LEODICE MAKEMOANA. 233 



LeODICE MAKEMOANA, Sp. nOV. 



Plate 53, fig. 1-11. 



The type is greyish yellow throughout, the only markings being a longitudi- 

 nal series of small, transversely elongate, whitish spots over the middle region 

 of the dorsum, a single spot occurring on each somite, and a midventral white 

 stripe. The appendages are but slightly paler than the body. From the 

 region of the seventeenth and adjacent somites the body narrows conspicuously 

 cephalad but only slightly caudad, remaining of nearly uniform width to the 

 extreme caudal region where it narrows strongly to the pygidium. 



The total length of the type is only 20 mm. The greatest width, exclusive 

 of parapodia, is 1.8 mm. The total number of somites is ninety-four. 



The prostomium appears a little shorter than the peristomium. It is bilobed 

 as usual, a wide, rounded furrow extending down its anterior face. Each lobe 

 curves outward and caudad and is but weakly subdivided by a cross-furrow. 

 Its surface is very smooth. The tentacles are arranged in a transverse row con- 

 tiguous with the margin of the peristomium excepting the outer paired ones 

 which are inserted at the side farther forward. The tentacles are all distinctly 

 jointed and almost moniliform, the articles being very short and rounded. The 

 median tentacle, the tip of which is apparently broken off at point, consists 

 of sixteen articles and reaches the seventh somite. Each inner paired tentacle 

 consists of fourteen articles, or close to that number, and reaches the fourth 

 somite. Each outer paired tentacle is constricted toward base, and is very short, 

 consisting of six (or seven) articles and not quite reaching the second somite. 

 The eyes are black, broadly elliptic areas, caudad of each outer tentacle, 

 and partly covered by the peristomium. (Plate 53, fig. 1). 



The peristomium dorsaUy is shorter than the three succeeding somites, 

 and the anterior margin is a little incurved mesally opposite the median ten- 

 tacle and the surface is wholly smooth. Laterally there is on each side a sub- 

 longitudinal furrow extending from an incision in the anterior margin, the 

 surface above the furrow crossed by a few subvertical wrinkles; from the ante- 

 rior end of the furrow a weaker furrow extends caudomesad, setting off the 

 lower Up. The surface of the lower lip is smooth. Its anterior margin at the 

 middle curves deeply and semicircularly caudad. 



The second somite is distinct above and below, but at the sides is fused with 

 the first somite. It is shorter than the third somite. The cirri are very small, 



