Hurron.—Catalogue of the Worms of New Zealand. 319 
yellow, spotted with brown, margin fimbriated with conical spines. Ten- 
tacles smooth; dorsal cirri spinulose. * 
Auckland. 
This species belongs to the genus Antinoe of Kinberg, in which the bases 
of the antenne are fixed under the margin of the emarginated cephalic lobe, 
close to the tentacle. 
P. rorycHRowa, Schmarda, l.c., p. 153, pl. 86, f. 807. 
Body flat, yellowish-red; elytra 12 pairs, oval, yellowish, spotted with 
greyish-blue or greyish-red on the inferior external margin. Tentacles and 
cirri smooth. 
This species, and the next, belong to the genus Lepidonotus of Leach, 
in which the bases of the antenna are produced from the anterior ERU 
of the cephalic lobe. 
P. sixcramir, Baird, P.L.S., Zoology, VITI., p. 184. 
Head lobe rather small; palpi stout white, setaceous, smooth; dta 
12 pairs, pale coloured, mud with black ; rounded, thin, covered all over 
with minute points, with some larger raised and rounded punctations 
intermixed ; ciliated on outer margin. Back completely covered. Feet 
biramous; ventral branch the larger, with a fascicle of yellow bristles, stout, 
slightly curved at the point, and serrated a short distance below the apex. 
Dorsal branch small; bristles short, slender, sharp-pointed, and minutely 
serrated nearly their whole length. Dorsal cirri conical, setaceous, smooth; 
anal cirri rudimentary. Length, about 9 lines; breadth, 2 lines. 
Genus Pelogenia, Schmarda. 
Body vermiform, long; elytra in all the segments. Suctorial feet in 
the back and abdomen ; oars biramous. Tentacles seven, their external 
. bases coalescing. 
P. antropa, Schmarda, l. c., p. 160. 
Back convex, blackish in front, reddish-yellow behind. Abdomen 
ferruginous, with a deep median sulcus. Suctorial feet disposed in four 
systems on the abdomen ; two at the margins of the sulcus, the others at 
the bases of the ventral cirri. Dorsal suctorial feet behind and between 
the elytra. Dorsal elytra hardly covering, brownish-red, the margins 
undulating. Setæ golden, articulated, the superior part longer than the 
inferior, thin ; superiorly short and broad. 
Family Evnicema, 
Rounded, long, flattened ventrally ; head lobes notched in front, with 
1-5 tentacles; several separate upper, and two, often united, lower jaws ; 
feet simple with acieula. Living in sand-burrows. 
