230 DB. baied's contkibutions towabds a. 



Chloeia, Savigny, Cuvier, Blainville, Lamarck, Audouin Sf M.-Edwards, 



Risso, Grube, Cams, Van der Hoeven, Elders, Schmarda, Quatre- 



fages, Kinberg. 



Body oval in sliape, with the segments oval ; antennae and 



palpi rising from the first segment ; caruncle elongate ; hranchice 



hipmnate, placed at some distance from the apex of the feet ; cirrus 



of dorsal foot single ; setce of dorsal feet serrate ; setce of ventral 



feet bifid; anal appendages double. Eyes, as in Amphinome, 4 *. 



Sp. 1. ChLOEIA. FLAVA. 



Aphrodita flava, Pallas, Miscell. Zoolog. 97, tab. viii. f. 7-11. 

 Terebella flava, Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. part 6. p. 3114; IKrusen- 



stern. Atlas, tab. 88. f. 14-16. 

 Amphinome capillata, Bruguihe, Encyc. Method, art. Amphinome, 

 Atlas, tab. Ix. f. 1-5 (copied from Pallas) ; Cuvier, Rign. Anim. 

 iii. 198. 

 Chloeia capillata, Savigny, Syst. des Anndlides, p. 58 ; Lamarck An. s. 

 Vert. 1st edit. v. 329, 2nd edit. v. 570 ; Audouin Sf M.-Edwards, Lit- 

 toral de la France, ii. 120, tab. iis. f. 11-12; M.-Edwards, Cuv. R. 

 An. ed. Crock, tab. ix. f. 1 ; Van der Hoeven, Handbuch der Zoologie, 

 i. 231 ; Cams, Handbuch der Zoologie, ii. 435. 

 Amphinome flava, Cuvier, Diet. Sc. Nat. art. Vers ; Blainville, Atlas, 



Diet. Sc. Nat. tab. vii. figs. 1-1a-1c. 

 Chloeia flava, Blainville, Diet. Sc. Nat. art. Vers ; Grube, Famil. der 

 Annelid, p. 40 ; "iQuatrefages, Hist. Nat. des AnneUs, i. 3S6 ; Kin- 

 berg, Fregatt, Eugen. Resa, Zoolog. Annulat. tab. xi. f. 1b-1x. 

 Chloeia incerta, Quatrefages, Hist. Nat. AnneUs, i. 398. no. 2. 

 Hah. Chinese and Indian Seas (Mus. Brit.) ; Australia (Mus. 

 Brit.). 



The Ghloeia incerta of Quatrefages belongs undoubtedly to 

 this species, the only reason for asserting the Chloeia flava of 

 Pallas is not the Qhloeia capillata of M.-Edwards being the dif- 

 ference of the setse of the feet. "We possess, in the collection of 

 the British Museum, nine specimens of what appears to me to be 

 the true Ghloeia flava of Pallas, the setae of the feet of which all 



* Savigny, who established the genus Chloeia, distinctly asserts that the 

 species have only two eyes. In this he has been followed, apparently without 

 examination, by Lamarck, Audouin and M.-Edwards, Risso, Grube, Van der 

 Hoeven, Schmarda, and Quatrefages. Pallas, Gmelin, Cuvier, and Carus do not 

 notice the number, but Kinberg has recognized the fact that they are endowed 

 with /own This I have also ascertained to be the case in Chloeia fiava, tumida, 

 ■pulchella, parva, and spcctahilis. Kinberg has distinctly figured foiir eyes in C. 

 flava and candidn ; and I have little doubt four is the normal number of eyes 

 in this genus. 



