404 W. C. M'lNTOSH ON THE ANNELIDA 



Blainville's figure of Eumolpe scolopendrina^ represents an elongated form with much 

 smaller scales than the foregoing Lepidasthenia hlainvillii ; and the dorsal division of the 

 foot (in fig. 2«, op. cit.) has a tuft of short hairs, and a dorsal cirrus with a dilated 

 extremity. The ventral bristles are in two tufts — an upper small and an inferior large 

 group. The scales proceed to the end of the body. The feet are similar in shape and 

 longer than those of the next species. His Eumolpe longissima^, from the shores of 

 Genoa, is a form with a narrower and much longer body, with eighteen pairs of very 

 small scales at the margins of the body, and with the tips of the tentacular cirri and 

 tentacle enlarged at the extremity. The superior lobe of the foot has a tuft of fine 

 bristles ; and the dorsal cirri are enlarged near the tip. Though I would not trust much 

 to figures alone in such a case, there are certain close resemblances and mutual relations 

 between Blainville's and the ' Porcupine ' specimens. The feet in both are similarly 

 pointed from below upward; the bristles of the latter species (E. longissima) are 

 shorter than those of the former ; and the relations of the dorsal cirri, the ventral 

 cu'ri, and the size of the feet are the same. Blainville's artist may have represented 

 the forms with developing scales ; and the bulbous condition of the dorsal cirri may 

 likewise have been exaggerated. The Polynoe malleata, P. tuta, and P. vittata, Grube^, 

 are species having elongated bodies with numerous scales, but they do not seem to ap- 

 proach the foregoing forms. 



ACOETID^. 



Panthalis (ERSTedi, Kinberg. In an example dredged in 477 fathoms outside the 

 Strait of Gibraltar the second or strong series of bristles had a deep brownish or amber 

 colour ; and rows of spines occurred on the posterior edge of the bristle, where in the 

 ordinaiy form none appear. 



EuPANTHALis KiNBEKGi, n. s. Fouud by Dr. Carpenter at a depth of 92 fathoms on 

 Adventure bank in 1870. 



The species is about 1^ in. long, and somewhat resembles Eupompe, differing, however, 

 from any example of the Acoetidse described by Kinberg in having sessile eyes. The 

 head is rounded, as in the Polynoidas, with two large eyes furnished with " lenses " on 

 the lateral prominences in front, and two smaller a little behind. There is no tentacle 

 in the specimen ; but on each side of the median groove is a filiform or slightly subulate 



' Atlas, Diet, des So. Nat. pi. x. f. 2 ife 2a. The reference in the text (vol. Ivii. p. 459) simply is, I'E. scolo- 

 pendrine=.£^. scolopendrina, Sav. he. cit. p. 25, no. 6, &c. 

 = Vers, vol. Ivii. p. 459 ; Atlas, pi. x. f. 3 & 3a. 

 ' Archiv fiir Naturges. 1856, p. 81. 



