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coast by Professor Lankester and kindly lent me by him, that 
Storm had before him the same worm as I have named Eunice 
philocorallia, and I would therefore withdraw my name of Eunice 
philocorallia in favour of his Hunice gunneri. 
Dr. E. von Marenzeller’ described in the same year as myself 
a Eunice inhabiting the Lophohelia prolifera colonies of the Medi- 
terranean ; and he refers his specimens to the Eunice floridana of 
Ehlers which I had mentioned as being the species most nearly 
allied to my Lunice philocorallia. He had only two imperfect 
specimens before him; and it seems to me that what differences 
there are between his specimens and mine are such as might occur 
between individuals of the same species. I hope that he will 
agree with me in referring his Hunice floridana to the Eunice 
gumeri, Storm. If he is right in identifying the species with the 
E. floridana of Ehlers,’ then this must be regarded as a second 
synonym of F. gunneri, and we have the following synonymical 
table :—— 
Eunicr GUNNERI, Storm. 
Nereis madrepore pertusee (JV. norvegica) Gunnerus, 1768. 
Leodice norvegica, auct. ex parte. (non L. norvegica, L.) 
Leodice guinert, Storm. 1880. 
(?) Hunice floridana, Ehlers, 1887. 
Eunice philocorallia, Buchanan, 1893. 
EHunice floridana, v. Marenzeller, 1893. 
It only remains for me to apologize to Science for having con- 
tributed to the long list of unnecessary specific names. 
1 Denkschr. Ak. Wien. tx. Ber. Comm. Erforsch. éstl. Mittelm., pp. 31-33, Pl. i1., 
f. 6. 
2 For my own part I would leave the Lunice floridana, Ehl., for the present, as a 
distinct species. I do not feel certain of its identity with the inhabitant of the 
Lophohelia colonies. 
