmothoinae Seidler 



Genus HARMOTHOfi Kinberg 



Harmothoe hirsuta Johnson 



Harmothoe hirsuta Johnson, 1897, pp. 182-183, pi. 6, figs. 27-29, pi. 7, 

 fig. 38, pi. 8, fig. 53; Treadwell, 1906, p. 1154; Moore, 1910, 

 pp. 350-351; Treadwell, 1914, p. 182. 

 ? Harmothoe hirsuta Moore, 1908, pp. 334-335; Gravier, 1911, pp. 87- 

 88; Chamberlin, 1919a, pp. 51-54, pi. 2, f^gs. 2-8, pi. 3, fig. 1; 

 Monro, 1928a, pp. 558-559, fig. 8 (not Ehlers, 1901, p. 42). 



The larger elytral macrotubercles occur in as many as three rows 

 along the posterior margin. They are widest distally and have many 

 small spinelets on the crown (Johnson, 1897, pi. 6, figs. 27-29). Thus 

 they differ from the tapering, falcate spines, without spinelets, shown 

 by Monro (1928, p. 59, fig. 8). The neuropodial setae are distinctly 

 bifid, the subterminal tooth well below the main fang, and appressed to 

 the main stalk. 



Harmothoe hirsuta Moore (1908, p. 334) referred to 3 specimens 

 taken from Port Townsend, Alaska, in 15-16 fms. Moore, at that time, 

 commented on the differences observable between these and the types 

 from southern California. One of these specimens was later made the 

 type of Eunoe harbata Moore (1910, pp. 350-351). Whether the others 

 are H. hirsuta is not certain because the elytra were said to lack the 

 polygonal areas. 



//. hirsuta Ehlers (1901, p. 42) from Tumbes, Chile, was later 

 made the type of H. anderssoni Bergstrom (1916, p. 286). 



Harmothoe hirsuta has been reported from the Antarctic, in 150 

 meters (Gravier, 1911, pp. 87-88). This record, because of its great 

 distance from the type locality or other authentic records for the species, 

 should perhaps be reinvestigated. 



Harmothoe hirsuta Chamberlin (1919a, pp. 51-54, pi. 2, figs. 2-8, 

 pi. 3, fig. 1 ) was based on specimens in which all elytra had been lost. 

 The prostomial and setal outlines agree reasonably well with the de- 

 scription of Johnson. 



Distribution. — Southern California; Panama. Intertidal. 



