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Shorter than the feet; jaws with short apices; teeth five, rounded, 
irregular. 
Auckland. 
Genus Heteronereis, (Brsted. 
Head, body, and anterior feet like Nereis; posterior feet very different 
from the others, carrying a foliaceous ibe, and the bristles sometimes 
single, sometimes mixed. 
H. AUSTRALIS, Schmarda, l.c., p. 101, pl. XXXL,- f. 242. Quat. 1., p. 577. 
Body flat, 96-ringed; jaws tridentate ; appendices of the feet tongue- 
shaped and leaf-like; branchie (dorsal cirri) longer than the feet; upper 
tubercle subglobose ; green in front, yellow behind. 
Family GLYCERIDÆ. 
Segments many-ringed ; proboscis club-shaped, protrusible; bristles with 
acicula; branchie short or none. 
Genus Glycera, Savigny. 
Head small, conical. Branches of the feet approximated, on a common 
peduncle, bristles simple and composite, with two acicula in each branch. 
Proboscis with four hooked teeth, with no points. 
Q. ovicERA, Schmarda, l.c., p. 95, pl. 80, f. 239. Quat. II., p. 188. 
Body yellowish or brownish-green; bipartite segments of the jaws 
with a broad base, external process quadrangular,; pedicelled ; proboscis 
ringed at the base, with a double series of papille ; branchie (dorsal cirri) 
short, conical; feet notched; pectiniform ovaria at the base of the feet. 
The body of this species is greenish, the feet yellow. 
Family Puyrropocrp. 
Body long, many-jointed; head lobes small; antennes 4 or 5; eyes 2-4; 
epipharynx with papille ; ventral cirri leaf-like. 
Genus Eulalia, Savigny. 
Head with five antennz and two or four eyes; buccal segment simple, 
double or triple, with four pairs of tentacles; body long, linear, narrow, 
always composed of a large number of rings; feet one-branched, armed 
with composite bristles, generally with a leaf-like cirrus. 
E. cmoa, Quatrefages, lc., IL., p. 123. 
Head small, rounded; antenna small, the median behind; eyes none (?); 
buccal segment triple; tentacles very short, thick, disposed 1,2,1 on each 
side; body roundish, of 250-270 segments ; feet small, exposed; upper cirri 
thick, hardly leaf-like, small, lanceolate; lower small mamilleform ; bristles 
simple, short, straight, deciduous, 
This very common species is of a dark green colour—(F.W.H.) 
