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Sp. 1. Gastrolepidia clavigeea, Schmarda, I. c. p. 159, tab. 37. 

 fig. 315. 

 Hah. Ceylon, Schmarda. 



Family VII. PALMYEID^. 



(Palmyracea, Kinberg, Fregatt. Eugen. Besa, p. 1.) 



No elytra ; fans of flat bristles on all tbe segments ; segments 

 having cirri and tubercles alternately along the back. 



Genua I. Palmyra, Savigny, Systeme des Annelides, p. 16. 

 Body oblong, depressed; proboscis without tentacles on edge; 

 jaws semicartilaginoua ; eyes 2 ; feet with branches separate. 



Sp. 1. Palmyra atjbifera, Savigny, Z. c. p. 17. 

 Hab. Isle of Prance, Ouvier ; Eed Sea, Savigny. 



Sp. 2. Palmyra elongata, Grube, Annulat. Oersted, p. 25. 

 Hab. Santa Cruz, West Indies, Oersted. 



Sp. 3. Palmyra debilis, Grube, Archiv fur Naturg. 1855, p. 90. 

 Hab. Yilla Franca, Mediterranean, Grube. 



Since this paper on the Aphroditacea was commenced (see vol. 

 viii. of this Journal, p. 172) I have, through the kindness of 

 M. Malmgren, now of Helsingfors, been made acquainted with an 

 excellent paper of his on the Annelides of the North Sea, " Nor- 

 diska Hafs-Annulater," published in the ' Ofversight af K. Yet. 

 Akad. Forhandlingar ' for 1865. I regret not having seen this 

 paper before these " Contributions to a Monograph of the Aphro- 

 ditacea" were first commenced in this Journal. In his paper 

 M. Malmgren has instituted no fewer than ten new genera be- 

 longing to the family Polynoidge. Of these I can only here 

 mention the names, with a reference to the species enumerated in 

 my " Contributions." 



I. Nychia. To this genus he refers nos. 2 & 3 of the genus 

 Harmothoe, pp. 194, 195, H. assimilis and S. scabra. These tAvo 

 species he regards as only one, and as being synonymous with 

 the Aphrodita cirrosa of Pallas. 



II. EuKOE. To this genus he refers the Lepidonota scabra of 

 Oersted, which, upon very good grounds, he considers distinct 

 from the Aphrodita scabra of Fabricius. 



III. LaCtISCA. To this genus he refers no. 11 of the genus 

 Harmothoe, p. 195, the Folynoe rarispina of Sars. 



