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Genus BOGGARDIA Carazzi 

 Branchiae are present anterior to the modified fifth setiger; modified 

 hooks in the fifth are of one or 2 kinds; heavy spines in posterior seg- 

 ments are present or absent. 



Key TO Species of Boccardia from California 

 1. Major heavy spines in fifth (modified) segment of 2 kinds; 

 branchiae present on setigers 2, 3, 4, 6 and to near end 

 B. proboscidea, p. 299 



1. Major heavy spines in fifth segment of only one kind; branchiae 

 disposed otherwise 2 



2. A posterior region (preanal) with modified heavy spines . 

 B. uncata, p. 304 



2. Posterior region without modified heavy spines .... 3 



3. Branchiae present on setigers 2, 3, 6 and to about the posterior 

 fifth of the body B. truncata Hartman 



3. Branchiae present on setigers 2, 3, 7 and through a long median 

 region ? 5. redeki, p. 304 



Chart of the Species of Boccardia from California, with Some 

 Diagnostic Features 



Boccardia proboscidea Hartman^ 

 Plate 46, Figs. 22-28 ; Plate 47, Figs. 30-37 

 Hartman, 1940, J. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 30, pp. 382-387, figs. \a-j. 

 'iPolydora calif ornica Treadwell, 1914, pp. 203-204 (not Fewkes, 1889). 

 B. natrix Hartman, 1936a, p. 32 (not Soderstrom, 1920). 



1 Berkeley (in litt.) has called attention to the similarity of B. proboscidea to 

 B. Columbiana Berkeley (1927, p. 12) but the major spines in the fifth setiger are 

 diflferent {cf. Berkeley, pi. 1, fig. 6). 



