326 Transactions.— Zoology. 
S. (Buromarus) Bonroxr, Baird, P.L.S., XI., p. 12, pl. L, f. 2. 
Animal unknown. Operculum horny, infundibuliform, external margin 
densely crenated, internally with 20 calcareous pointed teeth. Tube red, 
three-angled, adherent, transversely rugose, back canaliculated. 
Genus Vermilia, Lamarck. 
A single operculum terminated by a calcareous plate, conical, or with 
various appendages; base of the branchie circular; tube calcareous, fixed. 
Sub-genus Placostegus, Philippi. 
Operculum terminated by a calcareous, disc-like plate, with an entire 
margin. 
V.canmmirERUS, Gray. Dieffenbach’s New Zealand, IL., p. 242. 
(Vermitus), Baird, P.L.S., XL., p. 12. 
Tube thick, irregularly twisted, opaque white, with a high compressed 
wavy keel along the upper edge; mouth orbicular, with a tooth above it, 
formed by the keel; operculum orbicular, horny. (Gray). 
The whole animal is of a fine blue colour, and the elegant tuft of 
branchial filaments intensely azure, banded with white. (Baird). 
V. cxRULEA, Schmarda, l.c., p. 29, pl. 21, f. 178. Quat., l.c., IL, p. 512. 
Tube trigonal, blueish ; operculum clavate, border smooth. Peduncles 
short, irregularly three-sided. 
New Zealand and the Cape of Good Hope. 
No doubt the same as the last (F.W.H.) 
V. cnEYI, Quatrefages, l.c., IL, p. 510. 
Branchie short, cirri 24-26; operculum sub-infundibuliform, flat, 
roughish; body 70-80-ringed ; anterior sets rather short, curved, slightly 
margined ; laminæ striate; tube rough, keeled ; aperture wide and obtusely 
dentated. 
Sub-genus Podioceros, Quatrefages. 
Opereulum terminated by a flat surface, Mcr ter: or cartilaginous, 
carrying a large number of short thick spines. 
V. uanonn, Quatrefages, l.c. II., p. 520. 
Branchis very short; cirri 20; operculum margined, bidentate behind ; 
body of 50-60 rings, anteriorly 7; anterior sete curved, fringed ; lamina 
obtusely denticulated. Tube like that of V. greyi. 
V. STRIGICEPS, Morch, Rev. Serp., p. 66. Quat. l.c. IL, p. 621. 
Opereulum orbicular, flat; tube agglomerated, creeping, trigonal ; 
dorsal keel compressed, acute, laciniated, beaked, with a series of punctiform 
impressions on either side; laterally convex; lines of growth often lami- 
nated, crowded. 
North Australia and New Zealand, 
