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Sp. 1. Abistenia OONSPITROATA. 



Aristenia conspurcatn, Savigny, Syst. de$ AnriHid. p. 64; AnnSlides 

 gravis, tab. ii. f. 3, 41-44; Blainville, Diet. Se. Nat, art. Vers, 

 p. 463, Atlas, tab. viii. f. 2-2a (copied from Savigny) ; Audouin Sf 

 M.-Edwards, Littoral de la France, p. 130. tab. iiB. f. 13-14 ; Grube, 

 Fa.mil. der Annel. p. 41 ; Quatrefages, Hist. Nat. AnneUs, i. 412. 

 Hab. Eed Sea, Savigny. 



Only one species of this genus has as yet been described. 

 Savigny considers the genus as belonging to the Amphinoma- 

 cea, and in this belief he is followed by Blainville, Cams, 

 Grube, Schmarda and Ehlers ; but Quatrefages only admits it a 

 place in this group provisionally. MM. Audouin and M.-Ed- 

 wards think it comes nearer to Trophonia (Siphonostomtim) . 

 Its general appearance, as represented by Savigny in his plate, 

 with the existence of branchiae on its dorsal surface, might readily 

 enough bring it amongst the Amphinomidce. 



Genus III. ZoTHEA. 

 Zothea, Risso, Audouin S)- M.-Edwards, Schmarda, Grube, Ehlers. 



Sp. 1. Zothea mebidionalis. 



Zothea meridionalis, Risso, Hist. nat. Europ. m4rid. torn. iv. p. 425 ; 

 Audouin 8f M.-Edwards, Littoral de la France, ii. 130; Grube, 

 Famil. der Annelid, p. 41. 



Hab. Maritime Alps, PNice, Bisso. 



Audouin and Milne-Edwards, in noticing this genus, say they 

 cannot refer it to any portion of the Amphinomacea, as it is de- 

 scribed by Eisso as possessing horny mandibles. Though vaguely 

 described, it has been nevertheless placed in this group by 

 Schmarda and Ehlers. 



Family III. PALMTKIDJE*. 



iPalmyracea, Kinberg, Fregatt. Eugen. Resa, Annulat. p. 1?, 1865; 



Carus, Handbuch ; Schmarda, Neue wirb. Thiere. 

 Palmyridse, Baird, Journ. of Linn. Soc. ix. 

 Palmyrea, Quatrefages, Hist. Nat. AnneUs. 



* This family, in Kinberg's arrangement., as set forth by him in the Voyage 

 of the Danish Frigate ' Eugenia,' was placed amongst the Aphroditacea, and 

 contained the genus Palmyra. Carus followed this arrangement, and placed 

 in the family the genera Palmyra, Palconoius, and Bhawania. As far ns re- 

 garded the name of the family and the genus Palmyra, I had adopted Kinberg's 

 arrangement in my contributions to the Aphroditacea in the 9th volume of this 



