Bucuanan—Report on Polychets. 173 
either as an individual variation (sexual or otherwise), or possibly 
as allowing them to rank as distinct variety, though not as a distinct 
species. From this species L. filicornis (including the L. Kinbergi 
of Baird and the L. violascens of Grube) we must distinguish another 
species for the Z. Kinbergi of Khlers, the chief specific difference 
being that the elytra are on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, . . . 23, 26, 29. 
Whether the Z. armata of Verrill™ belongs to this species, as Khlers 
suggests, orto L. filicornis must remain undecided, as it is not stated 
to which segments the elytra are attached. 
Fam.—EHunNIcIDz. 
IJI.—Eunice philocorallia, n. sp. 
A Eunice, presenting a good many individual variations, but 
which I have not been able to refer to any known species, 
occurred abundantly in parchment-lke tubes, inhabiting colonies 
of Lophohelia prolifera. I give as its specific diagnosis the fol- 
lowing :— 
Body light in colour, and iridescent, arched on the dorsal 
surface, tapering posteriorly. Prostomium bearing five tentacles, 
varying greatly in length in different individuals and with regard 
to one another in the same individual, but generally long, the 
median one being usually the longest, and reaching back over 
about eight segments. Palps divided by a groove each into a 
small median and a larger lateral lobe. One eye on each side at 
the base of the external tentacle. First (peristomial) segment 
nearly as broad as the four following ones. Second segment 
sharply marked off from it, except at the sides, bearing two long, 
smooth tentacular cirri, generally reaching beyond the palps even, 
though frequently varying in length on the different sides of the 
body. Third segment with well-developed dorsal and ventral 
cirri, but parapodial lobe minute and with very few sete. Para- 
podia on all the other segments consisting of one well-developed 
lobe bearing a dorsal and ventral cirrus; dorsal cirrus long, un- 
jointed, filamentous; ventral cirrus filamentous, and about one- 
third the length of the dorsal in the first four segments, after that 
short and blunt, swollen at the base; dorsal setee both capillary 
11 Verrill, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. 11, 1879, p. 168. 
