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processes were short and spathulate in outline, thus differing 
from the allied Lumbriconereis zonata of H. P. Johnson * 
from Puget Sound. Each great dental plate had five strong 
recurved teeth, the first being the largest. The anterior 
plates had each a single tooth, the rest of the plate being 
minutely granular. The mandibles had broad, wedge-shaped, 
anterior plates with oblique edges and narrow fangs or poste- 
rior processes. The broad anterior plates were marked with 
curved lines. 
Ninee Kinbergi, Ehlers. 
Dredged in considerable numbers off Port Hood, in 1873 ; 
probably m muddy reddish clay. 
A small Lumbriconereid, probably about 4 inches in length, 
though none of the fragments measured more than 2 inches, 
with a diameter at the widest part in front (across the feet) 
of about 3 millim. The shape of the body is characteristic, 
since by the great breadth of the anterior feet a fusiform 
region is formed. The feet gradually increase in prominence 
from the Ist to the 6th or 7th, remain of considerable breadth 
to the 23rd or 24th, and again diminish. 
The head forms a pointed cone, with a few wrinkles 
posteriorly, two of which are often conspicuous. The two 
succeedirig segments and the rest of the body conform to the 
type in Lumbriconereis. The Ist foot has a setigerous 
process besides a short conical lobewith three brown spines and 
a dorsal group of simple winged bristles which slightly dilate 
beyond the shaft and taper to a fine pomt. Below the spines 
are two attenuated winged hooks, tapering towards the tip. 
The maxille (woodcut, fig. 7) have a gentle curve and end 
in sharp poits. The great dental plates have about six 
powerful recurved teeth. ‘The two antero-lateral plates have 
each a single curved tooth, and at its base two small 
crenations, aud a greater belt externally. These anterior 
plates have a different character from those in Hunice and 
Lumbriconereis, being folded flatly onthe sides of the gape, 
the larger in front and the smaller behmd. The posterior 
proces-es of the maxille have a constriction, then enlarge, 
aud again taper off to a point externally. 
The mandibles are shaped like a battle-axe, with a denticle 
towards the suture, the edge sloping obliquely outward and 
forward from this. The shafts are long and slender. 
On the whole they resemble the European form and also. 
the Ninoe Kinbergi of Ehlers from American waters ; but the 
* Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. xxix. no. 18, p. 408, pl. ix. fig, 94, 
